Justin Coleman
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That’s what i suggest in my email, it must be the quickest way all in all. Unless u don’t own the deck or camera?
Justin
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Err ok lots of Q’s I’ll see if I can help at all!
DV File sizes are 2gbs for sync reasons, FCP and Avid can both use greater sizes but will doutless to say fall over, this is not the case however if you are using DV420 as a digitize setting because you are not using a quictime DV codec, just a maths calculation to compress. If you then try to export that footage as DV then the 2gb limit will hit you. I’m stunned that 2.1 is smaller than DV, it’s just not possible. Even if you import a DV clip and reexport it as 2.1 it will get bigger in size!.
I shot a pro for the BBC last year using HD and just captured using the SD 422 convert (YUV out) from the camera, only for the online though. For the offline I just plugged into firwire for downconverting. The whole point with HDV in the UK is that nobody is yet accepting it as a broadcast delivery format so at some point you will loose HD. The same is generally the case for corporates and web realises so why use an intermediate codec to edit? Edit native in FCP or 422 SD in Avid. If you devliver HD then deliver HD not HDV you will want to use HD for sound sample res reasons anyway right?
The main thing I will say is that Snell and Wilcox and many other companies make very expensive SD to HD convertors. They wouldn’t sell a single one if software or a 3k sony camcorder could do it as well would they now.
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I’ve had lots of problems with AE to Avid, importing never seems to sort things out, generally have gone to digibets from FCP and black magic only to play it in to the Avid. On the Adrenaline systems (not sure if this is relevant for symphony) check the video output settings on the bottom of the timeline (green square/ half yellow) should be all green.
Any Use?
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Use the resize tool, y axis needs to be set to 133. This is the way I’ve been instructed several times by QC departments for BBC and ITV in the UK.
Good Luck
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I don’t quite follow in terms of you running two paralell edits or two editors using the same material etc.
You can easily copy your OMFI folder from one system to an external drive and then plug this into the other suite and use it with the project file. Obviously any amendments you make to one drive you will have to do to the other.
As i said I’m not sure exactly your needs so I’ll explain how I work with 2 suites.Im currently editing a series for ITV in the UK on an Avid Xpress Pro (offline stage). We captured the 20 hours of footage to an external lacie hard drive ( actualy done on an adrenaline). Once this was complete I cloned the drive to my own lacie drive at home to use on my system. I edit at work during the week and take just the project file home at weekends to use on my system with the cloned hard drive. During the week as we add the voice over or music i copy these as aiffs to my laptop to add to my drive at home at the weekends and just import them into the project as the are in the project file but obviously not on the drive at home.
At the end of the weekend, I take the project file to work and swap it for the once i copied on friday then use that version.Basically this means I dont need to do any consolidating or transcoding.
Does that help at all??
Justin
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You must make sure that you turn off the match exact file name option in the import tool or it won;t let you replace it. Just double check that the files are the same length etc or it might not edit them into the timeline correctly.
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You do not need to transcode or consolidate at all, just move the drive over to the new system and take the avid project file to the new system too. Start up Avid choose the project file that you moved over and there you go. Make sure you put the project file in the avid projects folder or you wont get the benefits of avid attic etc.
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Hi Karen,
I dont know if this will help, but I have had exactly these problems with the sony dsr-11 with avid xpress (no mojo) and final cut pro. Boot up with the deck on and the software hangs and hangs then quits, or I turn off the deck and the software sparks into life. My fix for this was to let the software go through the first loading stage and then once it looked as though it was working turn the deck on before the software actually opens. If that makes sense?
Good Luck
Justin
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Tom,
Im afraid you have fallen into a little trap here, you are correct that you do not need a PCI-X slot for this card, but you do need a qualifying mac g5, and im afriad you dont have one. Unless I’m wrong, as of this summer or spring when an apple firmware update was released, none of the G5’s without PCI-X slots will support BM cards of any kind. I personally bought a Dual G5 1.8 this year and after purchasing found this out to great frustration. I returned the machine and went back to my old G4 which will support the Deck Link HD card used for SD only.
This isnt easy to hear but it is the truth! Read some of the fine print on the BM website and you will see.
Justin