[Zik Staav]

hey brian.

i went all the way through the payment process until the very last page and saw NO DEMO button.
i have even entered all my credit card info…..no dice.

the only thing i didn’t press was the FINAL ORDER button as this will make the payment go through and i am not yet prepared to do so.

please advise.

-zik

[Zik Staav]

hey brain.

thanks for the advice.

i went to the website you provided but was unable to find a way to download a trial version.

i tried bringing the entire BIN into FINAL CUT PRO 6.0.5 and exporting them all as DV-AVIs but my editor back in toronto said that he wouldn’t be able to use them because they did not appear to have embedded timecode.

since we are going to have to go back to the HD footage at the end for the online process, this is not good.

any suggestions as to where i am losing the embedded timecode?

thanks again.

-zik

[Zik Staav]

weird, eh?

i thought it might be some sort of weird ADVANCED PULLDOWN but it can’t be moved in that manner.

on another message board someone wrote:”The AJA won’t do uncompressed HD, only ProRes HD. The box (and firewire connection) aren’t fast enough to keep up with uncompressed 10-bit HD. It will do uncompressed 10-bit SD, but not HD. Could that be your issue?”

and i think it might….but that means that my footage is pooched….reshoot monday!

[Zik Staav]

thanks for the reply craig, but no luck….
i got interlaced frames that were repeating in no sensible manner…

does this pattern have anything to do with ‘ADVANCED PULLDOWN’ … my post guy says it MIGHT.
i tried bringing the clips into FINAL CUT and adding them to the timeline. i selected a clip and tried to select the ‘REMOVE ADVANCED PULLDOWN’ option for the TOOLS menu but it was greyed out…..

[Zik Staav]

the umcompressed quicktimes had a weird frame repeating pattern : not the 3:2 we were expecting.

we were getting a weird pattern: 3 repeating frames then 3 single frames then 3 repeating frames then 3 single…..etc….

it was bang-on this pattern, but my POST guy says he can’t remove this with an pulldown technique.

WHAT DID I DO WRONG????

[Zik Staav]

i have v1.05 on my camera.
good to know about v1.11 and i will definitely use this in the future.

i used COMPRESSOR to do the reverse telecine.

I tried the plugin for BOTH interlaced AND progressive material but was unable to get an un-interlaced picture.

thanks

[Zik Staav]

you have to turn on the IR remote in the menu on the camera.
it’s annoying, but the remote is set to turn off after a few minutes of inactivity meaning you have to go in to the camera menu and turn it on again.

good luck.

[Zik Staav]

the criteria of the grant sponsoring the video state the final product MUST be delivered on D-BETA.
in the past, shooting on film, this was a no-brainer…
i did a 10bit uncompressed export and dubbed to tape.
now though, i am confused by what is the highest level XDCAM export i can make that is both lossless and not a larger file size than necessary.