[Mark Beazley]

Of course! DV is designed to fit the 720×480 frame size exactly. Zooming in will always cause you to lose resolution of the image. About the best you can do is export your still to Photoshop and try and sharpen it up there.

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

Hmmm, really. I’ve had no problems with Firewire drives. At work I am using a G-RAID 320 and have yet to have any issues playing back DV, DVCPRO50, uncompressed 8bit or uncompressed 10bit with the drive.

I’ve had corrupted timelines before and simply copying and pasting does seem to work, at least for me.

Instead of just disabling Journaling from the Terminal or with cocktail, I would recommend that you re-format the drive with Disk Utility, without Journaling enabled.

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

Do you have journaling or security encryption active on the drives on which you store your projects? Also make sure journaling is not active on your media drives. Other than that, I do not know what to tell you, I’ve stored FCP projects for months and months and they still work fine when I open them, although I am still using Panther + FCP 4.5.

I also have my OS and User data on different disk partitions. Media drive is a G-RAID.

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

I generally use the Io in the edit bay without syncing the Io and have had no issues. I do however, use the composite output of the Io to reference the BetaSP decks to the component out of the Io.

Sometimes I pack the edit system up for use with live shows, hooking into our DFS-700 switcher. In this case, I reference the Io just like I would any other source going into the switcher. This works with no problems also.

I would say if you can afford to get a “house sync” box, then that would probably be the preferred method, but I do not think it is necessary for small shops like myself who generally just edit and lay the program to tape with little to no need to do any insert edits, although I doubt that not syncing the Io would cause problems inserting as long as the record deck is synced to the Io output.

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

This drives me so nuts. A lot of people think that XLR is XLR and that is all there is to it. grrrr…

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

If that chart is true, then the P2 cards in the camera would not even have the bandwidth to record the 100Mbit/sec stream.

Also, any cardbus USB2, FW400, or FW800 adapter you buy would only give you about ~ 1/5 the speed of FW400 according to that chart. I’m calling bullshit since AJA supports running the IoLA off the internal FW adapter on a PowerBook and then using a cardbus FW800 card to run the media drives, all of this supporting 10bit uncompressed SD 4:2:2 video which BTW is a hell of lot more data per second than DVCPRO HD.

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

Actually PCMCIA/Cardbus is faster than firewire. Remember that Media100 used to have a mobile system that plugged into the cardbus slot and it went to an external box that had a SCSI interface and the M100 card inside of it.

If Panasonic is indeed using a standard computer based Cardbus slot then I see no reason why someone could not make a cardbus adapter that plugs into a external hard drive that is fast enough to record the 100Mbit/sec stream.

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

Just because the transfer protocol and circuitry allows speeds up to 400 or 800 Mbits/sec, does not necessarily mean you will get that from hard drives. A single Firewire 400 drive will barely handle 100Mbit/sec video. A FW800 G-RAID would easily handle it though. I have the sample DVCPROHD footage that came with the first FCP 4 HD Studio package and my Lacie FW400 drive can barely handle the 1080i footage.

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

You could just try and change the sequence back to Anamorphic and see what happens.

-mark

[Mark Beazley]

Ahhhh, the old dilemma of wanting something designed exclusively for video work, to work doing audio only…I feel your pain, but on the other hand, think that getting another hardware box designed for pro audio would be a better idea. Since the Io only has 4 channels of audio input, to me it seems somewhat limited to use as a pro audio device. I’d look into the MOTU firewire devices, not only do they do what you want, but they handle much higher sampling than the Io and with more channels of i/o.

As far as monitoring, the Io does have 8ch output monitoring, but without a real nice surround setup it seems like overkill. I do not have FCP 5 and the rest of the new studio goodies, but I thought FCP5 was able to use all 8 channels on the Io for output routing.

-mark