[Vince Sanchez]

We find it much cheaper to rent a DVC Pro HD and digitize the footage to a hard drive. As long as its more than one tape we’re ahead on what it would cost to have someone do them.

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel Quad Mac 2.66
AJA LHe
HD link
OSX 10.4.11
FCP Studio 2

[Vince Sanchez]

Bob Zelin wrote:
“You can choose 8 bit uncompressed Standard Def, or 10 bit uncompressed Standard Def, and not use much more bandwidth and drive space as with ProRes422,”

That’s not true as far as I’m concerned. Our 1 hr 8 bit uncompressed masters were over 70GB and had a data rate of about 23MB sec. This year we’re delivering using Pro Res and our masters are 17GB and our data rates are just slightly more than the DV we used to use offline. Now we start in ProRes and never have to do an online upres. A couple of our aux edit bays can still edit pro res over the network like with DV, we could never do that with uncompressed. The quality if great and we have no plans for going back to uncompressed.

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel Quad Mac 2.66
AJA LHe
HD link
OSX 10.4.11
FCP Studio 2

[Vince Sanchez]

I have gone back and read my monitors manual, it is a Samsung 19inch series 330 LCD TV. They say the HDMI input can take a signal from a DVI to HDMI connector. It also says in the manual that it can accept among other many other resolutions a 1920×1080 signal.
Again my problem seems to be that I can input a signal from my mac pro and powerbook just fine. My LG 19 inch monitor can get a signal from the HD link. There is just NO communication between the HDlink and the Samsung. What could be missing from the signal that would prevent the Samsung from seeing the HDlink.
Here is a link to the manual, on page 36 there is a detailed description of how their HDMI input is implemented and what it accepts. Maybe it can tell someone what is missing from the signal.

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/download/supportDown.do?group=televisions&type=televisions&subtype=lcdtv&model_nm=LN19A330J1D&prd_ia_cd=02010100&disp_nm=LN19A330&mType=&dType=D&vType=R

Thanks
Vince

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel Quad Mac 2.66
AJA LHe
HD link
OSX 10.4.11
FCP Studio 2

[Vince Sanchez]

I have only been trying to output HD footage DVCpro HD at 720p.
The Samsung doesn’t even see the HD link, it says no devices connected. Yet as soon as I move the cables to one of my computers the monitor connects to the computer and it works perfectly.

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel Quad Mac 2.66
AJA LHe
HD link
OSX 10.4.11
FCP Studio 2

[Vince Sanchez]

The HD link works when its hooked up to a 19″ LG monitor. The Samsung works when it is hooked up to my Macpro or my G4 powerbook, this is done using the DVI to HDMI adapter that came with the HDlink.
The only configuration that does not work is when the HD link is connected with this adapter through HDMI to the Samsung.
The problem seems to be that the HD link is not putting out something that the Samsung needs to see it as an HDMI signal.
Is there a way to see what firmware HD link is using? I am using the HD link utility 2.5.1.

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel Quad Mac 2.66
AJA LHe
HD link
OSX 10.4.11
FCP Studio 2

[Vince Sanchez]

Luke, thanks for the input.
What I have been trying to do is send 720p 59.94 to the HD link. At this point the HDTV does not acknowledge the HD link. I get a message no devices connected.
If I move the connection from the HD link to the mac DVI it works immediately. When I move the cable back, I get the message, check your cable, no signal.
the HD link is about 6 months old and came with the DVI to HDMI adapter. I also you might misunderstand what I’m doing because my profile was so out of date. See updated profile below.

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel Quad Mac 2.66
AJA LHe
Blackmagic HD link
osx 10.4.11
FCP Studio 2

[Vince Sanchez]

I’ve owned 5 refurbished laptops over the years and never had a problem with any of them. I’ve also owned at least the same amount of towers and they’ve all been fine too.

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
G5 DP2.0ghz 2.5gig ram
AJA IO
OS10.3.9 QT7.01
3X250gb SATA Hitachi HD 8meg cache stripped in array
Sonnet 133mhz Sata card
OWC firewire card

[Vince Sanchez]

CC 3 way is a good free way to go, but if you like automatic then there is a plugin that works great, part of the grading sweet. Made by an australian guy and only 89.00 for the plugins. I use it all the time.

https://www.thegradingsweet.com/home.html

[Vince Sanchez]

For the shows we’ve delivered its always -20dbFS for digibeta and 0db VU for analog (Beta SP) for the tones. Program level not to exceed -10dbFS on the digibeta. To do this we mix audio to hover around -20 and set the peak limiter to brick wall at -10dbFS. This seems to work really well when dubbing to Beta SP, gives us a full level without overmodulating the SP deck.

[Vince Sanchez]

[Michael Alberts] “I solved my BCC4 Chroma Key issue as well. Apparently if you have FCP’s playback control set to “Unlimited RT” the Keyer doesn’t work. If you set it to “Safe RT” the Keyer decides to work. This may also be true of other BCC4 filters.”

That’s it! Tried it on my machine and that’s the fix. So far all the other plugins seem to work okay.