Steve Oakley
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well the stock GT120 isn’t a total dog, certainly when compared to what was in a machine one or two generations back, yet those cards work fine too…..
for the money, I’d really recommend the GT 285 – and pass on the ATI 4870.
for video I/O there are a number of choices like the MXO which can run off the DVI port, or the MXO2 series which have all the audio and video outs you could ever needed… and the ins too. you could take one for field recording off the camera when XDcam isn’t cutting it – ie chroma key shoots.
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is your TL at 29.97 and your video out at 59.94 ?
and did you trash FCP prefs to start with ?
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you might well have a setting wrong some where like 30.000 vs 29.97. now if you are not shooting sync sound, changing the 5D footage from 30 to 29.97 shouldn’t make any real difference.
also the MXO2 needs to match the TL settings for output.
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I’m not sure you’ve looked at the matrox mini or MXO2 then… the mini is $450 and will do what you need, plus a keyspan USB 422 adaptor. the mini will work on a laptop as well via the PCIe port. for not much more you can add the MAX h.264 faster then real time encoding option. every day this saved me 15-30 long end of the day minutes when generating client previews for web… or other final output work. the mini can also work on a PC too….
while the MXO2 might be a little more then you where looking at consider its a real metal box with real connectors, not a cheap fan out cable that are always too short. its also got 4 XLR’s out + 6 RCA’s out – so you can feed stereo to everything ! or mix 5.1 directly without adaptors / or another audio I/O. its also got 4 XLRs IN, HDMI without wasting a precious PCIe slot like the other cards. its also battery powerable portable and can work with a laptop or tower.
some significant differences to be sure. its a future safe investment. matrox has been turning out driver updates on a steady basis adding new features like closed captioning support for input and output. take a look !
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you should take a look at the matrox MXO2 series which handles CC data both coming in and out.
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I’m running several MXO2’s here and they are great. the quality is outstanding, especially the SD to HD upconvert in REALTIME during capture. also the MXO series can have the MAX option for h.264 faster then real time encoding. this alone pays for itself if you do any amount h.264 encoding like I do every day.its a really great time saver.
the difference between the models is basically all the Ins and Out. The RACK version has the most audio outs of anything around, the MXO2 is the middle product with pretty much everything I/O including HDMI, and the mini has fewer Ins and outs. different price ranges, different needs / markets. you couldn’t go wrong with a mini for basic component / HDMI I/O in Sd or HD. the middle priced MXO2 will cover most needs, and its portable. a Kona3 can’t be plugged into your laptop, or easily moved around for field AND studio use.
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the matrox MXO2 supports capture to apple’s 8bit or 10bit uncompressed codec…. but you may well find that ProRes will save you a lot of drive space – and its generally 10bit
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any video card can add 3:2 PD on output, so 24P->108060i is a non-issue.
if you have any 60i/30p footage, I’d recommend setting the TL to that. placing 24p footage in, FCP will add 3:2 PD on the fly. you really don’t want to try to downcovnert 60i/30P to 24 if you don’t need to. you may also find the phantom footage is high speed, so that will be a beast unto itself.
hopefully you have matching TC, or at least they slated the cams together for every new roll.if not, good luck, hope you’re getting paid well.
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1 – A suggestion for a workflow from step one through completion, which will include a rescan of my film based on the selects in my EDL.
——–realistically, do you really need to transfer the 16mm ? if you have decent best light transfers you can CC from there, I’d stay put. you will save a ton of cash, time, aggravation. 16mm on a good day is SD resolution when shot with something like ISO500 speed film, maybe 720 if I want to be kind. even with slower speed films like ISO200, you’ll be lucky to get 1920X1080 worth of res from the frame. I know some folks will jump all over this and talk about 16mm getting 4K of resolution… to which I’ll say this. Maybe and ONLY on ISO25 speed stock, shot with VERY good lenses at ideal aperture ( F4-5.6), no on camera filtering except color correction, perfect lab processing, perfect transfer shooting a lens chart. Back in the real world, 16mm res is a lot less then that, so you may already be as good as its going to get.
#2 – A suggestion for a way to edit with the MXF files in FCP without the “Dopped Frames” issue.
just turn the warning off. FCP spits that error out all day long. it means nothing unless you are playing out to tape, or thru something like a MXO2 downconverting to SD to make DVD-R.
also, I’d hardly call 28G of files huge, not when a 1TB drive goes for $89. if you are using the iMac’s internal drive, that could be a big part of your problem, especially if its pretty full. ditto a FW400 external
#3 – A way to make Quicktime files that I can edit with that will not be huge files or suffer from the Quicktime gamma issues.
did you install the Avid Codecs ? maybe thats the problem – the 3rd party ware is using the wrong gamma.
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no you can’t directly capture 23.976 from 29.97 digibeta.
the best you can do is capture the material as 29.97, and then use compressor / cinema tools to remove the 3:2PD to generate a new 24P file
and if you wanted to know, the MXO2 can capture 24P native from 59.94 in 720P. if you had one of those might if suggested a very out there idea – set the MXO2 to up convert to 720P AND capture at 24P removing the PD. for now, it can’t detect cadence breaks during capture. it assumes no breaks. might work, but I’ve never tried it
Steve Oakley
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