Rennie Klymyk
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Maybe try to make a still frame in the viewer first and de-interlace. then do the qt to still.
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Why not keep it the same as your main os drive. I recently added a couple of drives to my Firmtek system and there was an issue with comatibility with any non-journaled drives (according to the set-up guide). Who knows, you may need to add a few more later so journaling may keep them all compatible in a similar situation.
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I’m getting good support from Sonic on this. They’re looking into putting a time clock on some software so I can try before I buy. How’s that for service!
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Never mind FCP, you shouldn’t even have mp3’s in itunes. All pro audio sources don’t originate on mp3 and the only time one should degress to useing it is when emailing a sample for approval. MP3 is for your entertainment, not source files for proffessional video. Why even keep them in itunes with the price of storage these days. FCP doesn’t need to support this level of data.
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The dsr-11 is a good starter choice, it takes the larger tapes as well as mini-dv so you can record long programs using the full size tape (up to 184 minutes in DVCAM or 270 minutes in DV mode, the deck does both as well as pal) It has rca a/v as well as s-vhs and firewire. The biggest drawback is there is no timecode display or jog shuttle on the deck itself but the remote gives you ok control and you can see tc on screen. Of coarse FCP gives you nfull deck control with tc. If you have the buget get a DSR-25.
For vhs get a panasonic AG-6840/50 or sony 960 DUBBING DECK. These units record with a super wide track pitch (58Mc) and are what hollywood used to use. If you’ve ever wondered why your vhs tapes don’t look as good as the factory tapes, that’s why. Some of the higher end ones will also play back but most of em record only. You also need a controller to start them recording but if you check on ebay you can get a deck and controller cheap. ($30.00 – $300.00) New they are $2000.00. They have hour meters on them so you should find one without much use (don’t buy from a dubbing company, they are made to replace transport, loading mechanisms and heads easily, so after 5 or 6 of each type replacement, everything else could be shot.)
Otherwise for a regular deck I’d go to ebay and get a Panasonic AG-1970 or 1980 and make sure it has the remote as you need one with those decks. Anything better than these will not have rca jacks.
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I just wanted to say please don’t take my comments in my last response to heart. After reading the entire thread I understand you were merely putting the concerns and fears we all share into words (save for the P2 pricing part). Thanks for starting this thread, it’s an interesting topic.“everything is broken”
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[iMan] “Personally, I am a bit scared of P2 as it could die a death over the next few years. Laptops no longer support the slots for this old technology”
That just means that miraculously, the R&D team at the computer industry wasn’t sleeping with the R&D team at Panny. My 1st digital camera used pcmcia cards but then CF (compact flash) Cards came out. I purchased an adapter that looked like the front half of a pcmcia card with a slot in the back that you could plug a Compact Flash card into. I bought a 96 MB CF card for $450.00 and never looked back. My camera was way more efficient.
[iMan] “and Panasonic promised at NAB 2003 (3 years ago) that P2 cards would double in size and half in price every year. Now, 3 years ago when they said that they had an 4 GB card for $675. In 3 years it is still the same and Panasonic even admit that they might never reach 32GB cards; not even in 10 years”
I don’t know where these numbers came from but I don’t recall anything like it. Panny surprised us all when the 8GB cards dropped this spring to $1400.00 just when the 1st. wave of buyers was busyly buying up the cameras as fast as they could make em.
[iMan] “I would hate to buy into all that only to find that 4 years from now I have a wallet full of P2 cards worth a few cents and a worthless camera.”
As has been pointed out earlier, buy eliminating expensive hi definition heads in a camera we can shoot HD frame by frame for $6000.00! (Plus tool up). The cameras do what they do so there will always be demand for the P2 cards. You can write HD video on P2 for a good 10 years once you have them. Perhaps Panny will make a dual port in future that will use the old P2 and some holographic or other type when it comes along. (my newer digital still cam uses CF and/or SD cards in a dual port) The fact is a camera that does what it does will be very usfull for many years. In 4 years you could be shooting HD in a camera that is totally paid off and you aren’t buying tape and wasting time logging. By then blueray will be down around where dvd-r is now in price. I see the HVX200 like the Sony VX-1000 was when it 1st came out as the worlds’ first 3 chip digital camera. I know people who still use them. They still do the same fine job as when they came out. Japan wanted to go to Hi Def 20 years ago but the rest of the world was still enfatuated with color television. Now we are all ready and going Hi Def and it’s craze should last at least as long as color television so the purchase of HD equipment will be a solid investment for many years.
[iMan] ” Remember those guys who paid $15,000 for a 2GB HD back in the early 80’s, or $2,000 for a 64MB stick of RAM 😉 could happen all over again with this P2 thing.”
Oh it will, some people will jump on early and enjoy the ride. Those are probably the guys who have already bought in to this new technology with out blinking an eye. The rest of us just stand around and watch.
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25GB blank discs are about $30.00. That is about half price of the first dvd-r’s when they came out.
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It sounds like the small nose piece configurations that use a small remote camera you can aim and control from the cockpit (rather than the big ones for film that shoot from inside). Some of these could be 4:3 ratio so you may want to check. Regardless of the format and ratio if their remote cam set up is gyro-ed it would be hard to top what it can do unless they would let you rent a similar sized HD remote cam and swap cameras. Panasonic has the AK-HC900/910 cameras that would bolt on or Sony HDC-X300 is a small remote. All are HD-SDI output. You would need to address monitoring if you could rent one and swap it in as well as getting a suitable deck for recording.
If using their camera and digibeta deck you could tap into the sdi loop through or component out to an HDV deck or a 1200a and keep the digibeta as back-up. AJA makes some sdi-hdsdi converters too. At $1000.00+ per hr. back-ups are cheap.
You can always pop the door off (if is not the sliding type) and shoot with your camera off your shoulder if things get too complicated. If you can fly low enough where you have to shoot, that could work as good as anything as long as you don’t stick the camera out in the wind or need closeups.
I would arrange to go and see their camera set-up or get the specs on what model camera and deck they have asap. Hey, is there a salesman lurking from within your body? Why not convince the helicopter company to upgrade to an HD set-up? You might even get a commission!
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I just googled an interesting thread, a couple years old but these guys seem to have a lot of bytes in their blocks!
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