[Simon Bryant]

thanks for the offer david, but sadly i’m in the uk and the job starts monday.

I’m going to have to go and work out the numbers with the production company, but at least now i know what’s what.

Many thanks (again)

S

[Simon Bryant]

OK so with my curent setup, its not going to happen. The reason i’m tied to FW400 is that my MBP doesn’t have FW800. So maybe i’ll need to invest.

The drives I have available to me have FW 800, so if I buy a FW 800 card will I be able to edit 5 streams of XDCAM natively? Or will I still need to media manage, if so what work flow will I need to adopt?

Or am I better off going down the eSATA route – buying an eSATA card and two disk array – will I be able to run 5 streams of XDCAM then? Or will I still need to go offline/online?

If I upgrade but still need to offline/online are there any pitfalls I need to be aware of?

thanks in advance

simon

[Simon Bryant]

Brilliant. Thanks everyone for your responses. I now know exactly what i’ll be doing. I’m using a kona setup so i’ll run a test to see whether hardware or software downconvert is crisper.

Cheers
S

[Simon Bryant]

Hi, and thanks for all your responses. downconverting using hardware sounds like the way to go. We’ll deliver 16.9 anamorphic so there shouldn’t be any problems, right?

The problem i have with editing using ProRes is that this project has a VERY fast turnaround. We’ll be using cards and capturing using log and transfer. I simply don’t have time to media manage before i offline, but i could media manage my cut sequences overnight to ProRes before grading. Is this the best option available to me given my time constraints?

Cheers
Simon

[Simon Bryant]

Thanks Baz,

Might not be the answer I wanted but at least i now know how avoid it.

s

[Simon Bryant]

sorry,

I’m viewing through a grade one monitor via sdi from a kona card

s

[Simon Bryant]

I haven’t tried trashing prefs because its always too late when I relaise its happened and the transitions have already reverted. Thing is its happened to me twice on two seperate machines. The only thing I can think of that linked the two incidences is that I was using my personalised keyboard settings but I can’t see what that would have to do with it unless they could be come corrupt and cause problems…..

thanks for the response anyway.

Anyone else had this prob?