Michael Peele
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What if you just share your current storage on a fast network (using the Mac Pro as a server)? Is it fast enough for your offline edit using the Mac Book?
ProRes LT is 102Mb/sec – and you will definitely need a 1Gb ethernet for just about ANY solution. It’s a cheap solution that could work with your existing hardware. Heck you might even be able to get a 10Gb ethernet setup for not much more (ermmm…10Gb on a MBP??).
I don’t know if this is possible but you should be able to just directly connect the two machines, no switch needed, drastically reducing the cost of the solution. Definitely cheap to try.
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Yeah I think Chad has it.
Do you actually need to ETT? You might save yourself some trouble using Print to Video, no deck control needed. Of course you have no real timecode/edit control.
Mike
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I regularly go from DVCPRO HD to DV-NTSC, no one ever complains.
I have used FCP and our Deck (HD-SDI EE’d to Firewire).Maybe I’m missing something, but once you have edited the SD timeline with graphics and such I wouldn’t bother going back to HD just so you can export once again at SD. DVCPROHD is a nice format but it includes pixel stretching, not doing your picture any real favors.
My opinion – take your DVCPROHD timeline, strip the offending graphics, export as a self-contained file. Drop this file on a DV-NTSC timeline (or an UC/ProRes SD timeline if you are really concerned about quality). Add your graphics in SD, render, export.
If your graphics are too intertwined to rip them out you could try just copy/pasting from the HD to a SD timeline, but watch your audio keyframes and your image sizes/aspects.
Best practice would probably be to duplicate your HD timeline (protect your original), create a 4:3 overlay to guide your graphic placement on the HD timeline and then export that to SD, NOT preserving aspect ratio (chopping the sides off).
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Why are you using firewire cards and not the built-in ports? Connect the camera to the built-in port. If you are using external storage you can try connecting it to the other card(s). Otherwise take out the other cards.
Make sure your HDV device is in playback mode not record mode.
Also make sure the HDV device is set to playback on HDV and not DV-NTSC (in the camera menu).
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You may want to ask the client what users they expect to still have 4:3 displays. If they are not absolutely sure, you may want to think about delivering an anamorphic/16:9 dvd.
We used to send out 4:3 LBX’d DVD’s until we realized that NONE of our clients were watching our DVD’s on 4:3 TV’s! It was all 16:9 LCD’s and 16:10 computer screens. Our desire to produce a “standard” 4:3 DVD (LBX’d or not) was working against us.
So, now it’s anamorphic all the way.
It looks better, especially compared to a 16:9 TV showing a LBX’d and PBX’d image. Or even worse, a 16:9 TV showing a PBX’d image expanded (by the TV itself) to fill the 16:9 screen. Or a 4:3 image stretched to fill a 16:9 screen. Or, again, even worse – a 4:3 image expanded to fill a 16:9 screen. No wonder clients get confused!
Plus, no moving your graphics or recompressing – you can go straight to DVDSP!
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Thanks Peter,
I will send it right out.
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I have upgraded to version 7 and I am still having the issue – I created a newer post in this forum with more info.
Thanks for your help
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Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
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Awesome.
It’s no “Close All Gaps” a la Media100, but it works!
Thanks!
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Hey,
I just got it to work by logging out, logging in, going to System Preferences->Displays->Detect Displays, and popping in and out of Dashboard (accidentally).
One of those, or a combination thereof, worked. Still don’t what exacerbates the issue. Nice to not have to shutdown though. If it happens again I’ll try the combo in reverse, one by one. Only seems to happen rarely though.
Just noticed you were talking about a Decklink card. I use Aja Kona LHi.
Ok, aloha.