Matthew Nelson
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[Sean Kapleton] “when I bring this AE tiff sequence into QT and convert it into an Animation QT artifacts show up”
Sean I’m curious why you are not rendering an animation QT directly from AE. I’m fully on board with the security of rendering image sequences. Since that’s now done I’d bring that back into AE and render an animation QT. AE plays better with image sequences then QTPro.
Matt
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So doing what Aaron suggested and adding a frame to the playback offset didn’t work?
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What Decklink driver are you using? If you are ETT onto digibeta and are using a driver version 6.4 or earlier your problem was fixed. Update to 6.6.2 which is the most current driver to date.
Matt
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The Blackmagic Disk Speed Test app will tell you if your drives have the bandwidth to handle the media. Your box is fast enough and 8GB of RAM is sufficient. If your system chokes it will be with your RAID.
Matt
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No worries. Highlight the setting you are using and open the inspector window. Below the description field select the geometry button second from the right. Select the crop to pull down menu and choose 4×3 1.33:1. Click save. Apply the setting to your clip(s) and submit.
In the preview window it will show you the cropped area with a red line box.
Matt
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In compressor set the crop pull down menu to 4×3 1.33:1. This will take the 4:3 center.
Matt
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Are you working with 720P or some form of DVCPro HD?
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When it comes to shared storage there are two schools NAS (network attached storage) and SAN (storage area network). The core difference between the two is a NAS is a file system I/O using TCP/IP with CIFS and/or NFS protocols and a SAN is a block I/O using SCSI protocol. A block I/O is treated just like a DAS (direct attached storage) volume by the client OS. Whereas a file system I/O is file by file based and with primary I/O processes done by the remote NAS head.
NAS systems are not recommended for NLEs for 2 big reasons bandwidth and protocol. NLE’s prefer block level I/O. As for bandwidth SANs can go north of 400MB/sec. That’s bytes. Where as a NAS is file by file and is limited to the Gigabit network, emphasis on bit.
So long story short yes you can use a NAS to share storage between FCP clients but they will be more unstable do to the file system and limited to a small number of streams of highly compressed media. Shared storage is a tricky beast that requires a good deal of IT expertise and more than a modicum of $$$. Tread lightly my friend.
Matt
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I ran into this and you have to capture at 60p.
You can also use Cinema Tools to conform the 60P to 23.98, or 24, 25, and 29.97 for that matter. The benefits over the frame converter tool is Cinema tools can batch, it is really fast (100 clips in less than 3min), and the clip retains its audio if you want it.
The big drawback is that the changes are made to the original clips and there is no undo. This means the clips relation to the tape is broken. I worked around this by leaving the original logged clips offline. If I need to recapture, I use the offline clips and then reconform in CT.
If you use batch conform isolate your 60P into a unique folder. The conform tool will change all QTs within a folder.
Matt
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The last resort before the DVCPro tapes most likely is the S&W Ukon, but I’d call a dubb house or post facility to run a test. The Ukon may not help since the VITC has been divorced from the Varicam source.
Matt