Mitch Ives
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[Deadhead] “Can you describe exactly what is going on?”
The sliders all operate, but not smoothly. The play button is the only transport button that works, so we have to use the keyboard to stop playback. The Jog/Shuttle has a horrible delay… it advances one frame then nothing… and suddenly it jumps 20 frames or more. In general there seems to be a delay in communication.
If we put it on a machine without the Kona LH, all the transport buttons work… the jog shuttle is linear and highly accurate… no delays of any kind.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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[David Telling] “As I understand it, the DeckLink HD Extreme is for the new PCI Express equipped Macs. Mine is PCI-X.”
All the current DeckLink cards are PCIe. Get a Kona LH or LHe… it also has analog. $1,600.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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I shot four days straight on four locations with two HVX’s and P2 cards and never once had them hold up the project. Used a Mac laptop with zero problems. Never lost a single file (80GB’s worth). P2 is addictive…
Sounds like your crew wasn’t adequately trained, and the fact that you had to buy upgrades mid-stream means you didn’t do your research first.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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Thanks Noah… Barry straightened me out… I wasn’t doing all the camera part first, and THEN launching FCP…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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[Barry Green] “You could record it on the card and then play it back through the component outputs, but you can’t do a live E-E of firewire input to component output”
How about listing all the steps Barry. I’m having no luck getting the HVX to engage in record mode using PTT in FCP…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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We have shot to DV tape in scene file 1 on several occassions, and have not seen any problem with the footage. In fact several people ahve said it looks as good as our Sony 300 DVCAM 1/2″ cameras shot at the same time…
I’ll have to check the scene file 5 results when things slow down a bit…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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Jan’s right… use both the peaking and the Focus Assist. FWIW, I find the VF better for focusing than the LCD… of course I find the Panasonic 17″ LCD the best. That is one fine monitor for field use…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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I’ve had a chance to work with the Pannasonic 17″… it is great. I’m definitely getting one. A 26″ is in the offing, but the 17″ is also great for field work as well, so it may be more multi-purpose than the 26″ Panny did a hell of a job with this 17″… it’s the first LCD I have been happy with for HD…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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[Sergio Perez] “I believe people should read carefully to Jan’s post, and notice what it means concerning to the 8gb card prices…”
I have three 8GB cards as of today… the first two already paid for themselves.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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[Walter Graff] “Just make sure that before you make an authoritative statement, that you have used a product in question or your statement doesn’t mean much.”
I think Ron already covered the part about while you have considerable knowledge, there are others who also do… though I’m not sure you’d agree. I wise man avoids trying to dictate parameters under which he will “appear to be objective”.
Having said that, regardless of how it does or doesn’t look, some of us will not use MPEG2 based products for a variety of reasons. The fact that you will is fine, and I and others would not attempt to get you to change your mind. Enjoy it Walter… it sounds like it works for you in your chesen environment…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5