Peter Dewit
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I was having a seemingly unsolvable problem getting the RS 422 port on the IO to work correctly. We concluded with AJA support it’s probably a hardware failure. I had a keyspan handy so it was preferable to swapping the entire unit. The settings in FCP are all adjusted for the keyspan and it works without a hitch. This is the first time I’ve encountered any problem with using it.
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You’re not sure of the pulldown cadence toy used? If it’s 2:3:3:2 pulldown(24p advanced) you could take the clips into cinema tools and remove the pulldown.
Or you could capture the footage again with the remove advanced pulldown option on in your capture settings.
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H264 tends to be a little more economcal sizewise than MPEG2 in my experience. It can take a little longer to compress though.
A small side note: You should zip all your video files before uploading them. It will reduce the size making your upload go faster and also it help prevent the files from getting corrupted.
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I was looking at CGM’s package but it’s a tad pricey. Anyone have experience with it?
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Sorry for the delayed response. I’m pretty sure it was the original file. The file looked good but since it was compressed to a lower datarate I think some information was lost that shows more in the downconverted version.
Thanks
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May seem obvious but have you tried simply uninstalling and reinstalling all of the codecs involved?
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I’ve never found any combination within FCP to make HDV convert well at all. Spiut out an HD version to tape. if you want you might want to try to re-digitze that tape using the deck’s internal downconverter. I’ve had decent luck doing this with HDV footage in the past. not perfect but sure looked better than what FCP did.
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All the software I see for blu-ray only supports MPEG2. Is there any software out there that makes use of H.264 yet and doesn’t cost thousands of dollars?
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If you work for the company I’d tell your bosses if they want thefinalvideo to even look halfway decent you need the source tapes for them or full-res QT files captured from thoe tapes. if you work the way you are now your workflow is going to be highly compressed file -> another compressed format for editing -> anothr highly compressed file. you’re lsoing quality at every stage. If the original is a youtube quality video or something the final piece is going ot look like utter trash.
Reminds me of clients who constantly insist that DVDs are a great format to edit from…..
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Is there a reason you don’t want to get both Audio and Video out of the firewire?