[Lawrence Vaughan]

Thanks for the response.

When imported into DaVinci, the rode’s OTIO shows all of the edit points on the timeline. You have to import the clips of each camera. So every camera is fully recorded as a separate file.

The timeline is fully edited based on what cameras I switched to on the hardware, so it is not a DaVinci multi camera edit. It looks like a standard edit, just pre-done.

DaVinci then lets me ripple edit and change the in / out timing of each cut. But if I wanted to change from a wide shot to a close up, there is no way of doing that – without adding the source clip and cutting / dropping it in. Which then negates the entire point of the rode videocaster.

I was hoping DaVinci would let me right click a clip and switch it out, as it has the synced files and time code for each camera plus all of the recordings.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

The client is wanting to use it to play back at events, business meetings etc. As for web use – that was my next question!

I’ll give those options a try, and by the looks of it, I’ll have to invest in flip4mac at some point. To be honest, I might ask him to download VLC first…

[Lawrence Vaughan]

thanks for your help. I’ll see what the results are like. The DVD I’m converting is just under an hour. This may be unsuitable…

[Lawrence Vaughan]

again, amazing response. Wish I’d have been aware of these solutions back then. SOmething to bear in mind for the future. Thank you all!!

[Lawrence Vaughan]

My spec:
Macbook pro. 2.2 Ghz Quad Core i7. 8 Gig Ram.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t changed any settings – not entirely certain how!

[Lawrence Vaughan]

I have restarted my machine. Everything seems fine for now, except the rendering times have shot up! A render that would have taken 50 seconds is now taking approx 8 minutes +.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Works great, except for some reason when I make a movie AE crashes now…

[Lawrence Vaughan]

I wish I had seen these sites all that time ago, would have saved me some money.

I sent my video to a UK post house called Finishing School, based in leeds. They primarily do digibeta transfers (which is what MTV uk broadcast from). They ran it through their harding machine and fixed the problem.

It was literally 2 shots, one at about 4 seconds long and the other at about 2 seconds. It cost me £50 for the privilege. Despite the cost, they did a great job and turned it around in a day.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Hi,

Yes I finally got it sorted. A company in Leeds called the finishing school (who did the digi beta transfers) managed to repair the footage. Some kind of luminance problem, I forget exactly, its been a while… Cost about £200 (!!!) but the band wanted it on, so they paid.

A total pain in the arse if I’m honest. I seriously doubted the MTVs harding machine as I sent the same tape in twice and received two different results, the lady at the time in charge of it (Dee) claimed it must be a new tape. In the end getting it fixed and put on a brand new tape seemed to work.

Despite the charge, the finishing school were great and got the tape back really quick. Probably worth mentioning them should any other promo companies / directors in the north of the UK have similar problems.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

This doesn’t work. I have the options of either NHX-E1 or generic HDV (im editing DV footage). Neither work, all the audio settings look fine.