[Dan Achatz]

Thanks for setting me staight on that…

As I sit knee deep in old mini-DV tapes that I’m sure have very important things stored on them. I sure wish I’d labled them…..

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

“Then there’s high-def. The HVX doesn’t use HDV, which is a low-color-sampling high-def recording format designed around MPEG-2 and the limitations necessary to get it to fit on a $4 tape.”

I think you mean to put 60 Minutes on a $4.00 tape. All the tape is recording is 1’s and 0’s. That would be true of both HVX and HDV format cameras. So perhaps you could only put 10 minutes of HVX on a $4.00 tape.

How much are those P2 cards again?

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

Go to file, and properties. In templete choose the size project you want.

[Dan Achatz]

Rock on!

[Dan Achatz]

The cheep way would be record to a camera that you may already have.

[Dan Achatz]

If you are shooting letter box, then you’ll need to set you video to 4:3. Then you’ll need to stretch the picture so that it’s tall and skinny, eliminating the letter box. If you are shooting actual 16 x 9 then skip this step.

If you render it out as a 16:9 widescreen MPEG for DVD, it will make all the transitions 16:9. When you go into DVDA, make your project setting 16:9 Widescreen. You will be making a 16:9 DVD. When you play the DVD in a standard DVD player, it will automatically letter box the 16:9 image for a 4:3 set or you can set it for a 16:9 Screen in the menus.

If you are rendering for the web, you need to set you windows media-real media-QuickTime settings to reflect a 16:9 Image. So you might want to try rendering you clip by choosing custom size and entering say 450 x 283. This will render out you video with out the letter box.

See the QuickTime (16:9) links on this page, Windows Media are 4:3

https://www.absolutedigi.com/mini35videopage.htm

See the DSL or Cable videos on this page.

https://www.avgtrans.com/

If you are just printing back to the camera, then there is not much you can do.

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

When you print to tape, choose standard NTSC DV (Not Widscreen) from the pull down window. This will print to tape letter boxed..

[Dan Achatz]

I’m not sure? It rendered Ok for me. Are you sure you set the maintain aspect ratio to: no.

Also what are you rendering to.If you are rendering it to Windows media or Mpeg 2 for DVD, you might want to check that you have the right shape pixel (IE square) or Aspect ratio (IE 4:3 or 2.21). You find these on the video tab in the render as s custom template.

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

Go into the event pan and crop set the following settings

Position

Width 978
Height 1080
x center 720
y center 540

Angle
angle o
x center 720
y center 484

Key frame
Smooth 0

Source
maintain aspect ration no
Stretch to fil frame yes.

[Dan Achatz]

Did you download service pack 2. I had a similar problem with my little Panasonic Mini DV camcorder right after I downloaded service pack 2.

I read on this blog about a firewire patch. Once I downloaded it everything worked fine.

If it is SP2 problem I think there is a fix on microsofts website or below:
https://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/winxp-1394.html

Dan