Tony
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If you are using Itunes for music playback adjust the volume level within the Itunes application while leaving your external mixer input at unity.
I listen to everything from the output of my G4 routed to my Kona SD which is feeding one of my Mackie mixer inputs.
By leaving the output of the G4 at unity which you confirm by playing back tone within FCP and setting unity levels on the audio board you can playback other sources without messing up your monitoring levels for FCP.
The key is using an external audio mixer like a Mackie as the gear between your computer and audio speakers.
Tony Salgado
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I forgot to mention what about dealing the sale of gear passing thru Customs and any user taxes or additional importation “fees” which are due.
Another major reason for a US office.
Tony Salgado
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Damn Steve,
That was a great post filled with very valuable advice for any newbie thinking about swimming amongst the sharks.
I sincerely hope the original poster takes heed of your great advice.
Tony Salgado
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I would be very concerned about service and tech support. Can you imagine the cost and trouble it would be to try calling Russia for tech support in the middle of the night or on weekends?
Unless the company has an actual office and service center with real employees here in the US any such great deal would be less so.
But then again if you are based on that side of the world it may be more ideal for you.
Tony Salgado
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Those are lil robotic bugs introduced by dirty bnc cables.
Please put your cables in the washer for a quick rinse, air dry and you should be fine.
But seriously folks what you are seeing is VITC timecode. You don’t need to get rid of them as they are essential to your post production workflow.
The exact placement of where VITC timecode ends up is determined either by the camcorder or vtr menu settings which allow selecting what video line the VITC will be recorded to.
If you are viewing the anamorphic image on a non native 16×9 monitor in letterbox mode you will see the non active video area which includes the VITC timecode.
Tony Salgado
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No stick with 10 bit so you can impress the client with all those extra bits and the additional time you will bill on the invoice for waiting for all the renders to take place.
Hopefully the client will not object to all the extra billing and discover 8 bit would have been quite acceptable.
But seriously unless you are doing some intense color correction or effects work which is what 10 bit is ideal for 8 bit will be quite acceptable.
Tony Salgado
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I suggest renting the Jet Li (hope I spelled his name right) movie called “The One”.
Check out the ending fight scene where Jet fights his evil twin.
Don’t blink or else you will miss Jet’s supersonic fists of fury.
Tony Salgado
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Phil,
The scenerio you describe is a common misunderstanding when dealing with RT extreme in FCP.
When you change the RT extreme settings you give up image quality in exchange for more “real time” performance.
The fact that the color of the render bars changes is telling you the level of “real time” performance FCP and your CPU are able to deliver.
As Walter explained do not judge image quality via the viewer and canvas windows instead rely on an external NTSC crt monitor.
Read up on RT extreme in the FCP manual to better understand the whole process.
Other issues to consider are the hard drives you are using along with your CPU. A raid will perform faster than a single firewire drive.
You have one of the older G4 so the level of “real time” performance will be less than later dual G4 or G5’s futhermore in comparison to a G5 Quad your Quicksilver G4 would be considered “stone age”
Tony Salgado
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Ruckus,
If you are using a video card such as an AJA kona you can edit in uncompressed and then output via SDI to a dvcpro 50 deck or you could use media manager to transcode between uncompressed to dv 50.
Thanks for the update on VVTR.
Tony Salgado
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By far the best countdown or countup clock I have found is available from digital heaven (Martin Baker’s company).
Martin is great with customer feedback and modifying his plugin’s based on direct feedback he receives from end users.
The clock plugin he has allows alot of options with fonts etc.
Run don’t walk over to the digital heaven website to purchase and download.
Tony Salgado