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I guess you mean the COMPOSITE output (RCA jack).
Sounds like the output jack may have come loose from the circuit board.
If the unit us under warranty, get it to a Canon repair shop.
If its out of warranty, see if there are any good electronic repair folks in your area.
Tell them you think its a loose jack on the circuit board and see what they estimate to open the camera re-solder it.However, the following can save you a lot of money over having the camcorder serviced.
Have you tried using the S-Video output to see if this works?
(Feed it to a TV/monitor that has an S-video input.)If that jack works, you CAN connect it to a standard composite monitor (one that does not have an S-Video input) by using an “S-video to Composite Adapter”.
This passive device does nothing more than “parallel” (combine) the video and the color outputs from the “S” jack and feed them together to a single RCA or BNC plug that will fit into a standard monitor. -
[Adam Demientieff] “The person who asked me to do it from the committee was formerley an anchor at a news station.”
Yep. No doubt.
Let me say up-front that if you WANT to “jazz up” your productions with a countdown… that’s cool and spiffy. (I’m sure many clients love the “showbiz” feel.)
But, before we get too far into saying these things NEED to be on a tape, let me ask:
What director calls for an extended pre-roll during a live broadcast?
What kind of “live” playback system REQUIRES a pre-roll?
Countdowns end 2 FULL SECONDS before the “program material” starts.
Do you mean someone in the year 2005 cues and “parks” a video tape more than 2 seconds AHEAD of where the recorded segment starts?
That’s got to create an opportunity for a lot of “dead air”.Before someone gets “bent” about this, please understand that I hail from “back in the day” when it actually took FIVE to EIGHT FULL SECONDS before a (2″ Quad) tape even “locked-up” (stabilized) and was ready to air.
Academy Countdowns (on the tape) where a nice feature as you, by necessity, “counted the talent into” a pre-recorded segment.But today, with virtually INSTANT-roll playback, who needs or uses a countdown?
A newscast control room in bygone days used to be a noise-fest of crew members, producers and directors watching (and counting backwards aloud) the academy countdowns.
But, in today’s control rooms you just hear, “Ready VTR 8… Roll 8, take it!”In the “olden days” VCRs had MECHANICAL timers viewable only on the front of each VCR (the deck was the size of an upright PIANO).
The only way to “see” and monitor the pre-roll was with the “academy leader”.But again, in present-day production, academy countdowns are mainly “cute and quaint” but just not very useful.
All of the above is for “LIVE” playback of segments.
“Commercial spots” would have even LESS need for a countdown as the “dubbing tech” at the station will just manually “drop a start cue” at the point the commercial begins.
The tech can SEE and HEAR where the spot begins, after all, and will also check to see if a 30 second spot, in fact, IS the correct length (which in MOST cases is 29 seconds, give-or-take 15 frames). -
[Walter Biscardi] “I’m sure the camera has a firewire connection to interface with Sony’s consumer editing software on PC’s so you should be able to simply do a “Capture Now” with a “Non-Controllable Device” to capture the footage. Just capture it in DV and then edit it like a normal DV project.”
Well, not so much.
The digital files recorded by these camcorders, of course, are NOT “DV” at all, but are “mpeg 2” on the DVD.
(But you knew that, you just “miss-spoke”.)That’s what makes these little gems so “non-practical” for editing.
Yes, you can “rip” the files from the DVD and convert them to DV for editing.
Here are the “top 3” COW-favorite apps to do this:
https://www.dvdxdv.com/
https://www.miraizon.com/products/products.html
https://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.htmlThen you must “re-compress” back down to mpeg 2 if you want to go back to another DVD again.
(Did I mention “non-practical”?)
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I have the demo from Virtix.
You can download it at
https://www.virtix.com/fcp/index.asp
They have some pretty good “unusual” effects (like snow, rain and smoke).
The price is about $125 USD.
Here’s a quick list of effects.
Blur
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I’m going to take a wild leap and guess that you want to CHROMA key…
dvMatte Pro is a very popular choice.
https://www.dvgarage.com/prod/prod.php?prod=dvmattefcp
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[Ed] “The local affiliates here in Vermont asked me for a countdown recently.
Ed”What makes no sense is that the stations run spots from hundreds of production houses from across the country.
Many national and local spots do not have countdowns.
And, I can’t imagine that they turn down paying customers because the reel does not have a countdown.Again, they don’t ROLL THEM LIVE anymore, they cue up the tapes and dub them into some sort of spot playback system.
How inept a tape operator do one have to be to not be able to tell when a spot STARTS?
I’ve spent a lot of years in tape rooms and never been “thrown off” by not having a countdown.
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There’s one in the “Print to Video” output.
You can set your commercial to start at the head of the timeline and then choose to add the countdown feature and use “Print to Video” to output to a tape.
Now, I’m curious as to what kind of TV station (cable?) WANTS a countdown.
They have not needed a countdown to play a spot in a very long time.I have never, in decades in the TV business, NEEDED to use a countdown on a video commercial.
There ARE still some spots that come in that HAVE them, but MOST do not, they just have slates.