Michael Gossen
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Since you final destination is SD DVD, I would think that something SD would make sense. You can digitize the DVCPROHD material downconverted through either the 1200a or the 1400 over SDI. Again, bring in your SD material over SDI. Now, what codec? The short answer is that it depends. What are your resources? Are you going to online? Do you have a raid? Maybe ProRes(HQ)525 is the best option here. That you can cut off of a firewire drive…maybe the safest suggestion depending on the rest of what you want to do. Good luck.
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Does this happen in any other user? If you don’t have one, create a new user in System Prefs and do the same thing logged in there. A “default” is a good control for testing purposes.
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It is a permissions thing, if you are working off another drive that is not your boot volume, maybe ignore permissions on the volume(10.4) or propagate permissions(10.5). Can you “Save As…”?
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If you want to do it in FCP, try Joe’s Filters. There is a good one called soft spot that works well. Obviously it would have to be animated by hand, but you can get very good results.
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[Zane Barker] “it is still painful editing at such a low quality. “
If it’s a matter of working or not, OfflineRT will do just fine. I have been cutting with it for over 4 years. It works well, it looks crappy compared to anything else, but for a reason (bandwidth). It is low quality, but you can still see what is going on, thats what you need.
That being said, I totally agree the best solution is to have a RAID and cut native and fly through it. I would much rather cut that way and I would suggest if it is affordable to others to do the same. That being said, it is not the only solution. And it doesn’t solve anyones problems to resort to saying they have to go buy something. Again, I like to give people suggestions that let them work.
[Zane Barker] “Lets also keep in mind how ling it will take to convert or even recapture the video from 16 cameras. “
If he started recompressing over night tonight, he could probably be cutting by the morning, most likely earlier than the electronics store opens to buy a couple hard drives, install them, RAID them, transfer the media, re-connect, realize multiclips have reconnection issues, remake the multiclips, and start cutting. Obviously recapturing would be more babysitting, but could also probably be done with a long night of chugging tapes while watching a movie or two.
But as Jeremy said, 16 streams play just fine off one drive, now we know I am not full of 5*!+. Thanks again for the slow day so Jeremy could help. Best of luck Simon.
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Hmmmm…Sweet validation. I guess it looks like I do get it, huh?
There are elegant technical solutions to let people do what they want creatively. The days when you have to buy new expensive equipment to do what you want are waning, but I guess all that thinking isn’t.
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Look into Perian. It is a great QT component that also gives good results straight in any QT app.
Michael Gossen
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