[Matthew Rogers]

[Dave LaRonde] “I’d be more worried about pulling a good-looking key from DV footage; I’m going to assume that’s not a big concern of yours.”

No, it is. I was just thinking that working with a progressive image versus an interlaced one might be a tad easier.

Thanks for the tips guys.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
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[Matthew Rogers]

Thanks,

I had a feeling that would be the answer.
I just got done reading a ton of threads
in the Cow and other forums with Stock Answer #23 attached to it.

Thanks for all the info.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Matthew Rogers]

I got it to work, but let me tell you how.

I trashed the QT receipts and reinstalled QT 7 as the article instructed.

I followed Rob’s list with no positive results. Thank you by-the-way that list was very helpful and good to know for future problems. Instead of quiting I was going to go through the list again. I re-read this:

[Rob Forsythe] “1. Make sure you have only ONE (1) FireWire deck, camcorder, DV capture “card”, or D-to-A converter or video device attached to the computer at a time. Any more than one DV device can cause loss of signal and control.”

I then had second thoughts about my external Lacie Firewire drive not applying to any of these. I disconnected the drive and sure enough I had picture, audio, and control of my camera.

Thanks for your help, I’m going to see if there is a way I can get both the Lacie and Elura to play well together. In the mean time I’ll just capture to my system drive and move the media over.

Thanks again,

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Matthew Rogers]

Thanks guys for the help.

I did see that article on trashing the Quicktime receipts. I’ll try it again to see if I missed a step. Once I get home I’ll go through those steps. Thanks for all the input!

I did bring the camera into work and tried here on FCP 5.1.2 MacPro, and again, works fine.

Thanks again and I’ll let you know how this works out.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Matthew Rogers]

I recommend keeping the largest side of your image under 2000 pixels.
Any thing larger than that makes FCP real sugglish.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Matthew Rogers]

https://www.apmmusic.com/

They have some good deals.

[Matthew Rogers]

hmmmm…not sure. I’ve only used a handful of times, but have not had any issues.
The files from Flipformac were used on newer and older PCs. I’d check the website for any compatibility issues.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Matthew Rogers]

We’re looking at the same thing.
But, I think we’re going to go forward with it.
When we do make the purchase I’ll keep you posted with any news.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Matthew Rogers]

I use Sorenson 3 compresion for the approval proccess. It will work on PC and Mac as long as they have Quicktime installed. If a client is wary about downloading quicktime I use flipformac to create a .wmv file for them

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Matthew Rogers]

I’ve used Snap Z Pro before and it’s amazing.

There is lag depending on what speed computer you’re using, but I just sped up the footage a bit and it worked great!

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com