Simon Webb
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All I can say is that I’m looking forward to the day when we’re no longer forced to protect for 4×3 center crop title safe anymore. I have a 16×9 frame and I’d love to be able to use it!
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Thanks for the reply, Rafael. I’ll be playing my master out to HD Cam (which was why I was wondering about the whole Prores vs. 10 bit thing).
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Download MPEG Streamclip at https://www.squared5.com/
It will convert your MPEG movie into any flavor you need. Also, it’s free!
Cheers,
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Also, you might want to check Energy Saver in your System Preferences and make sure that the “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible” box is unchecked.
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Is the digitized footage SD or HD? I realize it might be a dumb question, but if it was shot in HDV, your deck’s “i.link” output settings might have been set to DV rather than HDV. It’s happened to me once… Once.
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I’ve tried capturing to a 500 GB LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive, as well as one of those Western Digital My Book 1 TB drives – connecting through FireWire. Capturing works fine using an old iMac running 5.1.4, but is impossible using the dual 2.7 GHz G5 with 4.5 GB RAM and the 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro running 6.0.3.
I tell ya, it’s one of them there hazy mysteries.
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Cathy,
I’ve tried everything. Different cables, a different deck, an empty drive (with no other drives connected), everything! Thinking that the problem might be with the batch of HDV tapes themselves, I even did a test where I captured from some previously captured tapes that had no problems, but… well, you can guess the result.
I’m as frustrated as a great big frustrated thing.
If I find a solution I’ll let you know what it is (as soon as the hangover lifts from my night of celebration).
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When you say “digital hits”, do you mean that the picture sort-of freezes and gets all digital mosaic-like for a fraction of a second, and intermittently while trying to capture? If so, then I’ve been having the same problem on both my G5 as well as my MacBook Pro! It’s been doing this since the upgrade to 6.0.3. I’ve tried everything to stop this from happening. I’ve trashed prefs many many times, run Disk Warrior, erased and reinstalled the OS, all to no avail.
My workaround (and I’m lucky to have one), is to capture the material using my old iMac (the old one with the round base that looks like a lamp) running FCP 5.1.4.
I’m close to the end of my tether with this problem. Angry with Apple… angrier with Sony for the horror of HDV.
If you find a solution, you’re a goddess in my book!
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Hmmmmm… odd indeed. Prefs have been trashed (on both systems). Here’s my prediction: I’ll reinstall on both systems and it will fix nothing because I’m a bad luck God.
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All you have to do is to select 16×9 Letterbox as the display mode for the menu in DVDSP.
Cheers!