[Tom Matthies]

Just drag the mp3 into Quicktime Pro and export it as an aiff @ 48K. It takes all of about 30 seconds start to finish. No need to muck about in imovie or iTunes.
It’s very fast and easy!
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Yea, I didn’t find anything by doing a search but I thought it still might be something that would be handy and might have been done before. Guess I’ll just have to get another Shuttle Pro for the other system.
Thanks!
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Hi again.
Just an update to the original question at the top.
I sent my project thru Compressor with not good results. After that (with a deadline looming) I exported as a photojpeg sequence at 59.94. That worked. Encore took it in without any problems and encoded it. Quite slow but it worked. We managed to get a pretty good Blu Ray DVD out of the machine this morning that will actually play on a consumer-lever Blu Ray deck.Actually we tested it on a Play Station as well and it looked good. I fed it to my Panasonic Flat HD monitor along side the Dell 24inch monitor on the Mac. The picture Panny looked very good.
I will continue to refine the process and find proper work flows rather than the work arounds we just used and keep an eye on further updates & bug fixes on Encore. I plan on taking a closer look at thy the mpeg2 files were problematic in Encore as well. At any rate, the first Blu Ray done and the learning curve has flattened a bit.
Maybe some day Apple will add Blu Ray support to DVDSP?
Thanks,
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Yep. That was it.
I had a few clips that I had left disabled, using them just for a timing reference.
Thanks…now I know.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

For some basic, book-learnin’ types of information you might try contacting the Society of Broadcast Engineers. They have a number of certification programs on the areas you mention. Go to SBE.org. You can find a list of local chapters. Find the one for your area and contact them and explain what you are looking for. They might be able to give you advice or at least steer you in the right direction. It’s a good start and most of the members are more than willing to spread the knowledge around. Find them and pick their brains.
As for Bob’s comments, this stuff is a lot like trying to learn how to ride a bicycle by reading a book about it. There is a certain amount just digging in and getting your hands dirty. Read whatever you can find. There are lots of trade magazines out there on the subject. Find them and absorb everything you can.
I’ve been at this for over thirty years now, and I admit that most of what I know was picked up on the job. I have a couple of SBE certifications and ancient FCC licenses, but most of it was learned by the tried and true method of going “I wonder what THIS does?” I’m still learning. You’ll never know it all.

Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Sony’s XDCam HD has a time lapse feature built into it. Might be worth a try looking at it to see if it will do what you want.
My 2¢ worth.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

I’ll buy you a brat ‘n a beer of you ever get to Green Bay!
Thanks again.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Thanks Arnie.
Zapping the P-RAM did the trick. The analog audio output is back! Glad it wasn’t something more serious requiring hardware replacement.
Just in time too. The HD edit is this afternoon.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

Thanks Bob.
I’ll check it out more fully tomorrow after getting a little rest tonight. Long week…
The path to the mixer is pretty straightforward. It’s simply an RCA pair going directly from the K3 to the input on the mixer. Just to be sure, I plugged my iPod, for an unbalanced source, onto the same cables that go from the K3 to the mixer and it sounds fine. Cable is OK. Mixer is OK. Tomorrow I’ll take the cable off of the Kona and the K3, clean it with some good contact cleaner and put it back on the card. I’ll also open up the Mac and make sure that the card is seated as well. I doubt this will affect anything but it won’t hurt. If it’s still a no-go, I’ll give AJA support a call/email on Monday morning. If the HD Data stream is still good, I can dodge the bullet by using the Aja converter and pick the audio off on the way to the monitor. Not too difficult to rig and it’ll buy me some time to get through the edit.
I’m always inclined to blame it on O.E. but I guess that every now and then things do actually break. I’ll post back here when I finally narrow the problem back down.
Tom

[Tom Matthies]

For grina I just tried bringing in SD SDI video thru the Kona card. With only the Kona Control Panel running, I can’t hear any audio using the embedded inputs (Digibeta source).
If I fire up Final Cut and go to log & Capture and hit the “Preview” audio button, I get the audio just fine outputting thru the Mac’s speakers. I see the audio meters indicating signal also. However, I’m still getting no output from the Kona’s analog audio jacks. So the embedded audio is there are it’s getting thru the Kona to FCP, just doesn’t seem to be getting out of the K3 box RCA jacks. Since I have a mixer with only analog audio inputs, I can’t hear the Kona audio for editing. I can listen to the Mac output, but it’s obviously going to be way out of sync. I have an Aja HDP that will dissembed the audio from the HDSDI stream. It has analog outputs and an HD pass thru. I may have to put that inline going to my HD monitor to pick the audio off from there.

Just to be sure also I checked the connector on the back of the G5 and it’s nice and tight. I climbed behind the rack and the connector on the K3 is also tight.
This is going to turn out being one of those “Homer Moments” yet. You know, D’oh… I just wanna go home…
Tom