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Printing/Editing DV Masters to firewire external drive
I am attempting to put masters on a firewire hard drive rather than tape media. They will be native miniDV format. What is the procedure to assure they are NTSC 29.97. Typically, I “Edit to Tape” via firewire, and my 23.98 timeline is NTSC 29.97 ready. I’m not sure how to get the same result for a file on a hard drive that I can send to a station for uplink. Please advise.
jmf
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Very simple.
Export > Quicktime Movie > “Make Self-contained”
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Notwithstanding inherent DV compression, this would result in an uncompressed media file?
jmf
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[jmf] “Notwithstanding inherent DV compression, this would result in an uncompressed media file?”
Its the same file as making a FieWire copy to a tape.
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That should read “FireWire” (I wish I had paid attention in typing class).
You should choose to export with “Current Settings” (with are DV, in this case).
BTW, why not just make a DV TAPE and send it to the TV station?
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If you know of a PBS uplink source that can handle miniDV tapes let me know. So far I’m having better luck finding an uplink that can a firewire interface than miniDV decks.
jmf
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[jmf] “So far I’m having better luck finding an uplink that can a firewire interface than miniDV decks.”
In your city?
Or are you needing to SHIP the HD to them somewhere else?If they are in town, could you make an appointment, and take them your camera with the tape and stay as they dub it to a format they have in-house?
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No, we are in Buffalo and the station is in Denver, also there are 26 shows to uplink. PBS stations have relied on BetaSP all these years so I need to find one that has updated their equipment. Although I understand that microwave uplinks are analog, I am trying to preserve quality by avoiding any other linear conversions.
jmf
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[jmf] “Although I understand that microwave uplinks are analog, I am trying to preserve quality by avoiding any other linear conversions.”
If you put these on HD, how is the uplink site going to get it to analog to xmit?
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I imagine there is a hardware converter, but I’m guessing. Maybe this is a problem with uplinks. The files are too large for the internet, bicycling is impractical. Any ideas?
jmf
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[jmf] “I imagine there is a hardware converter, but I’m guessing.”
Guessing?
What did the uplink folks tell you they wanted?
If they want BetaSP, then that’s the way to go.
Rent a BSP deck and dub to it.
You say you want to save transfers but if its going up as analog, and BSP is what they are used to… SOMEBODY is surely going to dub it to BSP before they uplink it. (But now I’M just guessing).
I still think there should be a way to go with DV masters from you, and uplink some other way (maybe from a PBS station that HAS DV, or DVCPRO in-house.
You should to TALK to the chief engineer(s) at some stations where this is going to play and see what THEY think.
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