Whilst running for my life in yet another losing round of call of duty I saw something I thought I recognised..
http://seacowrun.com/cod-hvx.jpg
i guess whoever designed the TV studio in Call of Duty has taste in cameras :p
I'm trying to get some video from a DVD I decrypted and encoded into mpeg 4 using Handbrake into Final Cut.
Obviously it won't edit the straight up mpeg4 or any variant of .mov I throw at it so I'm turning it into a .dv file. Unfortunately nothing I do, no matter how many settings I play with...
Recording hours and hours of presentations the other day I came across this while I was putting together the final dvd's of everything. Out of probably 20 hours+ of footage I've recorded using my HVX and Firestore with version 3 firmware direct to .mov this has happened to maybe a minute tops...
I will admit that up to this point I have been sloppy with my digital backup. I've recently taken the plunge and decided to use my HVX and go fully digital and forego the safety net of DV tapes but I am left feeling very paranoid over the safety of my footage.
Most of my shooting is long stints...
I use a dual 2.5 G5 as my FCP machine and happen to have another identical one sitting behind me on another desk. Is there any particularly efficient way I can utilise this power for encoding/rendering without having to manage my media across two seperate systems? I don't suppose there's any...
I'm pretty much at the end of my patience, I'm either being completely dumb or my fs-100 or hvx200 are broken in some way.
I've set them up exactly as they're meant to be as per the manual and yet they still will not play nicely together, by which I mean they are showing no signs of recognising...