[Arjan]

[Arjan] Should I avoid DVD based cameras for multi-camera shoots?”
I think you answered your own question, there.

If I did I’m not sure I understand my own answer, except if you are referring to the ‘fact’ that DVD cameras record MPG which is less than ideal for editing. What I meant was, ‘Should I avoid DVD based cameras for multi-camera shoots because they have a tendency to have timecode breaks’?

[Arjan] I don’t have the camera itself nor have I tried putting the DVD in a DVD player and capturing it analog but since StreamClip is reporting timecode breaks I’m assuming that the problem is in the source DVD and not the conversion process”

That’s a major assumption in itself.

I’d certainly take a look at it coming from a DVD player.

I suppose you’re right. I I’d had the camcorder and if it had a firewire DV output I sure would have tried that. You may be right about it being too much of an assumption. I noticed that the converted DV file’s audio and video got very noticeable out of sync after 50 minutes by two frames, but when playing back through a regular DVD player it seems ok. I guess I should not put too much trust in StreamClip. I ‘fixed’ the problem by manually re-syncing the footage after every timecode break but I may see if I can borrow that camcorder to see if importing through firewire (if possible) gives better results. If that’s not possible I’ll try the DVD player thing and import it analog. But for this project I’ll probably keep the manually re-synced DV file from StreamClip.