Steve Martin
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Excellent P0ints – Thanks!
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That’s intersting Ian. I’ll give it a shot next week and post my result. Thanks for the tip and I’ll see if I can duplicate the random TC problem.
Steve
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Hi Chris,
Not sorted out yet – our studio is closed for the holidays so I haven’t spent much time thinking about it over the past week – but hope to get it resolved soon.
As for the deck, we really like it. Transport is solid and it plays back both DV and DVCAM which is nice – (but not DVCPro).
Steve
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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We got ours about 2 years ago have been really happy. Absolutely no complaints with the hardware and software integration with FCP. When you consider the price – I can honestly say this is a no brainer! Good luck!
Steve
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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I have recieved great tech support from AJA when ever I’ve had an issue with my iO. I usually get answers to my questions or problems within a few hours – sometimes right on the spot.
More often than not, the problems have been operator error – yet they are always helpful, polite and courteous. In today’s world of “lip service” about customer support it’s very rare and much appreciated!
Thanks guys…
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Amen!
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Hi Chemix,
I don’t know that I’d call myself an expert – but I’ll I’ll give it a shot…
1. Are there any advantages to using a capture device like IO or KONA for a project if 95% of footage is DVCAM?
I’ve seen folks argue that point on this forum for some time. Any advantages in video quality are neglible at best in my opinion. HOWEVER, if you plan on creating overlay graphics to superimpose over the video, there is an advantage to capturing your DVCam footage as UC 8bit or 10 bit. By doing so, your FCP timeline would also be 8/10 bit UC which means that your graphics wouldn’t suffer from 4:1:1 DV compression – which depending on oyur graphics might make a significant difference in the final product. If you are happy with the way the graphics lok with DV compression, I wouldn’t spend the $$.
2. On an IO system, will DVCAM footage be captured through Firewire or analog YUV inputs on the IO?
Kind of both… You see, with the Io, regardless of the codec you capture with or which connectors you use on the back of the box, it’s conected to your mac through a single firewire connection. When i firs heard this, I was confusing firewire with the DV25 codec. The firewire port is capable of transfering 400MBit of data. That’s pelnty of bandwidth for 10 bit uncompressed video (approx 270 mbits), 2 channels of audio as well as deck control and time code info.
3. Will DVCAM footage look any different if edited onto an UC 10 bit timeline rather than the DV timeline?
See #1 above
4. What about disk storage? will Xserve RAID be overkill?
Good drives are never overkill in my opinion. Xserve is a pricy option and there may other options that are softer on the budget that will also work well. If you go uncompressed, you’ll need storage that’s fast enough to keep up. I spent a fair amount of money on my HUGE Raid system 2 years ago and am pretty happy with the performance. One advantage of a raid system is data protection. If you are embarking on a large project with lots of footage a good raid may be a grat idea – even if you choose to edit in DV25.
Hope this helps…
Steve
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!