Mark Maness
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Just want to chime in to say…
WHAT AN AWESOME SHOW!!! I saw “Feasting on Asphalt” when it originally aired and dumped to to DVD for my own sake.
I think was a serious piece of work that deserves all the recognition that we can give it. I think it should be submitted for an Emmy. I’m sure that it would win hands down. If you hadn’t noticed… I’m a huge fan of Alton Brown. I love his humor and his way of doing things. Kinda makes you sit back and think of the old days. Alton showed me with his program, “Behind the Eats”, that the olds days are not gone but that we should always think of ways to do things to get the job done. You don’t need a big budget to pull off a spectactular program, just some serious creativity…
I think Alton Brown has taught us all a lesson that we need to share.
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What is your Easy Setup?
“Jaggies” depend on your compression settings within your sequence. And another thing to look at, what type of files are these? Are they HD or SD video? I do know from experience that sometimes with animation files that are encoded using the anaimation codec and you need to use them in a DV sequences, you’ll see these “jaggies”.
Something to look at…
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Use Compressor. This program was built specifically for this type of work.
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No….
Just make sure that you have the latest drivers installed.
For some odd reason, when the Kona driver is installed, it removes all of the AJA setups. Strange, but true!
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Trash your prefs!
You don’t happen to have a new Mac Pro do you?
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Do you have a capture card installed on your system?
If you have an AJA Kona 3 at your disposal, this card can do your cross-conversion on the fly for your output. That means you can edit your project completely in 720p60 and output to 1080i29.97.
As for the timecode issue, have to tried to check your footage using Quicktime? You can open a clip in Quicktime and look to see what the timecode is set for. The conversion of timecode is a serious problem that we all face. Something you migh want to try is to look at your Easy Setup. There is a major difference in DVCProHD and DVCProHD Varicam.
Something else to keep in mind, 1080i29.97 and 1080i60 (59.94) are the same. Most of the time, HD is refered to in fields, not frames. BUT broadcast video is still in terms of frames, thus 1080i29.97. Most cameras, now, can record true 24p but only a hand full of cameras can record true 60p. So, in order for us to help you any further we need to know if this video is Varicam or not. What was the camera used to record this footage?
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I think it would be very safe to say that most of us here on the Cows who are using Kona cards also have access to an IO box too.
The AJA Kona products are the best in the business but they have limited support for lower SD video standards such as S-Video. Therefore, any production house that has Kona cards installed also need the use of an IO box from time to time.
Now, let me say that if you have a Kona card installed, then you only really need a IO LA to add the other inputs/outputs for your analog connections.
To be perfectly honest, we only use our IO box for making tape dubs. Our primary format is XDCAM HD which has an SDI output that we connect to our IO and its outputted thru analog component to our BetaSP deck. This is the perfect use for the AJA IO and the major reason why most everyone who owns a Kona card should have an IO box.
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[John] “Focus was able to create a hard disk recorder that records to either QuickTime or AVI so it is platform agnostic. Sony could easily do the same. And I don’t see Sony supporting QuickTime as an option on it’s HD recorder as threatening either Vegas or their PC business. But.. it looks like maybe nothing has change; that, unless someone can verify otherwise, the new Sony hd recorder probably doesn’t support QuickTime and probably never will.”
This may seem like the pessimistic point of view, but its a realistic one. Sony does have this way of saying that we need to do what they want us to do. This is the reason that Panasonic has taken so much of the market and I have to say that Panasonic was extremely smart in doing this.
We use the XDCAM HD system with FCP. While it does work great, there are some major issues that need addressing such as not being able to work in AfterEffects or other third-party programs with XDCAM HD. As a matter of fact, Compressor has similar issues with XDCAM HD. Because of this type of thinking on Sony’s part, I’ve coined the phrase… “We’ve been Sonyed”.
Please, don’t get me wrong, I think Sony make the best products on the market and I have used Sony products for the past 20 years. But I do have to say that Sony does have a strong air of argonance to their business practices. It makes our jobs a little tougher than they should.
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Thanks, Peter!
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[Shane Ross] “This unit is PERFECT for P2 archiving. The drive modules are removable so all you need is this one chassis. And when you order new modules from CalDigit they send you an archive box that both drives fit into, there are spaces on the box that you can write and note the contents, and the box fits on a VHS shelf. A very elegant solution to the way that I archived P2, which was to use an external firewire case, order bare drives and swap them out. This is the same solution, but more elegant and organized. I like it.”
This is a really really cool solution BUT let me give you one word of warning. Any hard drive that sits on a shelf for any extended period of time WILL die. Hard drives have to be run every once in a while in order for them to survive. This is the reason we hear that firewire drives die all of the time. People use them as backup devices and plug them back into their systems a year from now, and the drive will no mount and/or sometime won’t spin up.
I still believe that Blu-Ray is the perfect solution to this issue of backing up media. But alas… Blu-Ray technology is still a little bit behind. Dual layer Blu-Ray doesn’t exist on the market just yet, but I’m sure it will make its debut at NAB this year. A 50 gig laser disc is much more reliable for backup than any hard drive on the market.
Don’t get me wrong… I use firewire drives everyday, but only as a temporary form of storage. As for P2, dual layer DVDs can hold up to 8 gig of media, which is about one 8 gig P2 card or two 4 gig P2 cards.
Just a little something to keep in mind….
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com