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How will the video be projected in the theaters?
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[Brad Goodman] “The ZR400 does not have red and white…”
Well, yes it does, you just don’t know where to look 😉
Most small camcorders’ A/V -OUTPUTS- are contained in a single mini-jack instead of separate RCA (or other) jacks (like on your XL1).
So they come supplied with “A/V -CABLES-” that connect to that single mini-jack.
These cables have a mini-plug on one end (camcorder)… and three RCA Plugs on the other: Yellow (video), White (Channel 1 Audio) and Red (Channel 2 Audio).
So, using this A/V cable is how you connect your output.
NOT all camcorders HAVE the capability of
recording external analog audio and video sources onto DV tape (but some do), and during the process the OUTPUTS “turn into” INPUTS.If yours CAN do this, you’d perform the procedure I described in the first post.
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Part 2 “The XL1” (or XL2)The XL1 DOES have the ability to record external analog audio and video sources onto DV tape.
[Brad Goodman] “the noise level is so bad that it is virtually unusable.”
The reason is that you have the audio inputs set to “MIC-LEVEL” you need to go into the XL1 menu and find the setting that makes the audio inputs ‘LINE-LEVEL” (the cassette deck’s outputs are LINE-LEVEL).
Here’s a quote from the user manual:
“Using the AUDIO 1 RCA jacks
1. Change the audio mode in the menu.
2. Slide the INPUT SELECT switch to AUDIO 1.
-This assigns the AUDIO 1 RCA jacks as the source for the audio input.
3. Open the camera menu and select VCR SET UP.
4. Select AUDIO 1 IN, then select a mode.
– LINE: To record sound from a VCR, CD or other line in devices.”Connect up (plug in headphones to make sure the audio sounds good) and record.
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Yes.
At 30 fps, you’ll have 30 (relatively) clean-looking frames for each second of running video.
You can “step” through them as “freeze-frames” or have FCP “play” them (you’ll need to render) in very slow motion.
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Connect the RCA outputs from the cassette deck to the DV camcorder’s Red & White RCA audio outputs (they will “become” audio inputs during this process).
Switch the camcorder to the “VCR” mode (NOT camera mode).
Do NOT connect the camcorder to the computer (no FireWire connection at this point).
Put a blank DV tape into the camcorder.
While still in the VCR mode, go into “record” on the DV camcorder and play the audio cassette.
You can monitor the audio recording on a set of headphones plugged into the camcorder’s headphone jack.
If you don’t hear audio in the headphones, the camcorder is not going to be recording any audio.There is a slight chance that your camcorder will not go into “INPUT” mode without a VIDEO signal to go along with the audio. (You’ll know this before you make any dub if you hear no cassette audio coming from the camcorder’s headphone jack.
If this is the case, just feed the video out from any VCR tuned to a TV signal (or the video out from another camcorder) to “wake up” the recording camcorder’s “INPUT” mode.After you’ve recorded the audio cassette to the DV tape, rewind and then connect the camcorder to the computer via FW.
Capture the DV tape (audio only) to the computer and you can convert it to any other kind of digital media you’d like.
The DV tape can be also be saved as another high-quality “digital” backup for your old analog cassette. -
The DataVideo SE 800 (the link in bockos’ post above) is my favorite, but there is also this new addition from “Focus/Videonics.”
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[NICK B] “In the old days the engineer at the post house would do the upgrade in a managed and safe way he would expect issues and would not get stressed by them.”
Where do I find me one o’ them UNSTRESSED engineers? :-0
They didn’t work at any of my venues! 😉
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Resetting the PMU is an interesting thought, although I would have suggested “Trashing the Preferences” first.
Click the following link for instructions on how to do this.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
Another method is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP & FCE.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
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There are a very FEW pro-level MD players that have a USB and/or FireWire output.
If you have access to one of those, you can do that.Some people like to connect the MD’s audio out to the Mac (thru a “sound-card” device or directly to the Mac’s audio input jack) and capture to a digital audio file in the Mac.
Another method is by burning the MD audio to a stand-alone CD recorder and then capturing the CD in the Mac’s CD tray via iTunes.
But I always like the idea of repeatable timecode so I dub any “outboard” audio (like MD) to a DV tape first, then capture it into FCP from the tape.
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[Ned Soltz] “I am wondering whether it might be worthwhile trying blacking a tape to stripe TC and then recording.”
There is no practical reason to pre-stripe a camera tape to avoid TC breaks (although it DOES add a nice extra hour of wear to the heads!)
This is because camcorders (Beta, DV, etc) do not do “Insert Recording” (which leaves any pre-recorded TC undisturbed on the tape).
Camcorders only ASSEMBLE (hopefully, they assemble accurately) which replaces EVERYTHING, including the TC.
So, even if you where to record on a “pre-striped” tape, the camera would record OVER any TC already there with new internally-generated numbers not based on the tape.
If the TC of the NEW recording somehow became a frame or two “off” with the “pre-stripe” at a stopping-point, you would be NO BETTER OFF than if the same thing happened with a NEW (unstriped) tape.“Pre-striping” won’t even be a guarantee to SAVE you if you “check a take” and fail to stop the playback before a TC “reset” occurs. Many times at the end of a recording (even on a “pre-striped” tape) the glitch of the “coming out of record” will cause the camcorder’s TC reader/generator to reset or “jump”… same old problem.
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A better idea might be to record the audio directly to the video camcorder and don’t bother with all the associated issues of dual-system audio.