QuickTime Recording Problems

[Rafael Amador]

[Mike Sussman] “The only footage I’m every trying to import is SD NTSC (no widescreen) imported via FireWire which should always be 720×480. But that’s the problem! 25% of the time it’s coming out with the wrong canvas dimensions. And I can’t really fix it in FCP because even if I make it fit the screen (which FCP does automatically) it just looks horrible, unsharp and distorted.”
Which clip Size and Pixels aspect do you get in the Browser?
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Mike Sussman]

Actually I haven’t tried using iMovie as the acquisition application. I just tried it once (not repeatedly to see if the problem persists). I see it creates several files but I don’t know which one I want to take.

It created a file called
clip-135-02-05 05;27;15.dv
It appears that my FCP (version 5) can can handle a .DV file format. This 30 second test created a file that was 103 MB.

(Among other files) it created a file called
Cache.mov
I wasn’t sure if I should stick to using .MOV file formats instead of using the other file that was .DV file extension.
This identical 30 second test created a file that was only 12K. I figured that it was a reference file and couldn’t possibly play but when I brought it to a different computer for testing, it seems to play fine in FCP. Huh?

So later I’ll do more testing to see if the alternating canvas size problem can be avoided by using iMovie, but is there any problem with me using the .DV files that iMovie creates (something I wasn’t expecting)?

[Rafael Amador]

[Mike Sussman] “I wasn’t sure if I should stick to using .MOV file formats instead of using the other file that was .DV”
“.dv” files (DV Stream) has lower quality audio (32Khz) doesn’t uses TC and always needs to be rendered in FC.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Seb Beresford]

Hi there and thanks for the advice, I’ll check it out.