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We installed it on one of the systems here and it was a Holy nightmare. Corrupt renders left and right. Any P2 speed adjustments turned to frozen frames after rendering, text turned black; it was not pretty. We had to immediately revert using pacifist.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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If all you need is a monitor preview, the MXO might be good for you. I think it runs for $995 at B&H, however they are going to release the MXO2 very shortly which is a complete IO solution for both laptops and desktops. It’s $600 more but it might offer more longevity, especially if you start moving to HD tape formats.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I’ve had my Lacie drive lock up on me when it gets too warm, and I put an oscillating fan right in front of it to keep some cool air flowing and that has worked well for me with the drive getting warm and locking up. However, I think more likely the culprit is the hard drive capacity. You mentioned that you had a couple of GB left. Taking that literally, 2 GB left on a 160 GB is definitely going to cause issues.
You typically want to keep a buffer of 10 to 15% of your hard drive empty, because as your drive becomes more and more full, the computer has to work harder to access the specific data you’re working with. Also, it will cause bad renders and all sorts of other not so fun stuff to happen. Grant it, you mentioned you had no render files on this drive, however I would still recommend freeing up some space on the hard drive if you’re going to use it as a scratch disk.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Under the “RT Extreme” Tab, in the upper left of the timeline, are you in Safe RT or Unlimited RT? Also, make sure your quality is set to High and not dynamic. That’s what I would suspect, right of the bat. Is it pixilated immediately after you changed the codec in the timeline, or only after render?
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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While that legislation would be nice, cops (or border authorities in this case) are renowned for their ability to create probable cause out of anything.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Is your intention to lay back to tape? What don’t you use your Kona’s realtime downconversion feature? That will give you better results than trying to do it in Final Cut. Otherwise, you could export the file from final cut, bring that into compressor, use that to downconvert and bring it back into Final Cut. Though I’ve never done that myself, I’ve read on this forum that it yields better results than doing it straight into Final Cut.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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A little more information would help. Are you working in an HD or SD sequence? Are you trying to make a standard def DVD? Also, if your photos are extremely high res, sometimes that can cause Final Cut to choke. We had that problem on a program I was working on recently, so we started using After Effects for photo pushes (especially since you need a higher res image to achieve that Ken Burns effect).
Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You should be able to run a BNC out of the DVCAM decks “super out” and into the composite line in on the set top DVD players and that would provide you the timecode burn in straight to DVD. Depending on the menu setup on the DVD burners you might have to make sure you set them to encode for 16:9 unless you’re playing it back on a set that can switch between 4:3 and 16:9. The time code will not be in the black area, it will be slightly obstructing the video. Some decks you can adjust exactly where it will b in the frame.
Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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960×720 is the native resolution of DVCPRO HD, which uses non-square pixels with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.5 I believe. I’m just assuming that this is why you’re working with this particular resolution, unless there’s a different circumstance. But if it is indeed DVCPRO HD, it is not a square pixel format. You could transcode it to ProRes422 at 1280×720 if you want it to be in a square pixel format, though I think keeping it native in DVCPRO HD would probably be your best best.
Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Trash your settings. Here’s how (if you don’t know already) https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_trash_prefs5.html
Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks