[Nick Price]

Most people i have spoken too says this works. i think AJA are just covering their behinds…

nick

[Nick Price]

…or you can use a firewire card. I route the dv dck through one of my drives and the IO off the Firewire card. Works great. It is a really good online tool

nick

[Nick Price]

Bob is right that you adjust the offset to the picture and sound out of the IO is in sync withe picture on the computer monitor, BUT the if you watch the waveform of a clip while listening to it out of the IO the souns is ahead of the waveform. Like i said some people dont mind this but if you are marking audio in/out points this can get annoying.

Dont get me wrong i love my IO (well the company’s) and it has been great for almost 2 years, but if i had to buy now i would get the Kona card.
god luck
nick

[Nick Price]

Thanks Rick and Peter….always learning about my american cousins

nick

[Nick Price]

thanks for the tip walter.
Mazdep, in terms of rendering, if you go to the sequence menu, and select the dark green line in the render selection option, it will render the items that work in real time. Highlight the clip you want to render and apple-r will render it. Its only dv that works in lower (odd) field dominance, nit just FCP. depending on the compression, the field dominance changes, for eaxmple 8bit uncompressed Sd is upper (even) field.
regards

nick

[Nick Price]

although be wary that the AJA io has a firewire lag (because it use firewire architecture), so that if you mark an in point it will be 4/5 frames behind where you want it. This doesnt bother some people but it is good to know. The one to go for is one of the AJA Kona card. All three have the specs you need.

As for customer support, the only time i needed it they sent me a new IO from USA to UK within a few days. Have a scroll through the posts and you will find that tech support is second to none. And they monitor this forum so you can speak to them directly through the cow.
regards
nick

[Nick Price]

Hi Pete,
A rather easier workflow would be:
-Capture using DV codec, with firewire.
-Edit, finsh titles and everything…
-Use media manager to discarde unwanted footage (not actually necessary)
-Then change the timeline settings of the new project to uncompressed (if you are going to digibeta or other full res SD)
-Render, hey presto you have an uncompressed version.

There are lots of posts on this topic, but the concencus seems to be that capturing dv using firewire versus capturing uncompressed makes no difference. But you need uncompressed for decent titles, so hence the rerender to uncompressed

best wishes
Nick

[Nick Price]

Hi there,
if you have studio then you do have Quicktime pro. At the moment the fastest way for me to create a DVD, is to export a quicktime movie of the project, and put it straight into DVD Studio. Export it with the same codec you use to capture, presumably DV. I imagine compressor is quickerat encoding but DVD studio can encode in the background, leaving you to create your menus, or use compressor for something else. Plus if you have just digitised a whole tape for archive, you can take the quicktime file straight from the capture scratch folder into DVD studio.
I dont it that often, but this works for me.
nick

[Nick Price]

Alternately, i would put both channels into the timeline, and dubbing mixer likes having all the options, highlight and press ‘alt L’, and the little arrows at the beginning of the audio clip will disappear and you can move the audio control seperately for each channel. Keep them centre panned, and just turn down the track you dont want.
nick

[Nick Price]

yes i did. didnt seem to make a difference, then downgraded the firmware and upgraded it again. Still no joy.

nick