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Capturing and Archiving DVD material
I finished a project shot in BetaSP. Some footage was submitted to me on DVD. Fine. Of course not as resolute, but passable for what it was (runway models to be more precise).
After I archived the project via Media Manager, I restored it a few days later. The BetaSP footage and all associated effects were fine. However the DVD material clips restored with the wrong content; the master clip was there, though. Same duration as in the sequence, but not the content I chose.
I was just rippin’ I/O’s off a 20 minute captured clip right out of the viewer into the seq.
I originally captured the DVD material in “non’controllable device” mode. Should I have laid it to tape before capturing rather than capturing straight from the DVD player?Where did I make my mistake? Thanks in advance for your help on this. Gary.
G5/AJA Io/FCP HD
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[Gary] “Should I have laid it to tape before capturing rather than capturing straight from the DVD player?”
Its one of the most often offered pieces of advice given with Off-line/On-line editing.
Always (ALWAYS) capture material only from sources with clean continuous repeatable timecode. You never know when you might need to go back to source, and the edit system MUST be able to FIND the exact frames again.
I always record “wild” sources and even voice-overs to tape FIRST, then capture (remembering to type in the precise name of each tape inserted).
It sometimes seems like a time-wasting exercise, but IF you EVER need to revisit clip(s) from the master(s)… its a LIFESAVER.
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That was my suspicion. This is the first time someone gave me DVD source material that I actually had to archive/restore. Great. Thanks for the heads up. Gary
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