[James Hauge]

Heh, yes… I work for a non-profit tv station that broadcasts christian programming over sea’s myself, and I try to have the people that send me programming send it to me via http://ftp.. I do this not out of being lazy, but because there’s so much programming coming in and I am the only tech that works for the station. I need to run and maintain all of the equipment, run our play lists, and any tapes that do get sent to me I can to capture into a computer and then transfer it into our broadcast equipment…

If I had to capture all of our programming i would be busy about 23 hours a day doing all of that..

Well, that’s just me.. I do work closly with the people that send me programming via ftp to make sure that they’re sending me good programming…

Thanks guys!

[James Hauge]

Oh, Forgot to mention, this is NOT a FCC requirement… this is just a way for the tv station to try to save some time and money by having media provided in an already digital format instead of them having to take the time to capture the tapes into their digital equipment themselves… I would suggest asking about ftp’ing the files to them if you know how to do that…

–James

[James Hauge]

Well, I don’t really use MAC’s…

I’m not familure with the device called a High HCSD card… I know a SD memory card, if this is what you’re talking about, or maybe a type of this kind of card,…

If that’s the case, I believe you would need to render your video to the local hard drive, then go into apple’s version of file explorer and copy the file from the local hard drive to the memory card. In a windows computer the memory card shows up as a seperate hard drive in the file explorer…

I know that I know very little when it comes to Mac’s, but I hope I’ve helped… I would suggest making a small (maybe 1 minute) video to test with and then you can use that to figure out how to copy it where you need it to be.

Good luck!
–James

[James Hauge]

Thanks for the recomendation. I had found compix when doing several google searches for cg machines. From what I saw on their web site it does everything that I was looking for. it’s more expensive then I was hoping for, but it looks like that might be the one for me to use… There’s also a cg machine that’s called MagicSoft CG that looks like it could work too, but I’d rather go with a single solution then having to build a computer, and get the software seperately…

Thank you!

[James Hauge]

Hey…

From what I understand, there is no usb to firewire adapter. because the base tech of usb works much slower then firewire.

you can get a firewire card for your computer easy enough though. they are very easy to install as well.

they even make pcmcia firewire cards if it’s a laptop you use…

I’d suggest taking the computer down to a local computer store (or talk to a computer tech if you know one) and they can put in firewire for you.. It really isn’t hard, and if you know the right person, it can be done very cheaply too…

Sorry I couldn’t be more help.
–James

[James Hauge]

Hey…

As far as I’m aware, you can’t cature video over USB… The only use of USB in my experience is to transfer still pics taken with the camera, and maybe use as a webcam (depends on the camera)…

My suggestion would be to use a firewire card to add Firewire to your computer.. I’ve done this in the past and it worked very well…

–James

[James Hauge]

Thank you very much… I didn’t know some of that it helps me a great deal to know these things… I can get to work on capturing these tapes right now…

I’m sure i’m going to have to learn to edit soon enough, so I was hoping you would know a good beginers guide online I can look at? I’m familure with some Non-Linear editing, I used Avid many years ago, and currently use Sony Vegas often, but not Premiere…

Thanks!
–James

[James Hauge]

One thing I did, and i’m a very newbie to Premiere (about 2 hours, still working out a few problems), is to hook up a tv to the regular video output of the vcr (or camera if that’s what you’re using)

Just my thoughts..

–James

[James Hauge]

I don’t know if you found the answer to this one, but there is multiple places in the menu of the VTR itself that need to be set right. I’ve been working with this for the last 4 hours trying to find it, and I just found the spot that was causing me problems.

From the transfer menu in the deck, select the I.Link Set and turn it off, that automaticly down converts HDV to DV…

Thanks!
–James