Sean Oneil
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A NAS can serve just about anyone really well if they are using any type of compressed workflow. And I think it’s fair to say that includes the vast majority of people these days (with DVCProHD, ProRes, Redcode, etc.). But you’re right, there’s no way you could use a NAS for uncompressed HD or SD.
Sean
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[Jerry Hofmann] “Ethernet NAS setups aren’t fast enough to consider using for media storage.”
That’s absolutely not true. I’m using a FreeNAS box right now with SD ProRes media. Works great. Remember, he’s talking about HDV. You could edit HDV off an iPod. It’s a very, very low bitrate (25mbps).
Sean
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Dropping TC numbers is perfectly normal. It’s just 24p footage w/ regular 29.97 timecode. If you like, you can change the TC to 24-base by using “Modify->Timecode” in Final Cut.
Not sure why you ran it through Cinema Tools. The footage is already 23.98. Hit Command-I in QT Player to confirm it is 23.98 and you captured it properly.
Also check in FCP’s browser to see what the framerate is.
Sean
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Drop the HDV footage into a DV timeline. That’s it. Final Cut Pro will automatically correct the aspect ratio for non-square pixels, and it will automatically shift the fields by 1 line to compensate for the field dominance change. Final Cut Pro 5 does this by added a “Shift Fields” filter. FCP 6 just shifts it in the Motion tab.
Do no create custom sequences.
Sean
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“But even at 400 bucks, how does it look…? Has anybody had this plugged in yet. I know you can get HDMI to DVI connectors, is HDMI-HDCP the same thing, is YPbPr your basic HD component three plug RCA?”
I’m not going to insult your intelligence and assume you do not plan on using it for anything color critical. So based on that assumption, it should work great and sounds like a very good deal. Yes, YPbPr is regular component input. HDCP simply means it supports copy protected HDMI sources (like a Blu-ray player). It will still work fine with regular HDMI and DVI sources.
My personal favorite brand of ridiculously cheap bargain basement LCDs is a company called Sceptre. Might be worth checking out.
Sean
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That sounds unusual. All I can say is you should really try to discover the root of the problem, rather than manually fix it.
Sean
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Google “Automatic Duck”
Sean
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[Philip Johns] “hought there’d be like an audio card that you could plug into a mac and have 6 outputs like a Creative soundblaster or something similar. :o(“
The Alesis thing I sent you a link to is like an external soundcard.
Sean
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You are working with the DVCProHD codec. Apple doesn’t provide this codec for Windows, which is why it didn’t work. In order to use DVCProHD codec in Windows, it must be re-wrapped as an AVI file. This is the only product I know of that can do this:
https://www.cineform.com/products/NeoHD.htmIf this is just to view it on a PC and not do more production work, then do what everyone else says and encode it to h264.
Sean
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Recently I went through the same brainstorm. You can try this thing:
https://www.alesis.com/io26I don’t know if that will work with FCP or not. Other than that, I came to the realization that the only way to do this requires:
1) SDI output
2) An AJA mini converter that converts SDI to 8-channels of AES/EBU audio.
3) Either a very expensive mixer that supports digital AES, or a D/A audio converter. Perhaps three Flying Cow boxes.
4) A mixer that supports 6 channel output. Or three mixers.
Not including speakers of course. Unfortunately that’s well over $3k you don’t want to spend.
Sean