Steve Oakley
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you know its times like this were having some bad hardware can help keep your life easier. the matrox compressHD or MXO products with MAX can compress this way faster then real time to H.264. no matter what a bit rate calculator says, it can still vary a bit, and if you miss, go back to 1. when you are waiting 4-6hrs or more per pass, but could go down to around 1/2hr, maybe faster, that when hardware like this makes a lot of sense. if you do it nearly every day, its a no brainer for the amount of time you save. hte quality is great. when you can encode this fast, its easy to play with a bunch of settings too to figure out which one works best, although it does come with a bunch of good presets to start with in compressor. worth a look.
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well this is where a MXO series product is nice – it can color manage the display and SD or HD, it doesn’t matter. it also means you can adjust from the MXO control panel which is also very handy
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I’ve always found the KRK’s to be pretty funky and muddy.
you should NOT by speakers without hearing them. in the cheap catagory, I bought several pairs of M-audio MA-5a’s as the cleanest and most neutral sound speakers in the catagory of less then $500/pair. until you listen to speakers side by side with know material ( take a CD with you and listen to dialog and acoustic guitars, maybe piano ) and then you will hear the difference.
for $500 ea, the dynaudio’s blow everything away for accuracy and actually having some natural low end.
I’ve got a set of B&H 5’s that are old, but you can listen to all day long. they don’t lie, or color the sound the way other speakers do. they do need their own amp, but not a big deal.
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direct FW HDV->ProRes does indeed capture TC just fine. I’ve used this for quite some time. yes I have recaptured this way… that said –
I can always use the MXO2 with its serial port to 422 control the VTR ( JVC BRHD50 ) and capture via HDMI. 422 control is more reliable. if your VTR doesn’t have 422 control, might be something to consider in the long run if you plan to do a lot of recaptures.
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FCP very much DOES use multiple CPU’s. I won’t say it uses them as well as it could, but I often see all EIGHT CORES doing 50-80% usage when rendering.
MXO2 does full cross conversion on input and output. its full mix and match. all the analog audio connections makes it very easy to plug in either several stereo VTR’s for input ( pick which pair during capture ) or use all the outs to feed stereo to monitors, VTRs, whatever. this eliminates a lot of DA’s and wiring. of course it can also directly support 5.1 monitoring too which is really nice and simple to setup.
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where are you seeing that your setup is 15 IRE ? it would help to know where you are seeing this. many capture cards have an input and output setting to add setup… and so do some digital decks. adding setup from capture and on input could do it. generally speaking you want to set your card to NOT use setup. this is basically unity gain, another words, what comes in is what goes out. that means 0 IRE comes in at 0, and 7.5 comes in at 7.5….. ditto for output.
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I keep hearing this “HDV is hard to edit”, “its processor intensive”, ect.
would you please be specific. does HDV limit you to editing on 15 frame intervals ? no. does it some how not edit to the frame ? no. so tell me!
my short answer is, not HDV is not a problem at all…really. yes it does want more CPU time then **some** other codecs, but not all.
My G4 1.5ghz laptop captures and edits 720p24 and 720p30 HDV JUST FINE ! it’ll play without dropping frames, it’ll do dissolves, it’ll finally drop down once you put a 3 way color corrector on it. still very serviceable for basic editing.
my long gone G5 2.5ghz ate thru HDV for years
my 8 core 2.8 doesn’t even notice its HDV.
FCP stinks is with HDV capture. its just not reliable when doing native captures. using something like a MXO2 with HDMI / component / HD SDI ins and outs can make capture a lot easier. it also helps with monitoring too.
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actually its FAR more annoying that after you insert a clip into the Tl, the CTI jumps to the end of the clip instead of the head ( – 3 secs ) so you can actually play the edit and see how it works. what can I can, its one of those never gets fixed FCP bugs
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bars aren’t useless in the digital age because there is still a LOT of analog video out there. in fact if you only knew how a lot of TV and cable stations still operated….. most can’t even figure out IRE setup should be off, leave it on, and wonder why blacks look washed out when getting digital tapes, and just send it out without a question.
if the tapes are dubs, its very likely there was a problem in the dubbing process.
if these are camera tapes, and it was the /3 model, its a camera adjustment.
the real question is, does the shot material look ok ? if it does, ignore the bars. if its dark, there may be a camera problem. look at the shot material and go from there.
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when using any I/O card, or even Dv device , you should monitor your audio from there and it will be in sync to the video out picture from the same place. its just how fcp works.