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best way to show client 7 hours of video
Hi Guys,
I’ve got 7 hours of DVCAM tape from a business meeting retreat this past weekend …. what would be the best way to give this material ( with visible time code) to my client for profing ?
thanks
BW -
8 Replies
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Put each hour of footage onto its own timeline (or two tapes on one timeline leaving the last tape to be on its own) and drop on the TIMECODE filter. Export this as a Quicktime REF movie, bring the REF movie into Compressor and choose one of the FAST DVD encode options and burn the disks in DVD Studio Pro.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Do you have, or have access to, a VTR with TC window character display, and a DVD recorder?
You could feed the tape through the deck, set the TC character display to on, and burn
directly to DVD (I think).
Short of that you’s have to digitize the footage, put it in a time-line, render it,
export it and put it on a disc.
Ed -
If its just for client preview I would bypass the computer and play it from your deck into a set top DVD recorder while the deck is set to show time code. Of course you will still have to make several discs but for a client preview its much faster then capturing, encoding then burning.
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[Ed] “Do you have, or have access to, a VTR with TC window character display, and a DVD recorder?
You could feed the tape through the deck, set the TC character display to on, and burn
directly to DVD (I think).”Don’t need a deck for this (although that will work great) because all DV camcorders can be set to display the TC on their video outputs.
So I agree, set the deck or camcorder to display the TC, and dub to a DVD recorder in real-time.
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True…that is the quickest way.
I was assuming (pardon me) that you wanted all the footage captured anyway, and assuming that you didn’t have a DVD recorder.
But their way is the way I’d do it. Because I have all that.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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I think it really depends on if you’ll end up putting all seven hours on your computer anyway. If you are going to, then why put another seven hours of use on your deck or camera’s heads? It would also depend on how fast your computer is. On my dual 2.7 G5 I don’t need to render DV footage with the TC Reader filter. In scenerios like yours I simply play the timeline out to a DVD burner via analog video. That way I haven’t made an additional playback pass on the camera masters and I haven’t put additional wear and tear on my deck.
Regards,
David -
i have a similar issue…
i have nested sequences in order to drop timecode generator filter on the sequence. clients have reviewed the sequences and sent notes back.
the trick is once i cut any part of the sequence the timecode resets to 0 at that point… making it impossible to find my next edit point.
is there some way to lock the timecode?
thanks.
-andy
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thanks guys … lots of good ideas 🙂
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