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Ponyboy
October 12, 2006 at 5:42 am in reply to: Intensity and a FW800 G4, is it possible

Thanks for the info gentlemen. I appreciate the prompt reply. The idea of buying a used G5 just to integrate the Intensity card into my work flow sounds a little crazy, but I’m definitely considering it. The card is a very smart concept.
Thanks again,
H
Ponyboy
June 29, 2006 at 7:59 pm in reply to: Which software to make DVD covers

I’ve been using Disc Cover from Belight Software. I may do a little prep in Photoshop, but I piece it all together and print using Disc Cover. It has templates for just about everything you’d want to use.
Ponyboy
February 28, 2006 at 10:33 pm in reply to: FCP varicam 59.94 drops frames, please help

A friend informed me that he had some trouble with DVC PRO HD 720p60 running on 4.5 with tiger and QT 7. He ended up reverting back to panther and QT 6.5. I decided to go the other route and upgrade FCP to 5. This seems to have fixed the problem.
Ponyboy
February 28, 2006 at 4:54 am in reply to: FCP varicam 59.94 drops frames, please help

Here’s another thing I discovered in my problem solving journey. The frames dropping appear to be related to length. The footage that was supplied to me consist of 30 minute long clips (entire tapes). I can export a self contained quicktime (2:10:00 or less), import it and it will play back fine. Anything longer than that will drop frames. Even more ODD/INTERESTING is that I can export a quicktime reference (2:10:00 or less) and it will play back fine as well. If the problem playing back has anything to do with length, why would a QT ref work? Isn’t it just referencing the same long media? I tried subclipping shorter clips but that didn’t work.

Any thoughts?
Ponyboy
February 27, 2006 at 11:24 pm in reply to: FCP varicam 59.94 drops frames, please help

Incidentally there is one clip that was digitized without color bars and it is acting the same way.
thanks again.
Ponyboy
February 27, 2006 at 11:22 pm in reply to: FCP varicam 59.94 drops frames, please help

Thanks JS,
It was digited with color bars. If you have the time, would you mind elaborating on your reply? Should FCP not see this footage as 59.94? Should I be working with another preset?
Ponyboy
February 27, 2006 at 11:16 pm in reply to: FCP varicam 59.94 drops frames, please help

Something else interesting I just noticed. The clips I’m having trouble with will play back fine in the viewer if I play them from the beginning. If I pause or skip around it hangs up.
Ponyboy
January 23, 2006 at 11:03 pm in reply to: build a raid with 4 180gig Hitachi drives

thanks for all the information. It’s been very helpful. I just went to Fry’s to see if I could get lucky with what they had in stock. They didn’t have everything I would need to build an external raid with my drives. While I was there I was astounded at how cheap SATA drives were. Obviously it’s been a while since I’ve bought HDs.

Thanks again,