J. D. mack
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The SD card has a 2 GB file size limit. When a continuous recording exceeds that limit, the NX5U will create multiple files. If one imports those .mts files into a program like Premiere, there will be a short gap at the point where the clips join. What one has to do is not copy the .mts clips directly off the card, but rather use the Sony Content Management utility to import the recording, which will join the file portions into a single .m2ts file. This file will have no gaps.
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All across the U.S., there are *small* video production companies that are videotaping and duplicating graduations, school assemblies, weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, etc. There is no way to pay every song publisher and record company a hefty minimum fee for each composition or recording that is overheard in the video and still keep fees reasonable. What the music publishers need to do is come up with a blanket license for small production companies (those that make less than $XXX per year) similar to what ASCAP and BMI provide for public music performance. I know that most small companies would be willing to pay this, but as it stands right now, the music publishers are not getting *anything,* and most of the small production companies feel like there’s a sword hanging over their necks every time they are hired for a job.
J. D
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If speed is the most important thing right now, and if you have the ability to capture from an analog format, then the quickest thing is to play the DVD on a standard DVD player and re-capture it that way. There are programs for converting DVDs (DVD2AVI is one, though I’ve never used it) but they take a very long time to do the conversion.
J. D.
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Here are some thoughts.
1. What is the resolution of the photos? If they were scanned at 72 DPI and a max size of 720 x 480, then any zooming will cause noticiable pixilation. If this is this case, try upping the scanning resolution to 150 dpi with a max size of 1440 x 960.
2. Have you tried selecting “Video Options – Field Options – Flicker Removal” for each image?
3. I am a big fan of the Moving Picture plug in, which can be found at http://www.stagetools.com. You can download a free demo to see if this will work for you. If you plan on doing a lot of photo video presentations, then the cost is more than justified.
J. D.
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It depends on your work situation. In my case, I have two 7200 rpm 160 gig hard drives for my data. I usually have several small projects going at the same time, with the materials provided by the client. If one of my hard drives dies (and they all will eventually), I only lose the work on that drive. In a RAID system, if one hard drive dies, you lose everything, since the data is spread over multiple drives. For me, a RAID system is too risky.
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Hooray! Nevermind.
As a last ditch effort to try *something*, I pulled the card from the computer, and then put it back in. Miraculously, everything works fine now. Thanks for reading this, none the less.
J. D.
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Since rendering a time stamp over my video takes waaaay too long, I use an external time code generator with a video output. I’m using the Horita TG-50, but there is a similar item on eBay right now.
Basically, you run the NTSC output of your system through this device, and it will output your video plus a window with timecode, which you can record on anything you want. Because you start the time code generator by hand as soon as your video starts playing, this is not a frame accurate solution. But if plus or minus half a second works, then this can save a lot of time over rendering a time stamp (at least, in Adobe Premiere 6.5).
J. D.
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>>What I want is a utility that I can point to all my captured footage, >>and have it compress them down into indexes that can reduce my storage >>requirements.
I’m confused on what you want to do. Do you want to capture all of this footage and then make the indexes? Or do you just want a way to index what is on the tapes for your client use?
If the client is just looking for a way to communicate to you which clips he/she wants to use from the raw footage, consider this:
This device will allow you to make VHS copies of your Hi-8 footage with time code running on the screen (but not encoded on the tape). This will give your client a fairly close approximation of where on each tape desired clips are located.
Once your client has given you a list of clips, as long as your Hi-8 tapes are rewound to the beginning and the counter reset to 0:00, you should be able to digitize just what you want to use, and not all 80 hours.
Not sure if that helps.
J. D.
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Posterize time doesn’t quite give the strobe effect that I think Hector is asking about. Let me ask the question differently. Is there a simple way to duplicate the effect of chopping up your clip into segments that are 5 frames in length, and then adding a frame hold to the in point of each segment?
J. D.
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I’m not sure if this info will apply to your situation or not, but this might help.
First of all, when you say you are tyring to import the mp3, how do you mean? Are you clicking on File-Open, and then selecting the mp3 file from the directory where it is located? I will presume that you are. Audition should open the file at that point. However, there are some oddly formatted mp3 files that Audition will not read. This happened to me just this past week. Here is what I did.
If you do not have the program Winamp, go ahead and get the free download (full version, not lite version) from http://www.winamp.com. See if you can play the mp3 file in Winamp. If not, then there is somethig wrong with the mp3 file. If you can, then go into the options, then preferences, and then under “plug ins”, choose “output.” Select “Nullsoft Discwriter” It should be pre-configured for 44.1K 16bit PCM. Now, when you play the mp3 file in Winamp, you won’t hear anything, but Winamp will be writing a .wav file to your hard drive from the mp3 file. This new .wav file should open in Audition with no problem.
Hope that helps!