Doug Graham
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There are plenty of fans of the 100B in the wedding biz. I’m a Sony fan myself, but there’s been lots of outstanding work done by users of the Panny cameras, and the 24p gives a very nice look.
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What do you mean, “control the tally light?” If you want to turn it on and off, it turns on when the camera’s live and recording, and off when it’s in standby.
Or, there’s a menu setting to turn it off entirely, to keep from spooking the animals.
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Because of their excellent low light ability, there are probably more VX2100s and PD170s out there shooting weddings than anything else.
However, ANY three-chip DV camcorder can do a good job for weddings and events. My own cams are a Sony TRV-900 and a JVC DV-500.
Your choice should depend on 1) what feels “right” to you…what camera(s) do you get along with particularly well? 2) budget and 3) market. In these last two categories, the question of whether to go HD now, or wait until later, comes up. So does the question of whether to use a small handheld camera, or spend more for a big shoulder-mounted one.
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Yes! The new drivers fix the problem.
To recap:
After installing my Pioneer 108 DVD burners and Sony DVD Architect 3.0 in a new computer, DVDA refused to “see” the DVD burners. Sony’s knowledgebase recommends setting the burner’s jumper to “Master” rather than using “Cable Select”, and upgrading the burner’s firmware. Neither of these procedures solved my problem.My computer uses an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, which uses the NVIDIA NForce 4 chipset. On your advice, I downloaded and installed the latest NForce drivers from the NVIDIA website.
Installing the new drivers fixed the problem, and DVDA now sees both DVD burners!
No, it wasn’t hard. Just make sure you download the right drivers for your processor type. NVIDIA recommends uninstalling the old drivers first; no problem, using Control Panel/Add and Remove Programs, but make sure you don’t uninstall the display driver. After you uninstall, Windows will find your hardware and want to install drivers; tell it “no”, run the downloaded NVIDIA install program, and reboot. Even though I’d kept the display driver, I had to re-set my display properties afterward.
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It sure is…ASUS A8N SLI Premium, NForce4 chipset.
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Check to make sure that the transparency of both the clip, and the track it’s in, are really set to 100%.
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If FCP works at all like Premiere and other NLEs, you should be able to place markers to the beat of your music bed, then auto-assemble a bin of pictures to fit between the markers. Then all that’s required is a little minor tweaking.
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Well, I’m about to sell my DV500U and complete my studio’s upgrade to HDV…with those “no good” 1/3″ chip cameras.
On the other hand, I’m worried that maybe I’m making this move one or two years too early for my local market. The DV500 is an excellent camera, especially if it’s upgraded with a better lens. Even with the stock lens, it’s better than any of the handheld DV camcorders.
If you’re doing corporate work, the big, shoulder-mounted camera helps reassure your clients that they’re dealing with a pro, and the cam’s low light ability makes it well suited for weddings and events.
Only you can decide whether you need to go HDV or stay with DV for a while, but the DV500 (or its later sibling, the DV5000) is a good choice, and used models with low hours can be found for very reasonable prices.
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Maybe you’re using the wrong field order. DV video is lower, or odd, field first. Getting it backwards can result in odd interlacing artifacts, especially on moving shots or subjects.
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Doug Graham -
Well, if you’re encoding the MPEG2 at 15 Mb/s, your authoring application is re-encoding it to conform to the DVD specifications…which, if I recall, don’t permit a data rate higher than about 9 Mb/sec.
Or, if the video isn’t being re-encoded, it’s jamming data down your player’s throat faster than it can swallow. I’m surprised it doesn’t just hang up.
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Doug Graham