David Dobson
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You do it in the deck. You’ll need a manual to see exactly how. You have to set the deck to preset mode and set the time code start to 00580000 or whatever you chose and then press record/play while the deck is getting a black video signal either from a black-burst generator or the computer. You can either “stripe” the entire tape (to insert edit to later) or just the first minute (for an assemble edit.) If you want to do an assemble edit, you have to take the deck out of Preset mode first or you have to start all over. No Beta Deck I’ve ever seen has a firewire port.
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Nearly a year later and CS4 and it’s still the case that SPANNED clips are brought in as duplicates of the same span – rather than just one clip.
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I was only speaking about Firewire transfers.
I am not sure about RS422 – I think it controls the deck and makes Timecode accurate edits, but ultimately, what time code is on the tape depends on the deck.
With HDV laybacks using firewire I set the preset on the deck to 00580000 and add 30 seconds of black and 60 seconds of Bars and tones and 30 seconds of black to the time line. There is an offset you need to set, you’ll have to experiment with it to get it right, then do a Record to Tape letting PPro start the deck.For laybacks using RS422 control, you need a tape with time code on it already and then either insert edit the time line at the right point or do an assemble edit as above starting at 00583000 with bars and tones.
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You need to set the Deck start time code to 00580000. It’s a menu option I’d guess (I use the M25U.) You’ll probably need the manual if you haven’t done it before.
Although IEEE-1394 could include timecode in it, Neither PPro nor FCP lets you do that – so you have to set the timecode in the deck.
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Yes.
Select the clips, then right click on them, then select “Interpret Footage” (or something like that, not at the program now) and change the aspect ratio. -
Better you than me!
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Honsetly – six minutes doesn’t seem like all that long to wait.
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Media Encoder use of Premiere Pro Projects is Dynamically linked. Media Encoder loads the entire project into memory – so however long it takes to load the project ito PPro is how long the lag time will be for ME to start encoding.
Why such a small project should take so long to load, however, is a very good question. Although 3 minutes isn’t as bad as the 20 it takes me to load a project I am working on.
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H.264 between 1.5 and 3MB/sec VBR at double your final frame size – 5 min would be less than 175MB (from memory – so test it.) Or why not export them as full frame AVCHD? 5 minutes is maybe 300MB? Could upload in a couple hours.
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Or rather that it is set to HDV for HDV capture and to DV for DV capture. On the MU25, the setting is in a menu and the auto setting never works. with PPro (or FCP)