[Russell Lasson]

Glad you got it figured out!

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Does the firewire port work at all? Try it with a FW hard drive if you have one.

Also, plug in the deck, turn it on, open FCP with log and capture. Now go to the utilities folder and open up the System Profiler. Select Firewire. Does it list anything?

It might be time for you to call Apple or take your computer into an Apple Store if you can’t get the port to recognize anything.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

I’m convinced that it is a audio sample rate conversion issue. I’m just not sure what to tell you on how to fix it.

Just for kicks, take the audio files into iTunes and use iTunes to convert them to 16-bit 48k AIFF files. Then bring them back into FCP and see if there are the same clicks. I know FCP is probably already telling you that they are 16-bit 48k audio files, but I have a hunch that this will fix it for you.

The only time I’ve ever heard clicks like you’re discribing is when the sample rate isn’t correct.

Let us know if it helps.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=8&postid=928972&univpostid=928972

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

To find the Gamma Levels control, either:

– Right click and select Item Settings. Then under Gamma Levels right click again to change the settings.

or

– In the browser right click on the top of the columns and select “Show Gamma Levels.” Then open the clip up in the viewer and right click on the Gamma Levels field for the clip in the browser and select an option. Once you know what setting to use (probably 2.2) then you can select all of the clips in the browser and change the number in the Gamma Levels field.

You can also change your preferences to always interpret stills a certain way in the editing tab of system preferences.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

[rick.pearl] “1.) How does video imported from a HD camera such as the Panasonic HVX-200 display on a non HD mac monitor, such as the 30-inch Cinema Display while editing it?”

Using what program to play it back? Usually you can scale it to fill the monitor or shrink it to be quite small. But if you scale it to fill a monitor that is greater than the size of the video, like you scenario of watching a 1920×1080 (1080i) video full screen on a 2560×1600 display, it will start to pixelate because there enough pixels to cover it.

[rick.pearl] “2.) Will the quality of video be better if it is shot in HD and edited in HD and finally downconverted to SD than if it were just shot and edited originally in SD? This is assuming it is being shot on the same cam, such as the HVX-200, capable of SD and HD.”

With the HVX200 it can, but it’s not a huge difference. But if you can shoot and edit in HD, I would. It’s part of future proofing your content. Plus if you’re doing effects and color correction, you’ll have more info to use before you down convert. That’s probably where the best advantage is.

[rick.pearl] “2.) What would happen if I tried to play HD video compressed as HD-DVD on a home HD-DVD player with a non HD display?”

Apart from potentially destroying the world, not much. It actually depends on if the HD-DVD play would send a HD signal or a downconverted SD signal to the TV. Send a HD signal to a SD TV and you’re out of luck. It won’t play. But if the HD-DVD play will downconvert to SD, then you’ll be fine.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

What type of footage are you working with? Is it FCP or FCE (we share the same forum here)?

There are several options, but one is to put everything in a timeline and export the timeline as a QuickTime movie with current settings. Then import it and start editing.

That might not be the best solution for you, but without more info, it’s hard to give you other options.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Good things about option 1:

More power for compressing videos
Expandable internal drives to make future RAID
Ability to add capture card for monitoring HDMI or HDSDI (Intensity card is only $250 and can be connected to a consumer HDTV)

Good things about option 2:

Portable (not like a laptop, but you can still take it somewhere without too much effort)
Dual monitors for the price of a single monitor

So do you want more power and the ability to add an inexpensive capture card or portability and savings?

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Crucial is the only RAM i get.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

[walter biscardi] “Really don’t understand the point of your post.”

There isn’t a point 🙂 Just friendly cow talk relating to other FCP users. moooooooooo!!!

-Russ