Michael Slowe
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Like the man said, no useful information. What format and codec are the videos shot on, do you have an editing programme in your computer with which you can prepare the material for encoding. Do you have DVD encoding software eg BitVice, Compressor, Titanium Toast, Studio Pro? Do you have a burner in that computer?
Michael Slowe
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Haven’t seen this but I use Titanium Toast 10 to encode and burn my BD’s and I get too light a picture throughout. About half a stop too light, something to do with the Gamma? Mind you this is from Media 100 not FCP.
Michael Slowe
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Andy, you surprise me. With earlier versions of BitVice I also found this but not with the latest (2.9 I think). I use Purifier as well which is now built in, but only use level 1. My DVD’s are now equal to my tape masters in quality and can only see artifacts if say,we pan over a building or fence, and even then only slight. Innobits have done a lot of work with BitVice, do you have the latest version?
Michael Slowe
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Frank, this has long been a problem, particularly for Media 100 users. The old pre Intel versions did a hardware down convert through the great (expensive) Hdx board. Apart from the expense that board would not operate with the new Intel Macs so was discontinued. The downscale is now done differently within Media 100 and is not quite as good.
Eric is right to suggest a third party application and there are many around. If you’re going to SD DVD the best downscale is within the BitVice DVD encoding application, much superior to that within Media 100 but of course you don’t want to end up with a DVD. Mind you, I do find that HD original material still looks better when downscaled (even by Media 100) than my old DVCAM original does, I’m surprised to see that you don’t find this.
Michael Slowe
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Tom, the best explanation I have seen is that given by Doug Jensen in his great EX workshop published on DVD by Vortex Media, in my opinion viewing this DVD is a must for anyone new to these cameras. He points out that Sony have deliberately set the defaults fairly ‘neutral’ thus enabling users to do their own ‘tweaking’.
Having said that there have been many discussions on this forum on Picture Profiles which no doubt you could access.
Michael Slowe
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Thanks Floh, I’ve already been told that my Media 100 colour space point doesn’t apply in my case as I’m in ProRes.
Where do I find this “Computer 0-255” setting in Media 100 before I export and why to ProRes when I’m already in it?
Many thanks for your speedy reply, I always have faith in Floh!
Michael Slowe
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Olly, I can try and answer your question with what I do. I play the VHS tape and connect the player to a DV deck, typically one that takes miniDV tape cassettes, or a DVCAM deck such as the Sony DSR 11 or 20. The connection I have to use is usually composite (that’s the small jacks, yellow for video, red and white for audio), or, if your VHS player has an svideo output that would be preferable quality wise.
Once I have the DV tape I just ingest the video into my edit system in the normal way. All quite straight forward if you think the process through. If you haven’t got the kit any post house will give you a DV copy of your VHS tape.
Michael Slowe
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Brandon, Don is so so right with his advice. I was new to this camera (as we all were I suppose) and I followed that route and (so far!) have had no problems.
Why are you converting the BPAV files to .mov if you’re not ready to bring the media in to your edit system? I only do that, with the Sony Transfer software, when I want to start my edit. The BPAV folders (complete) are safer stored away on various drives, after all they don’t occupy all that much space given the capacity of modern external drives. The only question you might raise is that you want to view the material from time to time. I believe you can do this with Clip Browser, although I don’t use that myself.
Michael Slowe
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I too am a big fan of Media 100, having graduated from editing film 15 years ago. I found it very similar to editing film in many ways as it is so intuitive and that is its strength when compared to other systems. Certainly anyone new to video editing is not going to find any other application so user friendly and as you said,it does all that is required and you could point out that most, particularly FCP, have a very steep learning curve for newcomers.
Maybe some aspects, such as colour grading and selection of frame areas, might be done better in FCP but generally Media 100 is, to my mind, far preferable.
Michael Slowe
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Amanda, provided you export your film as a ‘self contained’ movie it should be fine as all the required media will be in that file. A ‘by reference’ export means, by definition, that reference to the media has to be available. You had better check me on this but that is what I’ve always been led to believe. A self contained export takes rather longer than a by reference one which tells me I’m probably correct.
Michael Slowe