Recent content by Margie Smith

This is not the best solution to salvage a lost P2 clip that will not import but it will work in an emergency and requires P2 Viewer. Here is what I did: >On my G4 laptop which does not have FCP installed, I opened my P2 viewer and then the lost clip which I had already stored on a LaCie hard...

I am backing up the content of a my firestore to LaCie 250g drives. I've found that I can only empty the content off of the fs-100 one time within a partition. If I fill up the firestore load it onto the hard drive-reformat the firestore shoot again and attempt to load the additional content...

What is the actual resolution of DVCPro 50 and 25 when shot in squeeze mode? Is it 720 x 480 anamorphic or is it a higher horizontal res?

Why, when I set my firestore to DVCPro50 and my HVX to DVCPro50 480i 24p do both FCP and my P2 logger tell me that the video has been recorded at a 29.97 frame rate? I understand that p it is sometimes stored as interlace but at what point does it morph back into progressive scan? Also, at the...

I am attempting to playback HVX DVCPro50 video which I shot in squeeze using FCP. 16:9 appears to be correct in both the viewer and canvas windows however the image won't appear correctly on my Panasonic LH1700 monitor. If I set the monitor to 16:9 the image is stretched and doesn't fill the...

We would like to dump the HD content of our FS-100 Firestore onto an an external 7200 RPM hard drive via MacBook so that we can expand record time while on the road without access to an edit room. We would like to have playback capability in the field via the hard drive. We are in the process of...