Bret Williams
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Avid does this too. Having worked with 6 nle’s, only Premiere had a worse capture function and interface. I’m including EditDV and and VideoCube in there too. All more robust. And Premeire was v.4 so it might be better now too! 🙂
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In the DV25 world, a blank DVD disc for storing clips is cheaper than miniDV tape and extremely cheaper than DVCam tape. You could put 25 minutes of DV25 material on a DVD disc as quicktime clips, retaining all the tc and reel info.
Make 2 copies of the disc even and at a buck apiece it’s still about the same as tape.
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Start on the first frame of your clip. Place the center cross hair on something distinct that you want to hold in place. Expand the scan range to a distance that is the most it is going to move between frames. That’s how far it will look for the object you marked with the crosshairs from frame to frame.
Don’t worry if the best object for the “center” cross hair isn’t actually what you want in the exact center. You can recenter the whole image with the motion tab.
The bummer with stabilizing is that the more motion you have, the more you have to enlarge your image so that the black edges don’t show. So it’s good for stabilizing a shaky hand held shot, but you can’t turn a pan into a lockoff if you know what I mean.
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And you’ve got it set to non-controllable device in capture?
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I’m not an audio guru, but it’s my understanding that if you want it to SOUND linear, then it needs to fall off at a curve. Ever notice that the pots on an audio board are less (or is it more?) sensitive as far as numbers are concerned towards the bottom? The control is linear, but what you’re creating when you slide an analog pot at a constant speed is a curve. Look at the pots in the audio tool. The distance from 0 to -6 is the same physical distance as from -60 to -96. It’s an exponential thing.
When you plot 2 points, say from -6 to -30, if it actually lowered the audio in a perfectly linear way, it would sound as if all the lowering of the audio occurred at the start. So, FCP is making it sound like a linear transition from one volume to the next. I’ve never noticed any different.
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There is absolutely no need to black a tape in the non-linear output world. Blacking a tape is preparing it for insert editing.
Assemble editing is by definition picking up where timecode left off and continuing the wriitng of said timecode along with image. You need only have enough timecode on a tape to preroll the machine to assemble edit your entire timeline with frame accuracy onto a master. You have essentially blacked the tape with your program. It is now prepared for insert editing if you needed to fix a shot or change audio etc.
Some decks only offer assemble editing. More advanced offer insert editing where image and sound are laid down without disrupting the timecode.
Glad I started out as a linear editor!
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How long are you waiting? It’s trying to repair something possibly.
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I seem to remember that the +3 db option was added to Media100 waay back with version 4 because there was a dip in audio levels during the fades. Before that, the audio could only fade on separate audio tracks. You had to fade out one audio clip, and fade in another. When they added crossfades, they had the audio dip problem unless you used the +3 fade.
The nodes may have always been linear.
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It only takes about 10 seconds to install and find out. Go for it.
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You can import the whole thing, including media, into FCP. Automatic Duck is the only way I know of…
https://www.automaticduck.com/products/pro_import_fcp/index.php