Steve Covello
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Is there a remote chance that your Viewer/Canvas windows are NOT set to FIT TO WINDOW? That’ll do it too.
No mention of whether an imported QT has to be rendered [red line] in your sequence first before playing. I assume not. If so, your render specs and FCP playback specs are not compatible.
Also, were the G-Tech drives formatted as Mac HFS Extended before being used in the edit system? I believe GTech drives come out of the box as such, but I will not assume this is so all the time. If you open Disk Utility and select the volume in question, it should say the drive format somewhere at the bottom left. If it is anything but Mac HFS Extended, then there may be performance problems, and shouyld be erased and reformatted. Had a guy have problems like this before where 8-bit SD would not play on a borrowed drive and it was because it was formatted for PC.
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The card won’t do a standards conversion, neither in nor out. But you can use the Nattress Standards converter plugin:
https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm
I don’t know if works in downconversion. In other words, you may need to downconvert to SD first, then standard convert. It ain’t an Alchemist, but it’s not bad.
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You might want to check that your reference sync is correct. Any problems with audio popping on OUTPUT usually occurs if I have the wrong reference setup in the Control Panel. I have had to set the DBeta to Video Input as I output too.
If you are saying that the pops were introduced on capture, and the deck and FCP/Kona system were drawing the same sync, I would consider that your source tapes could be bad, if all else tests out OK.
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What Bob said. I have had NUMEROUS loss of RS-422 problems including having deck control up until the moment of record in-point, after which I get a General Error message and a “no Communication” error on the output window. I’ve trashed prefs, cleaned cache, un/re-installed drivers and it would work once, then not work after that.
I messed with reference settings in Control Panel and tried everything until it worked again. Now it works, though I have it set to Free Run, which I’ve never had to do before. I’ve re-seated BB cables, checked termination, shut down and unplugged, and some other things. I find it hard to believe my BB generator is NG since it is also driving my B room without a problem.
Mysterious.
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Had this same problem. Switch your sequence to 8-bit, keep its processing to 8-bit YUV in the Sequence settings. FCP promotes everything to 4:4:4 before rendering, so it’s not too terrible to go 8-bit unless you have serious luma values getting clipped.
Here is my original post on the subject referring to 5.1.2.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/917354?univpostid=917269&pview=t
I have found that even with Color Finesse, the correction does not stick either from CF’s Preview mode to regular Canvas view — extra saturation or something. Very frustrating. I am running 5.1.4, 10.4.8.
Anyone have a solution for this?
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Have you tried the 29.97 Easy Setup? I have played down 23.98 projects in 29.97 in 1080 without any problem, though I am working on a Kona 2, not an LHe.
Also, if you are outputting to HDCam, I assume you have the deck set to 29.97 [if I remember the menu correctly, it might be listed as 59.94]. The deck will not autodetect your format/framerate.
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Gary – you have to cut Bob some slack, for he is truly a representative of the urge forward in relatively low-cost technology for hi-end results, despite the course language of his stance.
That said, until you have a complete package of functioning peripherals, you will have to do some things ass-backwards, such as editing without original TC, or transcoding some things. when it came to making some decisions about which cards to get and what sort of storage system, I felt it was better to go and visit some places and ask some questions to see it with my own eyes rather than posting on a forum. One guy suggested I buy a $60,000 Rorke Data SCSI array for my storage system and I had to laugh at the audacity to be asking that much for something I could get for a fourth or fifth of the price elsewhere.
I’m not offering any solutions to your question here, but it seems as though you’ve gotten yourself painted into a corner both technically and with your budget. Bob is right — you WILL ultimately have to cough up some dough to get a system setup the way it is supposed to be, so anticipate it now. But at least it will only cost you a low-5 amount rather than a low-6, as it was a mere 10 years ago.
I will argue with Bob’s sentiment that you are obligated to make the same levels of investment that everybody else here has presumably made to be able to compete with them. If you are able to operate professionally for half the cost of what I spent or Walter or Gary, and take jobs away from us, God bless you. That is precisely what I am trying to do to all of the opulent, overblown, high-rate editing boutiques here in NYC, and a lot of them have gone out of business while I am still here, clinging to the lifeboat. Clients no longer ask for bids or estimates on jobs — they say here is my money, take it or leave it. It’s my job [and yours] to find a way to make it profitable. This is capitalism at its best.
Hopefully, the final arbiter of success here will be talent, not budget. I just had a bitter argument with a guy at Heavy.com who was soliciting original music from DJs and musicians so that they could be used to make video mash-ups — for no pay and no credit. He pissed off a lot of creative professionals, but somehow the Bigs at Heavy.com thought it was a viable idea. This is what we are fighting against, not each other.
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Try also powering down completely, disconnecting the power cable, reseating the card, reconnecting, then restarting. I have also had success with doing Tiger Cache Cleaner whenever, for some reason, SDI refuses to play nice. [This will sometimes happen when making frequent switching from SD to HD to SD to HD, etc.].
I have had this problem recently and had to do all of above, then re-install the drivers. Finally worked. I wonder if 10.4.8 has anything to do with it or some funk created by recent security updates, but that is beyond my … um, knowability.
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I have had the same problem. 2.5Ghz dp FCP 5.1.2. No luck. If you find the answer, please post.
The best I could do was to get about 3/4 of the way through the project before it simply would not stay stable.
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You are correct on all counts. I was thinking F900, not F950. Also, since Sony does not give up its native codec to Apple, the logical capture mode for HDCam [assuming shot with F900] would’ve been 10-bit [or 8-bit] Uncompressed 422, which is a transcode of sorts. My point, of course, that for regular HDCam, anything more than 422 would be overkill. Not the case for F950 HDCam SR. I stand corrected. Thanks. steve covello double wide post