Nathan Tinsley
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GOT IT! Well I’m just not that mac savy. When I ran the DMG to open the Sony Logging and Transfer utility I didn’t notice that I had only unziped the archive. I hadn’t actually run the installer. The IT guy helped with with that and now L&T works perfectly with the SxS card! Halleluia!
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Thanks for the replies and now a few responses:
Regarding the sony clip browsing software I did do an Export to MXF for NLE. I dropped the MXF file into a folder on my media drive. When I tried to import this file directly into the bin from the media drive I got an error, something like, “invalid media type”. Ugh. Am I missing something? Andy what is it that you prefer about the Sony Clip Browser over L&T? And isn’t it re-wraping the MXF at that point? I thought bringing them in directly, or natively, would avoid that time consuming re-wrap but am I naive in assuming that FCP does NOT re-wrap in L&T?
The clip is NOT spanned over two cards.
Thanks,
nate
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Yes there is a similar feature in Premiere pro. When you do open the project file the program will begin looking for the media. If it doesn’t find the media it’s going to ask you where it is. Use the “exact file name” matching check box to ensure a good match. If you keep the media in same folder naming structure you often only have to select the first clip in the list of media and Premiere finds the rest of them. Be patient if you have a lot of media!
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…these walls are so nice and white and soothing… and my straight jacket is sooo comfortable! Hahaha! I laughed out loud! Yes I know it just seems unbelievable! Quite a transition huh? Like launching off the deck of an aircraft carrier! We’ve had a few problems with stability but have not had to reformat much. We did have one system drive fill up completely with timelines and graphics. It was a machine I don’t get to that often so I just trained the main user of that system and she has kept it pretty clean! I’ve gotta say though that the whole insert record vs. over record coupled with tabbing multiple tracks was a very powerful and virtually unmatched tool in Discreet edit. I hope to find something similar in FCP. We’ll see!
Nate
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Aaaah Bob I was hoping to hear from you! And I appreciate and fully agree with the lecture! I took it very well and had a nice chuckle! Yes we do hang on to gear for quite a while. Too long in fact. I work in the Creative Services department at a local TV station. We shoot local commercials and promotions and community service stuff. We have two shooters and two editors and we stay VERY busy. I’m a shooter and effectively a third editor. Currently we’re using two Discreet Edit 6 platforms running WINDOWS NT!!! Aaargh! The systems have Matrox Digisuite boards. We just purchased a sony PMW-EX1 and also a brand new EX3 which we are very excited about hence the need for new edit systems. The only thing is we’ve got lots and lots of betacam masters and field tapes that we still need to work from between now and the changeover to HD sooooo that’s were this all came from.
So thanks very much to you all! Kona LHe and FCP here I come! Can’t wait!
Nate
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Outstanding! Thanks Shane!
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Thanks Shane,
Thought I had it right! Finally are you actually using a Kona LHe with a BetacamSP deck or is anyone else for that matter? I would love to just have one person post saying “yes I’ve successfully connected a BETACAMSP deck to my Kona LHe and it works!” Sorry but it’s got to be a sure thing for my supervisor.
Nate
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Well I’m just ASTOUNDED! I work in the PC realm and I just don’t understand why that feature would not be there! Can anyone else shed any light here?
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Well that’s puzzling to me. What version of Premiere are you using? Is it CS3? I’m also new to HDV but have done three projects successfully so far. Just checking to make sure that you definitely opened an HDV project to begin with and not an XDCAM project or something? If it’s HDV then the next thing I would try would be to make sure that your HDV camcorder is correctly connected and turned on. Typically when that option is greyed out it means that it has lost connection to the camera. Also is the camera in VCR mode or CAM mode. It MUST be in VCR mode. If all that checks out then try changing the communications method in the DV DEVICE CONTROL area of your preferences. Try like ALT2 or ALT3 or even pick the manufacturer and model of your camera if it’s present. Finally depending on how long your timeline is be prepared for a long render time as Premier renders out your timeline to one single stream of HDV material to be sent to your camcorder. My half hour shows took HOURS! You’ll see a progress bar that moves so slow you’d swear the computer had locked up. Be patient and walk away! Take a break!
Hope that helps!
Nate
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HDV really is a tricky format for editing. It’s just soooo compressed and CS3 actually won’t allow you to EXPORT an HDV file. The best thing for you to do coming from AE is to export a quicktime at 1920×1080 pixels which is the full raster for HD. I would use the ANIMATION compressor at FULL quality or the SORENSEN 3 compressor at FULL quality. Premier WILL correctly interpret this footage and allow you to place it on the timeline. However then you will get a red bar meaning you need to render it. Do the render and you’ll be all set! I have actually done all this and even had an alpha channel with my AE export and the Quicktime movie imported fine and keyed over my timeline beautifully!
By way of explanation HDV is 1440×1080 because the format uses a 1.33 pixel aspect ratio. This means that it stretches each pixel out horizontally by a factor of 1.33. If you multiply 1.3 by 1440 you get roughly 1920 so your 1440×1080 image ends up filling a 16:9 screen.