[Chuck Reti]

From the Apple site, OS X tab,

“Tiger ships on a DVD, but if your Mac doesn

[Chuck Reti]

From the Apple site, OS X tab,

“Tiger ships on a DVD, but if your Mac doesn

[Chuck Reti]

[Tom Wolsky] “Sounds like they want the material delivered on analog tape.”

The “what’s this???” part is how TV gets to your house. 🙂

Did they say what tape format? This is kind of important.
Most likely BetaSP, (but could be something else like (shudder) 1″).

Standard RS-170A NTSC OK, that’s what we use here.
Video 100 IR (Maximum level of white) Use your Scope* (The term is IEEE, old-school term was IRE)
Level of black screen 7.5 IRE +- 2.5 Use your Scope
Maximum level of synchronizatio 40 IRE +- 2 Use your Scope
Maximum level of burst 40 IRE +- 2 Use your Scope
Initial line of information 20 / 21 Line 21 reserved for closed captioning
Tone of Audio 0 VU Use your audio meters

Recorded on DF, LTC and VITC “Recorded on” ??? Maybe “recorded using..”
DF= Dropframe Timecode – Timecode frame count altered to match equivalent clock time**
LTC=Linear Timecode – the Dropframe Timecode is recorded on the analog VTR’s dedicated timecode track
VITC=Vertical Interval Timecode – a digital version of the dropframe timecode is embedded in the vertical sync interval, usually line 16-18.
The analog VTR’s timecode settings are used to enable VITC and set it up properly.

*Tektronix- Waveform Monitor Techniques
https://www.tek.com/Measurement/cgi-bin/framed.pl?Document=/Measurement/App_Notes/NTSC_Video_Msmt

**Poynton- “A Technical Introduction to Timecode”
https://www.poynton.com/notes/video/Timecode/

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Chuck Reti
Video Editor
Detroit MI

[Chuck Reti]

[Ed] “some clients are corporations with IT departments blocking *any* updating of *anything* on company computers.”

IT at a corp I worked at would absolutely, without exception, forbid Quicktime (for Windows, of course) to come near any machine in the building. Something about “security” and “dll’s.”

[Chuck Reti]

Dave Mark’s classic “Learn C on the Macintosh” has been updated with an OS X edition, in eBook form, at Spiderworks.

https://www.spiderworks.com/books/learncmac.php

[Chuck Reti]

Um, no, it would be better, always, to NOT use HTML for posts to any list or newsgroup.

[Chuck Reti]

[Joe Murray] “Check out the Tektronix website. They have some good learning resources available.”
As it’s a bit hard to find stuff on the Tek site, here are URL’s to the tutorials:

NTSC Video Measurements:
https://www.tektronix.com/Measurement/cgi-bin/framed.pl?Document=/Measurement/App_Notes/NTSC_Video_Msmt

Video Measurement index:
https://www2.tek.com/cmswpt/tifinder.lotr?cn=video+test&lc=EN

Index to good stuff from Leader:
https://www.leaderusa.com/application.htm

[Chuck Reti]

Do you have “Set Date and Time Automatically” (“Use Network Time Server” in older OS versions), checked in the Date and Time pref pane? Your iBook may be trying to dial up the time. There are a lot of apps and utilities that do a quick hit to a net site for one purpose or another. If you are using Auto Dial, you may be dialing up more often and for longer than you care to.

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Chuck Reti
VIdeo Editor
Detroit MI

[Chuck Reti]

[George Socka] “… am willing to bet they will provide a free MAC based reader as well. Probably even offer to licence the code to Apple, but it will be Apple that will refuse to do so”

And we all know what a finely crafted bit of software Windows Media Player for Mac (not MAC) is, so hopes would not be very high for an elegant (or even barely working) MS-provided solution. An unneeded solution for a problem that really does not exist, but for MS’ creating it.
And In the event MS did offer to license, through what conduit to Apple’s front office do you just know “it will be Apple that will refuse to do so?”

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Chuck Reti
Video Editor
Detroit MI

[Chuck Reti]

[Bob Vick] “I do have a usb cable. How do I make this happen with usb?”
USB and what?
Don’t know of miniDV units with USB connectivity, does the one you use not have Firewire like most?
If the camcorder does have S-video out and you can connect to the Pinnacle card and get it into FCP that way, go for it.
Same for the audio, take it off the headphone jack if you need to.
If your Mac doesn’t have analog audio input (some don’t) you’d have to get a Griffin iMic or other audio-USB converter, at which point USB, and your USB cable, would come into play.

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Chuck Reti
Video Editor
Detroit MI