[Stevec]

Ian;

The issue is a problem with the G-Raids

Look at this other post by Jeremy…

I know no one wants to hear this because of a good track record, but this is a problem with your GRAID. Head on over to the GRAID forum and you’ll see a long list of complaints. This exact thing happened to my AE guy and he had to send it back. Supposedly, G Technologies tracked it down to a faulty on/off switch (hence the mounting and unmounting). You probably hear a bunch of clicks and the light on the GRAID is blinking ultra fast, no? Back up your media before sending it away.

Thanks

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Production Studios

[Stevec]

Thank you Jeremy.

This is exactly what I wanted to hear.
Now I can go to my bosses with proof that it is not an issue with the OS, but with the G-Raid itself.

Thanks

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Production Studios

[Stevec]

That’s my point to the powers that be, but they are no telling us not to download any software or updates with out checking with IT.

Our IT department knows nothing about MAC’s.

We are having this problem wih 1 G-Raid drive on each of our three systems even though we each have an additional G-Raid and another firewire drive.

It doesn’t make sense that this OS upgread would only effct 1 out of 2 G-Raids and not the other firewire devices, including out AJA IO’s.

Some people just don’t use logic.

Thanks

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Production Studios

[Stevec]

Yeah, You think becuase it a computer it’s easier, but somtimes the old ways are still the best.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Production Studios

[Stevec]

Thank, I’ll look into that, but what I wound up doing was taking the clips I wanted to effect.
Laying them off to a digital tape (We use D-9).
Then bringing them back in while messing with the tracking.

This gave me exactly what I was looking for.

Steve

[Stevec]

Don;

What I’ve done is to take each of the clips and open the audio tab in the viewer, then mark the in point at first audio.

Then when you make your multiclip choose synch using in points.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Production Studios

[Stevec]

Jeff;

We can see the captions when the -1 shift happens, but one of our networks that airs the shows told us that they could not carry the caption over to whatever they convert it to because the caption signal was like at 50%. When we manually change the y-axis to 0 it airs fine.

We are going to 8bit uncompressed so that we can output the shows from our 3 final cut systems going through our AJA Io boxes.

I actually just got off the phone with a guy from MacCaption and he said that we could take a single exported movie of the show, Bring it into MacCaption add the captioning and then “export movie with captions” likw you said and either lay to tape directly from the MacCaption software or bring it back into FCP tp do the laydown.

Steve

[Stevec]

Sorry, forgot a step.
We change the aspect ratio in sequence settings to CCIR 601 NTSC (40:27) that gives you a frame size of 720 x 486. We also change the Quicktime Video Settings Compressor to 8 Bit uncompressed, as I mentioned before, or else you can’t see an image.

Steve

[Stevec]

We’re using MacCaption to close caption our long form shows.
Occasionally we will have the following issue…

After importing the NLE quicktime movie that MacCaption exports, placing it on the top video track and croping the video to 99, so that the underlying layer is visable, but the captioning is still there. we will go back and double check the settings before we render it and the y-axis is set to -1.
We haven’t touched anything in the motion tab except the bottom crop.

Has anyone else had this problem and if so what is causing it and how can we correct it.

I’ve been saying we because this is happening on 3 different systems.

One thing I forgot to add.

Our FCP timeline is DV/DVCPRO, I think the NLE quicktime is being exported in Animation and once combined we render it as 8 Bit Uncompressed

Thanks

Steve

[Stevec]

Yeah, well all I can say is it’s not an Avid.
There are alot of things that is should do, but doesn’t.

Steve