Michael Mcintyre
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I think Mike’s right (again). Nothin’ too crazy about ‘Recreate Title Media’.
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That’s awesome, santellavision.
I didn’t ask but thanks for the heads-up anyways!
Michael McIntyre
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Anytime, Bob!
I just found this out myself this week and have been playing with it some. Guess I might need another hobby.
Anyway, since all the IoLA outputs are always ‘active’, it can feed video to whatever you want regardless of whether you’re in Final Cut or not. At the moment, my IoLA’s feeding component to Final Cut. The composite feeds a Sony monitor looped looped through to a Tektronix 1740 (vectorscope / waveform).
As I mentioned, we’ve had some stuff on DVD. The client’s pretty clueless, so we’re just dumping most of it to Beta through the IoLA without even bothering with Final Cut.
I’m anxious to check out how our Z1 footage will look. We’ll set up to their camera and just save the preset in Control Panel and transfer that way too. Perfect world, we’d have a TON of storage and not mess with tape at all but there’s alot of footage.
Just glad I could help out…….
Michael McIntyre
Fever CIty Studio, LLC
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As Lee mentioned, you can’t run Io Control Panel & Final Cut at the same time. Running scopes and an external monitor, I can set up a tape (if I needed to) before launching Final Cut which has no override on the Control Panel functions in the Io.
Even if you don’t have a monitor, you can see what I mean. Feed some video to the Io, tweak some Control Panel settings (turn saturation all the way down for example or screw the hue), then launch FCP and go into capture mode. The settings should reflect your changes in Control Panel. I’m running Control Panel Ver.1.1 with an IoLA and you can save something like 10 presets for different decks, setinngs, ‘looks’, whatever.
It might be a pain (without scopes or a monitor) – I don’t know. You could play a tape, finesse your levels, jump into FCP, look at it on the scopes, quit and tweak some more. So, it’d be -> Io Control Panel, Launch FCP, Scopes, Quit and round-and-round. Once you’re happy, save that preset and that’s it!
Sounds tedious but it beats having to correct later. As you’re well-aware, having that full contrast range going in just gives you that much more latitude for color-correction later on.
Granted, it would be nice to be able to adjust in capture mode but it makes you appreciate the fact that it is a powerful standalone converter. We ‘passed through’ some S-video from DVD to component Beta (with corrected levels) that looks great. A client wants to down-dump some HDV from his Z1U to Beta that way as well.
Hope this helps…… Michael
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I’d like to shoot like Vittorio Storaro. Anyone got any pointers?
I’d also like to make money like Bill Gates. How do I do that?
Sorry – just couldn’t resist. I wouldn’t have pegged the COW as a joke farm but this has gotta be one of the funnier threads I’ve come across.
Watch. Listen. Learn. Make mistakes. Keep the good ‘accidents’ when they happen and know when to tell the difference.
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I could be way off here, so someone correct me if I’m wrong.
I believe the issue may revolve around the fact that tone is playing at a sustained level versus a timeline with peaks and valleys. Imagine an on-going drum roll versus the quick ‘pop!’ of just one snare drum stick. The decibel level for both may be exactly the same but when placed in the context of a surrounding sound mix, it could have a totally different perception.
I konw – a bit esoteric but it made sense when an audio guru had all the knowledege to back up the metaphor. Hopefully, it wasn’t too off-target….. Anyone?
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I think Bret probably nailed it. Sounds like you’re looking for real-world digits for output. I had the exact same problem when I jumped over to FCP.
Bring down the tone levels and you could probably let your program levels top out around -6.
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Thanks for the heads-up on the Samson. I’m assuming you’re talking about the C01. Looks like a great deal. Might have to pony up for that one.
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For whatever it’s worth, steer clear of the Logitech 980186-0403. Granted, it’s only $29 but you truly get what you pay for. Not that I paid for it but a client has one and ouch!
Fever City Studio, LLC
1035 madison
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I had a similar problem and it revolved around reviewing the ‘aliased’ graphics on the computer monitor versus a standard broadcast monitor. Things viewed / QC’ed on a computer monitor play much differently on real TV. I’m no engineer (obviously) but try reviewing the elements in question on a real monitor. If you’ve done this, maybe there are some other issues I’m not aware of.
Fever City Studio, LLC
1035 madison
denver 80206