Mark Raudonis
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BabaG,
Others can correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you’re misunderstanding the “when and how” of working in an uncompressed format.
You shot on DV. It will NEVER get any better than that. The point of working in an “uncompressed” format for finishing is to MAINTAIN quality to the end. You don’t have to “import” or media manage anything.
This would be my workflow. Cut in a DV timeline. Lock picture.Create a new “uncompressed 8 bit” sequence. Drop your “locked” DV sequence onto this 8 bit sequence. Poof! You’re now working in 8 bit. No need to export, reconnect or anything. You may have to render to play, depending on your processor speed. Do your color correct, GRFX etc. in this uncompressed timeline. Create your “uncompressed” QT or go out to digibeta tape to maintain your quality. If you’re starting in DV, using a 10 bit timeline is just a waste of time. I’d suggest 8 bit. You’ll never see the difference. (Unless you’re adding alot of GRFX)
It’s that easy. Good luck.
Mark
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In the “EDL Export Options” dialogue box, you have two options for sorting: Master, audio merged (That’s “A” mode), and Source, audio merged (That’s “C” mode). Select source, and that should give you “C” mode. If that’s what you’re doing and it still isn’t coming out correct… then I don’t know.
Mark
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Tom,
I know that MM has a terrible reputation, but we use it on a regular basis, going from off-line to online on hours of network level programming per week. Sure, the speed ramps are an issue, and yes, still frames can be problematic, but we’ve NOT had an issue with capturing TOO MUCH material. Yes, we set approximately 1 sec handles for sutble changes or sync adjustments, but we’ve NOT had an issue with what you’re desribing.
As for the “unlocking” issue… well you can count on that being the case more often than not. My best defense against that is to make sure that everyone know that THIS WILL COST THEM MONEY! Sometimes they don’t care. But at least they’re aware of the consequences. I would suggest that you experiment with media manager to get it to do what you want.
Mark
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Ah ha. I think in understand now. And… unfortunately, I think you’re hosed! By going the “edl” route rather than sticking with media manager, you’ve effectively created new media with no relation to the old project. This works for a “one way” trip, and it seems like you got what you wanted, but now that you’re dealing with changes, the two different sets of media have no reference to each other.
If you brought it all in at full resolution, I don’t quite understand why you did all this media managing BEFORE picture lock?
Worse, by NOT using the media manager to do it, you’ve guaranteed yourself the issues that you’re now facing. Sorry.
Mark
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If I understand you correctly, you up rezzed your feature once, un locked it, made changes and now want to relink your old up rez to your new picture. Right?
That’snot exactly the most efficient workflow! Whenever I’ve done something similar (and I always regret it), I create a “mixdown” or QT movie of the existing cut and put it on a higher layer. That way all of my changes are visibile in the timeline and I can see what I need to uprez. With out this reference you’re dependent on just relinking the existing high rez media to a new timeline. The odds of a successful result are slim.
Good luck.
Mark
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Right up there with geometric wipes on the old GVG switchers… so seventies!
Mark
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Don’t know where you live, but out here in Los Angeles, there’s a computer superstore called “Fry’s”. They had 750 gig SATA drives (Seagate) on sale last week for about $300 bucks! That’s approximately $2.50per gig. Don’t know if you can get any cheaper than that.
I lapped up a handful and threw them into our on-line g-5’s for saving backups.
Mark
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Agree with Shane. If you can handle the “hit” in quality, you can probably squeeze all of your footage onto one 750gig internal drive. Then you can duplicate the media to all three systems and go to town as a workgroup.
It’s a trade off… picture quality for space. What makes the most sense for your budget? Keep in mind however, if you choose the off-line workflow, your digitizing must be accurate, and your mini DV tapes must NOT have multiple TC resarts or every penny saved in off-line will be spent in on-line trying to conform mismatching timecodes.
Mark
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You may be networked, but you’re not sharing the same storage. For that you’ll need a SAN (X-SAN by Apple for example). However if you only have two…. and only two, there is a way for both computers to share the storage.
Try googling “two computers sharing storage” and see what pops up.
Good luck.
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A standard Mac G5 is ready to go for a second drive. All cables, connections etc are all in place.
If you can’t figure it out, go to an Apple store, ask a “genius” to point out to you where you should put the second drive.
By the way, there are now 750gig drives available. Just installed a bunch of them in our systems. They’re great for backing up projects that you’re not quite ready to get rid of.
Mark