[Kent Kajino]

Depending on the amount of footage, it will make more sense to offline in DV resolution. Storage for 100 hours of DV footage is affordable, but DVCPROHD footage will require way more space (but it’s still only 10% of uncompressed HD – simply amazing to me).
One difficulty with DV is it will be harder to see if the footage is well focused.

After seeing the cost of acquiring and posting from HDCAM or DVCPROHD, I almmost wished I had acquired everything in HDV. HDCAM footage is much much nicer and free of visible artifacts, though. Also much better in low light. Sony FX1, not very good in low light, hard to focus, but it was cheap and small! HDV compression artifacts look quite horrible.

I didn’t pay enough attention to sound acquisition. Very ignorant of me…

Oh and turn off in-camera sharpening or edge enhancement.

and don’t mix DF and NDF timecode. FCP had no problem with them, but it did cause confusion for the operator (guess who) at times.

I should have fired that cam operator kid shooting externals a lot sooner. He kept “forgetting” to use a tripod.

So many mistakes… go on, laugh it up

[Kent Kajino]

How about this? – test how long it takes to media manage and recompress a small amount of footage. If it’s slower than real time, then recapture.

[Kent Kajino]

I’m a relatively new user, and I have also seen this happen when changing clips that have dissolve transitions. I would end up with playback that has jumps during a dissolve.

I had simply resigned myself to deleting render files and re-rendering the small section I’m working on.

I wonder if there is a way to change this behavior.

Kent

[Kent Kajino]

If you’re building a RAID volume, and if you’re getting WD, only their “RAID Edition” models will work reliably. I found out the hard way…

[Kent Kajino]

I was experiencing the same behavior with the original driver. In addition, 10-bit material wouldn’t play back. Only 8-bit material worked.

Upgraded to the latest beta, the card started working (and the preferences, too), but it caused the G5 sleep problems, namely the OS wouldn’t see the keyboard and mouse, and the fan began to suck air like crazy after waking up.

Went back to v5.6.3, and the sleep problem is gone.

[Kent Kajino]

I have been using it, and it works adequately for 10-bit 1080 60i, although I’m not quite getting the throughput that the AMUG review shows.

If you want Western Digital drives, only their RE edition models work with port-multiplied RAID.

Kent

[Kent Kajino]

From the days of manually debugging FORTRAN code in my college days, I learned to be very, very careful with any input that goes into computer programs.

If you want the computer to be your helpful friend, you have to think like one…

[Kent Kajino]

(Forgot to turn on email notification…)

I think the last post nailed it on the head. Probably didn’t work the first time I tried it, because I didn’t have the sequence hilighted in the bin when I tried the Find funcion.

I had the clips labeled according to its acquired format, so I’m able to extract only what I want.

Thanks!!!

[Kent Kajino]

hehe… no I haven’t met Lucas…
nor the other guy who shot Collateral

[Kent Kajino]

Maybe the monitoring setup does not match the sequence?

I remember having to change setup when going from an HD sequence to a SD sequence. Otherwise, I got no picture at all.