Micah Mcdowell
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Wow, thanks for the quick response.. it’s much appreciated!
I figured it was probably one of those 800 menu settings that needs to be changed; I guess I’ll start working through trial and error. I know my sequence is set to 48khz, so that’s not the issue.
Interestingly, I took the deck home from work and hooked it up to my Mac with FCP, and bam, it works perfectly with default settings. I also tried the deck with an Avid, which won’t communicate with it via Firewire at all. Go figure.
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Sorry to drag this topic back up from the dead but I just found christopherk’s post and I’ve got a Panasonic AJ-D230 which will not receive audio via Firewire from Premiere Pro CS3…
We sent it in and had a firmware upgrade, but I can’t figure out what menu settings will work. If you still know what settings you used or where you got them, that would make my day.
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I’m glad you figured out your problem too…
When Premiere refused to start I tried to think about what may have changed in my system, and I had forgotten about adding the font until after I had tried all the usual fixes. The thing that threw me off was that all other Adobe CS3 applications worked FINE with the font, so there was nothing to suspect about it. At first, I thought I remembered using Premiere successfully since I had added the font, but I guess I remembered incorrectly.
Note to self… always check EVERYTHING that might have recently changed when Premiere doesn’t work.
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Thanks for the reply… I’ve cycled through all the different settings on the front panel audio switch, to no avail. I believe everything works via analog; the deck just won’t receive audio via Firewire at all. I went back through all the menu settings and I’ve tried many different combinations, but nothing’s doing the trick just yet. We ended up getting two of these decks for cheap and we hooked the other one to an Avid, with the same results (captures fine but won’t play properly from the timeline to deck). So, I guess it’s not a Premiere issue.
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AAC is a lossy codec (you lose a little quality no matter what), while PCM is lossless (it is the exact information from the original source, with no compression). If AAC sounds better to you, then you’re either perceiving a difference that isn’t there or there’s something wrong with your settings (leave it at PCM 48k uncompressed). Plus, PCM works in everything, while occasionally (though rarely) AAC will have compatibility issues.
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Well, thanks everyone for help, but I FINALLY figured out the problem… it was a corrupt font.
The font works in all other applications but consistently crashes Premiere. For anyone else that has this problem, the font is called “city burn night after night and we spraypaint the walls”, downloaded from dafont.com. Apparently someone else on that site had the same issue with CS4 as well.
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Thanks for that link.. I think I may have seen it earlier and I’ve tried a lot of things on the list, but I’ll try a few more and see if I get anywhere.
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If you saved over the original file, I don’t know if there’s any way of getting back what you lost. Resizing back to the original size won’t give you a significant increase in quality; it’ll just make it bigger.
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Thanks for the reply!
So, is a 10K drive not worth the extra money? I know I can get way more capacity for cheaper otherwise, but the only thing residing on it will be the OS and applications, so it just needs to be fast.
As for how I am going to fit that many drives in a G5 without an external enclosure, I was thinking about using a Sonnet G5 Jive mounting kit (link) that’ll let me cram three extra drive bays inside the case… I’m not a big fan of extra enclosures all over the place unless absolutely necessary.
The CalDigit setup is very attractive but probably more than I need to spend right now. I’ll also look into what controllers I can find for PCI-X that’ll do what I want… I guess a RAID 0 would be ok.
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Music is a big help.. just realize that it’s a time-consuming, tedious job, but not necessarily difficult. Depending on what you are rotoscoping, I would recommend starting by keyframing a mask at either end of the footage and then working your way toward the middle; that way, some motion will get interpolated automatically for you, and you may not need to go frame by frame as much.