Mark Maness
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That’s because the firewire option cards in your DVCPRO decks do not have a surge protection circuit on them. Most firewire devices do, but some do not, like your Panasonic decks. Firewire ports all send power thru them for devices that need power to run. Yours doesn’t need this power and this is shorting out your cards.
The only real protection is to shut down your computer and switch off the deck, connect them, and then switch both of them on again. This is an old issue that has never really been dealt with at Panasonic.
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Connect the optical cable to an amp or stereo receiver that has an optical port. Make sure that in your System Preferences – Sound that you select your Output as Digital Out.
It should work like a charm.
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Or you could just use the Flix Exporter, which is much cheaper. Check it out! Its worth the $200 investment.
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I agree…
You can’t just hook up a PAL machine and play out of it into a NTSC machine to get a proper conversion. There’s more to it than that.
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Ok…
I don’t mean to sound condescending… but if your hardware conversion was so good, you wouldn’t be in this situation.
I think you might be better off editing in PAL and doing the conversion later.
I will give you this… Using a hardware standards converter is always better, but it sounds like yours must be having problems if you’re in this mess.
Compressor can do this conversion for you pretty well. I haven’t done this myself BUT I have heard folks on her having great success using Compressor for standards conversion.
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Really?
All of Graeme’s other plugins work for me. Contact Graeme Nattress and he will help you.
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Not really…
BUT, you can edit your program in PAL, export to Quicktime, then recompress in Compressor to an NTSC file. THEN you can bring it back into FCP to output to an NTSC tape.
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This is a field dominance issue. Your fields are not being converted correctly. Get a hold of a copy of the Nattress Standards Conversion filter and apply this to your PAL video and it will convert it correctly on your NTSC timeline. The filter only costs about $100 and is very well worth the investment for you.
PAL to NTSC conversions are never easy but the Nattress filters will solve your problems.
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Thanks, Andy, I would really appreciate it.
It may not be a bug BUT if its not, it should be a menu selection on the SD output. Knowing Sony, its not a bug or an issue they had considered.
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Yeah… pretty standard for an HD conversion. Or at least that’s been my experience.
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