[Mike Kahn]

What format are you capturing? 1080p 23.98 or 525i 29.97?

I am capturing SD, 525i29.97. The deck is doing all the down conversion for me. During the tests, I will have the 29.97 character on from the deck and will try to match that to the clip timecode and sometimes it’s on and most times it’s not.

[Mike Kahn]

Try putting the original shot on the bottom layer, the second shot above it and play with the composite mode/add Should give you both shots at the same time and they will overlap each other without having to use a crop.

[Mike Kahn]

Thanks that what I thought. It is MPEG1.

[Mike Kahn]

Have you checked your remote cable/firewire, whatever is carrying timecode info. You said that it works in a different suite, was it with all the same cables and deck?

Also, try to uninstall and reinstall the AJA. Sometimes it gets buggy and has to be reset.

Hope this helps.

Mike

[Mike Kahn]

what settings do you use in terms of device control? It greys out audio mapping and won’t allow me to write the audio.

[Mike Kahn]

I am not doing exactly what you are but am taking an offline sequence of DVCProHD that was captured at SD and upresing to HD. It also has some HDV that we captured at full res originally for fear of timecode issues. So far the process we have used has been pretty flawless except for a few tapes that were logged incorrectly with the wrong reel name.

Do your low res clips have reel names? What settings are you using in media manager?

The way that I do it is:

Using media manager, make final textless sequence offline, set sequences to whatever your final upresed clips will be and give 1-3 sec handles depending on drive space. Make sure to uncheck use master clips outside of selection and use affiliate clips outside of selection; When promted, save new project.

For the HDV clips:
Duplicate new sequence of offline clips and reconnect hdv to original source. Check that all have reconnected properly and delete everything in the sequence but the HDV clips. Media Manage again using the setting “Recompress” and your final sequence settings. Uncheck Include master clips. Check Delete unused media and set handles to 1-3 second. Set the media destination. After the HDV sequence is created, go through it and blow up the picture to 100% and remove any distort. Copy the clips from the HDV sequence and add them in the proper place in the textless sequence with the offline clips.

Copy text from original sequence to new sequence and fix accordingly.

I hope this workflow helps.

Mike

[Mike Kahn]

I know I can apply it to all my titles but some had transition effects on them that needed the broadcast safe filter on it as well. For this show I didn’t have that but in the future I might and I’ll have to make it an animation with an alpha channel and render.

[Mike Kahn]

I spoke with a friend and he told me that nests and ETT do not get along. I had two options, I could unnest everything and rerender or I could export as a self contained animation with an alpha since they were titles. I went with unnesting and rerendering since it was only a broadcast safe filter that I was trying to apply.

Mike

[Mike Kahn]

I am dragging the sequence from my browser window into the ETT window.

[Mike Kahn]

Yeah I think I’m going to have to render out my titles and lay them back in. I was hoping not to have to do that but I’ll take the hour once rather then every time I have to make a layback.

Thanks.
Mike