Chris Poisson
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JVC just announced a camera that will shoot just about all flavors of HD in native QT format, so it will be the absolute easiest workflow with FCP.
https://pro.jvc.com/pro/attributes/CAMERA/clips/itspossible.html
It will be out this April and sell for less than $4,000.
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Best to dub your VHS to a DV or Beta tape. Short of that, a time base corrector between your deck and FCP, and/or set your capture to non-concontrolable device.
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Artbeats has a couple of disks called “Film Clutter,” which is exactly what you’re looking for.
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Aric,
Even if you can find a decent 3/4 player, your tapes are so old they may suck, but then, 3/4 sucked to begin with. Digibeta would be the best backup, but what a cost to backup something that is so awful to begin with. If any of your footage is decent, I would just keep digital copies, uncompressed or ProRes, NOT DV.
To capture 3/4 to uncompressed, you’ll need some kind of SD card, BM makes a pretty good cheap one. You may need one that’s PCIE if you get a new machine.
To copy the tapes to Digibeta, you don’t need a card.
CRTs are available on eBay, but there are some decent LCDs and plasma monitors, but they can be pricey. There are a boatload of threads on monitors in the archives here.
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Third vote for Kevin’s book. It is not, as mentioned “version specific,” and as such is really a wide-angle view of the program, the big picture. I bought it when it first came out, and still refer to it often.
Another great book is the Quick Start Guide, by Lisa Brenneis.
Ripple Training has some great free tuts, and some great DVDs.
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I do what Raphael does minus one step: I leave my HD sequence native with his method of the YUV settings, render and export a self-contained movie, then let Compressor do the downconvert with the frame controls set the way he does.
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You need a Kona card to downconvert on the fly, or you can export a QT movie and downconvert in Compressor.
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To get 23.98 you need to shoot 24pn.
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Select all in the timeline, go to sequence>render all>mixdown. You can do this anytime, sometimes it helps dropped frames.
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Beth,
HDV What? What are your project settings, what is your final delivery, how are you viewing your timeline?
Need more info.
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