Michael Peele
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yeah – i would recommend a new card as well – both displays through the AGP with no load on your PCI bus (assuming you have an AGP G4).
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You should be on the right track.
Create an UC 8Bit sequence, drop everything in there, and export a self-contained QT movie (don’t use QT Conversion).
If you play this movie back on the Mac using QT it won’t look as good as dropping it back onto an UC 8Bit sequence in FCP (you shouldn’t need to render) – but rest assured, the quality is there.
Hope that helps,
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I have found that I get the missing FIN files when I go to export QT movies.
Dumping all render files and rerendering solves issues, but who has the time for that.
Usually just dumping the “Render files in undo queue” will solve the issue (for me at least)
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Here’s the link –
https://convergent-design.com/
There may be other companies doing this as well. Also – can’t you go out of the Camera in some sort of “Component HD”? If so, you may be able to run that signal into your HD deck, and then go out of the deck HD-SDI and into your HD-SDI card.
Mike Peele
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I just clicked on an add here on creativecow, and there is a product that does (apparently) HDV to HD-SDI conversion.
I think it was Convergent Designs.
I would recommend that your timeline be an HD-SDI timeline if you have footage in that format. There is no sense in reducing the quality of your HD-SDI footage if you have the hardware to support it.
Mike Peele
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Okay – there are two renders – render all and render selected – Command-R and Option-R. With nothing selected, render selected will render all.
In your pull-down menus, the options that are checked are what will be rendered when you hit Command-R or Option-R. On the render menus, I usually have everything checked (turned on). This means that when I hit render all, everything is rendered – even if it could be played back real-time.
Sometimes I will turn off (uncheck) the real-time renders and audio rendering to speed up my work flow.
On a side note, when you print to tape, everything is force rendered. This ensures that what is put to tape is full quality, also, playback is stopped if any frames are dropped, further ensuring a high quality dump to tape.
Mike Peele
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Also try doing a small blur (1 or 2 pixels) if these are hi-res images.
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Don’t forget to pan your mackie left and right if you are going to beta – a lot of people leave the pan pot at center which will result in ch1 being audible on ch2 and vice-versa. Not an issue if you are dumping to DV via firewire or if your beta is wired directly to your dv deck with no mixer in between.
Mike Peele
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Yep – not fully rendered. The jiggles and blurs are from a real-time render.
Under Render All or Render Selection, you need to make sure that the green real time render option is checked off. Any thing that gets checked off in these menus will be force-rendered.
Mike Peele