[Tim Baker]

Then if you have an out of scope…I would think you are covered…notate the cause for the overruns…attach any emails you sent to or correspondents from client(always save any of this…I have every email that I send to and get from clients) and submit the appropriate bill.

If nothing else it will allow the CEO and anyone else concerned to see that you were concerned about the overruns from the beginning, but in good faith went ahead and did the work. And it will bring to light the ineptitude of the guy you actually had to work with…

Once you substantiate everything…back it up with documentation and the “out of scope” I’d say you are setting pretty good.

I’d go for a revised invoice and get your money.

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

Always…always…always…have an “out of scope” clause of some kind in an agreement or contract. You have got to allow for client stupidity.

Every project I do is left open ended via an “out of scope” clause that states that if the price is X given Y, but if there are over runs due to a, b, c, or d…the price will be adjusted to Z and is due before final delivery.

You may be stuck on this one…not sure of UK law…but the old…I’ll catch you next time…never happens. Remember…tomorrow never comes!

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

I believe it would also depend on whether you are exporting as a self contained movie or a reference movie. If you are exporting as a reference…it will always look for the FCP timeline to “reference” what should playback in the QT.

If I am not mistaken…I usually just export reference movies to drop into DSP and other programs so I dont have these huge, uncompressed video files to deal with on my hard drives.

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

I too have had one “Dual Adapter” for over a year now and had no issues, however, a buddy of mine has had two bad out of the box, but manufacturer fired him right back replacements that did work.

Like said above…baby them…I actually pack mine in a rubbermaid bowl with a sealable lid, foam filled for any kind of transport.

One issue…that is not that big of a deal…is anytime you pop the adapter out of the Express Card slot and want to remount for ingest you will have to restart the computer to get it to mount. Or that has been my experience. Not really a hot-swap item.

Good luck…I have great luck with mine.

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

Ooooohh…now that is why I love the Cow. Good idea…in the middle of a project, but will try that tomorrow or so…good call.

Thanks…nothing else has worked…worth a shot.

Thanks,

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

If it is…it is on my JVC HD100 camera…the accompanying CU-VH1 deck and my little crappy home consumer camera. I cant find any menu settings that would correct or cause the problem that I am having.

Unless the HDV gear just is not as compatible with MiniDV as it is supposed to be, but then what about the consumer firewire camera hookup?

I am getting perfect signal from my current HDV project to the above mentioned deck, but I am stumped on the rest.

You would think that MiniDV would be easier setup than the HDV.

Thanks,

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

Yeah…been there tried that…lol.

Check out the new thread on the FCP list…but bus is clean excepting the firewire to camera/deck.

I am totally stumped.

I am posting an HD video right now and I am getting full frame/res video and audio in playback via firewire to the CU-VH1 Deck monitor…I cant figure the difference from that to the Mini-DV video I was trying to dub.

Cant test dub the HD video yet…but I may try it just to see what happens.

Thanks so much…

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

Now I just opened an HDV 720p project and it is playing fine thru the onboard monitor of the CU-VH1 deck. Sounds great and looks great in full motion. Playing back in firewire only, as well.

Ugh!!! So it is obviously something that is not config’ed right for MiniDv.

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

Something else I just noticed…I can scrub the timeline and get a good scrub out to monitor with video and audio…hmmmm.

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”

[Tim Baker]

Sorry guess some of that info would have been helpful.

It is a plain old mini-dv project…feeding firewire to camera and/or deck. Editing on new MacBook Pro that was purchased to team with my AJA IOHD so there should be plenty of horsepower as far as laptop.

Settings are…
-Sequence Preset is DV NTSC 48khz
-A/V settings…All show proper preset at dv ntsc and video playback is set to Apple firwire ntsc @ 720×480…audio playback set to firewire DV.
-A/V Devices…same…with no seperate playback settings to go to tape

I’ve tried both the DV NTSC and DV NTSC Firewire Basic “Easy Setups” and nothing changes…same still frame in deck monitor at start/stop of playback from timeline…no full motion video.

I’m stumped.

Tim Baker

Chameleon Mobile Video Productions

(239)849-3295

“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”