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[Mike Schrengohst] “I do have a spare $10,000 and I will get the HVX and I will deliver on WMV-HD for real clients I have now.”

Well, you do have quite a limited cient base then.
Many of us will be using hvx to shoot for TeleVision.
Have you heard about brodcaster that accepts wmv-hd’s for masters?
You don’t need $100,000 to edit long program with FCP in 30 days and then rent hdcam deck for one day to print out the masters.

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About workflow:
If you recycle you project through tape, you will loose all cutpoints and cc’ing will take a lot more time when you have to find all the cuts again.
Why don’t you just edit with dvcpro codec (and have realtime preview) and then change the sequence’s codec to 10-bit kona/decklink and cc that and then render and output through sdi?

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Thanks, but I googled that thread already.
Odd, that this audio sync issue doesn’t come up more often.
Do people just capture short parts and forget about these
helpful automatic scene recognition functions?

Once again apple’s documentation about long frames is a joke.
They just tell that if you get one, then you are in trouble
and should fix something.

So, nothing even about what these long frames mean.
If you have long frame with duration of 5 frames, is the sync
then off 4 frames?
How about long frame with duration of zero?

Have you people checked your clips with Long frames tool and
don’t have any of them?

Or is this a common but not so noticed problem?

Or just one of these “we know it does not work now, so we don’t
complain or use it and will check out the thing again with next
future version”?

I’ve had just a similiar experience with compressor+qmaster.
It just isn’t stable enough, so people just don’t use it and
apple’s support discussions are echoing empty.
Well maybe we get first user guide to qmaster with version 3,
it will start working with v3.5 and will be good after 4.02.
Just patience…

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Then buy powerbook or ibook+fw-pccard.
Or will ibooks have even pccard reader?

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Fw800 is downwards compatible with fw400.
Then we just need fw800-fw400 cable.

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[Mike Schrengohst] “Do you have an edit system to view Native footage??”

Yep, it’s called FCP.
Which one do you want to compare: different encoders different delivery codec’s (h.264/wmv/mpeg2/etc) with different compression settings or what camera can give out?
What if footage is printed on film or shown off the hdcam tape?

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I’d prefer the native codec (dvcprohd) over wmv to really see the picture.

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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “The USB port is for working file transfer to a PC.”

And iPod is not a PC, so usb cannot be used for dumping to iPod?
Why this kind of limitation?
Well, lets hope that apple incorporates fw to future iPods again…

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Is camera’s usb totally useless now? You can’t copy p2 to eg. iPod through it?

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For example lets compare the pixel area of Canon D5 and HVX200:
D5: 67