Steve Covello
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If you are asking why something scanned at 24 fps seems to be playing faster at 29.97, I think the answer is obvious. 🙂
I don’t think checking off 3:2 pulldown actually changes the speed.
All kidding aside, if you are playing the 24 fps material in an NTSC environment, interpret the footage [cmd + F] to 29.97 and put the footage in a 29.97 seq rendered out to NTSC.
see if that does it.
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Try outputting from the Viewer, not the Canvas.
Drag the master sequence into the Viewer and go through the usual output dialog. Assuming you have all the settings correct in the panels as the others here have suggested you shouldn’t get that error message.
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Is the deck set to Ref Input or Video? Should be Ref Input, and the K2 should also be drawing from the same black burst source. There must be a stable and concurrent sync signal for both the K2 and the DB deck. Sometimes, in unconventional setups, if you have the decks input set to SIF [SDI] it will interfere with the output.
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Is it possible that your tape was striped or recorded where the VITC and the LTC are NOT identical? I setup my deck settings to read LTC only in case I come across a beta tape that was logged with VITC and the LTC is incorrect [or vice versa].
Also, I assume your deck is set to REF in INPUT VODEO mode, not REF while outputting.
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HDCam is an 8-bit format. However, it is still worth capturing at 10-bit if you can since Sony has not released the native HDCam codec for use in anything other than its own editing systems. Thus, when you capture via SDI, you will be “converting” from HDCam’s data format to whatever codec you are capturing by.
In other words, it does NOT do what what happens when you capture DVCPro via FW whereby the capture codec, hardware, decompression and metadata flags [such as 24p Advance PD info] are all working together to preserve the originally recorded data on the DV tape in the form of a QT movie. That’s what is referred to to as a “transparent” transfer.
This is no the case with HDCam as far as I know. If anyone has better details on this than how it was explained to me a few years ago, please correct me.
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Drivesavers is a bloody ripoff. They are excellent with initial customer service, but when it comes to giving you an estimate, their business practice is WAY off IMO. This is what happened:
I put an indentical looking but incorrect power supply into my 500gb Lacie FW drive and a puff of smoke literally came out of the front. I called them up, sent them the drive, and they called me back with an “estimate” of “…between $800 – $5000.” Not what I’d call much of an estimate.
Then this is what blew the deal for me: they didn’t actually diagnose what the problem was and they refused to even bench it unless I consented to the FULL amount of the estimate. When I asked to speak with a supervisor, they flatly said that their business practice is much like a lawyer taking a case on contingency as if they sometimes do the work and end up not being able to recover anything and therefore cannot charge much. PHOOEY! then why do they boast a “95% success rate” or whatver?
I said, in return, that if I had a broken transmission, the least I would expect from my repair guy would be look at it and tell me whether it was worth fixing or whether I should just get a new one. But this gentleman disagreed with that concept. I expressed that I thought that their policy only benefited them, and not the customer, and all he could say was that’s just not the way they do it. So I said return my drive and sure enough I found another place right around the corner from me in NYC who gave me a diagnosis, an real estimate with billable hours and parts, and it was about $1500 less than Drivesavers. Sure, it still cost a lot, but at least I had some choices in the matter.
IMO, I think 90% of data recovery is VERY easy to do, and that these places charge a mint because they can, since most people, like said all-caps poster, are desperate. Ever notice how a spare tire gets awfully expensive from a tow truck guy when you’re in the middle of nowhere?
My advice: as the others have said above STOP using the computer and/or the drive that had the erased data. Your data can be fully recovered provided the data sectors where the original data was recorded is not overwritten by new data. The way it works is that “trashing” a file merely flags the data sectors as eligible for being recorded over. It doesn’t actually erase it until then. Secondly, Google “data recovery” in your area and see what is available. There are many places now. Third: don’t panic yet. Unless you’ve already done more usage of your drive. Then you should panic. And it won’t be cheap.
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So far, I have had no problems with DV Express Pro and FCP/AJA IO on separate partitions. Don’t know if this helpful, but at least it’s a step in the right direction. Be sure you have totally separate drives/partitions for FCP media and Avid media. Cats and dogs.
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This is an AMAZING string which I believe has served as affirming evidence of something I have suspected for a couple years now: that HD proliferation is not motivated by market forces, but by retailers; that HD is being shoved down our throats because the industries of TV makers and professional equipment makers were facing stagnant growth.
Not that HD isn’t a good thing per se, it’s just not practical as an everyday consumer format.
Secondly, December 31, 2006 will be the last day where broadcasters can use analog over-the-air transmission. This means that all broadcasters will have procrastinated long enough up to that point to put off completing their HD conversion/compliance. Note: the FCC isn’t saying that digital compliance doesn’t mean HD, only that whatever format is being transmitted, it must be digital. Thus, if anyone’s going to buy into digital complicance, it’s likely going to be HD and SD capable, IMO.
So maybe the trends we are all seeing here will begin to change in the next 6-8 months.
Either that, or we will all be mastering in h.264 for video ipods! [see previous rant a couple weeks ago].
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Are you missing a font? I went insane once because I moved a project from one machine to another and the project crashed no matter what I did because there were titles built with a font that did not exist on the 2nd machine and there was no way to have known that was the reason at the time.
Try also using Panther Cache Cleanner, or Tiger CC if that’s what you are on. Do Medium Cleaning on all levels. You can get it on versiontracker.com
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Here’s a string from the archives about one person’s frustration/solutions dealing with SATA RAID featuring Our Man Bob lamenting the forces needed to jam the connections in:
If for some reason the link is a dud, search in the archives with this text: Sonnet X8 and the Kona 2 Card
If you are not the tinkering type, this setup might be a bit of a pain versus going with a straight up GRaid drive or XServe RAID. I have also had success with 10-bit in the following configuration using AJA IO, 2 Lacie 500gb {or 250gb} FW800 drives on a G5 with a Lacie FW800 PCI card added:
– one FW800 cable from G5 native FW800 port to drive 1
– one FW800 cable from PCI card to drive 2
– stripe the two drives into a RAID via Disk Utility, not journaled.I can’t say whether this will work perfectly once the drives get more than 80% full since I did not test it to this extent. One other dude mentioned that the difference between Lacie 500gb drives and GRaid drives in terms of performance was that, althought they both have 2 internal drives striped together, the GRaid’s drives spin “in the opposite direction” from each other so that the lapse in performance when the drives become full does not occur. I have not seen any corroborating facts to verify this, but I will take him at his word since it seems people advocate the GRaid pretty well.
Happy loading!
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