[Jon Felix]

So .. a couple of years later .. but better late than never! … I love the Spectre program. I use it to see nice big representations of my audio and use the free Soundflower to redirect the audio to Spectre. The program’s free for 15 days – then $75 to buy. Well worth it.

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California

[Jon Felix]

… Dumb! I shoulda thought of that. That worked.

Thanks Jeremy. (And to you Jerry for your good suggestion too).

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California

[Jon Felix]

What’s your Timeline settings? It might just take that long.

Could you not simply play off the timeline to them? Perhaps with Unlimited RT selected if not fully rendered? It may play jerkily – but it will play.

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California

[Jon Felix]

OK – Rafael’s solution is good too!

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California

[Jon Felix]

You need a small program called ‘XDCam Transfer’. Free software from Sony. This will look for all BPAV folders and convert them into files ready for FCP. Could tell you more – but you’re in a hurry and the software is fairly easy to use – and your best use of time right now is to download and get on with it!

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California

[Jon Felix]

Thanks Richard for your input. I had certainly done that and found no mention of Machfive in Adobe’s custom install dialogs or any occurrence of the software (or it’s author – MOTU) anywhere on the hard drive.

So here’s an update …. having spent 7 hours the other day installing, then reinstalling CS4 and having the same problem ….

Which is, by the way that:
Premier Pro tries to run something called Machfive which requires an authorization key and if you select the QUIT button on the Machfive dialog box – it crashes Premier’s start-up. MOTU’s web site says that Machfive costs $295 for an authorization key, so short of buying the software – you cannot run Premier Pro.

…. Today I spent no less than 2 hours 35 minutes on the phone to Adobe technical support. And I have to say that Adobe technical support is the WORST EVER! The woman I talked to did not speak English well and had no training on Mac’s. She kept asking me to carry out Windows tasks, then when I pointed out that I had a Mac – she would have to read what to do next from a screen. Then I spoke to her manager and to make a (really) long story short, he said that the Mac OS was supposed to have a file called ‘authorizationrightset’. This does not seem to be part of any of our Snow Leopard installations and he said that I would have to contact Apple because Premier Pro will not work without it.

One would think that with FCP being the more popular NLE system – Adobe would go out of their way to make sure one could at least TRY their software. Instead after a day and a half my already low opinion of Adobe software has got lower and I will stick with good old FCP and AVID!

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California

[Jon Felix]

“…. quickcluster activated with your multicores …” Desperate for a solution as I am, I have no idea what you’re talking about 🙂 I’m an editor, not a computer tech, is there a solution out there for us humble editors?!

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California

[Jon Felix]

Thanks guys for your clarifications. I was aware of how Smoothcam worked and I guess I was (perhaps naively) expecting Share to work the same way – pausing whilst one was working, then carrying on.

BTW – having been reading lots of posts on other forums in the past half hour – I am far from the only one with the expectation of being able to make ‘test’ Quicktimes in the background.

Another example I fear, of programmers not understanding exactly what editors need …

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California

[Jon Felix]

Thanks Doug.

Jon Felix
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[Jon Felix]

Hi Joshua, thanks for your input – though I could have done with this earlier.

The issue did not seem to be about signal strength or stability. It seemed to be about the fact that it was PAL. NTSC Umatic and VHS worked just fine – even very badly recorded, old VHS tapes. PAL anything (through composite or S-Video connectors) did not.

I was going to try another card in the belief that it was a problem with just that card, but your post seems to suggest that I would have problems with any Decklink card (although why just on PAL sources?) I like everything else about the card – indeed I was very impressed with quality on the SDI HD side of things. I just need a card that can capture SD composite PAL and NTSC as well.

As there do not (yet) seem to have been an avalanch of complaints about your card from the PAL world (presumably it is on sale in my old country of England), is there a difference between the cards sold there from here (California)?

If you have a card that will do .. what it says on the box .. we will gladly have it!

Jon Felix
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Marin County
CA

Jon Felix
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Marin County, California