Paul Provost
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Hey Luke!
well, as he has swapped decks and also swapped tapes many times, it must be something else right? how about a bad cable or connection. from my experience this is always the last thing anyone checks (and the solution is alway the last thing you check right!)
or maybe reference? is the deck set to external sync or sync on input – yet another fly in the ointment…
but if he is monitoring the deck and all looks good until playback. hmmm.
there is a setting switch on the digibeta to monitor what is recording on the head as opposed to the input (I forget what it’s called – Zelin where are you?)
but I feel for the guy. edit to tape problems are always the most infuriating! -
why not output directly from FCP? that is a rock solid workflow. The deck Deck control utility should be as well, but I think there is probably way more user experience outputting directly from FCP…
The drives are also a possibility, but you would see the glitches during output (at least from FCP). your setup is way fast enough, but firewire 800 raid systems do slow down quite a bit as they get full! -
we have this on and off too. can you give more info on system, hardware, software, deck, drives etc. ?
we find it to be an analog thing only, not SDI. ever. so I wouldnt worry about the online.
there are a few other rare posts on this – search “ghost bars” -
I’m not sure I understand either, but if you are monitoring on an ntsc monitor (not your computer’s screen) you will see if you have an overlapping field from the last or previous shot (flickering back and forth between fields) right?
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yeah, I would echo Luke’s reservations on the 1.8ghz G5. I’d get the the new dual 2.3ghz with pci x or a used dual 2.0ghz. faster render times always help too.
The picture quality on the decklink SD cards is stellar, none better IMHO and it is a very mature product by now.
what you might find more than a bit disconcerting is the offline/online workflow in FCP compared to Avid. There are major problems in what Apple calls “media manager” / uprezzing, etc – (search the posts here and in the FCP forum)
This is FinalCut’s weak link in what otherwise is a very powerful, cost effective, and versatile product.
However these problems are generally confined to reconforming more complex edits with speed changes, flopped shots, reversed shots etc.
Just one of the drawbacks of trying to create one product that will not only satisfy a hobby-type user, but also someone editing an HD feature for studio release… -
doesn’t heuris make a plugin to edit directly from the discs to FCP?
https://www.heuris.com/MPEGProducts/dvdconnexit/index.htm
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yeah, sell it on ebay and buy your HD card. not trying to be a wise alec but bmd prices are very reasonable, and the products pay for themselves pretty quickly, and you can still get some cash out of it by selling it for 50% of what you paid for it and apply that to your next purchase. it’s not like you dropped 30k on an avid or something ; )
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little quirks?!?!?! a bit of an unreliable offline editing software?!?!?
jeez, I cringe every time a client brings in a “homemade” fcp offline for uprez. -
another possibility – if you recapture all the footage in the original project, but at full rez, there are no problems with speed changes. of course you will need an enormous amount of drive space, but if you can rent the drives, it might be worth the time saved. we recapture all footage whenever we can. we work with short format, commercials, music videos etc, but we often find re-digitizing 3 or 4 hours of footage is often quicker than trying to fix a media managed 3 minute timeline.
so something that should take half an hour is an all day project. thanks apple. what will you come up with next? a mouse with a scroll wheel and second button? wow!
I’d rather have a couple hundred wasted hours of my life back. -
open quicktime, go to preferences, full screen, decklink, and you get quicktime playing out of your ntsc monitor.