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Dropped Frames and problems capturing.
I am transferring a DV tape trough firewire with Vegas.
2 problems1- is I get dropped frames, at the end it said I have 25 dropped frames and read the online help to optimize.
2- when I recorded the colour was really nice a bit warm maybe. I shot it with a rental, a dvx100a and now playing back for capture with my JVC DV cam, the thing is now after capturing with Vegas and playing back, everything is so dark and very yellowish, what can cause the difference in color? from playing to capture and playback with Vegas??? When playing with Vegas it looks like it was shot in a cave with a yellow gel on a readhead.
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Ok here’s an update, I rendered a small section as an mpeg2 and it is closer from the original then what’s on the timeline in Vegas, still how could i take of some of the yellow off I tried with levels, but I want to make sure I’m not gonna screwed anything down the road. Maybe I should of cheated when I did my white balance, The shoot is a corporate meeting in a hotel meting and everything was beige and burgundy.
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[mp_audiovisual] “1- is I get dropped frames, at the end it said I have 25 dropped frames”
You need to figure out why you are getting dropped frames. Sometimes it can happen at the very beginning or end of a tape. If you started/stopped the tape along the way, it could be in those areas as well. However, when capturing a tape, I expect ZERO dropped frames.
[mp_audiovisual] “2- when I recorded the colour was really nice a bit warm maybe. I shot it with a rental, a dvx100a and now playing back for capture with my JVC DV cam, the thing is now after capturing with Vegas and playing back, everything is so dark and very yellowish, what can cause the difference in color?”
“Capturing” via firewire is really a misnomer. It’s really more akin to a “file copy”. The file on the hard drive (except for your “dropped frames”) is a bit for bit copy of the tape. There IS NO COLOR CHANGES from capturing. What you see is what you have.
Now, the best way to check your colors is via an external monitor. Do not trust the computer display – instead use an external monitor for all color corrections, etc… As you’ve already seen, your OUTPUT looks different than it does on the computer screen.
Edward Troxel
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Is there anything I could change for not getting any dropped frames??
Like increasing a buffer or something??
I have a quad core procesor, so I have the speed. Now should I capture on the c drive or my secondary drive??
And what is the format that it’s been captured with??
The client wants me to only transfer the tapes to dvd only, it’s for archiving purposes only no editing neded.
Thanks
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Is there anything I could change for not getting any dropped frames??
Unless your machine is connected to the net and you’re running 6 CPU-intensive programs at the same time as you’re capturing, dropouts should not be happening.
Check out this FAQ for more suggestions.
If at all possible, capture to a secondary drive.
Drive C should be for OS & programs only.
The first thing I do when setting Vegas up on a new machine is to change all of it’s defaults to something other than C:\My Documents.And what is the format that it’s been captured with??
Captured video will show up as DV-AVI files.
The client wants me to only transfer the tapes to dvd only…
Buy yourself a standalone DVD recorder and save a lot of time (both yours and the computer’s).
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Ok I’m gonna give that a try,
I just did a 60 min tape and it came up to 111gb, why so big?
I have 6 tapes to transfer and would like to have them all on one drive so I can organized the files in a time line orderMPAUDIOVISUAL.com
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DV is approx. 13.5 GB/hr. so that’s normal.
It’s not until you convert it to MPEG-2 & AC-3 for a DVD that the file size shrinks. -
Ok thanks I guess I’m gonna transfer the compress and so on.
Ihad to go on my c drive again, I have 4 internal 599gb and most of them hare %85 full.
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