Michael Alberts
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Flip4Mac for the WMV. QT Pro for the MPEG. If the MPEG is muxed you will need to demux it with something like bbdemux.
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If you can’t get Compressor 2 to do it than you can always use BItVice Helper to mux the two files together. It’s free. http://www.versiontracker.com
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I know of several facilites using the Videotek DL-810. It’s a great little box. Set it and forget it. I’ve been looking into the Eyeheight Legaleyes for our facility. Eyeheight is out of England (www.eyeheight.com) Both companies also have products for HD if that’s the way you’re going.
FCP’s Broadcast Safe filter is not perfect. We’ve had stuff kicked back from A&E for the blacks being too low. The source was multi-generation BetaSP in which the blacks dropped to about 3 IRE for several seconds. Try catching that you your scopes! The FCP Broadcast Safe filter does nothing to the blacks if they’re illegal. Tektronix has talked about porting their WFMNLE product over to FCP, but as of NAB they hadn’t made any decision yet. That’s would be a great product for FCP. I’ve seen it demoed and was quite impressed. It’s a bit pricy however for what it does.Michael Alberts
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Actually, with Compressor 2 you can now do this in one step. You need to change the preset for your favorite MPEG 2 preset to “Multilexed MPEG-1/Layer 2 Audio”. This checkbox is found under the Encoder settings/Extras.
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The producer on this particular show made sure that the camera opps maintained the talent in a 4:3 picture area. This made the final post easy. All that was necessary was a simple 4:3 center punch. This simply means the image fills the entire 4:3 screen and the left and right edges are cut off. The box can do a pan and scan if necessary.
An alternative to this process is to do the 4:3 in FCP. This show in particular was shot on DVCPro50. You could do the center punch in FCP in realtime, but that codec would have required a render before final output. There is a way in FCP to do the 4:3 without doing any blow up, thus maintaining the sharp visual detail. This requires you to adjust the Distort setting in the motion tab. It was just easier to do it with the hardware based aspect ratio converter.
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The last several 16×9 shows I’ve onlined at our facility required both a 16×9 anamorphic and a 4:3 center punch. We mastered all shows out to digital betacam. The 4:3 center punch was done sending the 16×9 SDI signal through an SDI aspect ratio converter (made by Eyeheight). The centerpuch was clean and sharp. I recently did 16 one hour shows this way.
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Or go to an online facility that uses FCP.
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We use the Aurora Pipe Studio when capturing all BetaSP material. The timecode comes down the RS-422 connection. In your case you would need to hook RS-422 up to the deck and machine control the deck that way. This might get you the necessary info.
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Sorry, but I have to ask the obvious… Are you using the Insert function or the Assemble function of ETT? As you know the Assemble feature will add black frames at the end of the “insert” and break the control track. Are your tapes striped long enough to allow an insert.
Just the basic questions to start with.Michael Alberts
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Seeing as how your getting kernal panics, my first guess would be the RAM. Take out all RAM that wasn’t native to the system at purchase. This will probably bring you down to 512MB or RAM, but try running in that config for a day and see if the issues go away. Then add back several sticks and continue on for another day. Do this until you can narrow down the possible bad RAM chip. Kernal panics are almost always hardware related, and most of those are bad RAM.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.