Tom Matthies
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I do this fairly often with Time Warner Cable on my area. They have an FTP site at their B.O.C. center that I can transfer finished spots into. I usually send a higher quality Meridien compressed or a Quicktime, either DVC25, DVC50 or 8-bitUC rather than an Mp2 file. Depends on whether I finish on Apple or Avid.
After figuring out their formatting and getting an account/password setup, it’s actually rather quick and easy. I can send it right from the computer that I edit on too! They dub out a backup copy on tape right at their BOC and save it there.
Rather a slick way to do it. Most TV stations haven’t gotten this far yet. 🙁
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Make sure you’re not plugging in more than one A/V device at the same time. I used to crash my old G4 when I plugged in a Canopus ADVC100 and my Sony camera at the same time. It definately didn’t like both on the same bus at the same time.
Worth a shot…
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Run away! Run away NOW!!!
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Also…
Find out which DVCam deck you’ll be using. Not all work the same for insert editing.
If you are going Firewire to the deck, make sure the deck has a Firewire input and know where the menu setups are for switching the inputs. If it doesn’t have Firewire, be sure that you have the hardware to output from the Mac to the deck.
Try to give it a test run before doing the job for real.
And…when trying to match timecode, don’t forget to allow time for preroll when doing an edit to tape!
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Ditto to the transport/machine control status for those of us that have a central machine room and can’t actually see the decks from the edit rooms.
How ’bout an easier way to get a PSD into the viewer rather than dragging it there. You can’t double click it without opening it as a sequence…
Just a small gripe.
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I’m not sure that I would even try to do what you propose.
The BVV5 isn’t designed for playback into a production system. Very unstable video. Even with the adapter attached, the composite output is really just for monitoring purposes. I’d be surprised if it’s stable enough for the Io to accept without major problems. Logs of timebase error in the composite video on this unit.
I’d try like heck to find an actual studio playback deck for a while, just to load your footage.
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