Jordan Woods
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was this drive ever mounted outside of metasan simultaneous? I’ve seen something similar when a volume mounted outside of the san was shared across fibre… not good-
Senior Systems Engineer
Active Storage Labs
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blasting any company’s tech support publicly, because believe it, this forum is public space not your living room, before you even learn to pick up a phone is never a good way to resolve your issues or make friends on this forum.
Post Engineer
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nevermind, JT got back to me…
with aja easy setup for 8 bit to DV… but could be any DV based setup or NTSC the video out will default to 29.97—- so regardless if you found yourself at 525 23.98 the video out has to be manually set for the same-
I hate it when something so simple gets overlooked-
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that format was built for firewire and the 1200a was built to pull it in over firewire… the two formats should line up just fine on the timeline if you did it right. use the easy set up for dvcprohd 2398… should set it up for you to pull in over firewire with device control of 5994 but sequence and capture of 2398 and pull the flagged frames.
Post Production Specialist
The DR Group
Los Angeles, CA -
maybe this is just a theory, but perhaps you are seeing a soft image because it is coming from HDV? I can’t stand this format, and I’m still wondering why it was pushed on the public… but I know for a fact coming from legitimate HD, like something from HDcam in a 10bit uncompressed world and pushing it through compressor it looks fine on DVD-
so your problem shouldn’t be HD to mpeg2— it should be HDV to mpeg2 which I haven’t done because I don’t cut in HDV, I digitize it at dvcproHD… and no lower compression ever. with hard drive prices so cheap no one should have a problem working at 8-14mb/s
true compressor sucks hard… but hey you didn’t pay for it anyway, it was an add on to FCP. as the proverb goes, “There is Good, Fast, or Cheap… you can only choose two.”
-jordan
Post Production Specialist
The DR Group
Los Angeles, CA -
your computer’s internal parts aren’t what you should worry about for playing back HD- if the computer is new enough and decent (AND YOU HAVE A RAID SYSTEM) like you must since these came from 1080i video then it can only lead to one thing- your sequence is not matching the clip- open both, identify the problem between the two and move on… like a typical HD sequence will have a compression setting (10bit, 8bit etc…)- where as a jpeg won’t, perhaps start there.
Post Production Specialist
The DR Group
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yea, call any post house in Los Angeles… this is done hundreds of times everyday-
35mm transfer to D5 or HDcamSR… etc. dig in those tapes at dvcproHD 23.98- cut your project, media manage the timeline, online your D5/HDcamSR/HDcam etc… and you’re done- super simple and the LHe makes it oh so easy with their built in Easy Setups.
-Jordan
Post Production Specialist
The DR Group
Los Angeles, CA -
I have seen FCP make quicktimes on capture that aren’t the right frame rates… for example- easy setup for whatever compression at 23.98— I find the file on the drive and open it up in Quicktime. I then check its properties and see that it is 23.66 or 23.78… this is random and always changing- it can happen at 29.97 as well- This may or may not be your issue since I haven’t seen the sequence have problems- do a batch conform on the clip in cinema tools and see if everything is cool-
jw
Post Production Specialist
The DR Group
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DV by itself does not hold timecode accurately, DVcam is known to be more reliable- if you are just hitting a mini dv tape you might be out of luck… best senario is something like going out Standard def SDI to something like a Sony DSR1500 dvcam machine- I know for a fact with that machine you can make accurate edits… but like I said the problem is within Quicktime when performing true frame accurate drops-
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welcome to quicktime— you should always use a 2pop as a source of reference- your bars will insert correctly but if you look back at the end of your bars they will go long, probably 6 frames long. I haven’t messed with too many DV layoffs especially trying to be frame accurate, but i’ll tell you it is one hell of a … trying to lay down accurately to my HDCAM or even D5- toggle your frame offset in your device control tab- of course my experience is with SDI and RS422, not trying to get Firewire to lay down correctly… but that is at least what I can offer up.
Final Cut Pro ≥ A/V settings ≥ Device Control Presets ≥ Duplicate your current setting ≥ and change Playback offset to something that works — for me -1 frame is more often than not right, but I’m not sure in the firewire world… try -6 and see if it hits the 2pop.
Post Production Specialist
The DR Group
Los Angeles, CA