Vik Narayan
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Thank you. I’ll investigate further.
Vik Narayan
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Thank you Bryson. I really appreciate your insight. Btw, does NSA provide Cat-DV training-only deals or is it part of your turn-key installations only?
I am purely in test mode right now and am not anywhere near working on the “real” production folders. Even at a test level, I plan to maintain a copy of the original camera media that will live through the production process. I am an editor first, a long time CatDV Pro client user and fairly new to the server/worker world, but am very interested to learn and get a handle on this. If there are any good resources to use as reference, please guide me. I can convince my employer to getting relevant books/courses if available.
Btw, can CatDV perform a sort by Date Created? I will try adding date/time to the clip names to see if it works for us.
Thank you again
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Thank you Bryson
The floating external drive sounds like a great idea. I’ll try it out.
Vik Narayan
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Good questions Alex. I should be more specific. I am getting choppy playback overall. I can understand this for parts of the time line that are red (with multiple unrendered effects) but it is somewhat choppy even in sections that are yellow. This behavior is somewhat inconsistent – sometimes, it will play smoothly but if I stop for some reason and start again, it will get choppy even though I did no modifications to the edit.
Since I have 16gigs of ram, a mercury enabled graphics card, an i7 processor and am working on compressed media mostly (5D, P2 AVC Intra, XDCam), I am thinking the culprit should be the HDD bottleneck, especially having the OS, app and cache on the same physical drive.
Vik N
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Gentle bump
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A little OT here but since you are talking about PP CC keyboard shortcuts, I am just getting into PP and am looking to order a PP keyboard for my mac. Should I wait till after PPCC is released? Will it make a difference in the standard shortcuts at all?
Any advice is appreciated.
Vik Narayan
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Doug
Unfortunately we only have an HDCam player, not a recorder in the edit studio. So our HD archive as well as the 720p delivery go to disk. It is good to know that Compression does a better job than FCP with frame rate changes. So you suggest recapturing in SD for SD deliveries? -
Michael
The show has been shot at 23Psf for the last 8 seasons primary for the aesthetics. We deliver to one station at 720p59.94 as a QuickTime file. The other 2 accept DVCam tapes. We may secure another distribution channel abroad soon that is keen about 24 as an easy conversion to 25fps. -
Rafael
Thank you for the clarification. I do have a Kona3G io card but one of the stations accepts the show as a QuickTime 720p59.94 file. I wanted to see if I can achieve the conversion without field blends across cut points-hence my question about creating timelines with multiple settings. Will I avoid field blends if I export to compressor directly from the timeline (as against converting a self contained movie).
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Hi Neil
I was not aware of Final Share till Bob mentioned it. I plan to look into that as an option as well.
As for the AVID, this was in Chennai – the first was a Film Composer brought in by Selva of Audio Media, which was really a feature film recording studio. Selva had the AVID distribution rights for India at that time. The second machine came to an editing studio called TeleVisuals, also in Chennai. I remember people coming from all over the country to see this machine in action. Soon, Prasad Studios acquired a couple. I’m not sure when they arrived in Mumbai, but by the time I moved to Mumbai in 1997, they were everywhere.
Vik Narayan