[Richard Sanchez]

With something like the G-Speed, you can’t daisy chain it. If you buy the Cal Digit Raid Card and a single HD Element, you will have the option to add two others later. Though I really would take Walter Biscardi’s advice, to calculate how much space you need, then double it. If you try to spread it across multiple drives, and have capture scratches all over the place, it will be a real mess. Also, as Walter mentioned, you’re going to need ample space for render files.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Did you try trashing your preferences?

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Yeah that’s a nice one. Now keep in mind, you’ll need an input card to run the signal in, though I don’t imagine the composite card is terribly expensive. Also, for future use, you can’t perform tape edits, though you can crash record. For the purpose of dubbing, it’ll be fine.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Aric,

That is not a DVCPRO 50 deck, that is a DVCPRO deck. DVCPRO is akin to DV and uses a 4:1:1 color space. DVCPRO 50 uses a 4:2:2 color space and is the format you want to use. Be careful when looking at decks. DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, and DVCPRO HD are all different formats.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Difference between Digibeta and DVCPRO 50. Digibeta is 90 mb/sec and is 720×486 10-bit whereas DVCPRO 50 is 50 mb/sec 720×480 and 8-bit. I would say that DVCPRO50 will be the next step down from Digibeta, but it will still be an great format to transfer to in order to preserve your 3/4″ tapes.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

My guess is that the analog signal is being affected by a proc amp. I believe the MXO2 has a software proc amp that might be making the component signal warmer.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

I prefer AJA’s products. I’ve used the Blackmagic Decklink card, and it was fine since I was only doing SD with it, and since that’s what you’re doing it’ll be fine. The HD variants use a software based up / down / cross conversion whereas the AJA products do hardware based. I currently use an AJA IO (not HD) at home and it’s great for all my SD side work, and use a Kona 3 at the office. Their products work great, the software is fairly straightforward, and their tech support is unbeatable. I’ve never had to call Blackmagic for tech support, so I can’t comment on that.

You can find pretty good prices on an AJA IO, since so many people are jumping ship to HD. I got my IO used for $250 and it works like a champ. Just my own 2 cents on your workflow, digibeta is expensive but I would HIGHLY recommend you transferring to a good tape format as opposed to saving it on a hard drive. If you don’t, you’ll run into the issue that most P2 productions are running into, you have to keep it on a hard drive, and if you don’t front the cash for a RAID 5, you’re taking quite a gamble. A good alternative to digibeta would be DVCPRO 50. The decks are typically cheaper to rent, and the tapestock is cheaper too.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Also, your computer has 2 gigs of RAM, and you’re adding 2 more, but you want at least one gig per core, so I’d up to eight.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

It was time remapping with AE? Glad it all worked out. If you’re trying to learn after effects, I can’t recommend the Cow’s Tutorials and VideoCopilot.net highly enough. I learned After Effects soley off of those two.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

When you brought it into Compressor to do your standards conversion, did you make sure Frame Controls were on, and that the Retiming Controls Rate Conversion was set to High Quality Motion Compensated. That should do a pretty good job of retiming your shot, but in any event regarding After Effects.

When he says add fields, I’m not entirely sure if he’s referring to a specific effect or what. Within After Effects, you can bring in the footage and interpret it as 29.97. The other thing you can do, is lay it into a timeline that is 29.97 and enable Time Remapping to extend it to the proper duration. Make sure you set your Time Remapping settings to Pixel Motion, and not Blend to get the highest quality result. However, you’ll have to precomp it, and make the precomp longer than the actual clip to give you the slack to time remap.

There’s a good tutorial here https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/speed_variation/ Though if you haven’t used After Effects much, it’s not the most straightforward thing.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks