[Miodrag Ristic]

There is a little utility called Anamorphiciser and it’s used for preparing a QT exported from FCP for iDVD,
and of course it will work for you too.

Just drop your QT file on Anamorphiciser’s icon and in 2 seconds it’s all done, your QT will be anamorphisized.

Mio

https://mac.softpedia.com/get/Video/Anamorphicizer.shtml

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[Miodrag Ristic]

Dean, have I gone crazy, or one of you posts have gone missing (your direct response to my post above)?
Big Brother? Big CC Brother 🙂

Anyway, when you mentioned Sony… I was just watching a TV show an hour ago, “Undercover Boss”,
here in Australia and in the middle of the show (major TV channel!) a “jello effect” (an effect caused by rolling shutter used in cameras with CMOS).
They were showing a guy moving a lawn, a lawn mover where you can sit and drive around, and for one shot (3 sec) they attached to the roof of the lawn mover and because of the vibrations, it caused a jello effect.

That issue was a deal breaker when I was shopping for my new camera, I was looking at Sony’s Z7
and Panasonic’s HPX 170.

Again, are we going backwards, to have a camera that can be good but don’t use it in high vibration environment, not against a photo flash, don’t shoot horizontal lines… At this day and age, I don’t get it.

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[Miodrag Ristic]

Yes, Canon models use to have (I’m not sure about Xh-G1) temperamental firewire connection, very picky, they wouldn’t like other firewire drives being connected to your G5 (constant beachball in FCP,
unable to ingest).

After many years with Canon, switched to Panasonic last year. Head enough of constant servicing,
fuse on XL2 (twice), tape transmition on GL2 (both of them), zoom on GL2.

Why would you go to tape today? I was only content because I was using Firestore hard drive for simultaneous recording, but that’s an extra cost, plus they are unpredictable sometimes.
But it did serve me well in 90 % of situations. Imagine only ingesting 5 hrs of tapes, with Firestore – 50 minutes maximum, just copy to your media drive.

Now I’m back to ingesting with my P2 cards… I don’t know… maybe we are going backwards sometimes 🙂
But that’ FCP problem probably, re-wrapping into QT.

Is it different in Premiere… sorry… that should be different topic… oops, different forum maybe…

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[Miodrag Ristic]

I’ve been using LaCie drives for years, and the more recent ones are the worst ones,
got that 1 TB D2 Quadra as well… everything in specs looks fine, ports, speed, but
in practice.. very disappointing.
Had 2 failing last year after just over 12 months.

Get a CalDigit ( I remember people here used to swear by G-Drive as well) and considering your set up,
get that Voyager dock (eSata, FW 800) and buy bare drives (save loads $$) for backing up your media drive (and archiving) and you are good as gold.

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[Miodrag Ristic]

OT little bit…

Peter, what encoding settings did you use for your demo on your website?

In my browser, it played smoothly as 720p (do you decide on at what resolution it is going to play, or it detects my bandwidth and then plays accordingly?)

I’m having trouble in playing my You Tube videos in HD.

I am in Australia, which is MUCH slower internet than what people are having in UK and USA
and I’m aware of the fact that You Tube re-encodes my 25 fps to NTSC 30 fps,
but still is it a data rate setting on top of that (I’m using 6000 and 5000 on Vimeo).

But, if I can play your video nicely, that means it’s not the bandwidth it must be your/my encoding settings?

Can you please shed some light on this for me, I’ve been running in circles for some time now.

Here is my You Tube link:
https://www.youtube.com/user/GeelongVideo?feature=mhum

and here my Vimeo link:
https://vimeo.com/videovault

Thanks

Mio

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[Miodrag Ristic]

Chris, that is not the issue here (I bet Dan knows that anyway).
The issue is why the QT clip is behaving the way it is behaving.

We should respond in case we’ve got something to contribute to solve the problem / issue.

Addressing other issues (that might net even be an existing issue) is only going to distract from real problem and probably annoy the person asking for advice.

Mio

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[Miodrag Ristic]

Try dropping your QT into Anamorphicizer so your iDVD can recognise it as widescreen.
(although, the fact that it shows up 4:3 in Compressor is a bit odd)

https://mac.softpedia.com/get/Video/Anamorphicizer.shtml

Mio

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[Miodrag Ristic]

I agree, after many years of shooting DV, tape plus Firestore, it was hard for me to fit into new P2 workflow of just recording to one media (P2 card), without back up.
I liked that simultaneous recording to both plus easy access to your footage (no digitising

Slowly I’m getting more confident.

Firestore, although very handy and very reliable in 90% of situations
(10% margin for error in our business is pretty high) it is not bullet proof.

From my perspective, it’d be much smarter to spend extra money on back up camera (and some extra cards), in case… you never know… so far from your base in a place you are not familiar with…

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[Miodrag Ristic]

Thanks Dan, that helps.

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It is a pain…

But my bigger problem is judging how hot my audio is or it isn’t.
I’m used to Canon where you could really see how far it can go and in addition to that
there is a color (green, orange & red) to see how hot/high your audio actually is.

Or I’m missing some menu settings somewhere?

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