[Bruce Pelley]

By that I mean the standard,default “Microsoft DV camera and VCR” “driver” which comes with the program?

Is there one for Canon?What does it say in that box which is located by the transport controls,the above?

Maybe this is causing the waiting for the driver to be in sync warning message which causes kaos!

Hope we can get this going.

Thanks,
Bruce

[Bruce Pelley]

Tim,

I had really high hopes and expectations.

What I got was this:

Before Scenalyzer started recording/exporting to tape I got this alert/warning message:”waiting because the driver is out of sync”!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was a bad precursor/sign/omen.

Then it kicked in after a few seconds and recorded a sequence which was a combination of:(in order)
a)what I wanted/expected,then…….
b)the standard blue screen with a picture of the tape winding animation displayed.
c)then it repeatedly cycled between events (a) and (b) in a quick,rapid fire flashing sequence which continued until I stopped the whole process… ad infinitum.In short,and it went haywire just like Adobe 6.5 and anything else I’ve tried thus far to date.Exact same behaviour.

The thing is what exact driver is incompatible & is causing a conflict with tape export and how does one deal with that if it can be done at all assuming it can be found at all?Did you ever experience this?

What kind of computer are you using and operating system?

Say before I put this to rest for the night,you mentioned the Maxtor one step drives.These are external right?Have any of these ever failed on you and where did you find the best price?500 gigs for $325 I guess isn’t bad.After formatting each drive how much actual physical space does that yield?After fighting the rebate company for a $30 rebate,I paid a net of about $130 for a Western Digital 160 gig combo USB/Firewire drive which is somewhat more expensive dollar for dollar.

To be continued as the paid work week is fast approaching.ZZZZzzzz..

Please lets keep this dialogue going.Thanks!

Greetings,
Bruce

[Bruce Pelley]

Greetings Tim,

Wow!That must have taken a long time to write that very detailed and lengthy reply and am sorry to have taken so much of your valuable time already.It is certainly most appreciated as I’m slowly climbing the learning curve.Yes,I’ve heard of the Firestore unit but unfortunately it’s a bit pricey for me at this time having just spend a lot of money (1,000’s) personally in the past several months.You may be interested in learning some background on myself and my particular set of circumstances.I started a all volunteer video ministry at church with nearly all of the tech/vieo editing work done by myself alone on the computer at home.I use my 2 GL’s recording tapped into the churches audio system.The service is subject to extensive video editing,burned to dvd then broadcast on cable tv and understandably it’s a lot of work.Since it takes so much time and effort I wanted to archive each completed project at full quality at a fairly reasonable storage cost and hard drives are still condsiderably more expensive then mini dv tapes, especially since AV files are so space consuming.It would probably cost at least 4 times as much to archive projects to hard drive.

That being said,here’s what I do…in brief..In Adobe Premiere 6.5

1)Import/capture each service segment direct from tape after first carefully selecting among multiple tapes what content is worthy of including.I then edit each clip on the timeline as needed saving each part as a seperate clip to a external 7200 rpm hard USB/IEE1394 drive.

2)Repeat step 1 for all of the segments and pieces until all have been processed.Inset titles with miniumum effects onto the timeline arranging all of clips in sequential and chronological order.Save as a project.

3)I also save the whole thing/assemblage as seperate movie/avi file to the hard drive.Yes,of course to get it to dvd I also use the MPEG encoder which generates the requisite file for that purpose.That’s a third pair of files.So I have the project saved in several different ways which naturally burns space!

I might say at this point to date that I get the same negative results whether saving as a clip/multiclip(if you will)or movie when trying to export to tape.

That being said.. to summarize,here’s where the current mission comes in:

Since all of the capturing,rendering,editing and saving has already been done all that remains is to have Scenalyzer import (in this case) a 9.2 gig (presumably dv-avi file)into itself and put in back out/record it sucessfully to mini dv tape.I’ve never recorded anything to GL-2 tape from an external source before via firewire or via the AV jack.

Would you please elaborate on & detail step by step on the end part of the process please?From the point where Scenalyzer imports a avi file.Please also let me know what settings and options are crucial.

Thanks so much in advance and for continuing to work with me.

Please take good care.

Bruce

[Bruce Pelley]

Tim,

Downloaded Scenanalyzer and gave it a try.The file I’m trying to work with is about 9 gigs/42 minutes of video which was exported as a movie from Premiere 6.5 and automatically saved as (I assume) a DV-AVI file.I imported that file into the timeline(new project)and attempt to export from tape.

I think at this point a stupid question is probably in order since I’ve still relatively new to digital editing and Premiere.What is rendering and building a preview files and could that be a part of the problem?

Having said that,would you please be willing to share and list the exact settings or series of steps to take on the Scenalyzer that worked for you with the GL-2 and what you did in what order?I see that this apps puts watermarks at random which forces you to buy it quickly,but hey at this point after all I’ve tried and frustration experienced to date on this issue.. 39 bucks would be a great bargain.

Thanks so much for the reccomendation,I wish I was better at learning software and using it to fix the problem.

Look forward to hearing from you again in detail and am gratefull.

Bruce