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What is the longest amount you should digitize ?
Using mini dv tapes, digitizing to a Lacie External drive, how long can a clip be captured for safely?
-chris
(can you tell i got caught up on a project that there’s no AE and i’m trying to figure out all the stuff i long since forgot when i stopped A.E’ing? But, good to get back to my roots…arrgh…)
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DV clips are very small, you can digitize as long as you like.
But keep in mind, long clips are not the ideal way to edit. Logging the individual clips and capturing that way are always preferred to long rolls. Unless it’s just a talking head and you need it all in one continuous take.
Also, any hard drive will drop speed at 75% full, then progressively get slower as you capture.
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If I capture in chunks, I capture in 10-15 min chunks. So if a capture fails, I only have to capture 10 min, instead of it failing after nearly an hour and having to start all over again. Plus if you lose that media, it is only a 10 min capture.
The longest I go is 30 min…typically with interviews, and if the camera load is actually 30 min. Otherwise I break it up…at points where questions are asked.
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Assuming your drives can handle it, there’s no reason you couldn’t capture whole tapes. I’ve captured entire 3 hour DVCam tapes in one shot.
Now, that said, that doesn’t mean that’s necessarily a smart thing to do… If you need to send it to Soundtrack, or run a Smooth Cam filter on it, you’ve got to do it to the whole tape.
Arnie
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I’d advise to use in and out points even on whole tapes instead of direct capture, though.
I’ve seen sound audio sync issues when not doing this.
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Uli
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[Uli Plank] “I’d advise to use in and out points even on whole tapes instead of direct capture, though.”
Absolutely! I think that a lot of the problems people have with media in FCP is due to people not logging their tapes.
Arnie
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Yes, mini dv doesn’t lock audio like dvcam does. Even though it is supposed to remain with in +- 17 frames during recording it can and does drift more on long captures.
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