David Roth weiss
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Peter,
I’m not certain how many hours you are trying to capture, but normally Betacam is captured at 8-bit uncompressed or, in an effort to save hard drive space, JPEG. I seem to remember having a similar discussion back a while ago. Are you capturing as DVPro because you’re intercutting with real DV?
DRW
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I doubt the disc will be affected by trying to play it, and it may or may play.
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Peter,
May I ask, exactly why are you capturing Betacam as DV/DVCPro?
DRW
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Jeff[Jeff18876] “This way we will get the most dynamic range and fullness of sound out of our program.”
Jeff,
In addition to what the others have said, this concept doesn’t translate to digital audio in the same way it does with analog audio. In the analog world, volume or “amplitude” affects variables such as dynamic range and signal to noise ratio. In the digital world however, increasing amplitude simply raises the amplitude. Of course this is a relatively simplistic explanation, and we could get into a very deep discussion of these things, but thats a whole kettle of fish best left for another discussion.
BTW, in addition to creating very audible distortion, severe clipping of digital audio files can actually corrupt the file itself.
DRW
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[Bob Flood] “i wouldn want to pick your brain uninvited”
Bob,
Pick away… Now that a few of us have migrated (I’m seeing The March of the Penquins in my minds eye) you have me, Les, Bob Cole, Monica, Rick and other Edit* users to lean on. But, the others on this forum are really helpful, especially those who have backgrounds that go beyond FCP. And then there is this fellow named Matte, who has memorized evey FCP command, every page of the user manual, and every word on Ken Stone’s website. Expect Matte to answer about 93% of your questions.
Happy holidays,
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I just checked, and the book is about $10 cheaper at Amazon.
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Hey Ron,
Sounds pretty cool. My only problem with that is that I’m stuck on Ritec DVDs. I only use them and they don’t make silver inkjet printable unfortunately. Who makes the ones you use???
DRW
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I with you Michael. Discreet Edit did it your way and it gave the user much more control.
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Jeeze Bob, you’re already starting controversy and you’re just getting started on this forum. :} :} :}
Glad to see ya here…
DRW
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Okay Jason, that’s better. There is no apparent reason why you should be having problems. As you are probably aware, DV capture via firewire should be capturing whats on the tape, no more no less, and that should be aproximately 13.64gb per hour. Wish I could be of more help.
DRW