Steve Garman
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I looked and it says “DVCProHD 720p60.” If it has nothing to do with hardware then it shouldn’t matter that I don’t have a hardware card for FCP? When I open a project in FCP and I chose the prest called DVCProHD and hit OK, I get an error that says I don’t have that hardware card installed and therefore don’t have the codec. I’m getting mixed messages here. I did what I thought was a complete install of FCPS2 but did I somehow miss installing the codecs? Or are many of the codecs, perhaps like this one, not usuable until you have a hardware card like Kona3 or BlackMagic?
Our client has the exact same setup and these same files load into his FCP and play fine on his same version of Quicktime. The only difference between our systems is he has a Kona3 card and we have nothing. Are you sure this makes no difference? I don’t know and that’s why I’m here asking?
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We have FCP installed but it wanted nothing to do with these files. Don’t you need hardware installed also before some of these codecs will actually work? We are waiting on delivery of our Black Magic Eclipses (supposedly delivering this month).
Our editor has gone back to the client to find out what he did. All we had on our playback monitors in FCP, AE, Premiere and Adobe Bridge was a white screen and room noise. I’m thinking the client did something wrong when he output these.
Will let you know.
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Well they have a .mov extension but they don’t open in QT and they won’t go into FCP any way we’ve tried. We think they are .mxf files and are just in a QT wrapper so they can be transported but are not really QT files. I’ve heard of this but have never been faced with it. Raylight and DVFilm will read P2 cards directly but they just ignore these files saying they aren’t quicktime files. We tried changing the extension to .mvf but they wouldn’t take that either.
I guess we need the client to bring his HVX-300 over here and let us just take video off the spigot. I was hoping not to have to do that but! -
Sorry, I meant to say MXF in QT wrapper.
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I think my engineer felt that it would take days to degfrag the drives if it was all one partition where as not so long (each)if it was four. Which brings up another question. Caldigit told me you never needed to defrag a raid but my engineer still thinks that’s necessary especially with video files.
Also no one has said which of the 5 or 6 choices it should be for formatting (see original message) I’m guessing just Mac OS extended but I only think that because it seems to have the least baggage with no extra names after it. Any other ideas?
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Also, what should the “block” size be? Help says larger for video, so does that mean 256 rather than the default 32? Is there an optimum size for fast r/w on HD and SD video files?
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Sorry I misspelled Raid!
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Well, it turns out they have combined the Kona 3 and the IO HD! It’s called the Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse!
The key being that it’s powered by PCI express which has ten times the speed of firewire 800.
So you get acceleration AND all the IOs you’ll ever need. Nice going Blackmagic!
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So you’re saying to send my DVI card outputs from the Mac to the DVI monitor inputs iin the suite, I should convert it to HDMI send over an 80 ft HDMI cable and then convert it back to DVI at the monitor end?
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Do you need the repeateers and the cables or are the cables good enough without the repeaters. I don’t see much guidance on the web site. I’m guessing they assume you already know what to do.
Thanks for the tip. We haven’t bought the Gefen yet.