[Michael Sacci]

Already contacted them, they gave me a couple of numbers, cannot find anyone that is available.

Now looking for someone with shading experience for concerts with any HD cameras and we will paint the varicams. Anyone available?

[Michael Sacci]

I’m having trouble finding a* top shader

Typed too fast, thought too slow.

[Michael Sacci]

Don’t think you should make people hunt for your original post. But since you asked for people to respond with “I don’t know,” I don’t know.

My suggestion would be to dub VHS to a DV tape and capture that, that way you have something with TC to capture with.

[Michael Sacci]

For a music show I produce I have my audio guy upload Apple Lossless of the final mix and use Quicktime to convert them back into Aiffs. Quicktime is a good converter also. Depending on your qorkflow it can be a lot faster and you are not having to change your import back and forth in iTunes. Just 2 different ways to do the same thing.

[Michael Sacci]

Let me add that there are reasons for doing this falls under “Fair Use” and I also do this a lot for record labels that are too slow getting me music for their own deadlines. So the process does not break copyright laws (I think, hope?).

If this is something that I should not have posted it would not hurt my feelings if it got deleted.

[Michael Sacci]

This assumes you have the rights to use the music you are downloading in your video.

If available download the higher res version with the DRM-free music (this does not give you the rights to use download music).

Or you can just burn the music to a cd and reimport the songs, they are now ready to convert .
In iTunes pref set importing to AIFF and set custom encode – 48800/16 Bit/stereo.

Select the song(s) in itunes and under Advanced there will be a convert selection to AIFF. These can now be brought into FCP.

[Michael Sacci]

Bob may have something here, there are a lot of reasonably priced HDV to HD SDI bridges but the only thing I could find to go back is this box and it is pretty expensive (but cheaper than a HDCAM deck)
https://www.markertek.com/Product.asp?cat=VIDEOEQUIP&subcat=VIDPROCESS&prodClass=HDSDICONV&search=0&off=0&baseItem=ADVCHDM1

[Michael Sacci]

Have you cleaned the heads on the deck?

[Michael Sacci]

ProRes capture is being handled by the computer and not the card (only the IoHD was hardware conversion). So if you are wanting to use the SD ProRes it would depend on your system being able to handle it.

[Michael Sacci]

Personally I would spend about $150 get a small HD fedex it back and forth, that way you just export self contained ref movies. But the most important recommendation is to talk to your sound guy. Unless someone has normalized and balanced your audio clip to clip he/she may want individual audio files. I have never had audio sweetened as a whole chuck always clip by clip and then overall. Unless it was all shoot at the same time, with the same mic, and nothing really changed.