Matt Gerard
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Figured out a way to get the PA timecode, grabbed an old mac laptop, and hooked ethernet into the kipromini. It has a transport screen that shows TC, clip name and reel name. So that worked. one more cable dangling from the jib, but it worked. My only beef is that the TC goes to zeros when the camera isn’t recording, and the clip name doesn’t update until it starts recording. I wish the TC would freeze on the kipro when the cam stops recording, but on the web interface and on the screen on the unit it reverts to zeros when the kipro isn’t recording. Understood that it is because TC is not being output form the cam via SDI when it is paused.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Nope. I’ve reported it to Apple as a bug. Not sure what is going on. I’ll keep posting if I find anything, but I don’t think that this is an issue that can be fixed quickly.
I saw your post on the apple forums as well, I’m more likely to post here than there.
Matt
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[Alexander Kallas] “Whoa, too harsh, so you think Hollywood DVDs are the “last resort”? “
Well, I never use Hollywood DVD’s as sources, so I haven’t really given it any thought:)
But, no I agree that there is some awesome MPEG encoders out there, but most are outside the price range for most of us.
And in “last resort” was meant as it is a delivery format, the last in line, final resting place of the video. Not a source format. It would be the last option that i would ask for if someone was supplying assets for a project. I would rather wait and get tapes, or files or something not as compressed. But, I think that is universal.
Maybe my analogy was a bit harsh, partly humerous, partly trying to convey the importance of editors to stand up a little bit and insist on high quality sources. If someone says they will send me a DVD to edit, I immediately as them if the source tapes or files are available.
My .02.
Cheers!
Matt
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7.0.3, but I have downgraded my ProKit install to 5.6 due to some DVDSP issues. Looonnnggg story. So, that might be it.
Matt
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David- I feel the need to replace my avatar! Its like wearing the same shirt to the same party. Although you are smiling in yours, whilst I am hiding the curse words I’m mouthing to my Final Cut Server installation…
Cheers!
matt
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To the right of the level and pan sliders in the browser window when an audio clip is loaded. little speaker icon with a hand. drag that icon to the timeline to drop that into the timeline.
matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Take your awesome Monet painting, start it on fire, attempt to put out with a rake. Then drive over it a couple times. That is what dumping video to DVD does to the quality of the original. If the original is bad, it makes it logarithmically worse. If its awesome looking footage, it makes it worse. Using DVD’s for a source is the last resort. That being said, don’t ever de-interlace unless you have to. Sounds like you have some work ahead of you if you want to make this right, as long as you have the time.
+1 on the DV50 file idea.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Doh!!! Now I get what you were asking…
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Are you saying you need a large waveform display for editing the audio? You have 2 options-
1) Modify the appearance of the timeline. You can shrink the video tracks by dragging the horizontal double bar that separates the video and audio tracks. Drag it up to expose more room in the audio tracks pane. Then move your cursor to the line that separates the audio tracks from each other on the left side by the track selection buttons. Look for the cursor to change to the double bar/double arrow icon, and you can click and drag to resize the audio tracks as needed. Then turn on audio waveforms in the timeline options popup button( little right pointy triangle next to the track scale buttons). I have a window preset that I use for audio work.
2) Edit in soundtrack. Done.
Hope this helps.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Randy-
Too slow? COmpared to a HD, yes, but its tape. i can live with the fact that transfer times will take a while. Too difficult? Parts of it. Getting retrospect to see the tape drive took some work, and I was running it on a G5, and did a small update to retrospect, and it no longer worked. The software would lock up when starting the archive. Then I moved it to our newer FCSVr machine, and had to buy a new scsi card for the drive, then I had issues getting the software authorization transferred. Then i had my asset library of about 50 tapes to move over, and it wouldn’t recognize them even when they were in the correct drectory, so I had to locate them and import them from with in Retrospect ONE AT A TIME!!!! Online support for the software is so fractured and spread out, the softwares been kicked around a lot.
All that being said, once I got it running and stable, it has been going for a while without any hiccups. There are still things about it that are aggravating, like not being able to rename a media set within retrospect. I haven’t had to unarchive anything from it yet, so I can’t speak to that.
Once its running, and as long as nothing goes wrong, its seems to be fine and I’ll stick with it for now. I suppose I could setup a watch folder on the FCSVr mac and script a backup in retrospect so it will act like a cache-a machine.
But with retrospect it seems that everything goes into this big black hole, and we trust the software to manage the data and be able to retrieve it. That makes me nervous, not having a non-proprietary way of getting at the data.
At least Cache-A writes to TAR so I can go to virtually any LTO4 machine with any software any (Eventually) get my data back. Not so with retrospect. Better hope they don’t kill off the software. Or if they do at least make it open source so there aren’t thousands of LTO tapes out there that are worthless without it.
Like I said, its working for now, but I’m not completely comfortable with it.
Matt
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