Richard Sanchez
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Jeremy,
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it! It turned it, it wasn’t even an issue with FCP but the computer itself. Our system was built with 10 GB, but it was 4 2GB chips, and 2 1GB chips so the setup was unbalanced. Once we took out the 1GB chips, the system runs like a champ and doesn’t grey out High Quality. It seems it was causing the system to utilize RAM so inefficiently that it was preventing us from outputting in High Quality. Hope this helps anybody else who runs into the same issue.
Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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That’s the weird thing. The sequence has been rendered, and it is set to Safe RT. I’ve noticed it in the slate. The text starts out sharp, and then becomes aliased abruptly.
Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Yes, the RT Extreme menu has the option greyed out. What scares me was, when I first starting laying off, I forgot to deselect dynamic, and I saw the video get dynamically shifted to low quality, and the video looked awful. When I tried to set the playback to High, it was greyed out. Strange.
Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Is your external drive a usb? If it is, you want to use a firewire drive. The other thing you might be having issues with is the timebase, because of the Hi8 analog format. Timebase issues are usually the case if you have colors warping and jumping around. I found, I used to have trouble taking in Hi8 material straight due to this. You can either buy a cheap timebase corrector, I thing you can get a a cheap one on B&H for about $300. The other trick, is to dub your Hi8 over to mini DV first (since most dv camcorders have a built in TBC) and then capture the mini DV as you normally would. Hope that helps.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I just finished an HD television program, and since we were a documentary program using footage supplied by consumers at certain points, I found that mpeg video clips, dv video clips, and large still photos were typically the most suspect pieces. If you have a gigantic still, try to shrink the photo to the minimum size neccessary to fill the frame. If you have an mpeg or dv footage mixed in there, I would take it into it’s own project, and export it out to an I frame format. In my case, since we were mastering at 720, and upconverting to 1080, I would render those pieces out to and 1280×720 pro res movie, and that seemed to take care of those issues. Hope that helps.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I’m also working on a program for the History Channel, and we’re using a near identical process to yours to lay off to D5 and Digi. What gives me pause, is we have set the parameters within the Harris 860 to clip RGB values at 700mv and below 0mv, and the same goes for our Pal Settings. When the ENC button is pressed in, it defaults to PAL settings for 1080psf 23.976. However, as we lay off the color bars, I notice that the blue bars are dulled into a dark purple. It doesn’t happen when I lay off to the NTSC digibetas. Any advice with these Harris 860 settings would be appreciated. Thank you for your time!
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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That’s weird. I use the DVW-M2000 for Digibeta, and it seems to work both ways, but I still use the editing mode for lay offs, as I do a lot of insert editing. I don’t have the answer regarding why it’s happening. At one point, I couldn’t get the HD deck to recognize deck control at all and after i trashed my settings, it worked fine, so that might be one avenue to check out.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I’ve found the Mastering mode to be particularly troublesome with the HD3700B, so I layoff using the editing mode. I believe the only difference is you’ll have to lay in your color bars and the set the reference tone manually, and if you want black to proceed your program, you’ll have to cut in a slug manually also, but that’s how I layoff with that deck.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Is a high price tag what defines clout? Grant it, Avid has long been associate with high price tags but as has been mentioned in this forum a thousand times that if they’re going to compete FCP price point seems like a logical step.
I’m not as experienced as a most in this forum, but it seems like too many people are taking the “too little too late” stance in regard to Avid’s rethinking. To everyone who thinks they don’t have to take it, I offer that you’re absolutely right, you don’t. You’re free to buy FCP or any other NLE. I am excited for Avid’s changes, and looking forward to see how this affects post as a whole as I still prefer Avid over FCP.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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There’s a free program for the PC called CkRename which might help you also.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks