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Thank you both for adding to this thread. I’ve read both of your previous contributions on this subject and appreciate your interest.

I love the efficiency of .tif sequences in terms hardware efficiency. But keeping audio and timebase conformed throughout a workflow from whatever source that sends me stuff, gets old fast. I get files in 30fps, some in 24, others in 23.976, and the rest in 29.97…

I wish Quicktime were up to the task… It’s been great until now. But now it’s a mess. The whole Apple/Panasonic cartel burns me as well.

I digress… The footage I’m dealing with was shot XDCam and exported to Animation for me.

I confirmed the Animation Codec in the .mov files with both AE7 and QT Player Properties and Movie Info, etc. No sign of H.264 or any other AvcHD/MPEG2 type codecs in the file headers.

Simply exporting from QT Player to the same Animation Best Auto-Keyframe 29.97 codec fixed major issues the files had from FCP export. I will post tomorrow what FCP and QT the files came from. I suspect the latest…

The idea of an Adobe Player looks great. I would dump Quicktime tomorrow for a world-class wrapper without all these dumb issues QT has. Like 16 track audio splits? Or RLE style multi-channel float…

Imagine a multilayer float photoshop sequence with scripting? It might not playdown in realtime, but you archive an entire production in one sequence. Hey Adobe, talk to Autodesk and Digital Domain. An industrial standard wrapper with float will relieve a lot of headaches out here!

I hope I live long enough to see that!

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I found the article on how to manipulate the HV20 into becoming full manual. However, it was interesting he used a cellphone with white on the screen as a light source. While I am sure that would be convenient, I wonder why he didn’t just use a decent light-meter to form a truer baseline. I guess it’s not too late.

Thanks for all the input on this camera. It’s appreciated. I think it will serve us nicely in the studio for tests and such.

All the best!

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Thanks for the in depth answer, Todd. I guess for a 900$ camera, one shouldn’t complain too loudly!

Although 1/48th is a pretty long shutter. I’ll take a look for that info Googling around. These cheap cameras especially bug me when something passes in front of the camera that is darker or brighter than your subject and the exposure wobbles around to compensate.

For instance, you shooting someone across the street, and a car passes by that reflects the sun into the lens. Or you dolly behind something dark, like a curtain while you are shooting a dance on stage. I’d rather the shutter and iris not react like that in those situations.

If there’s a way to trick it, that might be enough for me!

Thanks!

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With the HV20 I know you cannot have manual Iris and manual shutter at the same time, but can you lock down one or the other while one is manual? Or is something always automatic?

For instance, can you lock shutter at say, 1/60th, and adjust F-stop manually? Or is pretty much a full manual?

Thanks for your time with this query!

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Okay, so my machine is not messed up somehow.

Why on earth did they exclude this functionality? Curious.

Thanks

[N. Row]

Hi Again,
I restarted AE7 and can now paste from PhotoShop or charmap to AE7.

But I still cannot use system keys for unmapped characters Alt+0174 for

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Could a Sony DA1 be placed on a Firewire Router and be shared by a few PCs over the router? I am not versed in IEEE1394 enough to know if this is possible.

Does a Sony DA1 broadcast any DV codec, Microsoft or Apple?

The DA1 or DA-2 is pretty old, but we could devise an After Effects Output module to fit our 486 frames to 480 for display on an NTSC monitor to keep field preview accurate when needed.

Is this idea workable?

As I mentioned previously, I need to connect 4 CG computers via IEEE1394 to a shared 42″ NTSC monitor.

From the PCs IEEE1394 port to a IEEE1394 router which branches to a DA1. Would this work?

https://www.insanely-great.com/reviews/da1.html

From PCs connected to this router.
https://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?action=Showitem&id=ID614474&partno=70924&search=FIREWIRE&rsite=70924&rcode=

[N. Row]

Try using the “Wiggler” with the “jagged” pop-up on a matted solids transparency with an “Add” math operator on the layer. Otherwise, just keyframe the opacity and copy-paste the keys as flickery as you can.

[N. Row]

Not sure, but BE sure you update to 6.0.1. Stock 6.0 IME is unusable.

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Or you may simply need to increase the number of echos and increase the delay and/or composite arithmetic type (add, behind, on top, multiply, etc.)