[Matt Devino]

Ya it came from Shake, but they added in the auto scale for FCP. It works just as well in either program, but it’s kind of annoying that FCP analyzes the entire master clip not just what’s in the timeline.

[Matt Devino]

“Interesting, But, on the same machine, I cant playback Pro Res HD footage w/o dropping frames…(even on a 5 disk RAID). ”

That suprises me. I tested out 24p capture from 1080i (24p with pulldown) from my Sony V1U, and I made a custom easy setup, taking the HDV to ProRes 1080p24 easy setup and making it ProResHQ, and this captured/plays back perfectly on my Dual 1.8Ghz G5 with a WD My Book Pro firewire 800 drive (2 500GB drives raided at Raid 0). It removed pulldown and created new clips on the fly no problem. I would check out your raid to make sure its working properly, hopefully you don’t have disk that’s about to die.

[Matt Devino]

You need to install the Pro Apps update first, then do another software update and updates for the whole Studio 2 will show up. You may need to update to OSX 10.4.11 first, not sure I did mine on Leopard.

[Matt Devino]

I think people will be interested to see this:

https://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2037000334&size=o

This is a frame grab comparing the footage I captured using on the fly conversion to ProResHQ to HDV footage I had on my system that was captured as HDV in 6.0.1

The top frame is HDV that was captured in FCP 6.0.1, and pulldown was removed and converted to ProResHQ in compressor (at the time the only good way to remove pulldown in final cut studio). Even before the conversion I would see the same artifacting (mostly aliasing) you can see in the top half of the image (the raw HDV footage in my FCP looked the same, I did a bunch of side by side comparisons, as I wasn’t happy with the amount of compression at all, but I figured that’s what happens when you put HD onto a miniDV tape).
Now when I capture straight to ProRes in 6.0.2 I get what you see in the bottom half of the image, an image that is almost completely free of aliasing (it’s very apparent on the black trim around the windows of the car).

Now, maybe there was something wrong with my FCP system before, but if there wasn’t then it looks like the new capture feature does a nice cleaned up conversion.

Needless to say I’m a lot happier with my V1U (or should I say Final Cut’s ability to capture HDV).

[Matt Devino]

I upgraded my G4 laptop last week and my G5 desktop yesterday without problem. I installed FCP 6.0.2 before I even opened it up, checked FCP and Motion and both seem ok. No problem with the OS yet either. Although my friend bought a new MacBook and installed Leopard on it (didn’t come pre-installed because it was 2 days after Leopard was released) and his Leopard seems a lot less stable. He can’t even open imovie, it just crashes. I saw this happen at the apple store too on an Intel iMac. I guess Safari crashes a lot too. So I’m wondering if Leopard is less stable on Intel machines than PPC machines.

[Matt Devino]

It seems to me like this doesn’t change the interface much, it just means if you started moving a clip and snapping wasn’t on, but you want it on, you can just hold option and it will temporarily enable snapping. It’s faster than having to stop moving the clip, click N to enable snapping, then move the clip again. If you want snapping to stay off then simply don’t press option.

[Matt Devino]

We have the same problem with our sony 23″ monitor. (it’s actually the same screen as what’s in the Apple cinema displays, just a different case around it). I RMA’d an HDlink that was doing this, and the new one they sent me still has the same problem, just not as often. You can stop it from doing this by pulling the power from the HDlink and pluging it back in. Although this is just a temporary fix as it will start doing it again after a while. We actually spliced in a switch to our power supply as to not wear out the power jack on the box from pulling it out so often.

I’ve always assumed those HDlinks are just a little bit buggy, but now that I hear someone else with the same screen is having the same problem, maybe it’s a compatibility issue between the screen and the HDlink. We have an HDlink hooked up to a 42″ aquos and it works fine.

You can try calling BlackMagic and getting it RMA’d, although when I did that they seemed like they had never heard of the problem before, although it’s obvious now that it may be a common problem.

[Matt Devino]

Vey cool. Thanks for the info! Now I need to go try it.

[Matt Devino]

Awesome I’m glad to hear that worked for you. It’s nice when Apple decides to actually make our lives easier for once huh?

Now is “HDV – Apple ProRes 422 1080p24” an actual new easy setup or would I just change the capture setting like you did to AIC?

Thanks for your help.
-Matt

[Matt Devino]

Cool, thanks for your help. I think someone from blackmagic has chimed in over on the blackmagic forum so hopefully that pans out.

Thanks again everyone.