[Stacy Rothwell]

Hi….

I have a Sony camera and I found I had to change my settings for device control in Audio/Video settings to Sony Firewire. Have you tried the different settings there?

Also, here is a small article from Apple on Exporting HDV back to tape: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300775

Not sure if it will really be helpful, but who knows.

Stacy

[Stacy Rothwell]

So I did an intersting test last night.

I ran Premiere Pro CS3 for the MAC and, oh my God, was it faster in every single way than FCP 6.01

Premiere used all 8-cores to nearly 100% when rendering and I was able to playback 5 HDV streams with no trouble whatsoever. When I did render a test (5 HDV streams, 4 compressed boxes with a background) it took around 48 seconds.

I did the same exact test in FCP 6.01 and FCP would play (although I got an orange render bar) but would degrade the background video while playing without rendering. When I did go to render, it took almost 4 minutes where PPro took 48 seconds.

FCP never seems to use the 8-cores past about 30 of their capacity. Is this just a limitation of the apple software? I guess all will better in the new release.

As for the Kona card…. this is just a hobby. There’s no way I’m going to spend another $4000 for a capture card.

And, this isn’t you, but if I hear one more person tell me if I use a Kona card I can convert my HDV into Uncompressed full-res HD I’m going to scream! There’s some guy all over the apple forum that keeps spewing that garbage. Yes, maybe you can get Uncompressed if you’re shooting E-E through the camera but if you’re playing back off the tape and converting to something else it’s still compressed.

Thanks for the info….. I’m disappointed after spending $1200 on FCP that it’s so slow.

Stacy

[Stacy Rothwell]

Tom,

How many streams can you do. And, please define how you use it. My test was simply taking a base video (worked fine), then adding another video layer and settig its opacity to 50%. that was fine. Then I did that again and that’s when it said it had to render.

[Stacy Rothwell]

On a 8-core 3GHz machine? I should be able to do a lot more than two.

When I was on a PC (just three weeks ago), I was using Cineform with Premiere Pro on a 4-core 2.4Ghz and could do 5 streams standing on my head.

Something’s gotta be wrong here. Doesn’t make sense.

Stacy

[Stacy Rothwell]

Thanks for the article.

Still seems strange. I had 4GB (spaced like they said) from the factory and I still could not do more than two HDV streams.

I just placed another order for another set of 2GB from the same vendor as the first additional set of 2GB.

That’ll make both risers exactly the same (2GB from Apple and 2GB from Kensington). According to the article it doesn’t matter that there is mixed memory (that meets the same specs) it just matters that memory pairs are matched — which always makes sense anyway.

FYI the Kensington memory for 8-core MacPro is KTA-MP677AK2/2G

[Stacy Rothwell]

Thanks for replying.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I just added the additional 2GB. It was doing the same thing with 4GB (even size).

Stacy

[Stacy Rothwell]

I also have AspectHD — Great plugin.

If I import and use just the HDV clip, it works fine — I can either use scale to shrink it down to 720×480 or use the “Size Clip” in project settings to do it for me.

However, if I import the HDV project, then select the timeline in the HDV project and place THAT on the DV timeline, then it doesn’t work. Both of the above ways fail. In fact, if you look at the properties of the HDV timeline, it says 720×480. It should say 1440×1080.

Any ideas? I cannot be the first person who has shot in HDV then wanted to create a DV version of my HDV program……

Thanks for the help!

Stacy

[Stacy Rothwell]

Sorry, I mean to post this in the HDV forum. Can’t find a way to delete it. Can the moderator delete this thread here, please?

Thanks

[Stacy Rothwell]

A follow-up……

I have tried this on two different PCs and on two different projects (one with Cineform AspectHD as the PPro project and one using the PPro 1.51 HDV codec). Both will not cue the camcorder.

In fact, if I just set an in-point and say “Go to in-point” the camera goes off in the wrong direction.

However, if I turn on the downconverter in the camera, then open a new DV project, the batch capture works perfectly.