[John Fishback]

I believe the life cycle is based on recording to the cardonce a day to 100% for 5 years. That would mean 365 x 7 = 2555 days of recording. If you only use the card once a week you could expect 49 years of service 🙂 My sense is for most users these cards will last longer than you will need them. Who knows what storage technology will be announced next week? I believe the cards post a warning in the viewfinder as they approach their end-of-days.

John

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[John Fishback]

I’m not in front of my edit machine, but I believe the preference setting you’re referring to is only used when you L&T with AVC-Intra footage. With DVCProHD that setting is ignored.

John

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[John Fishback]

As far as I know, there isn’t an automatic way to do this. You’d have to export each file one-by-one and name them sequentially. Maybe there’s a way to do it with an xml of the sequence and a script. I’d also check out Media Manager. You might be able to copy just the media used in your sequence with no handles. But, I don’t know if you can change the naming of the media.

John

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[John Fishback]

Try the old standby: trash prefs and repair permissions.

John

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[John Fishback]

If the media is DVCProHD that is what will be transferred. There is no transcode to ProRes in FCP. You can transcode AVC-Intra to ProRes. The only way to transcode DVCPro HD to ProRes is with Compressor. For most purposes editing with DVCPro HD will be fine.

John

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[John Fishback]

It is most likely that all the web folks will want is the talking head video with alpha. Putting the background into the video would add a lot of overhead that would require a higher data rate. It’s much better to add background & titles with Flash. But, by all means, ask them. Also be sure to ask them what data rate they want.

John

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[John Fishback]

This kind of phase cancelation can happen a couple of ways. Many mixers have a phase reversal switch. If this switch is activated on ONE SIDE of a stereo mixer, then the two channels will cancel when mixed mono. It’s important to realize that even though the audio sounds good playing back as stereo, if it’s played in mono the cancelation will occur. This will usually result in the QC dept. rejecting the program.

Another cause of phase reversal is miswired connectors (mic or line level). The more-or-less standard wiring of an XLR (TRS) is pin 1 shield (sleeve), pin 2 hot (tip), and pin 3 cold (ring). If pins 2 & 3 (T & R) are reversed you get a phase reversal compared to a properly wired connector. You can use multiple cables together without phase reversal as long as they’re wired properly. While Rafael is correct that different length cables will cause phase differences, you’d have to have a tremendous difference in length to cause a reversal.

Other causes of phase differences (not necessarily cancelation, but resulting in a “hollow” sound) are using two mics at different distances from talent, or reflections from a hard surface like a table or desk. One test every soundperson should make is to listen to mono playback. If cancellation is occuring that’s the way to catch it.

John

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[John Fishback]

I think you’re om the right track. 30pn will be more forgiving of fast camera movements than 24pn. But, shoot some test footage and judge for yourself. In fact test the entire workflow from camera thru edit to DVD, That way you’ll know for sure.

John

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[John Fishback]

My vote would be ProRes. While I haven’t edited with XDCAM, from all the posts I’ve read, it’s way more problematic than ProRes.

John

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[John Fishback]

I have FCS2 (FCP 6.0.5) and Compressor 3.0.5 is the latest as Jeremy stated.

John

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