Bret Williams
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Or 720×534 for DV sq pixels.
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Yep. There is no such thing as unity. Tone is simply a way to calibrate machines. Exactly for the reasons we’re all discussing.
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Because your tone and level are the same. +3db is very quiet in the analog world! Where’d you get that? Peaks analog world can be very different by the equipment. Analog gear can be peak or average reading. Average reading gear like the UVW series of Beta would peak at +3db. That WOULD be very hot. But peak reading gear in the analog world is more akin to the meters in FCP, and peaks can easily hit +8. Good analog gear can handle more. That’s why in FCP your tone would be -12 and yoru peaks would be -2 or close to zero.
Look at the waveform of a CD. It utilitzes all the compression it can get. The volume of a CD IS zero. The tone for that CD would be -12.
Analog meters go waaaay beyond +3. If that were the limit what would be the point?
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Sounds like you have a good average level that most here prescribe by. Somewhere around -12 with peaks going into the -6 range. Actually, that’s pretty conservative. You could average -8 with peaks around -4 or so.
In either case, your tone would be around -18 or -16. Your tone value of -12 is a very loud tone. Which means of course that they have to turn down the tone of your machine to bring it to zero on their analog machines. Kind of counterintuitive I know. But make some dubs one day and it becomes pretty clear.
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You should see no difference on a mac, but when viewing on windows, their gamma is significantly different. Usually a change from 1 to 1.3 works. Split the difference. It’ll look a little constrasty on windows, but a little light on mac.
Windows users with lcds seem to have less of this problem.
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What render settings do you have checked in the render menu?
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I’m betting the “medium quality” is your problem. Since DV is a set stream of 5:1 compression, you probably cut the image quality in half by using medium, but I’ll bet the file size is the same. DV is DV.
I assume you also cropped out 2 pixels at the top and 4 at the bottom as well. You need to do that to get DV 720×480 if you were working in 720×486 on the Media 100.
You really might just make things easier by going to tape from the media 100. Especially if you have fw out of the media 100. That would be the conversion. There would be no more conversion going into FCP via firewire.
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Errr, just use a male to male connector. It has females on both ends. Ta da. Radio shack or other applicable stereo or audio parts store.
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Track 1 has to be turned off or else fcp will put black into the transparency just like it does for video.
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There’s isn’t anywhere to put a card, is there?