Nicole Haddock
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I worked on a system the other day that had a Black Magic card in it. The problem I had was that if I hit the space bar to stop playback, the marker would stop, but the audio and video would continue to play in the Viewer window. I was tearing my hair out.
I had to trash the prefs and restart a few times, then finally did the old shut it down, go get some coffee, come back and then it worked. I’ve worked on lots of machines with or without AJA cards, never had a problem. That was the first machine I worked on with a Black Magic card (set to ingest Beta/monitor out only I believe) and I was over it inside of a few hours. Also came back from lunch to continue digitizing some beta, and the BM card had lost the signal somehow. That was another hour of down time, and yes, the card was properly seated. Voodoo I tell you, voodoo.
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QP Cards accomplish this pretty easily, and are cheap.
https://www.qpcard.se/BizPart.aspx?tabId=84&tci=137Use them all the time on multicam shoots and really helps get things in the same ballpark.
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Well, how’s this for a non-answer: It depends.
How much footage is type A versus type B?
What machine/drives are you editing on?
Where is it going to end up?Generally, I let the answers of 1 and 3 guide the sequence settings the most, and if I’m cutting on a laptop, that will way in heavily on #2 as well. So start from the end and work your way backwards.
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Why are you compressing it to h.264? That’s your problem right there, it’s not an editing codec.
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I do this all the time, but moreso for DVD footage (instead of ripping). We have a combo VHS/DVD drive and I hook it up S-Video/RCA audio to my DV deck (Sony DSR-45), select S-Video as the input on the deck, and then Capture Non-Controllable Device like you have set up. Are you sure your deck is seeing the video? That’s where I’m guessing the problem lies.
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Try capturing ProRes (not HQ) and the entire screen. You can zoom upwards of 3-400% without any major visual loss.
Also, set your sequence settings in FCP to ProRes as well. DV-NTSC is just going to make these look craptastic.
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Take one of the clips from your bin, start a new sequence, and dunk it in there. FCP should ask you if you want to match the seq settings to the clip, hit yes. Once that clip is in, delete it from the timeline.
Copy your old timeline into the new timeline and right click while all the clips are selected and remove Distort and Basic Motion (assuming you have done no distoring on your own to video, or any stills you migth have in your sequence or other graphics). You may still hve to fiddle with the motion tab of each clip, but usually this will work.
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I work in the format every day so I reckon I’m just used to it at this point!
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The general rule of thumb is to buy the most you can afford, especially with laptops. Go with the graphics card that has the most RAM.
For monitoring, you might eventually need an I/O box for laptops. Matrox makes one and so does AJA. Something to keep in mind for the future.
The laptop you list would probably be OK for a fair amount of editing workflows. Getting an external monitor to hook up to the laptop is up to you. Some people don’t like how small the screen is, others have no problems. So get the 17″ and see how you like it, then evaluate external monitors.
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I’m not aware of any default setting for Vimeo HD in Compressor, so whoever gave the file to you must have customized something. Regardless you’ll need to transcode it to an editing codec because H.264 isn’t one. If it’s HD, you could use the Advanced Format Conversion for DVCProHD 720p60 without too much of a problem I reckon. Once that’s done, you should find editing alot easier.