Mark Spano
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It’s not a menu option – just dial down the volume control with the knob.
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It matters less how fast the computer is than how fast the storage is. For quick scrubbing response, you need your media to be on a drive array that has very fast seek time, access time, and bandwidth. This may be the determining factor.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “How can I down-convert out of my iPhone? Do I need a Kona iOS4?”
Dude – it already does a downconvert to the main LCD. Pssh.
There will be a Kona Capture Support Kit with dock connector that outputs HD-SDI over micro USB…
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Thumbs up for Minnetonka’s SurCode plugins. I am a Pro Tools engineer as well and can vouch for the quality and reliability of both the Pro Logic and Dolby E encoders/decoders. SurCode for Dolby E allowed me to save the day on delivering a short film to the Tribeca Film Festival recently. The film was transferred on an HDCAM tape at 24p, and I was supplied with a Dolby E mix at 29.97. I was able to decode the mix into its discrete 5.1 + Lt/Rt (8 channels) and then change frame rates in Pro Tools and re-encode the mix to Dolby E and lay it off to tape frame-accurately in time for that day’s screening. The operations manual for the decoder is written very well and my crash course in understanding how to pull the stream apart and put it back together was very straightforward. An added plus is that I can lay off a Dolby E stream that I created with SurCode from both Pro Tools and FCP (using KONA LH). Just about the only thing it won’t do is real-time live encoding/decoding (wishlist). But the offline operations are faster than 1:1, so the added time is never a dealbreaker.
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[julian stewart] “Is there standard practice here? If so what is it?”
The standard practice would be to edit in whatever resolution your final product intends to be. If you don’t know, then err on the conservative side and edit HD – you can always downconvert later and not lose resolution unnecessarily.
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I assume this is an SR output? If so, you could do a separate sequence for just the audio for 11 and 12 and use the LHi’s AES output connected to the 11/12 AES input on the deck. Yeah, you can’t get them all there at once (AFAIK with LHi), but you can still make it happen.
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If you are not sure what the actual info embedded in a BWF is, I recommend the Sound Devices Wave Agent software. Drop a BWF into it and it will reveal all metadata including original recorded TC rate, sample rate, etc. – very helpful in these cases where you’re not sure if they gave you the right stuff or if FCP is messing with you.
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It starts searching before I’m finished typing.
It doesn’t find files I know are there.
It is way way slower than Find Any File.
It’s a tedious, multi-step solution to a “problem” that didn’t need fixing. The old OS9 file header index search never needed to index and was simpler and faster. Find Any File restores that functionality to your basic Finder find.
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I hate Spotlight for way more reasons than if/how it’s messing with your workflow – I use the infinitely faster Find Any File. Not just for the OP, but good for anyone who wants to do simple, old-school-style file finding. And SUPER fast, if I didn’t mention that.
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[jon swanson] “Do they make quicktime pro for snow leopard?”
When I upgraded, I was able to keep my Quicktime Pro 7 – you may have it in your Applications > Utilities folder. If it’s not there, I think you can just load your upgrade disc and choose to install Quicktime Pro 7.