Michael Phillips
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On the Windows based machine:
Make sure the Mojo and the FireWire Drive are on different buses. Then capture.
If they are not, capture to a supported drive first (internal for example) then copy files to the FireWire drive.You then need to make sure you can mount the drive on a Mac OS system. What I have done is used MacMounter on the PC and captured directly to the that drive. The move to a Mac ystem.
Now -getting that footage to the FCP system… I would just capture first to the Avid XPress internal, then export as self contained QuickTimes to the firewire drive.
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I did the same on in NT last week, but is for the MPEG only… sorry. I might be at the NY User’s group in November though speaking…
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More info and RSVP info below:
Avid
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I agree that “Search across bins” would be a very useful feature. It works great in Lightworks as well as the old D’Vision. Avid uses MediaManager to provide this feature when in a workgroup environment, but not when working standalone.
The workaround for standalone systems it to export the bin contents as a TAB delimited file and create a database in an application like FileMaker Pro. The searches can be done from there. When exporting as TAB, the Avid software automatically adds the BIN name as a metadata field to all entries.
Michael
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You are a little light on the RAM, anothr 1/2 Gb minimum… perhaps that will help as well.
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I agree with you, that is one of the proposals for changes moving forward – the ultimate way is to have on-the-fly 24/30 tracking where each clip can have multiple rates without the need to duplication. One can even consider throwing in 25fps as well.
It’s all a matter of engineering resources, schedule, and priotities…
Michael
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Easy enough said… but not in reality as I went down this road with engineering. The issue is that the START timecode is based on MOB ID which are based on the format. The offline source is NTSC so the START is 30 but it has a capture mask which defines the pulldown cadence relationships for proper 24 frame tracking in an NTSC environment.
When going to HD, it is true 24 and the associations are reversed. These are two separate MOB ID based on tape sources. There are also a lot of other dependencies on the tape MOB ID such as KeyKode, audio TC relationships etc.
By doing it through the sequence, the software creates new clips based on the sequence thus creating new TAPE MOB ID’s for only the associated clips. This protects the original clips for continued editing in the NTSC space.
Michael
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Not only is it a good idea, it’s the only way it was designed to work!
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Michael
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Make the project 23.976 and select ADVANCED from the film/24p settings and away you go. There should be no issues.
Michael
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