Russell Lasson
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Just open the AJA control panel and downconvert the component output to SD. Then choose if you want it to letterbox or crop the 16×9 image. It will work great.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
Then using the 3-way color corrector might be your best shot and improving the image. It can do a lot to take change the blue if you get a feel for how to work it.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
I use NTFS for Mac from Paragon Software all of the time. It works very well. The only time I’ve had problems with it is when I had 100,000+ tiff files on the drive. It didn’t like that. But with QT files, never had a problem.
You can just work from the drive if you’re using NTFS for Mac.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
I’d take the project into Color. You’ll be able to have much, much more control in there. Or you could try a plug-in like Colorista.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
You might try sending a video signal to the video input. I don’t recall, but I was in a situation once where this helped. Any signal will work. Be interesting to see if it helps.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
Two biggest problems with using an iMac with FCS2.
1. No PCI expansion for a capture/video out card (AJA or Blackmagic Design).
2. Limited graphics card selection. Motion and Color run better with bigger graphics cards. Really, the ATI cards work better for FCS2 than the Nvidia cards.
I’d much rather get the 2.8Ghz Mac Pro 8-core. It just leaves the options open. But for basic stuff, the iMac should work fine.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
The actual pixel resolution of DVCPROHD is 960×720. So it is actually 4X3. But instead of using square pixels, it uses rectangular pixels, so it stretches the image to reach 1280×720 on playback.
So your sequence frame size will be set to 960×720 with the pixel aspect ratio set to HD (960×720). This will playback DVCPROHD files.
[Mustafa Bhagat] “When i played my footage out to an HD monitor (via the DVI output on my laptop – using cinema display in my playback settings) the image was floating in the middle of the screen. I was just playing individual clips form the viewer. “
Did you have the cinema playback set to RAW or Full screen?
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
You might be able to get something to work like you’re talking about, but the accuracy of the color correction will be very low. When you compress the files, you through out so much color information, it would be hard to work with. About the only thing the colorist would really be able to do is tinting of a scene. Meaning, I’m going to make the scene more blue or warmer than it originally was.
I think the bigger problem is that you’re limiting yourself to something like the 3-way color corrector in FCP. I think you’d be better off with finding a way to get a local colorist, maybe even have him on set working.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
If you have two Xserve Raids connected to one computer and you create one RAID out of the two of them, then you should be able to get speeds of 300MB/sec+.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
[Alex Elkins] “Would any of these units support 2k work? “
Yes. As long as you can safely get over 300MB/sec, then you’ll be able to do 2k. Most of the systems you’re talking about get closer to 500 or 600MB/sec.
RAID 5 is usually hardware based. I think you’ll really like the 8 drive RAID 5 setup.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT