[Stuart Simpson]

[Tom Wolsky] “Hate have change-over connector cables hanging off a machine. Too much can go wrong. “

I can’t say I agree with you on this one. I have a few FW800 to 400 cables here and I’ve never had a problem, you can’t avoid running some kind of cable from the machine to the deck/drive. Not to mention the all the other converter cables I use every day without any problems – Phono to BNC, Phono to XLR, s-video to SCART, ect

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

[Bobby Miller] “They got rid of FW 400.”

No big deal. FW800 is backwards compatible, just get a FW800 to FW400 cable.

[Bobby Miller] “And there’s no matte option.”

Again not that big a deal with such a bright screen…

You don’t mention the new GPU’s, which should help with color and Aperture, or the fact that you can spec up to a 2.8GHZ machine which sounds like a pretty nice mobile edit suite to me…

What were you expecting?

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

[Steven Gonzales] “I’d suggest the HVR-M15U”

Or even better – the HVR-M35

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

[Michael Lynch] “Final Cut Server $999/10 client license”

I personally don’t think this is worthwhile if you don’t have a big shop – plus it doesn’t really work properly without a SAN…

You can never have enough storage though!

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

Hello once again! Did you manage to create your DV master?

I can tell you what the terms you are asking mean, but there will be other considerations if you’re working towards broadcast – and with all due respect you might be getting out of your depth here… What tape format are you delivering on? Are your colours broadcast safe? Is your film 16×9 or 4×3?

Anyway:

4 x 3 Full Height Anamorphic – This sounds wrong, you probably want 16×9 FHA. That would be widescreen 720×576 (or 720×480) with the Anamorphic box ticked.

4 x 3 Letterbox – This also sounds wrong, it probably just means 4×3.

16 x 9 Letterbox – This is 720×576 (or 720×480) with big black bars at the top and bottom of frame to preserve your 16×9 aspect ratio.

You should really look at something like the BBC guidelines:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/dq/contents/broadcasting.shtml

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

Nope. You want:

File>Export>Quicktime Movie

Setting: Current Setting

And make sure make movie self-contained is ticked.

This will give you a carbon copy of your timeline that you can just dump on a new sequence for your master.

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

Try doing a self contained export then bringing that export back into FCP for mastering.

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

What format did you shoot, and what format did you digitise?

Reading 25p as 50i doesn’t really result in missing frames…

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

[Bob Flood] “i hate all this 29.97 23.95 whatever the f***!!!”

I am soooooooo glad I only work in PAL..

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stuart Simpson]

If you still see it on the DV50 and Prores captures then I’m stumped.

I have had a lot of digi material lately with excessive edge enhancement though, mostly when we’ve used the DVW-970P. Dunno if the default setting is too high… Could it be a problem with your camera?

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk