Enzo Tedeschi
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The easiest option if you are cutting DV is to run your firewire cable to your DV deck, and from there to your TV/monitor. The deck will do the D/A conversion, as long as you have External Video set to All Frames within FCP.
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When you say random – does it pause momentarily mid-playback, or is it slow to respond to your play command initially? Those external drives can sometimes spin down to save power if they are idle for a short while, needing time to spin up again when you hit play. This causes a delay between pressing play and the timeline responding. Just a thought.
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FCE is DV and DV only. You can’t change format / codec / framesize.
When you say a black box, are you seeing a letterbox (black at top and bottom) a pillarbox (black on left and right) or black all around?
Not sure about FCE, but FCP has an anamorphic check box in the clip info which would solve the first two, the third is a little more puzzling.
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Yes.
You can import DVD footage via software options like ffmpegX and MPEG StremClip. It’s more fiddly and time consuming, but it can yield better results.
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Sorry about the double-post. IE went screwy.
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Firewire is a purely digital signal, and you cannot control the levels of the on-board audio while digitising. If your levels are too soft, you can boost them within FCP.
I had a problem once where the recorded levels were a little too loud, and distorting in certain spots – I re-digitised only the audio routing it through a mixer and into an analog capture card so I could pad it down. Fiddly and a niusance.
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You’ll need to use your DV camera / deck as an analog > digital converter to get your sources in via firewire.
Enzo Tedeschi
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You’ll need to use your DV camera / deck as an analog > digital converter to get your sources in via firewire.
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Try it again, but use Export > Using Quicktime Conversion, or better yet: Export > Using Compressor.
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Do you have external video attached to your firewire port? If your external vid preview is on, the audio will be going there, and not to your speakers.