Russell Lasson
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[audioeditor] “Well, it turns out they have combined the Kona 3 and the IO HD! It’s called the Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse!”
Not really. Where’s the timecode in and out?
It’s still pretty neat though, but if I were going to spend more than just a couple of hundred dollars on something, I’d buy an AJA product over Blackmagic Design.
-Russ
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[Sean ONeil] “Put a 23.98 clip into a 29.97 NTSC sequence. It doesn’t add 3:2 pulldown when outputting SDI. Instead it adds a duplicate frame every 4 frames or so. Just like how it worked in Final Cut 5.”
From when they announced mixed frame rates I was sceptical on if it would really change my workflow. While you can now at least rough edit with mixed frame rates, you still need to fix it before you online.
It just goes to show again that editing and delivering are completely different skill sets. That’s why we skill have post houses in the world.
-Russ
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You could try to take out some ram. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Is your sequence rendered or trying to playback in preview (green or orange bar above it)?
What version of FCP are you using?
How full is your drive?
Is it a full moon tonight?
-Russ
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The main difference is the track pitch on the rotary sprocket compression ratio. It’s kind of hard to explain so I’ll just leave it at that.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I’ve been logging footage all day and I’m in a very silly mood.
I’ve been confused by why the camera has the two options. You might try to call or email Jan Crittenden Livingston with Panasonic directly. Or just make a post that says something bad about Panasonic like “Sony kicks Panasonic’s Butt.” She’ll normally read those threads. 🙂
I’m in a very silly mood and I’m using the little fake smile way too much 🙂 🙂
Look, it’s me having lunch :(BigMac)
-Russ
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[Shane Ross] “They don’t think any less of you for doing this.”
Even if they do, it shouldn’t mean much seeing as you’re the creative guy and he’s an engineer:)
-Russ
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[JeremyG] “Yep, usually. If there’s no other interlace video in your timeline, setting a progressive render works well. If there’s interlace video in your timeline, then you have to do it the way you have been doing and that’s blur the image a bit.”
Then I haven’t wasted 5 years doing that… just 3 🙂
-Russ
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I’d probably give the graphics guy the new computer, especially if he is running Nucleo Pro or will run AE CS3 (both programs have great funcionality for multiple processors).
The “old” Mac Pro is still a really great machine. For Color and Motion, make sure you get the ATI X1900 XT. If you use Compressor a lot then you can secretly form a cluster to his computer 🙂
“Hey, why the heck is my computer processing like mad when I’m surfing the web?”
He’ll never know….
In all honesty, the new Mac Pro just has more processors than the “old” one. I don’t think you’d see a huge preformance increase in FCS2, but I could be wrong.
-Russ
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If you are exporting a QuickTime DV file and viewing it in QuickTime Player, chances are it doesn’t look as bad as you think.
Check to see if High Quality video was selected in QT – Movie Properties – Video Track – Visual Settings window.
DV files normally look like crap in QT unless this is selected.
-Russ
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So AJA people at NAB hinted that timecode would be on a future Kona card, but you didn’t hear it from me:)
I’m with you though, I’d love to see an updated Kona card that competes with the options of the AJA IO HD.
First things first though, let’s let them get the AJA IO HD working right and shipping before we start getting on their case.
To all you AJA people that read this though, thanks in advance for the AJA IO HD and future Kona cards to come! (don’t disappoint us)
-Russ
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One more thing, viewing your photos on a broadcast monitor (or at least any CRT monitor) is a must. Photos have a tendency to have buzz in them (or flicker), especially when there are fine detailed lines that are close together. I often times end up opening the photos in photoshop and blurring those areas.
Jeremy, are you saying that changing the field dominace fixes this problem? (If so, I guess I’ve been doing things the hard way for about 5 years. Dang.)
-Russ