Matt Gerard
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Actually, this was different. I am familiar with the keyframe menu that you speak of, I use it all the time, this one wasn’t a contexual menu per se, it was more like a floating pallete, it looked like an indocked pallet with the background color the same as the workspace and everything.
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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That’s odd, I am using compressor with Flip4Mac, and I have my local cluster set up with all 8 cores, and activity monitor shows less than 20% useage on each core. I’m compressing a 34 minute self contained DVCPRO50 movie, and it is going to take 45 minutes. This is with it set to 320×240 800kb Offline fast in F4M window, and everything else turned off in compressor’s controls.
This stinks.
Matt
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Okay folks, after a little (ok, alot) of futzing, I got this far. Not I can’t get how to get my texture to show on the OUTSIDE of the ring, not the inside.
Any ideas?
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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lynda.com has a long online intro to 10.5.
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Also, I find the PCD20 transfer speeds to be far faster than the P2 store due to the FW800 connection and it being more mac friendly”
I hear you there. I’ve had my eye on that unit for a while, but it seems that I’ve got the laptop routine down pretty well, so I think I’ll stick with that for a while. Going to try to get a little turnkey portable system together with the stuff we have for a portable laptop based on set backup system, hopefully in one pelican case the guys can just slap down (somewhat gently) and start shoving cards in. Then if they know something about P2 stuff they can get in deeper and review clips and scenes with the client. If its a rookie, just copy and go. We have a range of skill levels that we see, so trying to keep it simple yet functional.
Matt
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Here Here!
We bought one with our 2000 and used it exactly once. Then wondered why we bothered. Our 7 16 gb cards kinda makes the P2Store a little pointless. Haven’t shot enough to fill up 5 cards yet, much less all 7. And even then we brought along the laptop and a couple of drives. I’m sure it has a purpose somewhere, but not in our shop anymore. Worse case I can plug our drive directly into the camera and dump the footage during lunch.
Anyone looking for a used once P2 store with a nice pelican case? 😉
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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I think he was kidding. We’ll see, but you never can tell. I’ve gotten plenty of easy work from him, so no hard feelings. I’m pretty sure he will be back for more training. Might have just switched from field tech to support tech. Okay by me, no 5am call times…
matt
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This is what we did, we held onto our PB 17″ for just this purpose. I just recently performed the surgery necessary to up the internal drive to 320gig, and it works great. there’s a mod out there to remove the cd drive and install another HD, but I can’t seem to find it right now. that would be sweet. then I bring the PB back to the office, hook it up via FW target disk mode and do my archiving and ingesting. Slick as snot on a cold door handle, as my gramps used to say.
We might have a 2 cam shoot coming up, nothing exciting, just 2 cam covering a long meeting, but i think I’m going to look for another PB for the 2nd camera, then each cam can take care of their own media. We’ll see what happens.
matt
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Data Rescue worked on one clip that I did a test with, but the xml file was corrupted, and therefor no software would recognize/import/export/save the clip. Like Dave said, you MIGHT get the clips back, but it would be a veritable nightmare reconnecting them all. Although spending the time to attempt it might be a lesser bruise to the business ego than calling for a reshoot.
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I agree with all of hte above with one caveat-
DON”T COPY YOUR FILES IN THE FINDER!!!!!!
I’ve lost too many clips doing this, and I’ve even done side by side test, and 1 out of 5 times I do it, it corrupts a clip. Its usually (90%) the XML file that gets barked up, which is next to impossible to correct unless you are a whiz at reading and composing xml docs, which I ain’t.
I had one clip from my sister in law’s wedding vid that got knackered, the xml lost the connection between the audio and video clips, and therefor any software that tried to read the clip would see the video, but not the audio. FCP wouldn’t even import the bloody thing. Tried repairing, and a bunch of other demo softwares. I eventually opened the mxf’s in QT and merged them together there, but not after hours of installing demo software and trying everything else. Not sure how I could open MXF’s in QT, but it must have to do with one of the demo softwares that installed some drivers or extensions or something.
I just set up a camera op friend with ShotPut P2, and it seems to be working well with the 5 slot panny reader. it would barf about halfway through the process with the Duel Adapter, but I’m not sure why. Might be a driver thing. He copies and creates backups with ShotPut, then uses P2Log to view and verify the clips and to do some rudimentary logging. Seems to be working well, and it is simple enough for him to do in the field.
Then he informed me that he wouldn’t be needing to hire me as a field tech anymore….
Matt
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