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[David Cohen] “Actually, I am 30 and at one point I edited on 3/4″ with an Amiga CG. Gues I am an old guy now.”

No, but you sure had old GEAR!

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[Shayne Weyker] “Should I be taking off the lens hood more of the time and risk glare?”

Does removing the lens hood fix the problem?

If it does, then, of course do it.

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It doesn’t involve tape at all.
You are only recording to the computer’s HD.
8 hours at DV quality will fill up approx. 104GB of space.

Now, I simply will not do this myself, as if there is some sort of glitch during the capture, you COULD likely lose EVERYTHING in that file, but others seem to like this method, so you can certainly try it.
I would stop recording and then start a new “file” for the next section as often as there is a break in the “action.”

There’s a more reliable method to long-term recording on miniDV tapes (if you lose anything, it would likely only be on ONE of the tapes.

Just connect a second camcorder via FW to the FW output of the first camcorder.
At approx. the 1-hour mark, you’d just put the second camcorder into the record mode and it would continue on the second tape for another hour. Then go back to the first camcorder’s deck with HOUR 3… and so-forth.
This method will work with ANY FW camcorder, even an inexpensive “home video” 1-CCD type.
Since all you are using the second camera for is its “tape deck” section, the CCD quality does not come into play… the quality of the DV tape recording it makes will be identical to your main camcorder.
I have bought many of these “back-up” DV camcorders, used, for around $150 each (Pawn shops, eBay).

There’s also the use of 80 minute DV tapes.
I have used these “thinner” tapes many times and had no problems, but there is always the risk of having a failure due to the more fragile nature of a thinner tape.

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Sure.

You need to record directly to your Editing Software via FireWire.

It works just like capturing a tape, but you set up your editing software to NOT operate the camcorder’s “controls” but to just capture the incoming video.

In Final Cut Pro the setting is for “non-controllable device.”

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There are several plug-ins form various companies that compensate for “hot pixels” or “dead pixels” in the video camera… which appear as fixed bright dots in the image.

These plug-ins can be adjusted for size and position and cover the offending spot with the “clean” video from the surrounding area of the image.

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Yes, I find this to be very common.

I’ve had it happen with 4 FW enclosures of various brands.

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Are you rendering at full quality?

Are you only checking for quality on an external video monitor?

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Any cell phone in particular?

Or just random cell phones?

The audio will lose some quality?

The AUDIO will lose some quality?

THE AUDIO WILL LOSE SOME QUALITY?

😉 ;-0

Maybe a bit more info from you would help.

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Ask any editor under the age of 45 what an “A-B Roll” was used for.

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[Chuck Reti] “The on-air directors drank more back then?”

I’ve seen some guys in “Master”, even today, who could make short work of a bottle.

😉

War stories of the good-old, bad-old days!

Why, some day we could talk about needing to THREAD a 16mm FILM CHAIN for playing the “Million Dollar Movie”, or the “Creature Feature” or…
Oh heck, now its time for my NAP!