[Bouke Vahl]

there is also this:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/13/recut
(gives you an XML so you end up with a razored timeline)

However, no solution will be perfect.

Flash photography will be a problem, fast cam movements / zooms will be a problem, jump cuts will be a problem….

It’s tweaking the settings and hope for the best.
However, if you have found decent settings for your material, it is about 95 % accurate.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

I beg to differ.
PluralEyes does not work with most editing packages.
AFAIK, it only works with FCP and Vegas…
(I use mainly Avid).
Also, it needs proper sound from the cam as well.
Forget that if you use internal cam mic and tele shots, or shooting in noisy factories.
I’m not saying it’s a bad product, it works great for simple interview situations, but when it’s going get tough it gets very risky…

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Personally, i don’t like the zoom as it has no way of syncing.
So i use old fashioned timecode for that.
Since the ‘real’ recorders with TC in and out are more expensive than my camera, i decided to make my own, and that resulted in this:

https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/60/vtsrecorder/3

(mini) Laptop with a decent (external usb powered) soundcard works swell for me.
I even have wireless TC into the cam…
Not the best for run and gun work, but that’s not what i do.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

I strongly suggest you get QTchange from my site.
(it’s free).
With this, you can batch add timecode / reel info, based on the file date. (If not altered as good as FCP log and transfer)

next, i would use a renaming tool to get different names.
The biggest trouble in FCP and media linking is with identical filenames.
Having different TC will help a little there, but still you could get ‘attributes mismatch’

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

[Mitch Ives] “Tape was simple… you just put it on the shelf. Digital cards are a lot more perilous in terms of preserving the footage.I know,”

May i remind you that currently Compact flash is the same price per minute as digibeta / HDcam tapes?
(and take a bit less shelf…)

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Not sure about that…
I’m working out dropped frams that i have on a 8 gig card.
I suspect the card is not fast enough.
(Don’t let the datarate fool you, specs on cards are not met, and peaks will occur in H264)

Bigger cards are faster, so now i’m testing with 32 gig cards, hope that solves the problem.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

What you need to know VERY WELL is a couple of things:

Label each tape with a Unique name.
(If you have to redig, you have no clue what shot you need, so you must be able to insert the correct tape…)

If the tape has TC breaks, it’s no problem, but you need to stop capture before the break, and pick it up after.
for this, you normally log first, creating a list with clips and then batch capture.

If the TC resets on a tape, you’re in for a lot of work.
Make a ‘ second ‘, ‘ third ‘ reelname for that tape.
Reason, FCP (anyone actually) expects higher numbers to be more towards the end of the tape. So if half way the TC resets to 00:00:00:00, there is no way FCP can know this. It will always start rewinding while it should forward.
If you have a lot of breaks like this, forget recapture and invest in harddrive backup.

Make sure you have a decent deck with machine control.
re-capturing HDV with a cheap deck will take forever.
You can do so if you want to restore long originals, but a media-managed show with hundreds of clips will take forever.
(A decent deck winds-cues-captures in about 20 second per shot and will have trouble in less than 1 out of 100 clips. A cheap HDV setup will take up to 2 minutes (!) per clip, and will fail 1 out of 3 clips…)

Toy around first so you know what you are doing.
It is very well possible (actually, untill a couple of years ago this was common practice as harddisk were way more expensive than time/machine wear, and that was with 50K decks…)

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Besides Grinder, there is also my offload tool, conveniently called ‘offloader’
It makes a backup of the card to HD, and can do transcoding as well.
Two advantages over Grinder:
– it DOES use the timecode from the THM files (or shoot date if the THM is not present)
– it is donationware. (Meaning, pay as much as you think it’s worth)

It can also use multiple cores, you can do as many simultanious conversions as you like.
However, i’ve never done a speedtest. The idea is that you have your laptop on the shoot doing the work, so when you get home, everything is done. This way the actual speed does not really matter…
But since it’s a normal QT export, and you can choose how much you want to stress the processor (depends on what else you want to do with it while it is converting), i guess it’s equally fast as Grinder.

Download here:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/15/offloader/3

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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[Bouke Vahl]

Why would you want this?
In PAL, CC does not exist. We use TeleText (also in the VBI) but that is inserted by the broadcaster (Teletext carries a couple of hundred different pages with modest refreshment. There is a page that has CC for the deaf, but again, the broadcaster inserts it.) No-one uses Teletext outside television.

IOW, it will probably stick, but no-one will ever decode the info.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

[Rory Keenan] “BTW What is the difference between ProRes422 & ProRes422 (HQ)”

If you ask a question like this, have you even tried both and looked at the difference or tried to measure it?
Probably not.

My advice, step out and let someone with at least a bit of know-how handle this, or get a crash course in basic video technology.
That will set you back a couple of weeks and a couple of thousands bucks. Look on the bright side, the crappy betadeck you are using costed some 15K back in it’s days. (good ones were about 40K)

You have no idea about what you are doing, that won’t be good for your client and will backfire at a time.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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