[Wayne Van der horst]

This is probably the reason why the Seagate hd is more expensive than usual. Alot of the harddrives I use are build in Thailand. Some harddrives I.e. western digital ( black, green, etc ) became 20 to 50% more expensive !

[Wayne Van der horst]

Thank you for your advice! give’s me alot of innerpeace now i know which tapes’s I can use and which tape i should not use. Luckily the tapes i orderd arrived today. But then again info like this really helps!
thank you!!!

o and something comes to mind, im very curious.
It is that, why cant you use those othertapes. Were is the big difference. The whole mechanism? The lubricate on the tapes? Or is this basicly the same like. You dont tank Diesel when your driving Petrol?
I hope i dont sound confussing.

Thank you for your help!

Wayne

[Wayne Van der horst]

I’m sorry was not clear enough..
And did not search this forum probably I guess this is because i did not know what to search for..

I hope this description of my workflow is better.
I filmed a project on a Firestore fs5 DTE so what i shot was already packed as a Quicktime – 720p – 30-frames
Everything in Fcp was matching so no rendering etc.
I started editing.

As i later realized the people i was filming for did not have a blu-ray player or something else to play hdv. So i had to somehow downgrade my HDV footage for a SD DVD. But i was curious how it would look like ( because this is my first time filming HD ) without or slightly compression. I was not sure which compression i should take as i always used Uncompressed 8-bit for SD i decided to use 10-Bit for HDV. After waiting a hour I wanted to playback the video in Quicktime and there i noticed it looked like there was allot of gain/gamma. Way more then the original.

Before your reply’d i used a different compression type HDV720p . The results are like the orginal and it went from 126 gig to 4.18 gig’s.

How is it possible when a file is so big and it says uncompressed it looks so bad??
While a compressed one to 4.18g looks like the original??
Thank you! I now know what to do ( and do not take such a big hit again ). I first wanted to burn it with Toast 9 because i have some issues with “connecting to background process” in Compressor.
But i will search the forum for it! And do it like it should be.
Thanks in advance!!!

Best Regards, Wayne van der Horst*

*Sorry for my bad english. I’m from Holland and do not know better.

[Wayne Van der horst]

I figured out what the problem was, i ( stupidly ) used a firewire cable which was reconnected with a connecter e.g. Firewire to miniusb to firewire400.. well I used a straightforward cable, firewire 400 to 800 problem solved… thats why my mac recognized it in DV and not HDV, recently im the proud owner of the FS-5 DTE. It’s so lovely….. Thank you everybody for helping out..

[Wayne Van der horst]

Thursday it’s gonna be repared. Im sure the problem will be fixed then, Ill let you know.. thanks for the link!!

and thanks again for providing support!!

grtz Wayne

[Wayne Van der horst]

O and my mac reconigzes the JVC camera, when i want to transfer in DV mode.. when i switch to HDV it’s over.. I read a articile about a guy who had the same issue, And his ilink to HDV was fried. so had to be repared

[Wayne Van der horst]

Hi Phil,
Thanks for your comment!!

I tried the method you mentiond above earlier, and also watched the tutorial.. but still no go.. is it possible there might be something wrong with the HDV ilink switch? Or should i try a another cable? I tried all the fw ports. ( nothing else is attached to a fw port )Im sure there is no communication at all between the camera and the mac.

Thanks!!!