Tom Meegan
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I would call the shop where you plan to have the decks fixed and ask how much they would charge for fixing them given the worst case (replacing the heads along with lots of other more mechanical nick nacks.) Then compare to the prices people are getting consistently on eBay.
I was down a similar road recently with an old beta sp deck (BVW-65.) It was not pleasant or profitable, but now I have a player with dyanamic motion control in my suite
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I don’t know about Apella
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SportVision would be the direction I would head if I were looking for this sort of work. I’ve worked with them on MLB broadcasts for FOX and most recently in Torino, Italy for NBC. Unfortunately I don’t have the full names of the technicians I’ve worked with, but I’ll look into it if it would be helpful.
Tom
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Did the original quick time come from a camera capture, or did you import it from something else?
Sorry for not reading your original post more carefully.
Tom
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No disrespect intended to Matte, who has enlightened me on several things in the past, but…
If you want to change the settings on the current sequence, hit Command – Zero.
Tom
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Rick,
Glad I to have helped and thank you for posting back.
Happy holidays.
Tom
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https://mograph.net/board/index.php?showforum=9
Reels and portfolios. I try to check in every couple weeks or so to see what’s new.
Tom
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Hopefully someone with experience with this particular problem will chime in, but…
Your trouble shooting seems to have narrowed it down to the tape.
My next step would be to lay that clip back out to a fresh DV tape from the computer, and then re-import it. Try to compress the new clip. If it works, do the happy dance. If not…
I might export the file from FCP as an uncompressed file (10 bit if you’ve got the space, but the difference between 8 bit and 10 bit in this context is negligable.) This will create a large file, but you might then be able to compress that file to mpeg2.
File > Export > Quicktime Movie
Choose Uncompressed from drop down menu next to settings.
With the first option, you won’t lose quality as it is DV all the way, but the dub might rid you of whatever is causing your issue. With the second option, you will lose very little quality, probably none that you could perceive after the conversion to mpeg 2.
I know this is not a solution, but if you are desperate, it might get you over the hump.
Tom
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Hi Larry,
The Auto Save vault saves projects, not clips.
You specify how often it saves with Final Cut Pro > User Preferences.
The setting for the auto save vault are on the bottom left of the General tab. Your most recent auto save will most will be your project minus the edits you made from the last auto save.
I would duplicate (option-drag if you are going to another location on the same disk, just drag if you are going to another disk) the most recent Auto Save to the folder where you keep the projects you are working on.
Rename it.
Double click it to open it.
Final Cut Pro will likely prompt you to attempt to reconnect the off-line files. Choose to do so.
Choose “Search” and FCP will look for the files. It may not find them.
If this is so you can use “Locate” and manually search them out. Go to your scratch disk in the “Capture scratch” folder for captured files, and go to where ever you have been keeping your imported files for the other stuff.
If FCP doesn’t prompt you and opens the project with a bunch of stuff off-line, right-click (or control-click) on the off line files and choose reconnect. Work through the steps above.
I you need to figure out where your scratch disk is…
Final Cut Pro > System Settings…
Your scratch disk is the path to the right of the first “set” button.
If you don’t remember where a file is…
View > browser Items > as list
Expand the browser window so you can see the columns to the right of Name.
Right click on the dark gray title headings, just to the right of Name.
Select Show Source.
This is the path of the file when it was originally captured or imported. Use this to hunt down your media in the reconnecting process.
Tom
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AJA IO to Mackie VLZ 1202, to self powered M-Audio BX-8s. I also have the decks and the computer output run to the mixer so I can monitor everything from the same speakers.