[Richard Dee]

try AVSforum.com in the under $3500 projector forum (in a thread specific to the 900)

They may be able to shed some light on what formats the pj can show.

I check out that forum alot. I love front projection (have a toshiba 1280×720 DLP)

and often project from my edit system (but not yet 24P material)

[Richard Dee]

When I used the unit I had to manualy map each fader to a midi funtion- this was the only way to get it to work, and it did . Tech support can help you manually map it.

The thing is, without touch sensitive faders, the unit never knows (tells FCP) you want to overwrite keyframes, when changing a mic after it has ben done.

The first time you write keyframes it works great, but any changes become a problem. I actually programmed another key to tell the unit to write over keyframes,so I had to hold that button down when I was changing fades, etc. Or you could erase keyframes in the section you want to revise so you are starting fresh.

It was a huge pain, and I returned the unit.

Any control surface without touch faders is not going to work well. You need something like a mackie Control, Tascam FW1804, or 1884 (which is what I have).

[Richard Dee]

The silence case works like most other isolation cases in that it draws in cool air from the outside and exhausts hot air. There is a digital temp thermometer as well, and 3 levels of fan cooling.

I can only get 1 extra drive in the mac, and the 460 or so gigs will be enough – plus I can always use a FW drive if needed. Luckily it’s only DV.

[Richard Dee]

I have the 1884 with a Kona 2 card, and an IO. The IO is just acting like a conversion device, and not actually streaming video though it via firewire.

I use the EAS out of my Kona card into the IO then ADAT out of the IO into the 1884 for conversion to analog for monitoring.

WHy not try taking ADAT out of the IO and letting the 1884 do the D/A? that may free up the bandwidth for the IO to function correcty with just a small amount of midi data going to the MC via FW.

[Richard Dee]

This is a hge problem when dealing with multiclip. It’s just not pratical often to color correct before editing. I just finsihed an 8 camera concert film , and will be using the XML program Traffic to add custom filter settings to specific camera angles.

To Bad FCP doesnt have a feature where you can highlight all shots from a particular camera in the timline, then just drag the CC filter to all at once.

[Richard Dee]

I have the shuttle pro as well. All I can say is that the Mackie was so much better than the shuttlepro.

[Richard Dee]

I use the tascam FW1884 and really like it. However the jog control of the Mackie was far superior- the tascam doesnt like jogging single frames.

[Richard Dee]

Great- this is exactly what I was looking for.

The one question I have is when rendering into compressor directly from FCP5, if there are render files , does compressor use those render files to recompress from there, or does it compress directly the timeline? It sounds like what you are saying is that compressor recompresses all frames regardless of render files.

Thanks

[Richard Dee]

ADC makes a DV- SDI converter (API- 560 I think) that would probably work.

Not sure about what the qauily looks like vs. and SDI Dvcam deck.

It’s about $900

[Richard Dee]

Yes SATA raids can give great single stream results, but try multiple streams.

On my 4 disk riad using diamond max (I think) I know they are the 16 meg buffer 300 gig drives with a rocketraid 8 port card I am well over 200 megs/ sec.

I am however not able to do 3 streams uncompressed 8 bit, or 8 stream of DV (not testsed with multicam)

I can get 7 or 8 streams of DV from 1 internal SATA drive (G5 2.7, 4 Gigs ram, Kona 2)

Using FCP multicam, the sata raid 0 could nto reilably play back 8 streams of DV using multicam for a coencert film I am doing. However, my Huge systems dualmax dusl scsi ultra 160 (even with a Ul3d @33mhz is able to play them back with far fewer problems. (and no the 33mhz card was not in the systems the same time as the rocketraid was.

Anyone else found multiple streams to suffer on sata raids?

Please post what you are getting? BTW my test for multi stream (before FCP5’s multicam) is simply scaling down clips and placing next to each other with no other filters, ect in RT extreme aaf full quality with “warn if dropped frames” on