Nicole Haddock
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I had to deal with a 1400 deck awhile back. Thankfully the rental house included a sheet of items to check on the deck menu to make sure everything was groovy. Here’s what the sheet says for 1080i-
Menu item 25- 59/60
Menu item 020- 1080i
Menu item 023- HD_LP
Menu item 030- 59/23
Menu item 892- AUTO HD
Menu item 894- DIF OUT=HD
Menu teim 895- DIF OUT = 50M
Menu item 896 – DIF OUT=25MAnd then here are my notes… this worked for a 720p tape, so I’m assuming you just need to make the changes for a 1080i setup and should be good.
Go to Easy Setup. Choose FORMAT- Panasonic DVCProHD, Rate: 23.98, USE: DVCProHD 720p24.
Make a new sequence, dunk your footage in there. DO NOT LET FCP CHANGE THE SEQ SETTINGS TO MATCH YOUR FOOTAGE. Render. If the deck is seeing your computer, the 1394 item on the deck face will be lit. If not, it will be blinking.See if that fixes it, otherwise return 😀
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The mixed media in the timeline is fine, I do it all the time. I’m going to guess the problem still lies with having the sequence compression at 8 Bit Uncompressed.
Can you do a test- dupe the sequence, set it to Pro-Res 422 (not HQ), and if it’s going to take forever to render, just delete a bunch of footage from the timeline so you have 5 minutes or so? Also, I would do a render/render all/audio mixdown if you haven’t already.
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When you say your project is AJA IO HD with Apple Pro-Res, did you run the easy set up? The conflict sounds like it’s between the set-up, which wants Pro-Res, and your sequence settings, which are 8-bit uncompressed.
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I don’t know why it’s failing, but here’s my dumb question- is the target system NTFS? (Are most PC platforms NTFS? I know the ones we’ve had to interface with are..) You’re going to run into a 2GB limit on file size…
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Well, the HVX200 only captures DV25 onto tape. Run the easy set-up for DV-NTSC (or PAL if that’s what you’re shooting) and you should be able to ingest. Only the P2 cards can record DVCPro and DVCProHD.
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Have you trashed the preferences? Sounds like FCP is just being dumb. If you put the filter on and exported, there’s no reason for it not to be there.
This is a nice little app that tosses the preferences for you- https://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm
Just to idiot check… if you change the timecode start in FCP, did you hit the Tab key to advance to the next changable box? The tab key will often put the changes into the browser window. If you can’t see the changes there, then something fubar’ed. Worked fine on my system last night (PBG4, OS 10.5.6, FCP 6.0.5).
Also, after you paste the timecode filter on your nested sequence, you’re exporting a self-contained file of that sequence, yeah?
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You can do what you want to in FCP, I swear!
In Final Cut, when you right click on the sequence that you’ve nested, and say open in Viewer, click on the Filters tab and you can offset the Timecode by hour and by frames. You can also specify the timecode type.
Alternatively, you can export a reference or self contained movie from FCP, and once in Compressor, whatever format you’re compressing this to, click on the Filters tab, and the bottom of the Video Filter list is Timecode Generator. However, you can’t specify when it starts.
Sounds like what will work best is to do it inside of FCP. You’ve got way more control over it there than in Compressor.
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Here are a few doo-dads I would want, YMMV-
Gadgets:
An Elgato Turbo which speeds up h.264 compression for web/ipod quicktimes. $100.
A card reader for compact flash, sd cards etc
A firewire expansion card- which may not be too much of an issue for you, but if the Kona is going in through firewire, and if you want to hook up any external drives, it’s usually best to avoid going into the original bus card
An external blu-ray burner (MacSales.com sells a reliable one) but not sure if this is a direction you’ll be going in
For monitors, you could also go with 2 24″ Dell monitors if the Apples are hard to find and they don’t want to spring for the 30″
A Wacom tablet. I have a 6×4 in the editing suite and it makes a big difference with my tendonitis. It’s also great with Photoshop, but I do edit in FCP with it a fair amount of the time.
Also- HD scopes?
I wouldn’t go less than 8GB of RAM. You can tweak Compressor to use all 8 processors in your machine to compress (but you should probably only tell it to use 7) and you need some decent RAM to make that haul.Software:
Toast 10!
Microsoft Office
iWork
Noise Industries FX Factory Plug-ins – https://www.noiseindustries.com/
Magic Bullet plug-ins – https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/
this is some crossover with MB, but the 55mm DFT suite, which is now sold by Tiffen- https://www.tiffen.com/dfx_v2_home.html
Eureka! Plug-ins – https://www.kafwang.com/
I occasionally use some of these, but may not be worth the purchase- CGM effects https://www.cgm-online.com/eiperle/cgm_e.html
If you’re using After FX alot, get Nucleo Pro which will take advantage of as much RAM as you’ve got. Can cut render time in half, which is insane 😀That’s all I can think of right now, but I’m sure other people will have suggestions.
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Right, that’s the sort of shenanigans we’d see with QT/FCP issues, it was boggling. Be fine in QT, but as soon as you brought it into FCP, it had fits. But it sounds like your QT is up to date if FCP is.
Anyway, nothing solved the problem other than redigitizing, wYour other clips that have been digitized, are they in sync?
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Just to clarify for the original poster- make sure you use the SD settings in Compressor, and not the evil HD-DVD settings hiding below. If you’re letting DVDSP do the encoding for you AND you imported an HD video (ie- did not downconvert to SD in FCP before exporting) then DVDSP will make an HD DVD by default. This sounds like what you might have already done. If you have more than 2 folders on your DVD (should just be Video_TS and Audio_TS) then you’ve made an HD-DVD. These will play on Macs. I did this by mistake a few weeks ago, I should know 😉
If there are just those 2 folders, then it’s a software issue on the PC. The components to play burned DVDs aren’t usually included on some of the older OSs. The user has to buy them. Total pain, but welcome to DVD authoring.