Mark Beazley
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How are you going to have the edit system know what the time of day is without time code? You can’t. Time code is how professionals sync things. The only other way is by manually doing it with a clapper and/or syncing by audio cues.
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They are talking about time code. The standard method is to set one record deck as the master, set to time of day, and then slave the rest off that one. That is the way I do it in 99% of all corporate live shows. Every now and then you’ll get a producer who wants tape 1 starting at 1hour, tape 2 at 2 hour, etc etc.
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Ummm, unless your footage is anamorphic (which it should be if you shot to BetacamSP), then you need to tell FCP that your footage is anamorphic when you capture it. Beyond that, the AJA Io is not specifically geared towards 16:9 footage.
What camera did you use? I know our DXC-D35ws at work will indeed record 16:9 images to BetacamSP. Have not tried it with the AJA though.
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Yes I will usually do that on site, but just to have a reference tape so I know when they changed slides.
I sure wish Microsoft would fix the slide export function. It does not even work good on Windows either. I’ve found screen captures work the best.
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I must have had some funkyness going on. Deleted POA cache and preferences and all seems fine now. I also re-did the graphics so they were a 601 square pix size of 720×540.
These were powerpoint slides, which always seem the biggest pain in the rear to export/import cleanly. I would love to know what others do for this. I usually just run the show and do screen captures @ 1024×768 and re-image in Photoshop.
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I am doubting the claim that the G-RAID “barely” gives you one UC 10bit stream. That is the drive that AJA recommended to me. As long as you run off a dedicated FW800 PCI board, you should get the 1 stream as advertised. 1 stream is less than 30MB/sec. Unless you have zillion audio tracks going as well, I think you will be fine. The G-RAID is actually 2 drives striped in a hardware array. I’ve had no problems with frames being dropped. Maybe it can happen, but I’ve yet to see FCP pop up the dropped frame warning window (and yes I have it set to).
I am not doubting the benefits of SCSI, if my company had the money, I would have gone that route in a heartbeat. My situation is a lot different than most, we don’t make our bread and butter on editing UC 10bit video. If that is your bread and butter, then I would go SCSI or Xserve RAID w/o hesitation.
Internal SATA drives is a bad idea no matter what format you edit in my opinion.
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Sounds like a drive/speed issue to me. What are you using as media drives?
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He is only doing UC 10-Bit SD video (720×486). A Firewire 800 drive like the G-RAID will work just fine.
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I always use the composite output of the Io to sync the Beta Records decks unless I am integrating the system into our component rack system, in which case I reference everything to the sync gen in the rack. Either way works fine.
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You should not need to render the newly captured clips in FCP. Make sure your Sequence is setup for the same type of media you are digitizing and you should be able to play back in RT w/o rendering a thing.
I am glad everything else is working though, that Journaling option really makes FCP behave in a less than adequate manner. 😀
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