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Re: HDV HELL - 18 years ago1. Don't forget your RAM sticks have to MATCH in a G5. Try running 4 Gigs 2. You may have a bad RAM stick 3. Are your blackMagic drivers Tiger compatible? Maybe your card needs a firmware update? 4. Are your drives RAIDED in a chain or off 3 ports of a PCI card? A Daisy chain could also be the problem. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT: Hurricane Wilma... - 18 years agoThanx a lot, Scott... puttin' the whammy on us for 4 more hurricanesby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT; what the FX1 can do in the right hands - 18 years agoVery nice ftg. 3D was nicely done, too. Someone should tell wayne before he has an aneurysm from his hatred of HDV. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: graeme and the hd100??? - 18 years ago...you better watch where your thumb goes when you hold your wienerdog like a Z1.by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: S-Video from beta cam to DV - Quality? - 18 years agoknuckles, You need to rent, borrow or buy a DAC-2 (discontinued) or a DAC-10 (replaced the DAC-2). You can connect the 3 BNC COMPONENT cables to this A/D Converter and run the firewire into the computer. Awesome piece of equipment (I love mine). It even has Black Burst so you can even use a Keyspan USB adapter with an RS-422 cable to control the machine for frame accurate batch capturing & lby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT: Hurricane Wilma... - 18 years agoThey've moved into the Greek Alphabet because they ran out of storm names (historic season). - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Opinion on 1 tb internal in new G5 - 18 years agoThere is a way to use that extra drive - plus 3 more in a 4 - drive SATA RAID INTERNALLY in a G5: SwiftData200 - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA OT: Hurricane Wilma... - 18 years agoWhere are my Central & South Florida LAFCPUG brothers? Please check in here. We are under a Tornado Warning here in Orlando until 11:00 AM today. The old stomping grounds (Ft. Lauderdale / Miami Beach / The Keys) are getting POUNDED as I speak. The West Coast (Naples / Ft. Myers) got the worst of it. Thoughts & prayers are with you. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA OT: Another Feature Film done on FCP HD... - 18 years ago"Dreamer" The list gets longer...by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: error mess. while burning dvd w/toast - 18 years ago1. Usually an error mesage needs to be "written down" in order to receive accurate help (WRITE THAT DOWN ). If it's a Sense Key error, I usually reduce the Write Speed and it fixes it. 2. Move the file being burned off your boot drive and onto a faster drive (RAID, FW800, etc) 3. Turn on "Buffer Underrun Protection" in the "Recorder Settings" I use Toast everydayby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: kona / aja / blackmagic - 18 years agoIt's not a 4 processor machine...it's 2 silicon chips with two independent 2.5GHz processor cores on each one - hence "Quad" or 4 x 2.5 GHz processing cores. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: kona / aja / blackmagic - 18 years agoIf you plan to buy a new machine in the near future, no more PCI or PCI-X cards. They are not even compatible with the new Dual Core G5 so all your old cards have to go. PCI Express is the future of the Mac so whatever you buy, make sure it's PCIe.by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT: 100,000 posts in the Cafe - 18 years agoROTFLMAO Probably Orlando, right? - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: New G5 - 18 years agoThanx Mike...need info on the Kona & Kona2 compatability. BTW: I spoke to SIIG about their cards...they said they have not tested the firewire boards in the Dual Quad PCI Express system, but they think it will work without any issues since the Firewire driver is built-in with the operating system. Waiting to hear from other compnies. More to come... - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT: 100,000 posts in the Cafe - 18 years agoSo...what does the 100,000th poster get?by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: New G5 - 18 years agoIt's not a 4 processor machine...it's 2 silicon chips with two independent 2.5GHz processor cores on each one - hence "Quad" or 4 x 2.5 GHz processing cores. Holy crap...am I glad I didn't buy the Dual 2.7 yet - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Kevin Monahan's Master's Seminar: FCP FX and Advanced Workflow - 18 years agoNo offense to Kevin who is well respected, but doesn't an advertisement like this go in the "Announcements" category?by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: memory - 18 years agoDude, you are not even in the RAM Req's ballpark. Max it out - 1.5 Gig in that old box, I believe. ...and you have to lower the allotment to 90% in FCP or things will get flakier. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: No More "Trash Talk"? - 18 years ago...same advice is given on the Avid side (trashing the MCState files) when things get weird - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT - need camera advice - 18 years agoLike I said...the Z1U records in DV, DVCAM & HDV formats. If not for anything else, I would shoot HDV, downconvert to DV in-camera and archive the HDV high rez ftg. SUMMARY: Less expensive camera / hi-rez image archive / DV format that you want. This sounds to me like a WIN-WIN-WIN situation all around. If I were you with this choice dilemma, I would arrange to take each one out for a testby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: is HDV really worth it???? - NO!!!! - 18 years agoThis technology is very new to me and I am doing a lot of reading & research. What I found out is you can shoot HDV now, archive the media, and downsample the media to DV resolution. The Sony Z1 camera can downsample the video in-camera. If you KNOW your'e editing in SD, you'll edit and deliver in SD, just like you currently do with DV, except you'll have a better picture and archived HDV forby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT - need camera advice - 18 years agoSteve, I said no such thing... the 400's image may be ever so slightly better, but it will not be THAT MUCH BETTER (to the naked eye) that you have to fork out an extra $6,000. You can shoot HDV now, archive the media, and downsample the media to DV resolution. This is the least expensive option. The Sony Z1 camera can downsample the video in-camera. You'll edit and deliver in SD, just like youby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Olympic Rings Graphic - 18 years agoDan, Even self-promo walks a thin line. A logo is a logo and there's a lot of money and legality tied up in those little grafix. You never know who will see it - especially since you competed. If you competed and can prove it, you should have absolutely no problem obtaining permission to use the logo from the IOC...especially for a self-promo piece. They might even send you the .EPS. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Olympic Rings Graphic - 18 years agoI left my mind reading helmet in the minivan The dude wrote one sentence asking for the graphic. Nobody knows what his sitch is.by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT - need camera advice - 18 years agoSteve, For the $$$, the Z1U is a steal: ? The 400 is more than TWICE the $$$ ? The 400 does NOT record HDV (DV / DVCAM only) ? The 400 is bigger / bulkier / heavier for ENG/EFP shooting ? You can get a single 8 hr battery for the Z1U Compare images. You will not see a drastic difference with the naked eye. For the $$$, you can't go wrong picking up the Z1U. That's a lot of camera for under $5by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Olympic Rings Graphic - 18 years agoJeez, wayne...Nitpicky? No offense, but I deal with dozens of corporate logos every week, and that's not very professional advice, IMHO. A logo is a Company's identity and the IOC is a WORLDWIDE IDENTITY. I would at least ASK if permission is needed. Have you ever had your wrist slapped by a company because their logo was "misrepresented" by you? I have (ONCE - and only ONCE) and it alby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT - need camera advice - 18 years agoThe Z1 records DV, DVCAM & HDV so you can't lose. I can't say enough about this camera or the images it produces. Get the G5 Dual 2.7 / 4 Gigs RAM - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: is HDV really worth it???? - NO!!!! - 18 years agoThe Canon XL H1 is a bit pricey for me personally (over $9,000 street), but it has something the other cameras don't...Uncompressed HD 4:2:2 Output. If you don't need the Unc HD Out, the Z1 is a MUCH better value. BTW - FCP 5 captured 1920x1080 HDV from the Z1 - and it's amazing ftg (the shooter didn't even know what he was doing - no lights or bounce cards - just turned on the camera). Crush thby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: is HDV really worth it???? - NO!!!! - 18 years agoI am working with HDV ftg in After Effects right now (1920x1080) and it's GORGEOUS (captured very easily in FCP 5). The Sony camera is definitely the best of the HDV crop. The camera is not great in low light situations so the operator MUST be familiar with lighting / bounce cards / etc. When the scene is lit right, the ftg is absolutely STUNNING...and a 2 minute clip is only 400 Megs. If I didn'by grafixjoe - Café LA |
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