[Carlos E. martinez]

I don’t think 7200rpm drives are slow. I used even a slower HD with an edit recently, and I had no problems.

The video board is definitely slow and maybe the main issue. Get a faster board and see what happens.

Have you tried a different firewire cable? That may be the problem too.

[Carlos E. martinez]

Thanks for the instructions.

But I won’t be able to do that with my present deck, which is really a DV camera.

As far as I know DV cameras do not let you set TC values, so that can’t be done.

In any case I could do a Digital Cut copy, controlling the camera from the Avid, and got a very good copy.

Beautiful video, great sound. No clicks or nothing.

Thanks to everyone!

[Carlos E. martinez]

Editblog,

I think your idea is quite interesting.

Please tell me a bit more on how to proceed to prestripe my tape and match with the timeline.

I am not too sure on how to do it.

This is not to be a master tape though, just a way to have a better copy. But I think having the color bars and audio tone at the beginning might be good.

When I did my first tape I did add the color bars from the camera itself, just assembling the edit after that.

I am not too sure of adding the color bar directly onto the timeline, as that would add up on my time-codes. Is there a way to override those bars beginning and leave them with no TC? My guess is it is not, but…

[Carlos E. martinez]

[quote]What kind of audio levels did you have on your mastered sequence? Did you normalize, compress, or otherwise raise audio level of your raw clips?[/quote]

No levels clipping of course. The click noises were not on potential clips, but anywhere, no apparent reason, random.

I raised the levels on some clips, but nothing unusual. Used no compression. The DVDs I made were fine, but I wanted to have a better quality copy, just in case.

[quote]Unless Avid doesn’t support your camera you can do a crash record. Place your camera in VTR mode and select DV25 from the Digital Cut menu. Choose ignore time as well. When you hit the record button your camera should record your sequence from in to out.[/quote]

My camera is supported by Avid: I capture from it.

I will follow the instructions for Digital Cut.

Thanks!

[Carlos E. martinez]

Weel, one thing I would like to preserve are the original tracks, in order to do the mix in the sweetening program.

Is there a way to do that?

[Carlos E. martinez]

This potential updating problem is dangerous just for Adrenaline or for other versions like Xpress too?

[Carlos E. martinez]

Yes, original material is 60i. And not, I don’t live in a PAL country, though I would like to. Brazil’s system is an NTSC-modified country for color, but not for B&W.

In this case this material was shot in 60i because I was planning on an eventual video version, so an NTSC shoot would make things easier. Even if in this case I shot part of it in Argentina, which IS a PAL country. But as I had an NTSC DV camera and I had to shoot part of it in Brazil, I went ahead and shot that way in Argentina too.

Now I am facing more shooting, to convert this project in a eventual film feature, and I wonder how to best deal with the already shot material.

Any suggestions?

[Carlos E. martinez]

In fact, one thing I meant to know was if material that was not recorded as 24p can be converted to it, in a project intended for film transfer, before going to the lab.

If Avid removes the pulldown when capturing, then it seems as if you can output a “pulldowned” edit.

One thing I could at last find out is that my lab will charge me less if I deliver a 50i or 24p job than if I deliver 60i. In the first case as long as I transfer to 25fps.

So I am now wondering if there might be a way to convert my 60i original onto 24p. As far as I know, DVFilm program would do that, but I wonder how.

In any case I am not too sure it can be done, or Panasonic and others wouldn’t be making 24p cameras.

[Carlos E. martinez]

Its not really a problem, but a complaint.

There are several editing books that come with an enclosed CD/DVD.

[Carlos E. martinez]

Thanks for both tips.

The Avid guide you mentioned is the Help file I was talking about, if I am not wrong.

Unfortunately I cannot buy any book that includes a CD or DVD from where I live (Brazil), because our Customs will charge me more than what I paid for the book as import tax. Books only pay nothing.

These bureaucrats seem not to understand that education now relies on interrelation with visual tools to get better results, so a CD/DVD that comes with a book should not be confused with a music or film.