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| | | | |  | Best m4v compression settings?by Michael Garber 7 years agoHi All, I'm not getting the best results exporting movies to M4V for iPod iTunes viewing out of FCP. I was wondering if you all could perhaps recommend some other software to do the job Is Compressor | | | | |
| | | |  | Ideal Block Size for Sata Raidby Rennie Klymyk 7 years agoI'm configuring 2-300GB sata drives to a raid and am wondering what the ideal block size is. Typically I'm editing in DVCPRO50 and Betacam, 8 bit. The default size in Tiger Disc Utility is 32K but I'm | Re: Ideal Block Size for Sata Raid by Michael Garber 7 years ago Hi Rennie, I have been trying to figure out the same thing - I have an 8-drive set. I found this post on Apple's discussion board. Perhaps it can help. http: discussions.apple.com message.jspa message
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| | | |  | Kona 2 + Panasonic D5 deckby Michael Garber 7 years agoHi All, I'm going to be doing onlining something using D5. Up until now I've only used HD-CAM or HD-CAM SR. Has anyone used a D5 deck to capture and lay off 10-bit HD uncompressed with the Kona 2 If s | Re: Kona 2 + Panasonic D5 deck by erik hansen 7 years ago Just check to make sure that you are using the Panasonic RS-422 device control settings. Like any deck you should also calibrate it to make sure that you are getting accurate pulls & layoffs. I use a
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| | | |  | Converting PAL to 23.98by Michael Garber 7 years agoI tried to use cinema tools to conform PAL to 23.98 and was unable to do so. Has anyone had any experience with this The footage is 1080-50i HDV. Thanks, Michael | | | | |
| | | |  | HDV to DVCPro HDby Paul Belanger 7 years agoI have a project where half of my tapes (DVCPro HD) have already been captured. I have 18 other HDV tapes that need to be captured. Can I capture the HDV tapes in Final Cut Pro 5 using the DVCPro HD s | | | | |
| | | |  | KONA 2 usageby Chris Poisson 8 years agoI am thinking about getting a KONA 2 card for my G5, and my sales rep says that's all I would need. (funny, you'd think a sales rep would try and sell me the moon) I would be replacing a Decklink SP w | | | | |
| | | |  | How good and reliable I/O is?by Lebrett 8 years agoI am considering AJA I O for a very near buy. This station would replace an old Avid Media Composer 7.2 on a Mac. That suite is very reliable but is too aged for our taste. AJA I O hardware would inte | | | | |
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| | | |  | HDV and the Kona 2?by Michael Garber 8 years agoHi All, (fyi, also posted this in the Kona forum) Next week, I will be color correcting, filmlooking a 2 hour concert that was shot in HDV and upresing it to HDCAM. The footage was captured and edited | Re: HDV and the Kona 2? by Tim Kolb 8 years ago How are you bringing your HDV in It's not coming in through the Kona is it The primary issue here is that SDI doesn't natively handle non-square pixels as far as I know. If there is a preset, it must
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| | | |  | Rocketraid vs. Sonnet for SATA Raidby Michael Garber 8 years agoHi, Was wondering what opinions people have about each of these cards. I purchased a Sonnet eSata-8 for my 8-drive SATA raid, but have heard that others are recommend the Rocketraid from Highpoint wit | Re: Rocketraid vs. Sonnet for SATA Raid by Kaspar Kallas 8 years ago Hi, for many people, including myself rocketraid has given me grief on connections. Rocketraid has one major benefit raid5, but if a connection fails then the raid is needs to be rebuilt, if more than
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| | | |  | superblack out of IOby Joe Murray 8 years agoI've been asked to put a logo over superblack on BetaSP for use in a live TV truck. Can I do this with FCP and IO or do I need to go through a production switcher linear suite thanks- Joe Murray | | | | |
| | | |  | What camera do you recommend?by Michael Garber 8 years agoHi everyone, Sorry for the extraordinarily basic question! I've been unusually unaware as to what's going on in the HDV world and now it's come back to bite me in that most sensitive of nether regions | Re: What camera do you recommend? by Michael Garber 8 years ago When you say the LCD doesn't show you the whole pic, do you mean that it's too light, too dark, too compressed, etc I've heard about issues with dropout using DV tape and seeing compression on fast mo
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| | | |  | Opinion on purchase of AJA IOby ED stevens 8 years agoI was at NAB and am thinking of buying an AJA io. Is this stable Is there any sync problems Are there any issues at all Also I am using a G-Raid so this is taking up the Firewire800. CAn anyone recome | Re: Opinion on purchase of AJA IO by Michael Garber 8 years ago I actually use two old ATA drives that I striped over two FW800 external cases - but I just use it as a backup and archive drive. I agree with Mitch - SATA drives striped are the way to go for 10bit U
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| | | |  | Reverse Clip Problem (Speed Change)by Robert Lawhead 8 years agoSeveral times I've needed to reverse the direction of a clip ... I highlight it, go to Speed Change and check 'Reverse' (with no speed change ... I've tried frame blending both on and off). It looks g | | | | |
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