[Ryan Foregger]

I do mean sequence. So I need to maintain all the cut info. What do you mean by “footage?” The original footage (dailies) or the clips in the sequence. Copying the old sequence into the new sequence leaves me with the wrong frame size and hours of render. Conforming leaves me with gaps in my cut because of the time difference.

Since I’m going to be keying out clips, i want to make sure i’m not working with anything compressed or stretched.

[Ryan Foregger]

Hi Bob,
I corrected all my black ref per you instructions. I am still having the issue. I’ve also discovered that After Effects has become extremely unstable when Video Preview uses the Kona. My theory is that a change in the logic board requires me to change the slot that my card is in. I believe in this thread someone mentioned that the early Mac Pro’s use a different slot than the current Mac Pros… hence a new logic board in an old Mac Pro would equate to a new Mac Pro.
If that doesn’t resolve my issue I’ll call Kona
Thanks for your help.

[Ryan Foregger]

I tried the 720p 59.94 easy setup and tried my commercial in both that sequence setting and also allowed final cut to change my sequence. Both times I still had the same issue, and this time it was an 8 second delay between sound and picture. Since the spots needed to got out today, what I ended up doing was

1) Dropping the ProRes 1280×720 clip in AE and letterboxing it myself, and rendering it out at 10 bit Uncompressed

2) Using that clip in Final Cut on the G5 and laying to tape using the Kona 2.

Everything looked okay so I just kept making them that way. Hope I didn’t lose anything quality-wise but I didn’t notice. Still need to get my MacPro / LHe to work though…

[Ryan Foregger]

I never used an Easy Setup. What I did was drop my clip (from After Effects) into a sequence and let Final Cut automatically change my settings. Is this not advisable? Should I custom create an Easy set up and render my clip?

My secondary setting has been correct this entire time at 525i29.97.

[Ryan Foregger]

Still having the same issues this morning so I switched the project over to a G5 I have with a Kona 2. My sync issues were resolved, everything is working fine EXCEPT I’m having some interlacing issues. My video looks fine in my final cut pro sequence but when I lay to tape it looks like the field order is off. Everything is crunch, really noticeable in the titles but its in the entire picture. How do I fix this?

My Sequence is 1280 x 720 ProRes HQ 29.97. pixel aspect is square (maybe this is the problem?)
and I’m outputting to Beta using Kona 525i29.97 10bit(720×486) –I’ve also tried 8bit (720×486)… no difference.

[Ryan Foregger]

Hi Bob,
Thanks for your responses.

1) I do have the termination switch in the “on” position with the 1800. I also have a terminator on the ref loop out. For the LHe, I’m sending ref in and looping it out to a crt monitor with a terminator on the crt monitor. Do all outs from the Horita need to be terminated?

2) I won’t be in front of the machine until morning but If I remember, when I checked, in the control panel for EXT REF it said 525i 29.97 but didn’t mention anything specifically about “black” I’ll check again when I get in tomorrow.

Thanks
Ryan

[Ryan Foregger]

Jeremy, Sorry for the bad explanation. When I print to video, the 1800 starts recording, but only tone (I’m laying bars at the start) for 2-5 seconds BEFORE any picture gets recorded (bars). Then the whole thing continues out of sync.

[Ryan Foregger]

Ha! Deliverables these days…

“1st copy: full resolution quicktime file or .avi on a CD or data DVD.
(Please do not send authored video DVDS as they are compressed)
2nd copy: mini-DV tape of finished video (if you are unable to create a mini-DV copy of your video we understand)

All media will be converted to DV NTSC 4:3, so if your video is in a different format (HD, 16×9, PAL) it is okay, but know it will be compressed for standard DV.”

[Ryan Foregger]

Would it be easier to conform the 29.97 down to 25fps? That’s a pretty standard conversion that wouldn’t require a speeding up of audio right? Or would the speed up only happen in a software conform?

I will double check on the HD with the label, but I will suspect that their response will be, “HD, yeah that would be cool!”

[Ryan Foregger]

Thanks. Do I set the camera at 720p60 or 720p30?