Mark Maness
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Thanks…. I always seem to forget that when I need it! You know how it is….. your editing along, working your butt off and you see an update that you desperately need, so you donwload it and install and then jump right back to work…
The audio works great, now. But I did still get an error message on startup of FCP that the AJA Kona was missing. But everything seems to work just fine.
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Wayne Carey
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Well, how large is the total size of your drive? If you are below the minimum 20% of available space, you’ll get that message. And also…. FCP does a poor job of estimating drive space. I use IMX and HDV and its estimates the capture at about 5 to 6 times the actual amount.
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Wayne Carey
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I think you misunerstood what Tom was talking about… There was a time when we had to use After Effects for all of our compositing work – layering video tracks for an effect. But now, with FCP most of that work can be done right on the time line with very similar results. I would have to say that most people here don’t do particle effects all of the time and don’t need those complex filters to get those same effects. As you know, there can be problems exporting video to work in AE and brought back into FCP. Let’s keep it simple…
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Wayne Carey
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I’m not totally positive but I think you need to have 10.4 and Quicktime 7.04 to render H.264 properly. Yes, there were some bugs that needing correcting and I haven’t seen anymore since I upgraded to the latest.
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Wayne Carey
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I found a program called Sound Grinder 2.5 to do just what you are doing. It works wonderfully. Very customizeable and very reasonably priced at $39 US. Give it a look. I love it.
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Wayne Carey
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Have you recently trashed your preferences? If you have or have not, you need to look in your User Preferences and look to see if “On timecode break:” is set to Make New Clip. Give that a shot. I don’t seem to be having this problem. But if you still are, I would say trash your preferences and repair your permissions and see what happens after that.
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Wayne Carey
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I also use this machine, too. I have it installed on my computer as of the moment. I capture with it just fine. Use the same capture settings as you would for the PDW-1500 but choose firewire as the machine control. Make sure that the PDW-V1 is not set to Network or Local but set it to Remote. Do not enable the PC Remote in the menu.
Just select an Easy Setup that works with your capture card, such as, for an AJA Kona2, select AJA KONA2 – NTSC 8 Bit Uncompressed and then change the Device Control Preset to Firewire NTSC or Firewire NTSC Basic. I have made my own setup that captures usning the Kona2 to input SDI and compress it to IMX50 codec using Firewire control. It works just fine. I have preview and full machine control.
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Wayne Carey
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Take it from me…. the little deck is your best all around bet. Your camera can still be used as a backup if you need. The little deck is tape transport is bulit for this kind of abuse. Yeah…. I know, its $3800 but…. its a worthy investment as compared to a camera being down for repairs. You can still tape events and use the camera if absolutely necessary.
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Wayne Carey
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Hey gang….
Here’s my two cents… I agree totally with what everbody is saying completely. Its a tough choice sometimes figuring out which route to go when doing DVCAM/DV and SD video. And all the responses are very knowledgeable. But I have to say that almost everybody missed the most important point (or question depending on how you look at it). The first question you need to ask is: Where is this video going? Broadcast? Corporate? DVD? Interent? The answer to this question should give you the direction you need. If you are editing a show for broadcast, then maybe firewire isn’t the way to go UNLESS you are using DVCAM and a descent level of video deck that has SDI out and a black level conversion (or compensator) built-in.
Remember, DV has a black level of 0 IRE and broadcast TV has a requirement of 7.5 IRE. That would mean alot of color correction to adjust your black levels to proper standards. Now, if you are going to any other format such as DVD or Corporate Video, its not such a big deal.
So…. for broadcast TV, I use and SDI input for all of my video so that I have the proper black levels. Otherwise, if its a video for company use or DVD, then I will use firewire. Now, please, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that firewire is not acceptable. Firewire is great but it is easier for me to input using SDI so that I have one less thing I have to do to ge my video ready for broadcast.
The whole game changes once you go HD, such as Walter. The video equipment is a higher standard and higher quality, so firewire ingestion is proper for broadcast. But standard DV, has to be looked at differently, according to your needs.
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AMEN!!!!
I, second the motion on these!
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Wayne Carey
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