Juan Salvo
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You need to switch the recording mode from HDCAM to HDCAM-SR, you’ll also need an HDCAM-SR tape.
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Post this in the Apple XSan forum, those guys can give you great answers. Basically what you need to do is change over to optical fibre, which you can run for much longer distances. This involves changing GBICs on both the controller and the HBA, as well as buying glass-fibre cables.
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Are you running FCP 4.5 or 5? The scaling and aliasing is substantially improved in FCP 5.
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[Thom Sullivan] “There has to be an easier route to burning a DVD. Is there?”
Yeah, it’s called Compressor.
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I disabled the “Stable Black” output option, this has reactivated my analogue audio output from the decklink extreme.
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You need to capture it as NTSC 29.97, and then bring it into cinema tools, remove the pull down and you will end up with a 24p file. That will look and feel the same as your 24p Advanved material that was captured using pull down removal.
Hope that helps.
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It will work in slot 3 as long as you don’t put anything slower than 100MHz into slot 2. The trick to getting the card into slot 4 is to gently lift the plastic transistor (or whatever it is) that sits on the upper right corner of the PCI-X slot (I like to use a long flathead screwdriver) once you lift this out of the way the card slides right into place.
It’s probably best to put the card in slot 4, all our BMD systems (4 of them) have the card in slot 4 and work fine.
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You’ll also need to deinterlace.
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Export an image sequence… reimport the image sequence @ 24fps timebase. Slow down your audio 4% to match (do a pitch adjustment in protools or some audio program… not sure if soundtrack pro does this).
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I’ll be the first to say it…. it works… just fine. We’ve got ours set up with NTSC, PAL and a variety of HD decks all feeding in. They all switch perfectly. The built in downconverter is soft but useful for “draft” downconversion. We’ve had a couple of minor issues since installation. I still haven’t been able to get the framestore to work, and for a few days we had a weird issue where our Mac clients took a very long time to start up (the client software that is) but other than that it’s been very smooth sailing. For small post facilities (5-6 decks, 3-4 edit systems, and a couple of imagining units) it’s a great solution. We’ve actually already outgrown ours and will be adding a second unit as soon as it’s convenient.
Hope this helps,
Juan
P.S. After reading over this it sounds sort of negative… I should point out we are actually VERY happy with the videohub, and would recommend it to anyone with multiple edit rooms and digital decks.