Shiloh Heyman
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Light rays and Trails are 2 to check out
Shiloh
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Thank you very much guys. I guess I will definetly go with 6500k then. I appreciate the info.
Shiloh
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Thank yoou for clearing this up mike. Do you know the best place to purchase the mentioned adapter or who makes the nicest one?
Shiloh
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If you copy all the media files to one drive and do NOT change the file names in any way, You can reconnect the media after its been moved. When final cut sees the media off line and asks you, select reconnect. Generally when you click the search option in the reconnect files box, it will bring you to one of the files highlighted. Click choose. Most of the time it will grab all the offline files from that location and drop them down to the files located box below. Double check the files to connect box above and make sure there are no leftover files. If there are, click the search button again.
NOTE make sure that if the search single location box is checked that the location it is searching is the the drive you put all your media on, or just uncheck the box. It would also be a good idea to make a backup copy of your project file and keep all your original media on there original drives (disconnected from the computer)so that all can go back to the it was if something goes wrong.
Media manager can do some useful things as well, but I generally just use it to archive. Read about media manager in the FCP manual.
Shiloh
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Are you trying to mix 4:3 Standard Def footage with 720p footatge? Why change codecs?
DVC Pro HD is an anamorphic setting. The image size is 960 x 720(4:3). Full raster 720p is 1280 x 720(16:9). Compressor changes your 4:3 footage to anamorphic because of the settings anamorphic pixel aspect.
Try adding your setting and then with you new setting sellected go to the geometry tab in the inspector window and change the pixel aspect ratio to “PAL CCIR 601” for PAL or “NTSC CCIR 601” for NTSC. Im not sure what the “Default” pixel aspect would do but that might be worth trying and testing as well.
I hope this works for you.
Shiloh.
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I have also had issue when using Belkin firewire cables, 2 different cables with the same results. I now avoid Belkin at all costs. The cables never captured reliably from day one, but not all of a sudden like your issue. It wouldnt hurt to try a new cable, as they are cheap.
Whenever having any type of weird symptoms on a mac, Repair Disc Permissions. You can do it with Disc Utility but I like to use Onyx (a freeware maintenance app available for download from apple’s website). It allows me to automate all my maintenance scripts, optimize the system and repair permissions in one step. Whenever performing any type of maintenance its a good idea to restart into Safe Boot mode first by holding down the shift key until the blue screen appears. Always do a standard restart when finished as well.
When troubleshooting always try the simple, free or inexpensive things first.
If none of these work you might try capturing on a friends computer to eliminate the camera and or tape as the cause and then maybe another firewire card.
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Thanks.
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P.S. checked out your reels at your site. Verry nice work.
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By the way some handy tools.
DVD Shrink 3.2 = FreeWare! (Some DVD encryption Require AnyDVD)
MPEG Sreamclip = FreeWare! (Good for converting, cutting and demuxing mpeg files without re-compressing)
AnyDVD (available through bit torrent)
Shiloh
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Ive had luck editing .VOB files in Premier by simply changing the file extension to .M2T and drag and dropping to a bin or timeline. .M2T = transport stream.
Shiloh