[Joni Church]

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The footage was shot at 60 in order to be used as slow motion in a 24 sequence.

So we captured it at 59.94 because it’s necessary in order to run it through the FRC, and converted it to 23.98 for use in a 23.98 timeline.

[Joni Church]

Thanks again to all 3 of you. I’ll show your comments to bossman-big to ease his mind about all the logging that’s done around here. A bit of a worrier, he is.

Joni

[Joni Church]

Thanks a lot, Chris. That’s good to know.

Joni

[Joni Church]

Alright, problem solved. For anyone who should need to know in the future…the solution was indeed to push many buttons in a specific order, but the instructions needed a bit of clarification:

1. Push and hold the HDD CAP button
2. Without letting go of the HDD CAP button, push and hold the Battery button
3. Without letting go of the Battrey button, push and hold the the Cancel button
4. Conitinue holding all 3 buttons down for 5 seconds.

The Green USB light should trun orange.

Do this all while the P2 Store is connected to the Mac and mounted on the desktop. Once the green USB light turns orange, properly unmount the P2 Store from the desktop, and remount again. At that time, as many volumes as P2 cards that were copied to the store should show up on the desktop, all named “NO NAME.” Each will have a “Contents” folder and a “LastClip.txt” file. Copy them to your hard drive and continue with workflow as usual.

Whee…

Thanks for all your help,
Joni

[Joni Church]

Hey guys,

Thanks. It’s actually not working now. It had worked in the past, when I did the intital testing with our DOP before the shoot, but it hasn’t been working since he returned yesterday.

It’s a pretty simple workflow, when it works, right? You just copy to card to the store, then connect the store to the mac and voila. Except this time there’s a sad lack of voila.

I spoke to someone who said sometimes mac’s have trouble reading the P2 Store correctly, and that I should:

1. Push and hold the HDD CAP button
2. Push the Battery button
3. Push the Cancel button
4. Push all 3 simultaneously and hold for 5 seconds

…and then my world would come together. This did nothing. I think it’s perhaps a technique for getting the mac to mount the store in the first place, but I’m not having a problem mounting.

I was able to mount the store on a PC laptop in order to confirm that the files are indeed on it, and they are. So that’s good. I just need to get to them. Yeesh.

I’ll keep at it and post back when (I’m still thinking optimistically) I get it figured out. I’m still of course open to any other suggestions.

Thanks again,
Joni

[Joni Church]

My delivery requirement isn’t actually the DVCPro HD tape, I’m sorry if I was unclear. It’s actually HDCAM, at 1080i/60i. So the plan has actually been to take my finished product to another post house who can output to HDCAM for us. Originally I had planned on giving them a 720p/60 QT for them to convert to 1080i and output to HDCAM, but the Post Coordinator there asked if I could provide it in 1080i instead. I didn’t realize my drives wouldn’t be able to handle capturing the material at 1080i/60, so that’s what has begun the whole questioning process.

I’ve only been working with HD for about 8 months now, and I’ve been sort of hacking my way through it as the only editor where I’m currently working, so the Cow and Apple forums have been extremely helpful. Until this point I’ve been doing strictly 720p stuff so it’s almost like starting over again figuring out my suite’s capabilities with 1080i and what-not.

Thanks a lot for your help, I’m going with the 720p/60 set-up and providing a QT to the other post house, just as I had originally planned, and as many of y’all have suggested. No worse for wear, though, since I learned a few things along the way.

Thanks again,
Joni

[Mike Most] “>>I then tried capturing at 1080i 29.97 and that also worked fine. So it seems there’s a hiccup with the >>combination of 1080i and 59.94, which I can’t figure out.

1080i/29.97 **is** 60i. The 59.94 setting is meant for 720p.

One question, though. I find it hard to believe that your delivery requirement is in the DVCPro HD tape format, especially if it’s 1080/60i. Wouldn’t it be a bit more prudent to either output directly to 720p/60 (as you said you could without problems) and take it to a facility to make the delivery element (I’m guessing that’s probably either HDCam, HDCam SR, or D5), or even to render out your timeline to a 720p/60 Quicktime movie, and take that to a facility on a Firewire drive to accomplish the same thing? In either case, it seems that just getting it to a DVCPro HD tape in 1080i is not accomplishing the creation of your delivery element. Even if you have to take your own 1200 machine to the facility, it will enable them to play back your 720p/60 tape as 1080i directly, provided you have the HDSDI card. In any of these scenarios, it’s not necessary to do what you seem to be having some trouble doing.

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[Joni Church]

For anyone who may be interested in the future, looks like I got a very helpful answer from Shane Ross over in the Apple forum (see below):

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I don’t think your drives, even though they are raided together, are fast enough for 1080i60.

Plus, you will be wasting a lot of space capturing this way. You shot 720p so capture and edit 720p. When your cut is locked, THEN uprez to 1080i60 (dropping it into a 1080i timeline and rendering) and output.

But you will still need faster drives for the output.

That is what I am doing. We shot 720p24, but need to deliver 1080p24 10-bit uncompressed HD. The software uprez looks great.

Shane

[Joni Church]

Have you tried running any hardware diagnostics?

I certainly don’t want to jump the gun on anything here…and since you’re only getting the Kernel Panic when dealing with one specific file, it’s probably not hardware related, but just in case….

I went through a Kernel Panic situation some time ago, and I tried everything to fix it. Disk Warrior, Trashing Prefs, Archive and Installing the OS, Completely Erasing and Installing the OS and everything on the machine, talking to Apple Tech Support over and over again, and eventually bringing the G5 in for service thrice.

The first two times they gave in back to me insisting there was nothing wrong with it. The Kernel Panics kept occuring so I forced them to take it back and persist with testing until they found a problem. After about a week and a half it was determined that I had a faulty CPU. They ordered a replacement, and found that it too was faulty straight out of the box. So the third CPU they installed worked great and I haven’t had any further trouble.

I’m sure you’ll get some more suggestions to help you out with additional things you can try, but just in case you don’t end up with a solution, maybe come back to this. I hope it doesn’t come to that, but figured I’d let you know that it can indeed be a serious hardware problem. I know how things like this can drive a person nuts wondering if there’s something you missed.

Good luck,
Joni

[Joni Church]

Have you set an IN and and OUT on your timeline? You need to set and IN and an OUT or you won’t be able to record.

Also if you don’t already know, you can only record 5 minutes (I believe) after the end of your video, so if you’re recording into a sequence with video and you want to keep going after it has finished, throw in a slug at the end.

Hope this helps,
Joni

[Joni Church]

“theres is no uninstall option in the final cut studio ,, how do i completely uninstall it..”

Go to the Apple website and search for the uninstall instructions. There should be a document there that has a list of which files/folders are to be deleted (trashed), and their locations on your hard drive. Here’s one for Final Cut Pro HD to give you an idea of what you’re looking for (sorry I didn’t have time to find the “Studio” one for you). There should be one for “Studio” as well…

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301182

Good luck,
Joni