Russell Lasson
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After reading Shirlyn’s comments, I’ve realized that I misunderstood which computer you were talking about Doug.
You said, “a MAC PRO portable and FCP Studio 2.” And I missed the word portable, meaning that you purchased a MacBook Pro, instead of a Mac Pro.
So you can either:
-Loop the deck through the hard drive
-Use a 800 to 400 cable to connect to the other port
-Buy a Firewire or SATA Expresscard to expand the ports on your laptop.-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
Couple of options.
First to clarify, there is one firewire400 port on the front and one on the back. So you could use those two.
Or you could loop the deck through the hard drive if the firewire hard drive has two ports.
You could use a firewire800 (9-pin) to firewire400 (6-pin) cable to connect to the deck or drive.
Or you could use a firewire800 drive instead.
There are more options too, but that should suffice for now.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
[Matt Jones] “I am concerned with any delay we might experience when digitizing or mastering to the analog component decks (betaSP) “
If you go with a Kona 3, you’ll need to convert the video from Beta SP component to SDI also as the Kona 3 doesn’t have analog inputs. The big advantage that you might gain is using the Kona 3 to upconvert your SD sources to HD upon digitizing. That’s something that the LHe doesn’t do.
With the analog inputs of the Kona LHe, it makes it really convenient for your BetaSP sources.
Have you considered using the IOHD instead? You’d get upconverting SD sources, HDMI inputs for HDV, component inputs for BetaSP and a bunch of other features. You would be limited to ProRes as the best codec, but that might be really acceptable for your projects.
[Matt Jones] “I don’t think we need Dual-Link HD-SDI 4:4:4.”
If you’re shooting on HDV, XDCAM, or DVCPROHD, you’re not going to need Dual-Link.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
As Jeff said, Firewire800 is the safe way to go for that. I’ve edited DVCPROHD over FW400 and it’s work pretty well, but Firewire800 gives some much needed bandwidth increases.
You should be able to edit ProRES off of a FW800 drive, but it might end up being a little slow. If you go this way, you’ll see an improvement in speed if the external drive is a RAID 0 (two or more drives striped, not mirrored)
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
[Matthew London] “Wondering what is the best way to output a DV format file?”
Personally, I think outputting over a Kona card is the best way. But if you’re staying in software, I’d use compressor.
As far as letterboxing, I don’t think you’ll be able to tell a difference between FCP and compressor.
In all reality, if you’re going to be going to DV, it will be hard to tell any differences in how you got there because of how compressed a DV file is.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
Both anamorphic SD video and 4:3 SD video have the same frame size, meaning both are actually 4:3. In the browser, there is a anamorphic column, if selected, the video plays back at anamorphic. When you digitize at an anamorphic setting, that’s the only difference. It puts a check mark in the anamorphic column (which you could do anyways).
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
The DSR45P is an SD deck. It sounds like what’s happened is that your footage was shot 16×9 SD, not HD. 16×9 in SD land is anamorphic, meaning it stretches the image horizontally to create a 16×9 frame, even though the actual frame size is still 720 pixels.
So it sounds like you digitized it right, but now you just need to select the anamorphic check box in the browser for your clips. Also you need to select the anamorphic box in your sequence settings.
In the easy settings, you could look for the DV-PAL Anamorphic settings (you might need to select the show all box to see it come up.) Then when you digitize and create a new sequence, everything should be anamorphic.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I would suggest using PICT files instead. It should help to cut down on the files sizes. Also, I would suggest using either Motion or After Effects to animate the stills, then bring the rendered files into FCP. I think the other programs allows for more creativity and better quality.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
We could use a lot more information, but generally I would suggest using Record Run at Non-Drop Frame.
Not know the camera you’re using or the way you intend to use the footage really makes it difficult to say for sure though.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
You failed to mention the deck and format that your using. Also are you digitizing over firewire or using a capture card?
It’s likely a deck setting that is downconverting the video to SD. That’s why the SD setting works. You should go through the menu on the deck to see if downconverting is turned on. Then your HD settings in FCP should work.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT