Sean Oneil
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[John Calhoun] “Is it me or is it not incredible that we can purchase a quad-processor, 4 gigs of ram, and an awesome video suite for $5500???”
Actually, you can already get quad-cores from HP and other PC vendors. But believe it or not everybody, those too do not have a legacy AGP slot. I mean co’mon, can you believe it? You can’t spend $5000 on a new computer without having to also buy a new $300 graphics card as well. The nerve of these people!
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Sean
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Joel, unfortunately you’re screwed. This is a known design flaw with Final Cut. If the media is already offline, it cannont “delete unused media”. Idiotic, stupid, and just plain wrong are what comes to mind everytime this issue comes up. I really wish they’d fix it. I urge you to leave feedback to Apple regarding the matter.
Sean
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I think you’re a little mixed up. DV100 is a Panasonic codec. Blackmagic makes uncompressed codecs which are 100% flawless. There is nothing better as far as quality goes.
The sales point of DNxHD is that it’s almost as good as uncompressed but uses up less disk space. However, if you think about what extra disk drives cost, and then think about what the costs of commiting yourself to the proprietery Avid world costs, you will realize that DNxHD is far more expensive.
I’d love to see a lossless codec for Final Cut that supports RT effects. But again, considering how inexpensive SATA drives are, it’s not too important right now.
Sean
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It won’t work if you’ve already trashed the old media. This is a horrible bug that Apple has refused to acknowledge for a while now.
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Bob’s right. LCDs are not suitable for standard def. They’re progressive scan and use square pixels. NTSC video is interlaced uses non-square pixels. I hope this is not a growing trend in the post industry.
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Yes, sort of, but it’s really an intentional thing by Apple. There’s a hack to give you RT effects with P-JPEG. Kind of complicated to explain though.
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Use the filter. But if you’re just curious, 16:9 is exactly 75% the height of 4:3. 2.35:1 is in-exactly 56.755% (and change). With SD NTSC video, there are many considerations like non-square pixels, 480 vs. 486, and field dominance when cropping. FCP’s widescreen matte filter automatically takes these things into consideration for you.
Sean
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I tried it. It seems fine so far. One thing is that if I run repair permissions, it does a whole lot of things it didn’t used to. Almost all of the Widgets get “changed to use special permissions” whatever that means. And it does it everytime, so it doesn’t appear to actually be repairing them. I tried it with Safe Boot and it still says the same thing.
Sean
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If you’re getting different results each time and you have not altered the offset, then something is wrong. But it sounds more like you just need to take it one step at a time.
This isn’t a known issue that I’m aware of. Unfortunately, because these cards work in a lot of different machines, timing varies much more than a Media 100 system which are calibrated to use the Keyspan thing and only works on a narrow range of Macs.
So yes, setting offsets is totally normal. Hopefully knowing that will give you some clarity on the situation so you don’t have that “something’s must be broken” feeling in the back of your head. TC burn-in windows are your friend here. Do PB offset first. Don’t worry about capture offset until you know PB is set correctly.
Sean
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I just tried it along with 10.4.3 on our guinea pig system. No problems so far. I’m not seeing any luma shift during a pause. And I do have TC and title-safe overlays turned on.
I’m using Blackmagic Photo-JPEG timeline which uses RGB rendering. I haven’t tried other formats.