Mark Maness
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First of all, what computer are you using?
That all depends on what you can use. You could add an internal SATA card and add drives to it for Internal RAID drives. I’v done it and it works on my older system. My newer systems are using a TerraBlock system and it uses SATA drives.
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Wayne Carey
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Great news!
Now, if ATTO can get my fibre channel card past this issue, I’d be really happy camper. Its tough to work with graphics and animations using Photoshop, Motion, and After Effects on 2 gig of RAM.
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Wayne Carey
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Great news!
Now, if ATTO can get my fibre channel card past this issue, I’d be really happy camper. Its tough to work with graphics and animations using Photoshop, Motion, and After Effects on 2 gig of RAM.
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Zap your PRAM.
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Wayne Carey
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YES…. This is a serious bug in FCP. Don’t have any idea if its FCP, Mac OSX, or Quicktime but its there.
The only fix to this that I have found was to recreate you clip (or clips) from scratch, and then deleting the corrupted clips.
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You’re only option is to do a conversion in Compressor on all of your footage. Yeah…. That is tme comsuming but its your only option on your Powerbook. I’m sure that you hate to hear that but its not easy to deal with codec changes.
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Wayne Carey
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[Andy Mees] “Wayne, you’re going to love the long overdue update to XDCAM Transfer v1.1. You can set it to import only the ‘monitored’ channels. Great stuff.”
Andy… Do you already have a copy of this? If so, where do you download it?
I’ve been asking for this since day one of the software. I always thought it should have let the user select the audio tracks since the cameras could only record four channels. Seems silly to import eight channels when the cameras are only capable of four.
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Wayne Carey
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[Skywalker] “Wayne – the B-Roll material will be shot for the series so we do have the option to go HDV. We have a couple of Z1’s and are looking at the Sony HDR – HC1 HDV Camcorders for ‘Video Diary’ material. Would these be the kind of cameras you’d suggest?”
I can vouch for the Z1s. We use those in our productions and for making hunting videos, that’s the camera of choice!. Now, the smaller cameras for video diaries should be fine. I’m not sure if they will do the Cineframe mode or not, but you’re probably not interested in that.
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Wayne Carey
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[Skywalker] “I’d love to hear form any one who has done longform work with these cameras and can offer the pro’s and cons of the format and work flow. Can I really just transfer the files from the disks to my storage and start cutting? What kind of extra hardware will I need?
First, let me say that the XDCM HD equipment is excellent! I’m a firm believer in the XDCAM system. BUT there are some serious challenges with XDCAM SD and HD working with FCP. XDCAM SD is perfect for your particular needs since you are working with SD only. The main challenge you will have to work with is the case that you need to get this HD footage into SD footage. Sony’s F70 machine will do just this for you. Personally, I would suggest upgrading your capture cards to HD capable cards since you are going to run into this real soon anyway.
Sony does have software that will allow you to lift the data off of the disks and place them onto your RAID, but, you can only transfer data written in its native form, meaning, you can only transfer HD footage as HD video and it includes all eight channels of audio only. You cannot select what audio channels to import. You’re needing to record HD and downconvert to SD. In your situation, only the Sony machine can do this for you.
[Skywalker] “How best can I mix these formats?”
This will be your biggest challenge. FCP will only allow one format per sequence (in realtime).
[Skywalker] “For our next project in the new year (a 8 x 1 hour series for broadcast) the production company has been offered 3 XDCAM HD cameras to shoot the series which, like the previous projects will be high shoot volume shoots in far fetched corners of the globe. This will also be mixed with DV and DVCAM second camera footage.”
You mentioned using DV and DVCAM to mix with XDCAM HD. This isn’t a good idea. Your B-Roll will look very fuzzy and soft. Your A-Roll will look very sharp even after downconversion. My suggestion is to sell off you DV equipment and look at Sony’s HDV for a low cost B-Roll camera. But I’m sure the B-Roll you are speaking of is already existing footage, am I right? If that is true, you’ll just have to work through it as best as you can and let the quality difference just roll off your back.
I would have to ask, how profitable is this project and will it benefit me to upgrade now. Upgrading your equipment is something you are going to have to do real soon as the market is changing more rapidly than every first expected. We had anticipated upgrading to HD in one more year BUT we have had too many requests for projects shot in HD to let this happen.
AND that’s my two cents!
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Wayne Carey
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Tom,
I know this sounds silly BUT if you have a PC laptop just lying around or have access to, you could purchase HDV Rack and connect the camera via firewire to your PC and use it for all of your field monitoring. I think most on the Cows are using the Panasonic BT-LH1700W in the field for monitoring and waveform monitoring. You sound like me and would prefer something a little more beefy, that’s why I mentioned HDV Rack.
https://www.seriousmagic.com/products/dvrack/
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com