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Recording Studio/Audio-Video Post Production, moving & surplus Online auction - 6 years agoRecording Studio/Audio-Video Post Production, moving & surplus: Recording Equipment, Pro Tools, Mixing Boards, controllers, audio and computer peripherals, stands, cables, video machines, video monitors, video peripherals, patch bays, computers... For browsing and bidding, the online auction is here (Ends Friday Sept 8th, 2017): Thanks.by Mikek - lafcpug Market old manuals - 12 years agoWe have some old paper manuals for FCP version 5 and 6. And old manuals for older versions of Pro Tools. No need for them here anymore. Hate to just throw them away if they are of use to anyone. If you want them -- let me know. email me back mike@tfpost.comby Mikek - lafcpug Market Re: Teranex vs. Kona 3 with FCP for hi-def upconverts? - 14 years agoStandalone, all the methods look reasonable, but side-by-side, Teranex conversions are a standout compared to what a deck or a Kona card can do. We have both Teranex minis and a Teranex Xantus, which can do the job. I apologize for the self promotion on this site, but as it seems relevant, please know that you can contact us (Tree Falls Post/Clonetown) for this kind of work in L.A. Email meby Mikek - Café LA Re: FCP 23.98 to 59.94 - 14 years agoThe other issue is that in our experience: Kona setups occasionally not frame accurate on layout to HDCAM and HDCAM SR. We have a couple of systems here and this is true regardless of system or deck used. We don't have this issue with SD, and almost never with 23.98 layout, but about 1 in 4 attempts to layout in 29.97 will be off by a frame or two in one direction or another. We have taken aby Mikek - Café LA Re: OT--DVD duplication/replication in Los Angeles - 15 years agoWe offer dvd duplication services. Give us a call and we can discuss. We will need to verbally quote 500 but you can grab a rate card here:by Mikek - Café LA Re: Can you burn Blu-Ray on Regular DVD? - 15 years agoI ran into this thread on the Roxio site last week. Make a click for good info.by Mikek - Café LA Re: Print to video vs edit to tape - which to use? - 15 years agoAside from definitely just feeling more solid, Edit To Tape is also the way to go when you are trying to lay to a specific start time, such as lining up bars/tones/slate, and first frame of picture to exact time code numbers to meet specs or accepted industry practices. Print to Video about the same as winging it into a tape manually without that precise control. Print To Tape however, is somby Mikek - Café LA Re: Where can i rent an HDCAM SR deck? - 15 years agoNot to over self plug, but we offer this service and do these kinds of layoffs all the time. We have the HDCAMSR 5500, the Digibeta deck, Kona 3, and a raid that can handle the data. Be happy to cut a LAFCPUG friendly rate. Call or email me: Mike Klinger (323) 850-6608 clone@clone-town.comby Mikek - Café LA Re: Uprez from DVCpro50 to Digibeta or HD - 16 years agoAnd I may have (falsely?) assumed that RMC was in LA. If not, find a comparable service provider in your area and follow my 4 step plan. If you can't find a provider, there's alway mail order to/from LA.by Mikek - Café LA Re: Audio ducker? - 16 years agoJust to be clear-- you are asking about sound ducking -- like you might use to control sound under voice track-- not "Automatic Duck," which is a similar sounding thing but a totally unrelated software for file translation. My businesses handle both sound and video, but I am originally an audio post mixer by trade, and I still mix. The best ducker I ever "heard" was a hardby Mikek - Café LA Re: Uprez from DVCpro50 to Digibeta or HD - 16 years agoI'm in line with Shane's thinking: 1.) Keep the project in SD, getting the project to HD so you take advantage of an available DVCproHD deck sound like a world of pain and will get you nowhere better in the long run. 2.) Finish up your project in FCP in a DVCpro50 timeline. Then export as a self contained DVCpro50 Quicktime. 3.) Skip the output to the DVCpro50 tape -- go straight to Digby Mikek - Café LA Re: FCP6 ? HDCAM deck (J-H3) ? Kona 3: No Comm? - 16 years agoA couple of thoughts. Our JH3 unit does not have the iLink Firewire option, but if yours does, you may want to check and see if there is a menu option which switches the machine control from iLInk to 9pin. Our DVCAM deck does have such a menu and you have to pick between 9pin and firewire for control. As you are going HD-SDI you'd want 9pin. 2.) The back of the deck has a "remote in&qby Mikek - Café LA Re: Back to the subject of HD-CAM masters... can't I rent a deck and make masters myself? - 16 years agoGlad we are going to be able to help you Geno. Talk to you in a couple of weeks. As a matter of sharing tech information -- going with input video for reference is not only one way to do it -- but for those of us using the Kona card it is actually the ONLY way that it will work properly between HDCAM and Kona Card. Since we have tri-sync we still reference Kona card to tri-sync on outputby Mikek - Café LA Re: Back to the subject of HD-CAM masters... can't I rent a deck and make masters myself? - 16 years agoAssuming that the film is under 94 minutes, we (Clonetown) can do this master for about $650. Clones of the same length are $540. Call do discuss (323) 850-6608 or browse us at clone-town.comby Mikek - Café LA Re: Close Captioning in HD - 16 years agoHD CC does work differently than SD CC. It will likely need to be solved by re-encoding to the new tapes. If you need help re-encoding the finished work from CC files. We can help. www.clone-town.comby Mikek - Café LA Re: Whlch HD format??? - 16 years agoRegarding the dubbing. . . D5's and HDCAM decks have downconvert boards available as optional add-on cards which can be installed in the machine, --- so, many machines in use have this capability built in. If not, this can be accomplished with an outboard converter such as a with a Teranex. As a point of reference --- If you read the nitty-gritty of some network specs, they prohibit theby Mikek - Café LA Re: Tri-Sync issues in Kona to HDCAM layoffs - 16 years agoIn case anyone is keeping score, this will answer my own question: I found info in an AJA White paper about using an F500 HDCAM with Kona cards. The principle at least seems to apply to our SRW-5500 HDCAM too. Quoted from an AJA white paper: "Servo Ref Or Signal For Output/input: When you are digitizing, the single most important thing to remember is that the servo ref should be seby Mikek - Café LA Tri-Sync issues in Kona to HDCAM layoffs - 16 years agoFor Standard Def combinations we use our our house blackburst as ref For High Def we use our Evertz Tri-Sync box set to the proper ref frequency In every scenario (except one) we sync to these and everything is fine. Any standard def combination works fine. HDCAM to HDCAM works fine. SD to HD upconvert from deck to converter to deck works fine. HD to SD downconvert from deck to convertby Mikek - Café LA Re: DigiBeta Duplication Dance $$ - 16 years agoHi We probably missed the boat on this -- but the dub division of my company Tree Falls (clonetownHD.com), the rate card on a 124 Dbeta clone is $231. And for a group 5 of we'd probably even cut a little discount off that plus the mention of LAFCPUG would get you a little more discount even. Maybe that is in a $$ range worth out-sourcing rather than renting decks and such?by Mikek - Café LA Re: best place for transfer - 16 years agoWe can help with getting a TBC enhanced transfer done. Mike Clonetown (323) 650-6608by Mikek - Café LA Re: Is there loss of quality going from DVD to DVD? - 17 years agoI'd like to add my 2cents to your scenario-- there are a couple of subtle points in your questions, perhaps not quite replied to yet. We offer these services, so maybe I can help. First, to get clearer to a useful answer it would be good to know whether your intent is to make a few dozen, a few hundred or a few thousand disks. As one reply pointed out glass mastering is only going help you ifby Mikek - Café LA HDV Cloning, and other assorted problems - 17 years agoHelp? Originally we were asked to take 50 hours of DV tapes, make window dub vhs's and dvds as well as a time code matching dv clone. No problem. When the tapes arrived, they were labeled as HDV, which we don't have. Just in case they were mislabeled, I tried one in one of our DV decks and sure enough -- just video noise. I informed the client, and they had little information, weren't evenby Mikek - Café LA Closed Captioning Hypothetical - 17 years agoOkay this is not an actual scenario that I am dealing with, but I?m curious anyway. The hypothetical is this: A project has been mastered to Digibeta , then dubbed and encoded with closed captioning. Now there is a need for a single shot change. A normal insert into the closed captioned copy will blow away the closed captioning info during that shot. In Final Cut is seems possible to retainby Mikek - Café LA closed caption viewed thru fcp - 18 years agoRecently, I wanted to take a quick look at a minute of a digibeta that had closed caption encoding. The monitor in the fcp room has the CC decode chip. the signal was already throughputting from the deck thru fcp to the monitor via a kona card SDI in, then out the kona via component to the monitor. Yet there was no CC decode on the monitor. Later when I had a minute to play, I determined that thby Mikek - Café LA |
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