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Re: Sound & Cost Affective Shared Media Management - 12 years agoYep! You are right on all accounts! :-) Drobos, but sharing Was my concern. Yeah, FCP server is totally mislabeled. I snagged a copy used for like $70 just to see if it would be helpful in sorting. For the near future, we refuse to go to FCP X, so we'd get A little mileage from it. I am DEF looking for the most economical SAN solution. Thanks! Danby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: Sound & Cost Affective Shared Media Management - 12 years agoThanks guys. We have a Mac G5 tower, and a new MacBook pro. I might not be explaining myself and my needs the best. It's not "safety" storage issues...I need a solution where multiple Editors can access the same single bank of footage, from two different Computers, using two different copies of FCP, via two different projects simultaneously. We are working in Pro Res, 720p.by jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Sound & Cost Affective Shared Media Management - 12 years agoHey guys. Sorry to post so such a broad topic. Here's my current situation.... After six years of grinding it out solo and via sub-contractors only, I'm excited to be able to add a part-timer to our staff as an asst./additional editor. My issue is this; I'd estimate that 75 percent of our workload comes from a 12 month client (hey, no business advice-I know that's less than ideal! :-), an aby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA outputting HD footage for a broadcast spot - 12 years agohey guys..... sorry for a such basic question..... we mostly (near exclusively work online and dvd, not broadcast....) We recently helped out a friends media company and produced a spot for their client, for local broadcast. It was shot it 30p 1920 x1080... The final cut timeline we worked is also the 1920 x1080i.... Looking at all the tech specs for the local networks, they all liby jawwbrakerdan - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: HELP! AVCHD card/ data transfer issue - 12 years agosorry for being absent, had been on a shoot! thanx so much both for responding! I think since I'm working in FCP and Quicktime based footage in general, I'm gonna give clipwrap a whirl first. thank you!by jawwbrakerdan - Café LA HELP! AVCHD card/ data transfer issue - 12 years agohey all. Looking for some help, maybe even more on the "computer side".... we execute a vast online video program for a client, shooting in the AVC codec. When we "pros shoot," we use the Panasonic HMC 150. The client, based in the UK, also shoots some stuff themselves with Panasonics prosumer model. Here's our issue. They just sent me a harddrive from their shoot,by jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Log and transfer issues: SD cards & macbook pro - 13 years agoRun across and interesting situation, which my collaborator and I have different opinions on... -shooting with the Panasonic HMC-150 -shooting onto SD cards... -when using log and transfer, and using a macbook pro on location, the footage comes in with cliches/artifacting. It appears consistently, and in the same spot. -it happens on two different macbook pro machines -it happens wheby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: Insane Canon XH-A1 Capture/input/playback issue - 13 years agoDan, Awesome thank you. It sounds like you maybe have some HDV experience yourself? We are not stoked by the format in the least and use P2 in several other job situations, but long story short, the A1/A1S and hence HDV are the best total solutions for this project. :-( Again, at this point, bigger than this particular shoot is we are documenting a season/ several extreme sports events,by jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: Insane Canon XH-A1 Capture/input/playback issue - 13 years agoDerek is correct. This is all about the tapes and playback. FYI, we are capturing to an internal though. Thanks to both you. danby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Insane Canon XH-A1 Capture/input/playback issue - 13 years agoHey guys looking for help to a mind boggling set of circumstances. -Recently had a two-camera shoot of an extreme sports event in Huntington Beach, CA. -cameras used: XH-A1. XH-A1S. -same batch of tape stock -shooting HDV 24 -XH-A1S footage=perfect friday, saturday, sunday -XH-A1 footage=perfect friday, saturday, all four tapes from Sunday Massively flawed. It should also be noted thby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: HDV Capture/input issue - 14 years agofound it and fixed. Thanks to all. For anybody else encountering, the key fixes/ proceduers were... -the device setting for HDV 1080p24 is only accessible via the "easy set up" option. I was mistakenly looking for it under device settings in audio/video set up pull down -deselecting the abort capture option -when in log and capture, deselecting the the stop/start new clip optiby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: HDV Capture/input issue - 14 years agoyou'd think right? lol I'm using FCP Studio 3 so yeah, Final Cut 7.... these are my choices...note the 24 is the custom one I made off the basic firewire... can I email you a screen grab? or how do i post it here?by jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: HDV Capture/input issue - 14 years agough. Okay.... FCP Studio no longer offers that as a device option-HDV 108024p.... the only HDV device option is actually a 1080i50 ???? Can I just duplicate that, then change the frame rate and i to p? thanksby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: HDV Capture/input issue - 14 years agoHa no worries. Thanx for your prompt help, as always! I'll go at it that way 2mmorow. Don't know why I didn't think to set the capture that way. We are begrungingly involved in HDV. We film some actions sports, & the Canon lenses are currently the best solution. So much as we'd like to look at some other stuff, this is where we are at. Thank you! Danby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA HDV Capture/input issue - 14 years agohey..we are having a little trouble bringing footage into fcp. Footage is shot in HDV acquired via the Canon XHA1. Here's the issue- -when capturing, everytime there's a dropped frame or a timecode a separate clip is made. So 1 tape is coming in as 58 little clips. We figure we could fix the issue by going into our user prefs and turning all the dropped frame controls off, but it makby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: Capturing footage shot 24F on the Canon A1 - 14 years agooh another shoot, more capture issues. :-) Okay.... I have footage shot on the A1 via 24FA mode (orange F for owners of the Canon A1 or A1s) which should be 2:3:3:2 pulldown. -I capture the tape in FCP using the 2:3:3:2 remove. -Footage is 23:98. -When opening it as a quicktime file, sync is on, the visual sound & speed is proper. -However, when looking at in Final Cut, both viaby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: Capturing footage shot 24F on the Canon A1 - 14 years agoworks awesome-except for one last battle...lol... the footage is now no longer 16:9. I've played with some compressor settings, but it still doesn't change it. any last suggestions? oops got your last suggestion. thanx!by jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: Capturing footage shot 24F on the Canon A1 - 14 years agothanks again, to both. Dave on the compressor solution. You mind walking me through it a bit. Do I follow this procedure... 1.bring the captured footage into compressor 2.place a DV/NTSC anamorphic setting on it 3.frame controls on 4.change to reverse telcine 5.do I make any changes in the video settings? 6.do I change it from 29.97 to 24? 7.from interlaced to progressive? 8.fromby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: Capturing footage shot 24F on the Canon A1 - 14 years agothanks to both. I did notice the A1 has a 2:3:3:2 option with the 24F SD mode. However, you have to dig and change it. (which we did not. lol) it defaults to 2:3. I will jump on the mentioned site. Hey Jeff-so are you saying/thinking if we actual shot in in the 2:3;3:2 24F option, used that capture set in FCP, and worked in 24 timeline we'd have nice footage without the xtra frames?by jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Re: inputting HDV from A Canon A1 - 14 years agoawesome. worked perfect. thank you danby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA Capturing footage shot 24F on the Canon A1 - 14 years agoHey guys. Having a bit of trouble with some footage we shot, our first shoot with the Canon A1. We shot SD, 16:9, 24F (going for that film/progressive look but its going to internet and later DVD) 2:3. When we capture it and bring it into Final Cut, even using the 2:3:3:2 pulldown option we get the following results. A. in 29.97 timeline, we get the extra "inserted two frames"by jawwbrakerdan - Café LA inputting HDV from A Canon A1 - 14 years agohey guys, pretty basic but I'm hitting snag. Using my Canon A1 as the deck, version 6.06. of Final Cut, and trying to input footage shot HDV 24F I cannot get FCP to 'recognize" the deck. my capture settings are: -device: HDV firewire basic -capture present: HDV As per the manuals instruction, the camera has been placed in STD HDV playback mode, with Convert down OFF. It shouby jawwbrakerdan - Café LA |
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