[Mark Reitz]

we just wanted to use this cam for casting, mostly. 2 and 3 hour footage loads at a time. so in our case, i’m imagining a pain to digitize manually thru an IO. looks like our casting will be in so-authentic 24p film mode! our clients will be so impressed!
good luck with your docs.

mark reitz
glass eye projects

[Mark Reitz]

you’re right, maybe it’s just the diff between the cameras. what a drag. hope Apple gets to this soon.
as far as ingesting with my IOHD thru HDMI or component — a good idea that I’m sure would work. (why wouldn’t it, right?) that was the last resort, though, because in my mind real-time capture sort of defeats the purpose of recording tapeless. but if Apple doesn’t hurry up and write new code — or if i get tired of shooting in 24p in the mean time — i’m sure it’s what I’ll try.
how does one know, by the way, once Apple writes the new code? do they have a notification process?

mark reitz
glass eye projects

[Mark Reitz]

greetings again. thanks for the replies, sorry mine is so late. do hope that Apple writes some code that will make this easier for us, but still there might be some workarounds, William.
i did see Apple’s post that Jeremy pointed to. (thanks, Jeremy).
also saw the thread about the speeded up clips.
but that’s not happening at all with my rig. I tried 3 different ingest settings, and once the clips were importing, all the clips came up to the the same running time, same file size, regardless of ingest setting (and they all had audio as a speed reference). but again, the only clips that DIDN’T crash FCP were the ones shot in 24p mode.
So the ingest settings were: (from the Easy Setup dialogue box):
Format: Apple Intermediate Codec Use: HDV 1080i60
Format: Apple ProRes 422 Use: HDV Apple Pro Res 422 1080p24
Format: Apple ProRes 422 Use: AJA IO HD 1080i 29.97
My system settings: OS 10.4.11. FCP 6.0.3. Running on a Macbook Pro, Intel 2.4ghz, 4gb RAM, 7200rpm internal sata HD. I have an AJA IOHD but the box wasn’t powered on for any of this. Maybe the AJA plug-ins are still helping in the background even when the unit’s off?
Again, once it was working, FCP didn’t seem to care whether I brought in the clips from the camera’s internal HD, or the camera’s SD card plugged into a USB reader, or from the hard drive of the computer itself.

mark reitz
glass eye projects