George Socka
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How about – buy a DVD recorder since it appears that you will not edit, but simply pass through. There are several with DV in. There is aso a Pyro/ADS box AFIaK with myDVD that will do what you want. They are rather inexpensive
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IIRC even in 6.0 and 6.5 you would create the blue square with a 4 colour gradient and set all colors to the same blue, making top right and bottom corners with less opacity. Same for the white line – a 2 color gradient both white in a thin rectangular shape.
The nicely bevelled white rounded rectangle will be more of a trick, but if you can live with the thing in plain white then this is just a rounded rectangle, maybe with another thin rounded rectangle on top but whiter.In Photoshop, make sure you have anti-aliasing turned on to Strong for the text, and feather the edges of the shapes with the seection tool. But much more work to do in PS, and harder to make changes.
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Next time you plug in the memory stick the problem will come back. When the memory stick is in, cnange its drive letter to something high, say, M, then it will not try to steal F again.
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Does the first clip start at 0;0;0 – then there is no time code for preroll. I always skip the first few seconds or so to avoid this. If there is really good stuff in the first second, the only way to get it is to capture “manually” problem.
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True, but a good contract will reduce the likelihood of pond scum suing YOU.
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Easy way, if you have only a say 100 files is as follows:
Make a copy of the project file ( prproj). MAKE A COPY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. rename it to end in .txt
Open in Notepad. It is an xml file but will be a bit hard to read. Do not open in Internet Explorer because it will take forever.
Using edit | find menu option, find
this will give you the complete drive letter and folder for each file. If you wish, copy that line from the .txt file into a spread sheet. Repeat as necessary. Harder way – write a query and macro in MS Access to do this and output the list. I will in fact do so for something to do next week or so, and post at beachdigital.com since I have had this problem many times but have been too lazy in the past to do something about it. I will add usage info, tape name and in-out TC if I can. It will be based on PPro 1.0, but if someone wants to email me a SMALL project file (just the .prproj file, not the clips) that has audio, video and a few titles I will see what the 1.5 file structure looks like. Email link is on the website. I will post here when it is up.
It is well and good to plan to have organized structures, but I have several drives of assets that get used in a project without being copied to a project folder, mainly because some of them are big files. Sometimes the drive letters change, especially with removable drives, and clicking around in the PPro file dialogue gets frustrating – more when several files may even have the same name in several folders but are slightly different. Also happens when you steal clips from several other projects to see what they look like.
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The Epsons smudge, but again nobody has compained. Just hoping that maybe there was a better low cost solution.
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Epson photo 200 – 300 etc. It is inkjet ink but DVD’s are not that large. Their Print CD program is nice enough. Otherwise create the image in photoshop.
Question about the Canon – is the ink waterproof? If you rub it with a wet finger does it smudge? The Epsons do smudge.
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The question has come up in my mind as well. The bars are generated to SMTPE standard by the electronics in a camera or NLE. However, if the white balance of the camera is wrong, then what the camera sees and records onto tape is no way within any spec. If the blacks are crushed by bad exposure, then how does it help for the end user to look at the aforementioned bars and make any kind of decision about tweaking the content based on looking at the PLUGE bar? And why would the VTR operator at a TV station want to align his (her) equipment by something that came in over the transom anyway? Much better to actually shoot something like the Getrag (sp?)Color Checker, and then use that to see that red is red and white is white. Color correcting software could then be used to apply corrections based on that rather than the HSL corrections from the days of analog proc amps.
Another mystery. But the bars do look cool and “pro” on the monitor!
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We are guessing here right? Or making it up as we go? In the Windows DV avi world audio and video is interleaved – that is what the “i” in “avi” stands for, so it must be a neat trick to get the system to write the audio data to one drive and the video data to another. And then bring it back together. Maybe with a multi-core processor? Of course apologies to ex Matrox RT2000 users who actually had to put up with the fact that Matrox did figure out how to split the two streams – but, IMHO, never really figured out haw to bring them together. And nothing else could play their files properly. RIP RT2000