[Zak Mussig]

Hey Joshua,

I’ll check again the next time I boot into Windows, but I’m pretty sure the driver was listed sans !.

I read somewhere that people had trouble with DeckLink cards being in the audio devices list with QT 7 installed on the PC. Is that an issue?

We’re only using Windows for Blu-ray authoring and Mac OS for all of the other wortk, so audio isn’t some important as long as we know it’s there. It would just be nice to use the monitors instead of the built-in speaker.

Thanks,
Zak

[Zak Mussig]

One of the original complaints was FCP complaining about the drive for the project being offline.

There’s no way around that since the scratch disk is tied to the app and not the project. Along with closing your project before quitting, you could set your scratch drive to something you know will be there like a built in media drive or (gasp) your system drive. You’re going to change it again for the next project, right?

Why not whip up a little applescript that launches FCP by opening your new template project file and then pops open a dialog box which reminds you to set you scratch disk. We all forget to reset our scratch location from time to time. It’s usually pretty benign, but can clutter up your drives.

Just a thought.

Zak

Zak

[Zak Mussig]

Phenomenal

Zak

[Zak Mussig]

The new iMac also has gigabit ethernet, and iSCSI is becoming a pretty viable storage solution… shared no less. I think with a good iSCSI storage solution and a gigabit network, the new iMac is a great machine for the educational market or low to middle-end post environments. I won’t be tossing out my Mac Pro, but I may get one for the house and actually do projects at home again. I’ve only had a Powerbook G4 at home for about a year now.

While I’m posting… I’ve been away on vacation (got married), so I haven’t been on the forum in a bit. I’m super impressed with the snazzy new navigation, so props to somebody.

Zak

[Zak Mussig]

I’m with Walter on this one. You aren’t going to connect the maximum amount of firewire devices and make it work, but a deck and a drive will be just fine.

I think the new iMac is a dream for editing on a budget or for student labs. With gigabit ethernet you could even use a shared iSCSI storage solution with a lab of them.

I love my Mac Pro, but I would be much more excited about building and maintaining a lab of editing machines now than a few years back… which is when I actually did that.

Zak

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[Zak Mussig]

Hey Dan,

I’d imagine it would be easier to choose a card and use a converter to get any other sources into it.

You just have to weigh your sources, monitoring needs, and mastering format and then make the call.

Zak

[Zak Mussig]

Not trying to be THAT guy… but here goes.

If you’re planning to keep and install all of that software on your new Mac Pro, you should really do a fresh install and not advertise it for sale with all of the software.

Just saying,
Zak

[Zak Mussig]

DV can be a pain because of the compression. I’m a big fan of dvGarage’s dvmatte pro. I’ve only used it with HDV, but it’s designed to work around the color sampling of lower-grade formats like DV and HDV.

This is a $200 plug-in, so maybe not the way to go if cost is a higher priority than quality. Sometimes we all just have to work with what’s already in front of us.

If that doesn’t work for you, I would still stay in FCP unless you have AE. Garbage matte your footage and use multiple instances of a keyer rather than trying to stretch one to do everything.

Hope that helps,
Zak

[Zak Mussig]

That sounds like you’re recording to anamorphic DV instead of HDV. Please don’t take that as condescension, it’s just the first thing that I thought of. Also, maybe your camera display is just set to underscan. Print to Video isn’t going to scale your video if it can’t play it back, it’s going to drop frames. Assuming you don’t have an NTSC or Professional HD monitor, you should at least hook the camera up to a TV when you’re mastering. If you have an HDTV, that’s even better. Send bars out of your camera and “calibrate” the TV the best you can.

[Zak Mussig]

Not trying to be contentious, but I think FCP can do both of the tasks you mentioned without too much pain.

Want to slip a clip hit “S” and click and drag the clip right or left.

Of course you ca render a layer. Select a track (“ttt” to select hte tool and click) then render selection (Command-R). Done.

Based on your other complaints, this may be too much clicking or too many eys to press for your liking, but it works.

Hope that helps,
Zak