Nick Price
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Hi Paul,
I’ve been onlining for six months with FCP and havent had any problems with accuracy. Just need to check all the settings are correct. There are almost too many options which all need to be right for correct edit to tape! It is more to do with the hardware than the software really. I believe theKona is excellent, check with their forum. I am using the AJA IO, so no problems with the company.
cheersNick
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John,
SDi is better, but for the extra money i dont believe it is worth it. Component is still pretty good, especially if you are going SDi on output. One conversion is fine. two isnt. I have been using this workflow and it works/looks fine. People were using (and still are) component for years and they didnt complain.Never had a problem with inaccurate frames when combining firewire and RS232 capture. great thing about fcp is the ability to gang a guide offline video and the online recaptured version. You can check every single frame is correct. I have never had a recapture problem in almost a year of using firewire and recapture via an AJA IO.
As for the correct card it is about taste really. The IO gives you all the ins/outs yo uwill ever need, but the response on the keyboard/screen isnt instant. The Kona (or other pci options) will give an instant response and HD capability but isnt as comprehensive in terms of ins/outs. Personal choice really.
nick
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Matt,
you might want to check that “view external video” in FCP is not set to RGB 8-bit, but YUV 8-bit. I get the same reults when that is wrong.nick
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Adam
have you found that these methods have fixed this for good? As with Bill, my playouts are accurate sometimes, but not always. Recently changing to LTC & VITC in the device settings in FCP has proven more accurate, but i spend far too much time worrying if each program will be accurate during the playout. not good for the heart pressure.Also on another note, i very often get what i can only describe as render errors, during edit to tape. and sometimes during just normal playback. They consist of a tiny line, that appears to have been displaced from elsewhere, flashing up often only on one field, so when looking at the frame still you cant see it, but when spooling thourgh on a digibeta it appears on the second frame. I go back and rerender that small section and it disapears. But another might appear during a repeated playout!
any thoughts?
nick
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Bob,
i think you might be confusing it with input. QT doesnt need to bother with output presumeably. Only when capturing and writing a QT filenick
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Russell,
You can get all four channels playing at out at once actually. Control click on the channel you want to output and you will see that now you have made active channels3/4 you get the option to route any of your track to and outputs, analogue or digital.nick
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Gary,
both exporting edls and media manager work fine, but only used if carefully. The advantage of media manager is that you get to keep all the effects that you have added. An edl wont keep much in the way of effects…simple transitions, wipes etc, speed changes, but not muich more than that. Having said that if your sequence doesnt contain many effects it is FAR simpler than Media Manager. See Kens article for that.nick
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Hi Francois,
the IO isnt supported by Core Audio in OSX at the moment, but lots of people are saying that it will be ASAP.
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by the way you cant import OMFs back into FCP. Just you’re common or garden sound files!
nick