[Paul Boyer]

this looks like exactly what I need, and for the same reason as you.
Thank you so much for the heads up.
pb

[Paul Boyer]

I agree completely, however, I’m writing after installing fresh drives and a fresh system. I replaced my 250gb’s with fresh 500’s, installed a system from zero and that’s when I had the problem. FCP 5.x.x.x is a mess, it’s not stable, it’s not faster … it’s a gimmick to get everyone (including me) to send in our good old discs. I asked apple for my old 5.0 ndoscs back and of course, they refused. 5 worked, 5+ doesn’t (for me) It”s a shame. I hope some of you going to NAB are willing to hold their feet to the fire, I’m not going any longer, I’m tired of being lied to.
pb

HD Production/Post
Varicam
1200 Firewire & 1080i cards installed
All DVCAM & Mini DV
Pansonic 100a
sony pd150’s
Arri srII (16mm) Arri III (35mm) vp’s & other lenses. Time lapse mitchells … all in house

[Paul Boyer]

you are not alone, I ended up taking the footage to DVCPRO HD to get it in my machine. I’m tired of codecs that fail, so I do everything dvcpro hd.
pb

[Paul Boyer]

I gave up & went HD/SDI through to the 1200a & DVCPRO HD. From this point forward any HDV footage will be converted before I touch it. I’m no longer willing to waste hours of my life on systems that don’t work. Time is too precious for me to be a free beta tester for Apple & Sony. Producers that insist on shooting HDV for the cost savings will have those savings evaporated by tech time and failures. I dont'[ know what the issue is, I have no idea and have to move forward. I’ll still follow the post if there are developments.
Thanks
pb

[Paul Boyer]

Well, none of that worked and once the other guys in the office saw me yelling at the monitor with the gorilla suit (sans pants!) these nice guys in white came and put me in a soft room. It’s quiet here. They feed me nice blue pills and I forgot what I was talking about. Hey! look at my hand … Do you like flowers? these shoes are comfy, wheeeee!
I think I’ll wear the gorilla suit to NAB!
pb

[Paul Boyer]

I don’t have any advice or a fix for you, what I have is another aknowledgement that his is happening and needs to be addressed. I’m not going to NAB this year, but often, asking the question in front of a few thousand customers motivated them to actually do something. I’m not going this year, but have a few questions myself.
I don’t like the idea of doing that, but sometimes it’s the only way to get them to recognize how serious a problem is. It may seem small … until they realize that this is what we do for a living. To date, I haven’t met anyone I didn’t like on a personal level, however I have had to force their feet to the fire to get problems solved.
All my best.
pb
ps, I now only transfer hdv to dvcpro hd through the pana 1200a deck. After last night, I’m giving up on HDV as an edit format. It simply doesn’t work.

[Paul Boyer]

Yup … HDV, the little blue light is in, HDC 1080 60i in the finder 1080 60i in the setup, 1080 60i in the sequence setup …
thanks for asking though. I think I have deeper problems. Not even a fresh restart is helping, different cables, different ports … maybe a diofferent editing platform is what I need?
pb
ps, I’m a little bitter right now. I’ll be nicey nice again though.
THANK YOU!

[Paul Boyer]

I can’t get it to work with capture now and even iMovie HD sees the timecode, but won’t deliver pix/audio. I’m stumped. Anyone, anyone?
pb

[Paul Boyer]

there are several editors/producers etc … from NBC affiliate Channel 12 here in phoenix that have had brain tumors, even though they were rarely around cameras. I think it’s microwave radiation, especially focused radiation in /near newsrooms.
and redflag … it was funny.

HD Production/Post
Varicam
1200 Firewire & 1080i cards installed
All DVCAM & Mini DV
Pansonic 100a
sony pd150’s
Arri srII (16mm) Arri III (35mm) vp’s & other lenses. Time lapse mitchells … all in house

[Paul Boyer]

the machine is a dual 2.0 with osx.4. Max ram. The deck has been the canon camera, the sony camera (Each with their own tapes.) and the sony seperate record deck. It’s happened with each. The drives? Internals. Whatever the g5 came with. I normally do DVCPRO HD 1080 & 720 with no problems, so I don’t think it’s the machine. The format is HDV and it’s connected via firewire. If you have any ideas, you’ll be the first I’ve heard from that has seen this. I don’t think I’m alone, but I may be.
THANKS
PB

That’s a programmer’s error code. What’s the computer exactly? What’s the deck? What are the drives? How’s everything connected? BTW what format is this exactly?

All the best,

Tom

HD Production/Post
Varicam
1200 Firewire & 1080i cards installed
All DVCAM & Mini DV
Pansonic 100a
sony pd150’s
Arri srII (16mm) Arri III (35mm) vp’s & other lenses. Time lapse mitchells … all in house