Todd Dalton
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Yep, that worked. And now I think about it it was an obvious work around!!
Thanks Peter!
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Thanks for that I’ll give it a go!
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Kira, thank you for posting all that amazing stuff!
I’ve also been advised that Unity workspace’s should never go above 1TB… Anyone have any experience of that?
I know that my G-Speed Q raid drives clash badly with Unity because of a driver issue (the ol’ 32/64 bit problem!) so external drives with built-in raid controllers can cause problems.
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My suite completed an Xdcam offline of a 60min doc a couple of months ago. There were issues with crashing – not of the severity your message seems to convey (my sympathies!). The main problem was VBR Xdcam: I couldn’t get it to play without sync issues (initially, like you, there were no crashes). My solution was to use full screen playback in FCP so that the second Dell computer monitor was the client screen. Audio routed as usual.
Meanwhile, since the editor wanted two screens of FCP (don’t blame him), I switched on the mirror desktop on my Aja card (Blackmagic will have similar, won’t it?). That way, it was a bit non-traditional but the sync worked and they were able to spend over 6 weeks suffering relatively minor crashes (if there are minor crashes) which seemed to be caused more by the size of the project than anything else….
I haven’t tried this yet, but maybe it’ll help:
https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/MXFImport_Mac.asp
Good luck!
Todd.
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Oooh, good thinking! I was with Mark on this one and had already played the whole scenario through in my head! :)))
I did once had to listen to clients tell me that FHA safe areas would vanish once Mac’s had gone over to Intel chips “then we’ll all be the same”…..
And a colleague told me that an agency client had said to him that the rotoscopes were being done by Matt and Phil. Honestly, that’s what he said! :))
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NTSC titles on sale in the UK, eh?
Well, it may be that here in London stores are catering to American tourists, but I muust say that I’ve yet to see NTSC titles on sale…. Out of interest, where were they?
These few London stores aside, in the UK in general the chances are that anything other than a PAL dvd will not run in a standard player as most people won’t be thinking of playing States’ discs in anything but their computer. Honest, the general public ain’t interested in being able to play region 1’s. So how about making the disc regionless (i.e. flagging all the region codes on the encode) or region 2 – I don’t think that there’d be an authoring issue with a region 2 disc and non-25fps frame-rate, would there..? Anyone? That way they’ll be able to play the disc in a computer’s player but not waste a ‘change region’ count on the hardware. Even in my old hometown of Liverpool they have computers! 🙂
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Hi,
I’ve had the same problem: I found on my system that when using the Mac’s line in (fed from an unbalanced, mic amp) FCP, or possibly the actual OS, sometimes looks at the right channel and not the left. I checked my wiring which obviously isn’t exactly complicated for phono to 3.5mm jack and can’t find anything wrong. Just sometimes I have to swap sides. Maybe that’s what’s happening on your system: the Mac is deciding to look at ch2 for the mic audio and not ch1. Also trashing the prefs/restart has definitely brought the mic back to life for me on more than one system.
Hope this gives you something!
Todd.
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Hi,
I’ve had the same problems with Panasonic DV camcorders, but I’m afraid it didn’t last as long as you’ve had it. Generally it happened once every couple of sessions and that was a few software versions ago.
I’m assuming a Firewire connection: I know I’ve always had the camera fully switched on in VTR mode before connecting. I’ve seen Avids and FCP’s have problems initiating FW connections if the camera’s plugged in during a session. If you’ve tried trashing the preferences and it’s still doing it, is there some kind of ‘sleep’ mode on the camera and it’s nodding off between capturing? It doesn’t really sound like it from your post – but you never know: it might be worth checking! 🙂 If the camera goes into battery saving mode then the FW connection will effectively be lost or if it only wakes up when a handshake is received the FCP might not like the slow reply. I always keep the camera plugged into the mains supply even with full batteries…
Hope there’s something of help there.
Todd.
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Ahhhh! Will the sequence link ok? I guess I could create an offline version with the same amount of handles and that should relink…..
I’ll see if I have time on this project for this. There’s also the little matter of all the picture files they’ve dragged into the project so the browser is quite something to navigate.
Cheers!
Todd.
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There is an app called Crimson. It was made for Red Camera footage but basically does what you need, I think. Sorry I couldn’t tell you the exact button pushes but there is a demo version that’ll do 5 shots so you could see if it’ll work.
It separates a timeline into ‘cowboy intermediates’ which are suppose to be taken into Redcine but you could intercept them and go to AE….. I think…. I haven’t got AE so couldn’t tell you definitely.
https://www.crimsonworkflow.com/
Hope it helps!
Todd.