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I use the MDR-7506.
Buy a small headphone amp to use between the camera and any headphones you choose.
Examples:That will boost the weak signal from the camera to better power the headphones so you can better hear what’s going to tape and improve what you can hear in noisy locations.
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I don’t understand what you want to do.
You don’t generally put DV on a DVD for replication.
You can put “raw” DV footage on a DVD-R (or DVD+R) ffor storage.
You can only put 4.7 GB on a single-layer DVD.
That is only about 20 minutes of raw DV footage.Or you can “burn” a standard DVD (that will play on a standard DVD player) from DV footage.
You can record anywhere from 1 to 4 hours of “compressed” footage on a single layer DVD (the less the length, the less compression will be needed, and the quality will be better.)Please post back with much more info as to what you are trying to accomplish.
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Everything I have ever read and from what I know from personal experience is that buying a “SERVICE PLAN” on anything is a waste of money.
Why would you buy it on a piece of gear that will be effectively obsolete in a year or so?Isn’t the mfg. warranty strong enough?
I always ask people when they are buying a computer, WHY they are buying a computer.
They don’t say because the old one “broke”, they say because the old one is obsolete.Like anything else, its a gamble that something will not go wrong, but my experience with Macs is such that I trust there will not be a problem that I (or the standard Apple warranty) can’t handle.
If there is a recurring problem, I’m surely making an overall “buying mistake” and having “given away” an extra $250 for an extended warranty on an unreliable pile of tech junk would be throwing away more money.
And that’s why I DO, in fact, “think about it” before paying extra for some company to “ensure” that their product actually perform in the manner promised.
In an electronics store, the “extended warranties” are often (virtually ALWAYS) just a “profit center” and the sales force (even ones who claim they are not on commission) get a huge percentage of that extra up-sell charge.
Why is something that is such a “rip-off” when buying, say, an answering machine, considered “good sense” when buying a Mac? -
[Will Salley] “…and DVCAM provides full SMPTE Timceode implementation.
“But that has nothing to do with anything other than Sony intentionally locks out the full TC features on the DV SP setting.
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[Jeff Carpenter] “But that all has to do with the actual, physical tape and the magnetic particles on it.”
There’s an awful lot of debate on THAT, as well.
The quantifiable facts seem to indicate that the ONLY difference in DV SP and DVCAM is the speed of the tape-travel past the heads (as you mentioned).
The “numbers” concerning fewer negative effects from Drop-outs, and the wider track-pitch and better “interchangeablity” between units is all atributable to the higher tape speed… ALONE.
There is much speculation that the actual tape on the hubs is the SAME tape in both DVCAM and DV SP cases.
The less expensive DV SP tape might (MIGHT) come from closer to the “edges” of a wide roll of magnetic tape at the factory, while the DVCAM-labled cassettes might (MIGHT) come from the more centered area of that wide master roll.Regardless, I have shot (literally) hundreds of cassettes of DV tape…
the lowest-priced home video DV SP tape that Panasonic makes, and the lowest-priced home video DV SP tape that Sony makes, and DVCAM-labeled “Professional” Tapes”… and have had zero, zilch, nada tape drop-outs, missing video, or head-clog problems with any of these. -
DV and DVCAM is a constant dititizing rate of sliughtly under 13GB per hour.
DV NTSC (or DV PAL, if that’s where you are) is the proper codec.
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And please read the following link-
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles/index.html
It examines DV and resolution.
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Many posters have asked HOW are you checking the quality.
You must be viewing on an external video monitor and not on the computer monitor).
You must render the text at the highest quality setting before judging the quality.
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Add the Audio Filters > Apple > AUPeakLimiter and adjust the “Pre-gain” to any level you want.
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Unfortunately these decks are notorious for not working well with NLE’s like FCP.
Let us know if you get it to work and what you did to make that happen.