Sean Meredith
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You can toggle the audio tracks on and off by clicking on the green buttons in the log and capture window.
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I’m using an SATA raid with my HD Pro card. It’s works great for me. I’m using it with 10 bit 720p which runs around 58MB/sec. I have two 4 drive arrays that run from 150 to 250MB/sec depending on how full they are. It’s about 3TB total. I have an 8 drive hot swap tower that I got from Macgurus. It has 400GB seagate 7200.8 drives. And runs to a Sonnet 8 port card. The only draw backs are having 8 cables (which isn’t all that inconvenient), and that the Sonnet card’s ports are too recessed in the PCI slot. It’s hard to get a good connection. Then I run them with Softraid.
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Well, I upgraded everything possible to erradicate this crashing. I’m now running fcp 5.02, bm 5.0, and tiger 10.4.2. I’ve been working all day today without a crash. Something got fixed. I’ve been using the Apple Uncompressed 10-bit codec. Not Blackmagic’s.
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Well, I upgraded everything possible to erradicate this crashing. I’m now running fcp 5.02, bm 5.0, and tiger 10.4.2. I’ve been working all day today without a crash. Something got fixed. I’ve been using the Apple Uncompressed 10-bit codec. Not Blackmagic’s.
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Here’s a related issue. I’m using the Decklink HD Pro with Tiger.
When I run color bars out to my monitor, the center pluge bar is totally black. Nothing I do to the monitor
can get any gray out of it. When I brighten the color bars up a couple points in FCP, then I can see and adjust the
center pluge with the monitor. So, it seems that either FCP 5.02 or Decklink 5.0 is sending video out to my monitor that’s too dark.
I don’t want to wrongly adjust my images.My experience with Uncompressed HD isn’t extensive yet. But I’m finding no explicit fix for this problem.
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We just finished production yesterday where we captured 14 hours of 10bit 720p without a single glitch. BUT when we playback, or assemble some scenes it constantly crashes!
I want to start editing this week and it looks to be impossible with the current stability problems. I tried to install Panther on the G5, but the computer wouldn’t allow it (it’s the new dual 2.3ghz).
G5, Tiger, FCP 5, Decklink HD Pro (5b4), Sonnet SATA RAID.
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I researched capturing with timecode and had no success. I heard two rumors that went like this: a) “black magic engineer says they’ll just turn it on when they get a chance and it’ll come through the SDI,” b) “aja has been trying to get the timecode out and they’re having lots of trouble.” someone recommended something called the Little Red to convert the BNC timecode out to RS-232. But then you have to get RS-232 in your system. At that point I ran out of time. Instead I’m just recording tape as extreme scenario back-up. Our main back-up is an extra copy of everything we capture.
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I’m in the middle of production and we’ve been flawlessly capturing uncompressed from the Varicam to the Apple 10bit codec. The only problem is no timecode. I’m sure you could just choose 8-bit instead of 10-bit.
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I heard “rumors” also, that AJA had been trying to pull time code from the SDI and was having difficulty.
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Someone also recommended Miranda’s “Little Red”, but it’s RS-232, not RS-422. I could try to get the RS-232 going on my G5 using my old modem to serial port adapter (is that thing called the Gee THree?).
Anyway, options are running out. May resort to just using a digital slate -whoopee.