Videomansf
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It will, but a simple FW 400 card from g-raid will fix that. Also your gaining an audio interface at the same time that you can run into the io as well. The tascam is well worth the cost.
Adam
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Do you have the vector scopes open? If so they can cause dropped frames at random.
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I love the Tascam fw-1082. It is a dream and a great solution for you. It will act as an audio interface for the monitors, and has great “dead silent” motorized faders. The cheap bfc2000 is noisy and I resent buying it every-time I am away from my mackie control. I also have a O1v, and it is very complicated, but provides massive dsp, and unbelievable patch and aux support. The O1v has a huge learning curve however, I took night classes (serious) to master it. I would go for the Tascam fw-1082, and be happy with the best of both worlds.
VM
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Yes it should. I just built a ibook G4 1.33Ghz for a client and HDV ran fine in FCP5 and imovieHD. I would first call apple, and then plan on doing a backup and reinstall of 10.4.1 and FCP5. Apple will help you out to 90 days from installation for free.
I think this is the right number:
AppleCare Support – 90 Day Warranty (800) 275-2273VM
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As I know it, the whole fcp layout is now handled by the GPU in your computer. This requires that data (ie the timeline) be driven by a dedicated GPU and not shared. In fact, “video units” now drive all of FCP. This is also the cause of the disappearance of “follow” as a playhead option. You are stuck with the timeline on one monitor. In all reality, I have never needed to see a timeline across two monitors… and I don’t know why that would ever dawn on me…
VM
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Most likely you have a slow hard disk, or one that is fragmented. For 10BitUC I use SCSI RAIDs capable of over 200MB/s. Upgrade you hard drives, and your problems should go away.
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With HDV you are best to run FW into the mac from the very camera that shot the HDV. Edit only on the mac (with camera/deck disconnected), and then reconnect the deck to run HDV out over FW for a final “monitor online pass.” You can do that at SD or HD with the deck/camera down converting the video to SD. I HAD a sony “Broadcast Grade” LCD HD for two weeks, on-lined one show and the client was so discussed with the blacks/color that I had to comp them a new online. I have found that for color, the SD down converts are fine, but for motion graphics, nothing beats even a low cost native HDTV. I now have a sony HD CRT BC monitor now, and two $1000 Samsung CRT HDTVs. Be aware that the consumer CRT HDTVs will only be 1080i although some can up-convert 720p (looks soft). LCD/Plasma TVs are only 720p and look soft with 1080i high motion.
Vm
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I have two 22″ samsung Crts at 2048×1536. From my tests there is no speed difference between one monitor and two in motion. The only problem that I can see with running DVI into a HDTV is that the HDTV will act as a monitor, and will use a different color space then if you go out of a video capture card and into the HDTV. You can correct for this as I used to before I got a kona 2. Buy a Spyder 2 from pantone (about $250) and you can then color calibrate the HDTV to ntsc standard color space with a color sync profile (just select ntsc from the colorvue menu). Also remember with HDTV setup is at 0 ire for transmission, but TV/HDreceivers manufacturers are required to add setup to 7.5ire on playback but most of the time they don’t. I shoot for 3ire for black when I know that the material is going to be broadcast on HDTV.
VM
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I have a 2.7Ghz G5 with 4GB ram. two days ago I pulled the stock ati 9650 (256MB) out and installed a ATI X800 XT, and updated the firmware. I went from 12 fps on a complex project to a rock solid 30fps. A ten second ram preview was 19 seconds, now is 8 seconds. worth every penny to me, and at $466 online plus I don’t sacrifice a pci slot, means all the difference to me. Also ATI has always had better mac driver integration than Nvidia. The 6800 vs the x800 is -+2% on all the motion 2 tests that I have seen (NAB included). Yes the 6800 is faster on the PC, but we don’t have pcs now do we. If you want real performance in motion take that $160 savings and stick it in a fast Sata, fiber, or SCSI raid. I have a Medea RTRx and I get about a 20% improvement over the internal Sata drive in motion (thats a lot more than a 6800 will give you). Plus tack on some more ram if you like to run FCP5 and motion 2 at the same time as they both will eat 2GBs.
IMHO, VM
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The XL2 only records in 60i no matter what frame rate you select. “30p ntsc” dose not exist. ntsc is only 60 fields per second. 30p is only two fields of 60i displaying the same image, not 1/60th fields. if your going back to video tape ie beta sp, idvd, or vhs, then edit as you do with normal 30i video, and skip the pulldown. If your going to DVD studio pro, film, ATSC DTV, or web find out what pulldown (2:3, 2:3:3:2) was used and turn on remove dv pulldown with that setting. you will get 24p material to edit. to go to tape, you need to add pulldown to stretch the 24p back to 30i. DV tape only runs at 59.97i and this is the ntsc standard, just like vhs.