Mike Jeffs
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[Michael Stuckart] “Also looking into professional grade wireless transmitters for our cameras? Just curious what a set up would cost per camera.”
the cheapest “Pro” wirelees you will find is the IDX camwave which is around 5K and requires HDSDI signels
I’m a little confused about your initial post. Are you saying you have all the other equipment ATEM switcher, cameras, Imac, and you still have 8k to spend or are you asking is 8k enough to get the equipment you have listed?
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Just exporting as dnxhd aith alpha didn’t fix the problem. But the when changing from pre multiplied to straight, then importing without alpha inverted has seem to allow it to come into avid properly.
Thank you all for your help.
Although it does make the clip look odd when just previewing in in QuickTime
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
I’ll give that a try
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
We use a nano flash external recorders ( made by convergent designs) for all our cameras, which records in the xdcam format as mov or mxf, but there is quite the documented issues with the mxf wrap files working with avid. (issues on convergents end). Plus we still do some projects in Fcp. So working with the native nano flash files wraped in mov is win win. And this workflow works swell In the Mac world. Mainly because Fcp gives you the encode and decoded abilities for xdcam in a mov wrapper. I figured that working in a windows world might be problematic as Fcp can’t be installed and therefore not give you the xdcam mov abilities. I know this is true for adobe products on a windows machine, but I’m not clear if avid with AMA plugins gives makes it possible.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Can you get away with setting all your cameras to free run timecode, then just before the show take your 350 and plug a bnc from the time code out to the timecode in of your 355s that should jam sync all the cameras together. You shouldn’t need to keep them plug in together after that point. The timecodes should stay on without any drift. i have done the a bunch of times without much problems.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Another Idea,
If you are working with tape based cameras and they can be timecode sync, then when you are ingesting your tapes each time the camera starts and stops act as if its a sepreate camera angle. when when you set up your multicam you will group using timecode how many cameras you have equates to how many times the cameras start and stopped, but the NLE will only play back the active camera angles at that given point in the timecode. so your bandwith and compute resources aren’t taxed anymore then they would have been.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
If you are running FCP7 take a look at Pural Eyes. One of its main functions is taking a cameras with a lot of Starts and a stops and syncing them up in a Multicam sequence.
you have to make sure all of the cameras are recording Audio though. as it is using the waveforms to create the syncs. for the limited use that i have had it gerenally have good results.
I beleive they have been recently purchased by Red giant, and i also think they have made a version for FCPX and Avid.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Third Party, Blackmagic Multibridge running the most recent drivers
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
trying to capture xdcam HD 50 mbits
here is a screen shot of the error i get.
after selecting Continue this error pops up
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
no its errors after about 5 secounds of trying to capture.
It gives a super long error message i could post but i’m guessing on a Avid tech could understand such jargon 🙂
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho
