Chris Poisson
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A couple of thoughts, while the DSR 11 only has Firewire and composite in/out, it is a real workhorse as has been said here. I have been using at least 4 of them at my place and around town and have never seen any of them hiccup and that’s going on 6 years.
JVC has a couple of decks which also have component in/out, and while I killed their BR600 in less than 5 years, I recently got their BR6000 and it is really great. Much more robust than the 600, plus it takes DVcam tapes like the DSR11, AND has RS422 control which debe mentioned, and it costs far less than the higher-end Sony decks.
One other sort of third-party opinion on all this is that if you don’t need to impress clients with your equipment, you can buy 2 or 3 cheap DV camcorders for input and output and just toss them as they fail. Much cheaper than a deck solution, to a point. I have seen a lot of people on this forum swear by this method, but for me, the client/professional thing is important, plus, eventually your cost of multiple cheap camcorders could exceed the cost of a decent deck.
BTW, any of the afore-mentioned decks can be found on eBay at pretty good prices. I got my BR6000 on eBay for about the cost of a DSR11, about half retail.
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Check out Compression Master from Popwire, and Squeeze Suite from Sorenson.
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I record all my vo’s via an Audio Technica mic through my DVX100, capture via FW and my audio is flawless. FWIW
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Yes Steve,
Makes sense, thanks.
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Silhouette Roto rocks, in FCP and AE.
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I generally ask for a hand inspection just to be safe.
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You can have built-in rotoscoping right now, with Silhouette FX Roto.
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Joe’s Filters and CHV also have time plugins, and are much cheaper than Twixter, but Twixter is awesome I must say.
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With due respect to Ed, unless you have a lot of gradients in your graphics, 8bit is fine, and you’ll save disc space.
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Probably the best workhorse for the money is a Sony DSR 11. You can get them on eBay, but even new are not expensive.
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