[Tim Taylor]

Thanks Bob!
Unfortunately, most of the locations I find myself in don’t have enough room to use the longer lenses. The 50mm works most of the time, and gives me a plenty shallow DOF. (sometimes too shallow, as I mentioned) As for the DF lens, I’m just being cheap about it – the adapter was only $20, while the EF lens is around $100.

Tim Taylor, Producer/Editor
RESolution Media Services, LLC

[Tim Taylor]

I found the answer.
The adapter has to be all the way in the locked position, or the aperture won’t fire.

Tim Taylor, Producer/Editor
RESolution Media Services, LLC

[Tim Taylor]

Thanks Arnie!
Your point about getting the lab involved early is well taken! Shoulda thought of that myself.
Politics may force us into HDV acquisition, but I appreciate your DVCproHD recommendation. There’s still time to change cameras. Didn’t know that about HDCAM, Thanks!
I’m not sure if they’re planning a lot in the way of VFX. I guess I’ll assume they are. Probably will be some serious color correction too. I just wanna be as ready as possible for what the director may throw at us. Have you worked with Apple ProRes yet?

Thanks,

Tim Taylor, Producer/Editor
RESolution Media Services, LLC

[Tim Taylor]

UPDATE: I now believe that my black generator isn’t putting out any signal at all.
That would explain the “NO REF” alarm!
Any suggestions on how I can check the existance of a black video signal w/o a scope?

Thanks for the replies! Make it sound like it’s no mystery at all!

[Tim Taylor]

Brilliant!

Thanks, I’d forgotton that you could modify the start TC after the clip is captured.

I’ve been looking into firestore from time to time. I need a device to hold 8-10 hours of DV, and haven’t seen a big enough hard drive yet. Only a matter of time (& $$) I suppose.

Thanks, JeremyG

Tim

[Tim Taylor]

Shoot!

My reason for working this way is to increase turn around time, so the visible TC idea won’t work for me. I’m currently capturing with each clip with the TC starting at 00:00:00:00. I’ll edit that media for final output, but I’m also taking “log notes” to help me find things faster once I start editing. This creates two potential problems: ONE, my notes (which reference camera TC) are offset by when the camera rolls and I begin capture (relatively minor if the camera starts at a hour + zero); TWO, now I don’t have recapturable media, which I haven’t needed yet, but……

Thanks for the work-around Walter!
I’m sure apple has a way for users to make suggestions, i’ve just never done it. Anybody know how to do this?

Tim

[Tim Taylor]

Thanks Barry!

Index sounds like it’ll work just fine. I’ll give that a try.

Tim

[Tim Taylor]

Thanks all!

Staying in HD land until output via compressor for anamorphic DVD worked GREAT!!!
I was a little nervous, since I couldn’t preview my final edit in SD before comitting to about 4 hours of encoding, but having taken the plunge, everything worked out great.

I’ve got a simmilar issue to SE Bell: I have a DV alternate angle I want to include on the DVD.
in order to get the resolution/GOP structure right, I’m adding it to my FCP (HDTV 1440) timeline and stretching it to fit.
Then encoding it back to SD.

I don’t know if this is the best way to go, but I’ll try anything once.

Thanks again,

Tim

[Tim Taylor]

For some reason I was having trouble getting good search results. Can’t remember exactly what I did differently last time, but voila – I got lots of threads!
I knew this topic must have been covered pretty well.

I got a lot from Kevin Monahan’s article
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/chroma_key_fcp_hd_monahan.html

I’m also looking at dvMatte.

Thanks all, for your responses!

Tim