[Khashyar Darvich]

Hello,

I wanted to post an update…

I managed to “Edit to Tape” 95% of the 80 minute film, and then the sequence stopped because of a dropped frame.

Of course, I have the real time audio tracks set to 4, and rendered EVERYTHING, including audio levels.

But, I went back and laid down to tape the last 5% from where the Sequence stopped, and now I have the whole thing on tape…

I have to output to BetaSP four more copies of the film, so I’m hoping it will not be a long night.

If anyone has any thought about the crashing or dropped frames, then I would appreciate it.

One more bit of information: my project file if about 300MB – I wasn’t sure it that might be a factor.

Thanks,

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you Peter and Shane.

I appreciate your responses.

I hav 50GB left on my G-Raid, and I don’t have any plugins installed, and a few photos the timeline, but not many.

It is an 80 minute timeline, with 12 audio tracks and six video tracks. but, there are RARELY times when all 6 tracks are used during the same period in the film.

Also, I have the real-time audio mixing set to 4 tracks.

I just rendered the same timeline again, and it rendered successfully this time.

but now, I am a little concerned about the computer crashing when I Master to Tape on the BetaSP deck I just rented this afternoon.

Also, I am using a AJA Kona LHe breakoutbox and card.

I appreciate your thoughts about this.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thanks again for your detailed information and responses, Bob.

Yes, Tony, the best thing would be for me to have asked the festival in time what machines they are using, etc… But, the festival begins on Friday (MountainFilm in Telluride), and I had to FedEx them the tape today.

I did some more color correction yesterday, and then outputed to an UVW-1800 BetaSP deck taht I rented (at an IRE of 7.5), and sent it off.

I feel pretty confident that their setting specs were wrong.

For one thing, I sent them a priliminary BetaSP tape for them to test (before I sent the final), and I set the BetaSP audio tone to “0 db”, and they said that the audio was o.k. (In their specs, they asked for audio tone at -20 db, so I am almost sure they are refering to digitial specs, and as Bob mentioned, probably a DigiBeta deck.

I appreciate everyone’s thoughts and feedback.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Dear Bob,

Thank you for taking the time to write your detailed informative response.

I can see the confusion if they are using a DigiBeta deck to play my analog BetaSP tape.

I will just output to BetaSP with the normal 7.5 IRE setting, and calibrate tone to Zero.

What’s really confusing is that they titled their specs email to me “BetaSP NTSC specs.”

So, why would they state “Zero IRE black level (setup) do not setup to 7.5” ? doesn’t this imply set up Zero IRE on the BetaSP deck that you are recording on?

Since I have rented a BetaSP deck this weekend, I will make another version of the tape with the normal 7.5 IRE setting.

Thanks again,

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

I was reading the Final Cut Pro Bible and I think that I am understanding this better (please correct me if I am wrong).

On the Kona control panel, of you select “7.5” as the black level, then it will not outout any black lower than 7.5 IRE.

If you select “0”, then black levels from 0 to 7.5 will also be exported through the Kona onto the tape deck.

Do I understand this correctly?

If this is true, then when the festival was asking for a “zero IRE setting,” then by selecting “0 IRE” on the Kona control panel, this is accomplishing this.

Please verify that this is correct so that I won’t need to rent my BetaSP deck beyond the weekend 🙂

Thanks,

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Hi Walter,

I just want to make sure that I set the black IDe level to zero on the tape.

Do I do this using the “Analog Black Level” setting in the “setup” section of the Kona control panel?

If I choose “0 IRE (Japan)”, will this be the proper way?

Thanks for sharing your experience and expertise.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thanks for your feedback and information, Walter..

By changing the output within my Kona control panel from 7.5 IDE to “0” IDE, did I do what the festival had asked:

“Zero IRE black level (setup)

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thanks for the feedback, Walter.

So, did I do what they asked by setting the Kona output to zero IRE, even though I adjusted the contrast and color correction based on the 7.5 black IRE level on the Final Cut Pro color bars?

Is that what they are asking for?

Also, they asked for “

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thanks Jeremy.

I was going to use the color correction capability of the “Color” application in the new FCS 2 for a project that is at the end of post-production, but I suppose I should wait until Kona can guarantee that the Kona drivers will work with FCS 2.

Will AJA make an official statement when the drivers are ready and released?

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you very much, David.

I have always either worked in an all DV sequence, or an all SDI sequence, and never converted one to the other.

Thanks again,

Khashyar