Lawrence Marshall
Forum Replies Created
-
Hmmm… I’ll plead a bit of ignorance here, as this is my first M100 HD project. You can choose between 720 and 1080 in M100’s dialogue box for which format you are presumably digitizing and editing in, so I’m unclear that no matter what you select you’ll be editing in 1080i… can you point me to a resource in the manual or some other resource that explains this further? 1080i is a bulkier format… needs more throughput and takes more drive space. Why then, the selection in M100 to choose between working in 720 and 1080?
And if so, I guess my question needs to be revised to “will the 4-drive 2TB SATA raid be fast enough for 1080i?
Thanks Floh…
Larry Marshall
-
Dave, I have a P6000 board with DV Option in great condition I no longer need. If we can get it to work software/license-wise transferring it over to you, let’s chat. Contact me offline at marshallmediagroup@comcast.net
Larry Marshall
-
I digitize VHS footage by going S-video out of the VHS deck to S-video in on my Betacam UVW 1800. Then component out of the Betacam to M100.
Trying to go VHS straight into M100 has always been hit or miss for me, due to frequent instability of the VHS signal, loss of sync, etc.
Larry Marshall
-
I think the pivotal “risk” in this scenario, if it is indeed a risk, is the FS-100, a new product. I think the *concept* of recording to hard drives is sound. I just finished a project recording directly to SATA drives connected to a 17″ Powerbook (using a SATA PCMCIA card) and the HVX 200. I recorded directly to FCP, 16;9 24P using the standard DV codec to one SATA drive, and upon completion of the shoot cloned to a seond SATA drive (using a two-drive Firmtek enclosure). We shot during the day, and did a rough edit in the evening. No problems at all.
That’s bleeding-edge enough for me for now. Looking forward to hearing how new adapters of the FS-100 are faring.
Larry M.
-
Does this make the current M100HD boardset “obsolete” in the sense that newer, probably less expensive boardsets will be utilized? I paid a pretty hefty price for the current HD boardset and breakout box, had to buy AD-DA audio converters because there was no other way to get analogu audio into and out of the system, etc. Yes it works fine, but also feels like it’s going to become a very expensive doorstop less than 1.5 years after buying it…
Larry Marshall
-
The PCMCIA SATA card has two ports, and therefore can take two separate drives, which show up as two drives on your desktop. Once there, those two drives can be set up as a RAID. The PCMCIA SATA card just provides a way to get the drives into the laptop, and you can do what you want from there.
The only reason I’m not RAIDing them on the Powerbook is that I would not be able to clone them to a backup RAID. You’d need a four-port SATA PCMCIA card, which I don’t think exist yet.
I use SoftRAID as my drive formatting, striping, and RAID utility.
Larry M
-
I just came off a two-week shoot with Panasonic’s HVX200, recording directly from the camera via Firewire to a Powerbook laptop. I used the Firmtek SeriTek/1EN2 enclosure with two Hitachi TK250 drives, and used a PCMCIA SATA card I purchased from Granite Digital (about 50.00). I recorded directly to one drive, and upon completion of the shoot cloned the footage to the other drive for backup. I was recording in standard DV format, and everything performed flawlessly. It made it especially convenient, since we did a rough edit of the A-roll interviews in the evening – no digitizing needed.
I was hesitant to purchase the SATA PCMCIA card from Granite Digital, as it really isn’t branded by a company name on the card, so who knows who made it? I would have preferred the Firmtek card to keep things in the family, but had to make a purchase for this shoot. Again, everything performed flawlessly – – no problems whatsoever.
In terms of drives for these enclosures, I think the Hitachi and Seagate drives at 250 gigs hit the sweet spot in terms of pricing and performance (I own drives from both manufacturers). I tried the 500-gig Hitachi drives… they ran a bit warmer than I was comfortable with. Speed-testing them also showed them to read and write a bit slower than the 250’s, but this is marginal. Mainly, if you do the math, you can buy two or three 250-gig drives for the price of one 500-gig. I prefer this route, as I can keep projects separate, and I haven’t had one yet that required the capacity of a 500-gig drive.
Larry Marshall
-
For what it’s worth, I spent much of yesterday pulling DV clips digitized in FCP into M100 HD, no rendering and no new file creation from M100. This is in NTSC-land. All I did was drag them from the hard drive to an empty bin in M100. M100 “updates” the file, but doesn’t re-render it. And FCP still sees it fine after the “updating”.
Larry Marshall
-
I am currently on a project that involves shooting interviews in several cities, and am recording directly from the HVX 200 to FCP 4.5 on a 1.67ghz Powerbook. I am recording 480i 24p, 16:9 anamorphic, but since the client wants a tape backup I am recording in standard DV mode.
I purchased a SATA PCMCIA card from Granite Digital (about $50.00), and am recording to an external SATA drive. It is working flawlessly… recording lots of continuous takes 10 or 15 minutes long. At night we edit the interviews… no digitizing needed, of course, since I recorded directly to FCP on the laptop.
I’m going Firewire out of the camera to Firewire in on the laptop. In FCP I am using an “Easy Setup” for standard DV, and using “Capture Now” when I’m ready to start recording. Select “none” in the “Device Control” tab. Timecode from the camera when captured this way does NOT carry across to FCP, and hitting the “Record” button on the camera does not trigger FCP to “capture now” (at least I haven’t found a way to make it work). So I have to hit the “record” button on the camera to start the tape rolling, and hit “capture now” in FCP. Makes for a bit of mind-juggling to make sure you start recording on both, and also *stopping* both when you’re done with a take (so far I forgot to “Capture Now” in FCP only once… wound up digitizing the interview from tape later that night).
Hope this is helpful…
-
The “focus assist” doesn’t work in SD? You’ve got to be kidding! It’s the *same* LCD screen whether shooting SD or HD, isn’t it? Why would focusing be any less critical if you’re shooting, say, DVC Pro 50 in SD? Why in the world is focus assist not available across all modes?