Elliott Balsley
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Michael, I just re-read your post, and you might be onto something. The dmg’s are on a backup hard drive, NOT the same one I used for the initial Log & Transfer. I actually don’t have that original drive anymore, because it was a rental. But I figured I could copy/paste the dmg’s to other drives without changing their contents, right??
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Thanks for the suggestions.
The disk images are read-only, to prevent this sort of thing from happening 🙂 They are stored on a different external hard drive than my scratch disk.
But they are loaded in the Log & Tranfer window. Each card shows up and I can see all the clips and scrub through them just fine. But the funny thing is — the little grey circle is unfilled on all the clips. I think that means FCP thinks they have not yet been imported, right? That could be the problem, but I don’t know how to fix it. Like I said, the dmg’s are read-only, so they shouldn’t have changed. -
I just discovered this after shooting a documentary using a Zoom H4N. I think Time-of-day timecode is an excellent feature! (Although it would be nice of Zoom to document it!) It helps a lot with rough syncing. If you don’t like it, it’s easy to do a batch transcode in any software ignoring timecode, and it will make all the resulting files start at 00:00:00.
For my workflow, I transcoded all the original WAVs to MP3 to send to a translator/transcriber. These MP3s all started with zeroed timecode. So to match the transcriptions to the original audio, I added an Aux TC track to each audio file, making each one start at zero.
As Jeremy said earlier, to view this Aux timecode, you need to open each clip in the viewer, right-click the current timecode box, and select Aux TC. Surprisingly, this will affect the timecode overlays in the canvas. This is because the timecode track selection affects the master clip, therefore it affects all affiliate clips in any timeline.
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DO NOT solder inside your camcorder! You’ll melt something.
Most MiniDV camcorders have a mic input (not yours unfortunately). You can probably pick up a used camcorder for 50 bucks at a garage sale.
As for a mic, I’d recommend the most expensive shotgun you can afford. A shotgun will really cut down on reverb, even if it’s a cheap one.
Although your editing software can handle multiple formats, it’s best to stick with 48KHz and 16bit if your recorder or camera allows it. -
Isn’t there anybody who knows how to call Bruce in FCP6? Please??
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I have this same problem. Fairly simple effects on DV footage take forever to render on my Mac Pro (Quad 3GHz, 4GB), and RT playback rarely works. Activity Monitor shows my processors never getting above 25% or so. Maybe all this rendering is done by the video card instead of the CPU? But I have a Radeon X1900 with 512MB, so I think that should be pretty powerful, no?