Mark Maness
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Well, I’m in the process of trying to work with AJA on this problem and as usual, they don’t want to just ship another card until they waste about seven days of my time when they finally realize that the card has a problem.
As for the firewire and VTR Exchange… I found out from AJA that the firewire support that they mean is for the AJA Io series of boxes, not machine control. Its very misleading the way it is listed in the Preferences. Kinda sucks, too….
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Wayne Carey
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I’m using a Kona 2 to capture my XD HD using DVCPRO HD and it looks absolutely stunning!
But let me ask… Are you looking at the F330 for budget reasons? If you can find a way to swing it, the F350 is a better camera since it can overcrank and undercrank your video and the ability of having an HD-SDI output is a major feature for us.
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Wayne Carey
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Its much much better to letterbox 4×3 footage than to blow up 16×9 to fill a 4×3 screen. Would you scale a photoshop image to 200%? The same applies in video. BUT now, if you are only going to DVD or internet, that may be acceptable for you.
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Wayne Carey
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We are currently using the XDCAM HD system and yeah there are some drawbacks and things that need work BUT overall for the price and the workflow, it is the perfect system for television broadcast that there is on the market. And that’s my opinion.
As for the variable frame rate stuff. You do know that this part of the camera is the same as the F900 series CineAlta cameras. So, if it looks bad on XH HD, why doesn’t it look bad on the high end F900 camreas? I may be wrong… but I was told these were the same.
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Wayne Carey
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I’m sure the problem is related to your editing in the Apple Intermetiate Codec. You need to have your timeline in native HDV and then render and conform. I’m not sure that the Apple Intermediate Codec is a true MPEG2 format like HDV.
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Wayne Carey
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I agree with mschirad… I, too, have the same problem as he does. I have done the sam tests and came to the same conclusions as he. The export software is a good start BUT needs work for it to work properly. SONY HELP!
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Wayne Carey
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We currently use the XDCAM HD setup and have used it for the past two months beautifully. The camera shoots the most gorgous picture I have ever seen and the ability to shoot CineAlta is the most important feature to me. Now, we are able to create true 24p short feature films without all of the hassles of converting video and conforming (what a real pain!).
Andy is correct that the XDCAM HD system in FCP only supports the 25 mb/s stream (bummer!). But we overcome that issue by capturing in the DVCPRO HD codec. Its almost the industry standard for editing HD today. I don’t use lots of heavy graphics so Uncomppressed is serious overkill for me. Besides DVCPRO HD is very drive friendly and user friendly in FCP. And the results are absolutely stunning!
BTW, I hope Andy is right… I would love to just lift the clips right off of the disk like I can with standard XDCAM. But I do still have one complaint about the software. Why do I have to import all eight tracks of audio if I have only recorded two tracks? Why can I not select the tracks I want to import?
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Wayne Carey
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I’m sure why this happens but… every now ant then I get the same error with standard video and yes… it is rendered. As a matter of fact, it always occurs after the video is rendered for me.
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Wayne Carey
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YES… You need to have a seperate card to do what you are wanting to do. This applies to ALL Macs – G4 and G5. And I am sure this will spill over into the new Intel Macs as well.
BTW, Thanx…. My G5 only has one firewire buss for both FW400 and FW800. If I plug in a FW400 device, my FW800 devices back down to FW400. This is another reason for the additional firewire adapter cards.
<< "The restriction is that you can not have more than one "video device" (like a camcorder AND a deck) connected at the same time to one Mac." I concurr with Thax on this... I know from experience that you can ONLY use one machine at a time. If you have two machines like myself, you can only have one at a time powered up, otherwise FCP will get confused and give you an error message. _______________________________ Wayne Carey Schazam Productions http://www.schazamproductions.com
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Just to clarify a bit… What Zak is saying is: create an SD sequence (preferably 8-bit Uncompressed), drop your HD sequence into this one and render. It will take lots of time but it will work. The reason I say an 8-bit Uncompressed sequence is that HD downconverts much better on Uncompressed than any other that I have found.
BTW, if you are planning to do more of this… You might want to consider an AJA Kona product that will work with your computer.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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