Michael Chirgwin
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Thanks Danielle, really useful advice. I now have FC Studio3 so the Prores option is now available. I too have lost faith in Avid. Amazing really as I’ve spent the last twenty years working with Avid churning out hundreds of hours of prime time television without a glitch, and I’m stunned at how suddenly this loss of function has occured. Its not just the timeline disasters either. It’s the way they seemed to have dumped HDV also.
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Couldn’t agree more Daniel. Avid Forums aren’t too tolerant of venting from “non-professional” film makers- who ever they are. HDV is the de-facto standard for Inde film making and for a hell of a lot of television stations around the world. We are definitely being treated as beta testers a lot of the time. By the way I have worked “professionally”in film and television all over the world for fourty years from film, tape to NL and because of constant proprietary wrangling there’s no longer any standards except those imposed ad hoc by the big hardware manufactures, It really is a nightmare for small and independent content producers.
Thanks for the tips re HDV export. After 5 unsuccessful, HDV squeezed 16:9 exports with compressor, I finally remembered the trick of dropping the HDV cut into an SD timeline, I set it to Anamorphic though that just sets the monitor dimensions in FCP. I finally got a QT .mov that Toast has burned into a tolerable DVD. Saturation has been wrecked but it doesn’t have motion artefacts (PAL remember) and it plays and sounds okay also. Thanks for the tips Daniel and I hope your path to upgrade nirvana is a peaceful one…
Just one more thing! I exported from the SD timeline using QT conversion, I was so pissed off with compressor by that time, you’re saying always use compressor for SD exports to DVD? -
Yeah your experiences are similar to mine. Don’t update beyond MC5 for the moment. I’m sure its not a qualified machine issue because my Macpro 8core captures HDV perfectly using Quicktime 7 and iMovie.
With your obvious experience with FCP now that I’ve had to capture my HDV footgae in iMovie and edit in AIC I’m ready to export, but it only needs to go to SD DVD (Toast 10), what are the best settings? Compressor doesn’t seem to offer an MPEG2 down conversion though it says it does. I’m now trying just a straight Quicktime export at 1220×760 using the default H264. Will this work? The estimated time is growing about a minute every second… -
So now I’ve got a 44 minute timeline of AIC video. What is the best quality export to DVD solution? Export via Compressor OR output back to HDV tape and then down convert in the camera to a hardware DVD recorder?
Just exporting to a Quicktime movie threatens to take 2and a half hours on a Macpro 8 core. Do I export the full 1440×1080 raster and let Toast 10 resize it for DVD or resize it in the export? I haven’t exported HD from FC5 this way before.
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In MC5 some designer decided that you have to turn on rubber banding each time you want to use it. Click on the tool at the bottom of the Smart Tool box on the left of the timeline. You can map the button to your keyboard to minimize irritation but you still have to remember to hit the key…
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Which version of MC are you using Daniel? Things seemed to get even worse with the transition from 5.0.2 to 5.0.3. I could capture on the fly before but not after. I’ve reverted to capturing in iMovie and cutting AIC in FCP5. I’m afraid you’ll probably have to wait for a fix from Avid or capture on the fly. I seem to remember something about the codec JVC used not being supported in HDV capture but I wasn’t paying 100% attention to other cameras in the MC5 guide last time I read it.
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Uh huh, too late for me I fear. So exporting will be slow?
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Michael, I’m editing HDV AIC at the moment and apart from the multiclips needing to re render everytime I make a cut it seems to be working okay. Exporting will be the real test. Is there anything I need to watch when I export AIC? – just for SD DVD.
Your advice re. upgrades is sound and I probably will make the investment. Even FCP5 uses most of the 8 processors and a realistic quantity of my 14Gb of memory so FCP7 should be blistering.
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Shane, Mc5 sees the deck eventually, in a HDV formatted project and only a couple of weeks ago captured HDV from a Canon HV20 but now it stops after a few seconds with a video has stopped abruptly message.
Michael I ‘m using a current MacPro 8 core with Snow Leopard and QT 10. It captures HDV perfectly with iMovie -
Thanks David, with current problems Avid is having with MC5 that looks pretty reasonable. I’d like to be sure that the HDV capture issues have been fixed though. FCP CS3 is 64 bit isn’t it?