Jim Gunn
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Tim:
I recommend the Sony DSR-11 deck. It is very robust, only costs about $1700 or so. I get a lot of use out of mine to capture from and back up mini-DV tapes. It can handle NTSC or PAL and capture analog footage to convert to digital. I also use it to send the video signal from my editing app to my tv which I use as a monitor. The deck can also record onto DVCAM tapes, so if you need to make masters of feature length movies or videos you can get the three hour DVCAM tapes and master your program on that and send that to the dup lab to bump up to Beta SP if you need that or send it to your client.
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Tim:
Yes, restoring a project like that is indeed frame accurate and would work perfectly. I back up footage and re-edit projects all the time from footage that I backed up to mini-DV tape with Scenalyzer Live. Just re-open the project file in Premiere Pro and point the app to the folder where the clips reside if it doesn’t find them in exactly the same folder where you originally had them. To make this even easier you can even save the folder data to the mini-DV tape with the Scenalyzer backup feature when you first back it up.
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You don’t need to overspend on a specially built editing workstation. I edit and encode digital video and make DVCAM masters on a weekly basis, not to mention doing DVD authoring and other graphic design work, and I am still using a two year old Dell P4 desktop computer (and Dell laptop as well) with an inexpensive firewire card, some external hard drives and the simple video card that came with the computer. Save yourself some money and get a fast P4 or new dual core pc from a major manufacturer and you are in business. Use the savings to buy a deck or some software if you need it.
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I am an experienced Premiere Pro user, but Encore was difficult for me to learn at first and I even had help from a friend to who is a Photoshop wiz. The main thing you have to understand is that most of the work of professional and sophisticated looking DVD creation must be thought through in advance and actually done outside of Encore- specifically in Premiere Pro or other video editor for the video stuff and in Photoshop for the menu design and other elements. The authoring aspect in Encore is mostly compositing those elements and dealing with the idiosyncracies of the DVD spec. Once we got through the learning curve and got a handle on Encore’s awkward interface and capabilities we were able to make a great looking DVD for commercial release that I got a lot of positive comments on.
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I am still pretty happy with Cleaner XL on my Win XP workstations . It is an old app and hasn’t been updated lately, but it does the job for me and I have all my encoding profiles set up for a few years now. If I was buying an expensive encoding app nowadays, I would probably try Procoder 2.0 or the latest version of Sorenson Squeeze.
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One cannot cut and paste audio gain attributes to multiple clips in this manner in P Pro 1.5 I have found, unfortunately.