Michael Gissing
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Most of my work comes from clients bringing in jobs on firewire drives to be graded and output to tape so I don’t have a choice or a problem. DV or SD uncompressed works fine for me. HD gets dumped to the RAID or recaptured uncompressed.
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FCP is probably trying to make the image 16:9 automatically. If you want it look correct aspect in a 1920 x 1080 sequence then you will have to set the distort parameters to match. Once you set one clip, then copy and paste attributes to all other clips. You can select all other clips in the timeline of they are the same ratio and paste just distort parameters.
A quick play with the calculator tells me that 2048 x 1556 is very close to 4:3. If that is so then a distort ratio of around 30% is required.
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I have had some quits since upgrading to 5.1.3 and then 5.1.4 although 5.1.4 is much better. 5.1.3 would quit regularly.
Trashed prefs etc but I think it is an issue with the software as I haven’t changed anything else on my 2 year old G5 dual 2.5. It has come with the upgrade. Doesn’t happen a lot but seems to happen when I am quickly skipping through clips in the timeline.
Save often.
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DRW, so far the 56 episodes of a one hour show we have played out from firewire 800 Lacie drives over the past two years have yet to have a single drop frame. This has been the case with 250gig, 500 gig and 1TB Lacies. I am using PAL 10 bit uncompressed. I run the Decklink speed test on the drives and they all have headroom. In NTSC the headroom is slightly reduced.
I don’t do editing here, just online & grade and output to tape. I have had issues with one Lacie drive in all that time but given the total number of hours and the variety of Lacies, I am confident in them. I don’t see many other drive types in externals so the industry here in Sydney must also be confident or foolish. For HD I use a sata 4TB fibre RAID.
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At the moment I am running SD 10bit uncompressed from a Lacie 1TB firewire 800 drive without drop frames or problems. The drives are fast enough. I know some people hate Lacie and others love them. If you buy sata drives and mount them internally you will certainly have faster drives, particularly if you use RAID.
Use SDI not component if at all possible. The SDI only cards are cheaper than the component as well.
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You can’t insert during a transition. I would only recommend inserting from a cut to a cut. Although the error message says the edit is one frame, the actual problem is that you can’t insert during a transition or where there is no clip.
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Sequence settings are merely showing that FCP is using 32 bit floating point to process multiple tracks of 16/48. Digital mixing, EQ and other such processing needs to be done at a greater bit depth than the original files to prevent the signal degrading with rounding errors. All digital mixers work at bit depths usually double the individual bit rate of a file.
By using floating point and 32 bit it can mix multiple 24 bit files without errors in subtraction, addition, division and multiplication creeping in.
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How much profit do you make for the company? Divide that by two and start negotiating from there. Any company that pays more than two thirds of the the profit derived from an employee is not likely to succeed.
In other words, you have to find out what you are worth.
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Yes I know all that theory Walter and I work with HDCam and HDV all the time. It was your comment that HDV wasn’t used that got up my nose. I love HDV because it is letting doco makers jump to HD without the huge costs. So don’t lecture them on using other cameras and codecs because most can’t pay the extra. Be grateful that they are ditching DV.
And I insist on going from HDV straight to uncompressed so we could argue till the cows come home (pun intended) about the evils of transcoding. But I won’t argue the economics of going to DVCPro100HD from HDV with you.
IF we all had the millions of dollars per ep for docos that the BBC has then we would all strive for the best.
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Light, Lenses, Framing and Time are the formula. I am sure they used whatever cameras and formats to get the action they wanted.
Considering the broadcasters use mpeg2 at bit rates lower than HDV, I wish we could get over the cringe and HDV is somehow not worthy. I have seen excellent HD shot with prime lenses on a Canon XL H1 and some ordinary HDCam.