Mark Maness
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My company has a Sony XDCAM HD 350 camera on order, right now… Should see it any day now!
Just to add my two cents… We’ve been using XDCAM for the past year and we love it! I digitize all of my footage using the Kona 2 and SDI input. The only reason I do this is that its still easier to get only what you need to edit. In order for my workflow to get faster, my camera man will have to rethink his shooting methods and use the markers in the camera. That’s easier said than done for a 20 year veteran shooter.
Anyway… until Sony makes their software available and fully working, SDI is your best option. Its still digital and you can import into any codec there is to work with. Keep in mind, XD HD is still a form of HDV and HDV is a transport stream of data – not video. That means your computer is still have to work very hard to decode and encode every frame in native mode. Using anyother codec will be a breeze.
Drive space… Well, that easy, too… It won’t be any different than any other depending on the codec. Besides that… There are no XDCAM HD codecs in FCP 5.1.1. If you record HDV 35mb/s, you still ony have the regular HDV setting which is 25 mb/s.
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Wayne Carey
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Well, I the only problem I see is that HDV is a whole different puppy! When digitizing HDV native at low res DV and then recapturing later does present some timecode problems because of the nature of HDV. Most of us get around ths problem by digitizing at a better codec like DVCPRO HD or Uncompressed.
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I feel David’s pain… I, too, have seen this issue and delt with it by having to set the screen size in Quicktime to that of a widescreen. In NTSC, I have to export my video using the screen size of 720×407 in order to get 16×9.
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Wayne Carey
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Render Manager does not remove any filters, just render files only. It sounds to me like you have a corrupt seqence or somebody else has possibly removed your filters. You didn’t by chance use the Remove Attributes command, did you? If so, that’s were your filters have gone.
I use Render Manager all of the time and I have never seen this one… Maybe you should trash your preferences and try rendering again.
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Wayne Carey
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Fianlly….. Somebody said it! I was just watching the furor take place over the “security and virus” issue with Macs. The thing is…. there’s not one. That’s the main reason people are jumping to FCP and Macs. I have a friend that purchased Avids on PCs and they have had a real nightmare with security issues, viruses and drives going down for no apparent reason.
So I have to ask… Is a $40k Avid really better than a FCP on a Mac?
The only thing we have to watch is resource hungry programs like DVDSP and After Effects. Other than that…. ALWAYS backup and don’t install stupid crap on your computers just because it looks and acts cool.
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Wayne Carey
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Maybe if you have enough room… try copying your data to an internal drive and reformat your external drives. Sometimes just moving the drives can get them a little out of sync. It’s very possible! If that doesn’t work, just try hooking your drives to the buss with your tape machine and leaving the tape machine unplugged. I know you won’t be able to monitor except for the FCP interface but its worth a shot to see if one of you firewire busses are have a problem.
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Wayne Carey
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Well, if that’s what you are insisting on… Just digitize your footage using the SDI thru your Blackmagic card using the DV50 codec. Anything else is just a watse of space and time.
BTW, what codec sre you using on your velocity system? DV uses a 5:1 compression ratio, therefore it is very normal to see 25Mb/s DV captured at 3.6 mb/s. That’s very standard for NTSC video so I’m very sure that PAL numbers are somewhere close to that. The reason why I ask what codec is beacuse if you choose DV-PAL in your Easy Setups in FCP, it will capture your footage somewhere around the range of 3.6 mb/s. The Velocity may work differently than FCP and that’s where your confusing is coming from.
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Wayne Carey
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Well…. that could be it, too!
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Wayne Carey
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Sorry!
That’s a PC thing… The wonderful Microsoft Windows Blue Screen of Death!
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Wayne Carey
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Well, yeah….
Its extremely resource heavy and to burn a DVD it takes everything the system has to burn it properly. Otherwise, you’ll get failed burns. Sort of like when you Print to Tape in FCP.
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Wayne Carey
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