[Peter Mcauley]

I just about died the other day to discover that the 8 gig P2 card was $2300.00. I think alot of wasteful video shooters better get used to the disciplined way of shooting like film. In my opinion this is an unuasable format just because of the price of the cards. Who in their right minds is going to go out on a shoot with $ 20,000 worth of cards or have to dump them off every ten minutes to something else just so they can continue to keep shooting.”Hold that thought Mr. CEO, I’ll be back in ten to get the second part of your sentence”. Even if they cut the price in half it’s still a joke. Yes you can record to dv, but what’s the point of having the camera in the first place. For that kind of dough why not just rent a varicam for the day.

Cheers

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.3
FCP 5.03
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

Read the article again. It’s not about FCP prefs and it doesn’t matter that you already have qt 7. Follow the instructions and you will be fine

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.3
FCP 5.03
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

Yes that is correct, except you are chewing up about 42 gigs for one hour of material.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.3
FCP 5.03
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

DvcProHD is an excellent hd offline format. Who cares about compression really in the offline stage. I would concentrate on nailing and locking the picture cut then redig from the original masters and then do all your final colour correction and comping in HD 10 bit uncompressed. One word of advice would be to do a capture test with a few clips and make a few cuts in a timeline to make sure all your capture and timeline settings are correct before bring in all tapes. You’ll still need quite a bit of Lacie firewire space though. DvcPro HD at 23.98p at 1080 is about 11.7 megs a second, that’s about just over 42 gigs for one hour of running time. Remember that you can not transcode to dvc pro hd 720p out of the deck or with the Kona 2 card. The HDCam SR decks can do this. That would cut your space down to about half as much. On a film I’m cutting now from the same source material I decided to offline in SD DV 50 at 23.98. That’s about 20 gigs an hour. Ya it’s not hd but it works great for offline. Just make sure you work out the anamorphic monitoring thing.

Cheers
and Good Luck

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.3
FCP 5.03
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

Speaking of colour coded tracks, how about some kind of colour on the target tracks that are connected. Especially working with multiple audio and video tracks. I’m going blind looking for that two pixel gap agianst grey between two grey target trcks.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.3
FCP 5.03
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

Just used this tool BWF2XML check it iut at
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/

works quitw well

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.3
FCP 5.03
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

I’ve used Frame Thief with great sucess. You can download a free 30 day demo

http://www.framethief.com

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.3
FCP 5.03
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

Well there’s one from me.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

Here is a bunch I posted a while ago for someother guy

ftp://countdown:leader@ftp.axyzfx.com

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

David,

You’re always a sucker for punishment. But I would love to hear about the cuts and bruises.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.03
Kona 2 v1.1.4 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display