[Khashyar Darvich]

Thanks, John.

The project that I will be editing has already been shot (actually, it was shot a few years ago). The format is 10-bit uncompressed SD.

The new film we are shooting (and which I would prefer using the laptop on that project also) is 1920×1080 60i (AVCHD)

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you for the feedback and for sharing your experience, John.

Yes, I would see editing on this MacBook Pro as an offline edit.

Headphones are a great idea…

It actually probably would be best to find a 17″ model if I can find one.

In January, I may be in India filming a new documentary in 1920×1080, so it might be a good idea to find a MacBook Pro that will handle 1920×1080 60i as well.

The reason why I want to run FCP 6 on the MacBook Pro, is because that is the FCP version that is being used on the G5.

Would you mind sharing the model and specs of your MacBook Pro so I can look for comparable models?

Thank you.

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you for your detailed helpful information.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you Jordan and Ty, both, for your thoughts.

Ty… Yes, in most cases, I was thinking of having the mics go directly into the camera (without going through a mixer first).

It looks like we will need to purchase some new boom mics as well.

Thank you again,

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you again for all of your helpful advice and feedback.

I already have a Sennheiser ME-66 boom mic (with a pistol grip and windscreen). We have been using it for a few years without any noticeable issues.

Have you ever used the ME-66? If so, are you happy with it?

Thank you again.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you very much for all of your thoughts and suggestions.

A few hours after posting, I spoke with a sound person who had worked on one of my projects in the past, and you confirmed much of what he said.

He mentioned that the 500 “A” frequency range is best, as well as that the G3 comes with an 1/8″ to XLR adapter (I didn’t realize this, since I have a wired lav and a Sennheiser boom mic, which both have a wired XLR connection without an adapter).

Thank you very much for all of your thoughts and feedback.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Hi Dave,

Thank you again for contributing your thoughts in trying to find the solution to this issue.

And thank you very much for asking the opinion of the person who creates your glass masters.

In the sentence that you mentioned from my first post, I miswrote “is.” That word should be “if.” If there was a problem with the DLTs, then the Stamper would have reported a DLT tape fail, but our DLTs passed and did not fail, and they were successfully able to create a glass master.

I am wondering that since the DLTs did pass, and a glass master was able to be successfully created, could there still be correuption on the DLTs?

I am not sure if the glass master stamper can accept a hard drive “direct” output, but I will ask them.

Thanks again,

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your response.

The Replicator’s check disks played on 26 different standard DVD players at their test facility, and 4 other stand-alone DVD players that we have.

So, they are playing solidly on stand-alone DVD players, but only on about half of the computers that we tried.

And, again, the DVD Author’s check disk (which should be the same as the Replicators, except without CSS), does play on our computers.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thanks for your feedback and advice, Eric.

Yes, thank God this is a rare issue (thank God for all of us, except for me in this instance :). ).

Thanks for referring me to that website. I’ll look at it once I get back to my computer.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Hello Everyone,

My DVD author posted this same issue in another forum, and a DVD author thought that the issue might be that the Replicator did not recalibrate their Replication press after they had to repair the DVD-9 physical molding a few days ago.

Although I spoke with one of the Reps with the Replicator, and she told me that they created another set of DVD-9 check disks for another project the same time that they created ours, and I am told that the other project’s check disks were fine. (But, I am not sure if the second project was tested on a computer).

Could this be an issue of recalibrating the Replicator press, even though our check disks do work on stand-alone DVD players, just not on computers?

Would a mis-calibration of the replication press result in a DVD playable on DVD players and not computers?

Thank you again for your thoughts,

Khashya