Tony
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No it don’t blow only the winds on the high seas where you camera head is at this moment.
There is hard camera side switch which controls one of the video outputs which can output one of the following HDSDI, Standard def SDI, or crappy analog composite.
For the downconvert you set up the camera to output letterbox or anamorphic.
In anycase there are only two video outputs from the camera the first Monitor out (side bnc) is selectable between HDSDI or Y HD analog (character menus can be overlayed if chosen via camera setup menu) the second output Video out (rear of camera) is selectable depending on what the side switch is set to. You can overlay menus over the video out via another hard switch (the overlay of menus via the monitoring output or video out is identical to the fashion in which the SDX-900 can be set up.
Another output is the IEEE 1394 output for recording to hard drive.
I regret that Panasonic did not chose to do something similar to what Sony has done with the F900R which is offer two dedicated HDSDI outputs all the time in addition to a third video monitoring output which is a selectable downconvert or Y HD analog output dedicated output.
I would take this one step forward and allow for (2) dedicated HDSDI outputs, (1) dedicated downconvert output selectable to SD SDI or VBS, (1) Y HD analog dedicated output which could be selected to downconvert to VBS with TC window burn also.
Offering four outputs would allow for minimizing the number of return feeds which have to be sent back to the camera in certain production scenarios such as (external HDSDI monitor on board, feeding an external vtr or engineering monitor, feeding a steadicam via SD SDI or VBS, downconverting to VBS for feeding a client viewing or script logging station.
Tony Salgado
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Mark,
FYI Little known secret I discovered from my bank which is certified checks can have a “stop payment” issued on them. An additional step of insurance when dealing with certified checks is to demand a letter from the bank written by the bank manager on bank letterhead which states that the funds will be guaranted upon presenting the certified check. Do not accept checks written from a bank which is out of state.
The check must be from a bank which has a local branch in your area.
If none of this applies then demand that the funds be wired to your account directly.
One last note Chris in my opinion has the upper hand even if the client sues him in court for the hard drive.
If Chris were to be sued Chris would then countersue for his claim on the fees due for his labor. If the client is really interested in getting his hard drive back then they or a representaive would be forced to be present in court.Given the small value of the hard drive versus what is owed to Chris I doubt they would want to put in the time and effort to fight a court battle.
But since it is Chris’s only leverage he should hold out and wait and see.
Any discussions regarding the drive should be immediately terminated and the discussion must immediately center on when is the payment for the labor to be paid in full.
Do not say to the client that the drive is being withheld until the labor is being paid off instead refuse to discuss that matter and focus exclusively on only payment for the labor.
Anytime the drive issue comes up cut them off and restate “Where is the check or wire transfer for my labor forthcoming”? When the respond we need the drive back before we send the check. Restate “I must have my labor paid in full immediately or else I will be taking the necessary legal and labor board actions available to me.”
FYI in California an employeer who willfully withholds payment to an employee is subject to severe penalities one of which includes the day rate for the employee times thirty days. The penalities can add thousands of dollars in additional amounts due if an award is made.
Tony Salgado
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You will need SDI out out of the DV deck in order to transcode on the fly via the Kona to 8 bit.
Unless you need uncompressed for color correction or effects no need to do this for dv material unless or course you are mixing other formats such as beta and beta sx etc and want to seek out a common codec and frame size to work at.
Tony Salgado
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Ok Adam,
I save you more hours of wasting your time looking for the answer to a question which should have been posed long before you started editing if not even shooting.
Go to the following link and read up on 24P and 24PA, the answers to your issues are all in this article for the most part.
And when your done thank Graeme Nattress for being so kind to spell it all out.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html
Tony Salgado
PS- and do not uprez the stuff to 1080i which is in no way the answer to a problem with standard def material.
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I hope the limiter values can be user defined and allow for a soft clip instead of a hard one.
Tony Salgado
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Dude for the price of a external firewire drive you could cheaply buy yourself a 300 or 400 gb drive and keep your stuff on it for as long as you need.
Such drives can run anywhere from the a low 250 to 400 dollars depending on where and when you buy it.
The wasted time and effort to save to dvd is better spent on an external or internal drive.
Tony Salgado
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Once they declare bankruptcy or are in the process you mayh never be paid the full amount owed.
The line or creditors ahead of you will take priority so in a nutshell I hate to say it you are screwed.
Unless of course you are protected under the labor laws of your State which consider your services to be under the category of employee not subcontractor.
If that is the case you may have a case to sue them under as an employee and use the labor laws which apply.
However it will be a long time before you see any money if at all.
Small claims is another option but unless you know where there assets are (ie bank accounts) your efforts may be fruitless when you attempt to collect the money. A judgement is worthless if you can’t collect on it.
So what can you do? Well I am no lawyer so any advice below is to be considered “proceed at your own risk”
I would ignore their request for returning the hard drive until you receive the monies due you.
Explain to them you are not able to go to the post office because you have no money for gas to put in your car and in addition cannot afford the postage.
If they insist on having a courier pick up the hard drive then tell them that will not work either because you are never home as you now have to ride a bicycle 40 miles to your current job at 7-11 which is barely supporting yourself and three small children.
In a nutshell there are no options which will work until they pay your invoice which will enable you to have the time, money and effort to send the hard drive back.
Put it in their court to solve their problem and not make it your problem to resolve it for them.
In other words if they try to F@#k with you , then you just F#$k them back.
It’s a mean world out there. Be bold and brave but hold your ground.
But you could also trust them and return the drive at their expense, wait it out and maybe get paid or maybe not.
It’s all a matter of how much you trust and believe their word as well as how screwed up the company was well before they declared it quits.Tony Salgado
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From you test in which you swapped a decklink into your mac I assume you have decklink driver installed also in addition to the AJA drivers?
Well that sounds like a possible user configuration error.
Clear out the BM drivers and if needed do a clean install of the AJA drivers, FCP and the Huge drivers if needed.
Tony Salgado
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(4) core mac’s will be available in two weeks per my discussion this morning with SteveJobs.
He was not suppose to tell anyone but it sort of slipped out.
Please keep this between you and me as I don’t want to get Steve in trouble at work.
Tony
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30m= about 90 ft so no problem sending video or audio down that length.
However finding rca cables in that length without having them custom made will be the challange.
So you may find it cheaper to use adapters from rca to bnc and back again for the video as well as rca to xlr and back again for the audio.
Tony Salgado