Lars Wikstrom
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Thanks for the reply. Doing some research on the web brought up very little. Using P2 makes me want to buy the V3HD since it DVCPRO native. But the fact that the codec is limited to 8-bit is a major draw back for color correction.
The AJA I/O HD is 10-bit but I must then transcode my footage to Pre Res 422.
-Lars
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You can transfer anything to the tape. It is just a data back up like making a DVD-R disc. What I do is set up part of my hard drive, 80 megs, and I just drop all the P2 footage to that drive when I import it. When it fills up I just write all the footage to a tape. I also add what ever finished products to that same drive to back up as well.
Using Retrospect to back up you can then later just pull 1 small part of of the tape like a Quicktime movie or one of your P2 import folders.
It works great.
-Lars
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When you shot this footage did you use the Gain feature on the camera? Sometime I forget to turn this off or hit it by mistake and it can add lots of grain to the shot.
What you can do is what I do and treat the grain in post. After Effects has a grain killer that works pretty well without much loss in sharpness. It depends on how much grain is in the shot.
I try not to treat the whole frame, only the effected areas. I have 2 layers in AE. the top layer is the normal version with grain and all. The bottom layer is the grain killed layer. I then use a luma key to keep out the dark areas which then allows the grain fixed area to come through with out touching the brighter non grain parts of the top layer.
I got great results as long as I feathered the the mask.
-Lars
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Ya Jan that was a very nice surprise. After you mentioned that I still went forward and bought it but changed my tapes out to 40 gigs, that way I dod not have to recover the whole tape. But using Retrospect as the backup software allowed me to take Snap Shots which allows for individual file recovery. If those Snap Shots are ever lost then you do have to recover the whole tape to your computer.
-Lars
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That sounds almost exactly what the Exabyte drive can do except for reading meta data. I saw Jan at the DV Expo in LA and mentioned the Exabyte drive to her. She was the one that warned me that I might have to load the whole tape back on to the drive to use it. I am glad that is not the case but was good to know.
That is a huge library of 3000 tapes for 1 client! Dam…
-Lars
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What do they mean MXF aware? I have heard that before but I don’t know what it means.
Also how much was the LTO 3 drive?
-Lars
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I’m sorry, that was a typo it is not 700 megs per second, it is 700 megs per minute. I am so use to everythign beign ‘Per Second’ these days.
The real surprise when I got it was findigng out that I could bring separate files back into the computer. Everyone was saying that I had to bring the whole tape back onto the hard drive to access the files again.
I did find out that you can not take advantage of the Data Compression. Video is already compressed so tapes that say 160/320gigs you can only use the 160 gigs. But you know how long it would take to back up 160 gigs on DVD-R media, haha!
-Lars
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I agree. I had that decision to make when I bought mine and I went with Matte. Glossy is great if you are in a dark room watching a DVD. I like to write scripts at Carl’s Jr., edit in the park and have many people be able to see the screen at one time when presenting something. Matte is better for that.
-Lars
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I think many studios are set up that way, I know mine is too. In the OS 9 days there was no problem with that and UID numbers. They really should make a way for you to set up your own UID number if Apple could do that.
-Lars
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I had this problem too and SOLVED IT! I was doing the same thing you did, Laptop to my Mac Tower and had to go to firewire drive and move that one around. The problem was the UID number both machines. I won’t explain it because it will take to long but both machines were set to UID 501 which caused the conflict. Here is the rub, you can not simply change the machines UID number.
Here is how I got around the UID problem. Both machines were set to the Admins since they were both my machines. I created a second user account on my Laptop that I would log in to when I transfered from the P2 card to the hard drive. This caused the new user account to have a new UID number of 502 which did not conflict with duplicate 501 UIDs. There is something in P2 files like locked files that might cause the problem. The computers seem to think they are the same machine with the same UID # and I even had the same User and Passwords on both machines. (changing those will not fix your UID or problem so don’t bother)
So create a new user account on your laptop with a new user name and password and that should solve your problem. Your Tower will be UID 501 and your laptop will be UID 502 with new user account. When you log in as Admin again it will be 501.
-Lars