Ken Botelho
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Bob leave the poor guy alone for goodness sake. Enough with the irrational “quick” answers.
Give “CRAMCompressor” a try George, it should have all the conversion formats your looking for. And if your still not happy with the quality, maybe you can give Telestreams’s “Episode engine” a try
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“The digital digiberish happens at random times and not twice in the same place.”
Try to capture and playback uncompressed to see if its a codec issue.
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Bob,
Just because someone doesn’t take or suggest your idea does not make them amateur by any means. If the same results can be achieved, then I say take the free way or the cheap way or whatever way, who cares. But what your suggesting is the “easy way”, cmon be creative – being resourceful is pure ingenuity, thats what makes an engineer a true engineer.. being passionate about what they do, and not caving into simple (expensive) solutions all the time.You think the audience viewing the final product gives a flying f*** of what deck tim used in his production???….. Probably Not
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No problem Tim,
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No Problem Tim,
Ok…. One last solution I have that will save you from rendering and get you the time code you need, believe me I never give up. Output from your deck and use capture now to get your footage without time code, but for the fist few seconds… toggle the time code display window on the deck to capture this for a few seconds and then back off. This will be your master time code reference.Now with the clips imported in the Final Cut Bin select, open in Viewer and highlight a clip and set the play head to the part of the clip where you can see the the time code window at the beginning, go to the MenuBar and select [ Modify > Timecode… ]. Now set your frame-rate, and enter in the exact time code you have displayed on the current frame , and save. THATS IT! This is frame accurate, scan through parts of the tape to confirm it worked. I have used this a few times for multi-cam projects and works wonders.
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[Tim Kirby] “Hi Ken,
Thanks for the input – just tried hot plugging to no avail. I’m working to a Directors brief – 5 cameras shot an event HDV, he wants footage captured in SD Prores 422…might be being a bit dim here but I didn’t think I could capture to SD Prores 422 HQ from HDV source over firewire, HD maybe, but SD? Hence the Addenda..”
Tim, sorry to hear your still troubleshooting this. So, you cannot down-convert in realtime using FW (I believe) but you can however utilize what you have. You can get some real great results (IMHO better then AJA) with capturing your footage via Final Cut or VTR Xchange in its native HDV format, and then using Apple Compressor to down-convert your clips with embedded time-code from HDV to Apple ProRes 422 as SD material (Pillarbox cropping or widescreen), and since it uses the “Optical Flow” backbone, the results are quite amazing, you also have control of the bounding box of where to crop and some other neat filters. I recommend you use this as your “workaround” until the real mystery is uncovered. Sure its an extra step but I think you will be pleased with the results.
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Hi Tim,
Not to discourage you from resolving your TC issue… but what’s keeping you from capturing direct via FireWire? Your ingest quality will be 100% lossless from the original source. Unfortunately, I have no experience with the “Addenda Lanc Convertor” but it seems like the issue may be something with settings in the software. Have you tried hot plugging the lanc cable in while its capturing to see if it ever locks in to TC?-Kenny
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Veescope Live is probably the closest you can get to real-time chroma keying with the ioHD.
https://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/VeeScope/Products/VeescopeLive.overview.htm
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I can say this is probably the biggest update the ioHD has received since the release, no problems here…..yet (running OS X Leopard)
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[George Griswold] “I have read various posts that don’t agree on what devices to power up in what order when using the ioHD. I had a heck of a time yesterday getting everything working right because of this. What order do you power up the Aja, boot the Mac, etc?
George Griswold
http://www.videonow.info
New Orleans, Louisiana”Hi George, this is ripped right from the manual… “The AJA IoHD must be powered on prior to booting the computer. If the IoHD is powered up after the computer, the AJA Control Panel application will not be able to properly control the unit. If for any reason the IoHD is power cycled while the computer remains powered, the computer must be rebooted for proper operation of the IoHD.”
From my experience, I usually boot my external media drives first, then all equipment, then the io, then the computer.
Has anyone been able to successfully wake up the io after the computer has been started? Maybe we can write some kind of “refresh” script.