Michael Allen
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I am having the same problem with the software saying the I need to check the USB connection. Does anyone know how to fix this??
Michael S. Allen
Video Producer, Instructional Technologies
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Thanks for confirming what I thought I read. I have ordered a new FCP/Mac system that includes the LHI, Dreamcolor and the HDP2. Unfortunatly, I did not have the funds for the color tool. I hope I will be able to make small adjustments to the 709 settings until I can afford the proper claibration tool. If you have any suggestions on setup until I get the tool, I would greatly appreciate it. If not, I do understand. I am working on a very limited budget and that is part of the reason I did not order a FSI monitor to start with.
Thanks,
Mike
Michael S. Allen
Video Producer, Instructional Technologies
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If I have an LHI, do I need the HDP2 to use the dreamcolor with my system??
Michael S. Allen
Video Producer, Instructional Technologies
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Wow, I am very suprised that the first question asked to you was not…… wait for it…….. Did you do a clean install when you updated your system?
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Interesting, the problem that you directed me to that showed the compressor problem with the older version looks exactly like the one I have.
Mike
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No, I have not upgraded yet. Seems like I am running 6.0.1 but I am not in front of my mac at the moment.
So this was an issue, however you saying that you think it was fixed in a later version (good to know.) It’s funny how folks reported that they have never experienced this problem. I have seen it from time to time on both of my Mac pro final cut machines.
Mike
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Walter, I know you are one of many that would most certainly be considered an expert at this process. Unfortunatly, I am not having the same experience. Let me give some more detail. I do not see this problem with exporting a 23.98 progressive HD program to compressor and the problem does manifest as looking like an interlacing issue. So one of the suggestions was to change the compressor preset to insure that it is set to upper field first. Well I just did a test and the preset in compressor is set to Auto by default. It did correctly check my program and it assigned an upper field first setting to the 29.97 HD program I was trying to compress. I will test to see results, but at this point it looks like compressor is setting field order correctly.
Also, you can scan the web and see many posts where others have had the exact same problem (even though you and other professionals have not ever experienced it yourself). Another thing I will do is actually change the preset to force upper field first and see if that effects the outcome. Are there other default settings say under the: DVD:Best Quality 120min. preset that might need to be changed. By the way, the HD sequence plays perfectly in FCP, my problem is the resulting DVD from a 29.97 HD sequence.
Please note that I do not doubt that I am doing something wrong, I am just atempting to figure out what I am doing wrong. My only solution thus far is to downres in a FCP SD sequece. I absolutly do not want to recompress this way, I have to be loosing quality, however it is the only way I have found to create good looking DVD’s from my 29.97 HD sequence.
Thanks for your help,
Mike
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All DV is 48k audio sample rate? I wonder why FCP tells me that the sample rate does not match the capture preset. The capture and sequence settings are NTSC DV with 48k audio. After capture, I get a warning that the clip audio sample rate does not match the preset.
Also, I thought that DV consumer cameras can capture at 32K, but I could be wrong, can someone else chime in on this?
Mike
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I often have problems. I have to render the HD edited program in a standard Def. sequence before sending to compressor.
That said, at work I shoot F350’s in XDcam HD and from that timeline I can export SCM and import to compressor with great results.
However, at home I go Z5u through Kona directly to prores. If I export the edited SCM and then import to compressor, my resulting DVD looks very bad with sort of an interlacing looking problem (text is not smooth and video quality is bad.) But if I go from HD prores sequence to SD prores sequence (letting FCP do downres) then to compressor, the resulting DVD’s look great. I don’t think, from what I have read, that this is an entirely uncommon problem.
If there is a better workflow than re-rendering in SD sequence, please let me know. I don’t have to do this at my coorporate gig when going from XDcam HD to compressor so unfortunatly I am not sure exactly what the problem really is.
FYI, I do keep it 29.97 all the way through, but it still sucks without the downconversion step.
Mike
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Wayne,
I have a sony Z5u and often capture using the HDMI out of the camcorder to the HDMI in of my Kona LHi straight to ProRes 1080i 29.97 422 It seems to look good on my production monitor. Is there a problem that I should know about? Or were you speaking of the HDV firewire to prores conversion process having issues? I read your last post and wanted to make sure I understood what you were talking about.
Mike