Keith Koby
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I don’t think so. We’ve attempted recording on the canon and playing back on a sony hdv deck and you get drop outs every 5 or 10 seconds. I would assume the reverse is true. The studio is on vacation this week or I would have someone check…
kk
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We have 3 convergent designs boxes now and I swear by them… It is the way to go. I do not agree with some comments above that editing HDV timelines and converting is the way to go. If you are going back to HDV for final output, then maybe. Otherwise, the time it takes to capture, edit, render, and re-render to another format is just not worth it.
In post, time is everything. If you are under deadlines, do the right thing to get the job done fast and at the highest quality. Messing around with a to d or re-rendering will cost you quality or meeting a deadline and ultimately could cost you more than that – your customer etc.
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One of the editors here had a theory that if you used the semi-colon while typing in the time that it would not have this problem. I haven’t found that to be the case. Not that they are typing in colons, but just entering numbers usually.
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where did the media come from? Is there something in the timeline not standard NTSC size?
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You can’t compare FCP’s current media manager to AVID’s. Especially since Interplay… This could be THE answer to Interplay and for Xsan deployments, this is going to be huge. We were on the verge of buying Artbox enterprise here. I’m very happy that Apple bought them. There are 3 components of Artbox that we were interested in; media migration to nearline storeage, proxies, and resharing of the san to PCs. If they integrate Artbox into FCP 6 or whatever, and lose, say, the resharing facet, I’ll still be happy. It’s at least going to mean a great search and migration process – tightly integrated into the FC workflow.
Keith
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If you have more time than money and want to go the software conversion route, try Lumiere HD. I think it does a superior job at converting HDV to any other codec including uncompressed and dvcpro hd. Otherwise, the Convergent Design boxes are outstanding and they take the original digital signal and convert it to baseband hd sdi, which is better than taking analog outs from the deck through a multibridge or kona.
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It has happened at my facility. In older versions of xsan, it would knock media offline in the first open “instance” (for lack of better term).
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You can technically do it, but no you shouldn’t. Last one to save wins. In an update to 5.0, there was a pop-up warning added for when you try to open or save, I can’t remember which, an already opened file. If you need to be in the same file at the same time, and you want to keep the project on the san, you can duplicate it, and one person can work from the copy. Best method though is stated above… export xmls from a local file back into the San “master”.
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I’ve heard about conflicts with avid drivers and 5.1.2. You wouldn’t happen to have an avid product on the same machine?
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Is there a piece of media, a still or something that is about 23% of the way through your sequence that could be causing problems? Make sure you still have read/write access to all media, particularly around that point in the timeline. Just a guess.