Rennie Klymyk
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[Wayne K 123.] “What exactly is 1/2″ tape, please?”
Let’s see, there was 1/2″ open reel, vhs, s-vhs, w-vhs, d-vhs, D9, beta, betamax, ed-beta, betacam, betacam sp, digi beta, sx, imx, M, MII, D3, D5 to name a few.
Bottom line- “1/2 inch” is a vague term to use when calling for a tape stock or format. Each post facility may develope it’s own slang reference according to what equipment is actually in house but when you go out the door I think you have it right already.
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Dual layer is only touchy if your bit budget is near filling the disc. If that is the case you will have trouble hiding the layer break. If you have 10 or 15% free space left on your disc after ALL your assets, DSP will actually give you mulitple choice as to what chapter you want the break.
Before encoding you only have to worry about bit budgeting to get everything on the disc and don’t worry about the break point. The only reason to preplan at this stage would be if you had a Part 1 and Part 2 and were trying to keep each section seperate or Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and wanted 1, 2 and 3 on one layer and 4 and 5 on the lower layer (this way the layer break happens at the end of an episode when it jumps to a menu or at least probably a fade up on the new episode). You always should try to have more data on layer 1 than layer 2 because if you run out of space on layer 2 the disc is failed.( You might as well run out of space first on layer 1 and save some time).
You can previsualize on the FCP timeline by looking at the chapter markers at the 1/2 way point and just beyond. All your menu backgrounds and other assets need to weigh in but you will probably get a feel for where you would like the break to be based on the amount of data just beyond the 1/2 way point on the timeline and then what your own feelings are about the chapters in that area. You could do a fade to black and an audio fade maybe where you go from a night scene to a day scene or where there is a major change in the movie like you go from the Serengetti to an office in Manhatan.
There are also 2 types of breaks you can use, fast (harder to notice) or reliable but easy to spot (unless you do an AV fade out). Look up layer break in the DSP index, the manual covers it pretty good and it isn’t complicated or as long winded as my post.
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[dante pignetti] “Anyone know if it’s possible to get deck control via a router?”
You can also use a device like a BlackBox switcher to route all your rs 422 connections from all decks to all work stations while you’re
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[Budrick21] “The image appeared to capture normally, had the correct dimensions and aspect, but the subject’s head was cut off slightly, as were the edges – as if the picture had been expanded. When captured, the image sat on the timeline, no render needed. It matched the sequence settings, but there was a loss of information around the edge”
Just a thought, does your viewing monitor have overscan? With all the people accessing the system someone may have reverted the monitor to their own user set-up. BVM’s have memory cards for different users so they can quickly restore their favorite set-ups for different scenarios. NORM is usually 5% overscan and Underscan is usually 3% under effective screen area but this is user configurable to + or – 15% in the menu for both settings. This could also explain the washed out picture.
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Are you creating an HD-dvd or sd-dvd? What settings are you using in compressor?
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I’m not sure I understand what you are trying to convey but If you bring your timeline to the top (click on timeline in FCP) and choose export to compressor the sequence should show up in compressor which should open automatically. You will only see a reference to the file however as compessor has no use for a timeline. Compessor is a transcoding application so it will only re-encode files to other formats and store the new files where you select. Under the settings column go to the dropdown menu and select a format to transcode to and in the next column choose the destination to save at. You need to import these newly formatted files into another app like DSP, QT, or FCP to do anything with them.
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DV and DVCAM are both 720X480 in NTSC or 720X576 in PAL. The only difference is how the dv signal is recorded to tape and how it resides on the tape. 10 micron track pitch as oppossed to 15 micron track pitch for DVCAM which creates more overlap between helical scans of the head making it more stable. Check your sequence settings. Sounds like this footage is 16:9 or possibly pal. Try creating a new sequence using dv-ntsc-anamorphic and see how the clip looks there.
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Sounds like the camera has seperate chroma and luma circiuts (4 wires)behind the chip so it records and processes S-video but it likely mixes them to composite (2 wires) at the transmitter. I’m not too up on video transmitters and recievers but composite doesn’t have to look bad because it’s composite. The trick here is to bump down to composite at the last minute just before transmitting I guess. This is how broadcast video was in the 70’s, 3
chiptube cameras recording onto 1″ tape in 500 line composite and it looked good (till jvc invented the video cassette and sony produced beta sp component). Now we have component coming through the walls of our houses and the 3 primaries never do get mixed. Just as a 3 chip camera can record the world infront of it in the 3 primaries/secondaries (there is some skullduggerery behind video colour prossessing), modern video processing equipment can take a good clean composite signal and break it into decent component. -
[Borjis] “The Panny Plasma SDI Blade is $ 1,500 and the HDMI one
is $ 500, I couldn’t see spending 1,000 more for something
I likely would not see any difference in.”The AJA Hi5 adapter is around $500.00 so you save $500.00 this way and you end up with a converter you can use for your video projector etc etc. I like that it also converts sd-sdi to the hdmi plug and seperates the audio(rca) for routing to your audio set up as well as sending audio to the hdmi plug (into the video monitor). I’m not sure if either of the Panasonic cards split the audio and loop it out for you.
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[Winston A. Cely] “Don’t laugh too hard, but I hope that Title 3D gets spell check. I’m a horrible speller, and I always have to go to Dictionary to check everything. It’d be nice if it were built in like it is in the rest of Apple’s software.”
Problem is Apple can’t even spell colour correctly!
Just doin some cowpokin…pokin a little fun in view of all the rukus Apple’s new “Color” caused in the UK over spelling, fact is us Canuks also spell it with a “U” being colonists and all.