Nick Price
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dsr 45 does have firewire. I use it to capture offline, for the digital audio
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Having said that. If you are going to be mastering to anything other than DV, or doing colour correction, titles etc, then for online you will want to be taking footage in at 8 or 10bit. I am an AJA fan, either the firewire based AJA IO or the pci based Kona all have a lot of people swearing by them. I hear blackmagic are also excellent. I would check out the exact spec you want, there will be a wiring solution best for you.
For what it is worth, i use an AJA io with my DSR45, capturing using firewire for offline (for digital sound), then recapturing the sequence at 8bit for online. Works fine.
For offline firewire if fine, the Graid seems to be the drive of choice, although I use Lacie Big disks ( i will wait for the criticism). For online my MedeaRt3 has not skipped a beat, although SATA raids are cheaper.
nick
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Thanks david and jerry,
Certainly when i re-render the seconds surrounding the error it disappears, but the info about how the AJA handles the footage is interesting. Although it does seem that it is purely a render mistake so could the AJA alter how a file is rendered (or created while redering)nick
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Sacha,
I would agree with Walter. I use the AJA io as well and i havent heard a bad word about them from anyone one this or any other forum. I believe the Kona is around 1600 pounds, with the breakout box around 200 pounds. If you really need component in then the AJA LA seems sensible, but unless you are onlining from a Beta SP/Dvcam deck, i magine just SDi in would be fine. You can offline using firewire/DV. The AJA LA is around 600 pounds. Or if you wanted to go with blackmagic, you could get their HD card, and the Blackmagic SP card, which has Compnent In, although these two will take up two of your pci slots.As walter said it is vital to have the correct hard drives for this too. Ideally a SCSI raid array, i use a Medea RT3 with an Atto scsi card, no probs for a year now. Prepare to pay around 2000 pounds for that. I use plain old firewire drives for offline. At least 2gb RAM is necessary for FCP. Go to crucial.com for that, easliy the cheapest and best RAM on the planet.
I dont see why you need realtime for the list of things you posted. It will take seconds to render in dv. YOu can then online at 10bit etc.
best wishes
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Sacha,
There are loads of hardware options for FCp, that is why it is so versatile. Just let us know what you need and i imagine everyone will let you know the best option, whatever the price
cheers
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….oh and fades and slo-mos should show up in an edl. You can have a look at your edl to check. Open in in text edit or word. it is just a list of numbers and clips, but do duplicate it first in case you alter it in any way. The paragraph formating is important when importing it!
The online computer will need the fonts, but only if they are unusual. I would take them with you just in case.
nick p
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Hi Trevor,
all these suggestions work fine. The simple fact is that your DV wont look any better than you are looking at it at the moment, (not takign into account telecine of course!), but you are right that the titles will look a bit rubbish. Nicks suggestion is the best for the money.
As for your edl, export edls of all your timelines, then your can renest them in Avid, or just take the sequence for a FCP online. i cant remember why you said you nested, but perhaps just copy and paste the sequences in rather than nest them?
Facilities kind of depends on where you are! Here in london, Digital Heaven in Hammersmith have a good reputation for FCP, and there is one in Vauxhall too.
or if you want to email me we migth be able to fit you in our suite in Twickenham, although you might have to work round us. We use FCP4.5 and an AJA IO (for all your uncompressed needs).
cheers
Nick
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Chris,
I second Marks comments. Dupe Detection in 4.5 slows the whole project down instantly (how ironic). Turn it off for all your sequences in that project otheriwse it will still affect an open timeline.
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Jay,
i think you might ind it was heartfelt exasperation….
Defragging wont make any difference, unless your drive is nearly full. As Bob said, firewire drives are fast enough so an Xraid should be fast enough to paint your house with.just a few little ideas.
Check there is nothing else connected to you computer via firewire, and if it is, it needs to be on an additional firewire card.
Check your capture settings, in fact post them here if you can. There are so many little things in FCP settings that can catch you out. Check them. Then check them again. Really.check that you scratch discs are set correctly as someone mentioned.
can you play out material that is on the drive already? might give an indication as to where the prob lies, menatlly and physically
good luck
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Also ion terms of technical requirements it entirel depends on the broadcast/cable company’s own specs. Just to be helpful most TV companys specs differ and some are more ruthless than others. Someone at the company will have a tech spec sheet. I would just persevere with the switchboard!!
nick