[J. Tad newberry]

so if it always “works” like it “worked” for me, why would they even bother selling it? unless i did something wrong (which is highly likely, but the setup is virtually brainless…just plug it in and go) I don’t see why anyone would want what it did for me (er, uh, maybe that is “against” me)

thanks again!

mh

[J. Tad newberry]

otay…well, i guess $29 isn’t so bad to be able to fix one small clients’ production issue. thanks…

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mh

[J. Tad newberry]

i have a Sony UVW-1800 (BetacamSP), and figure most likely is SHOULD be able to do both kinds of inserts, (though i might be wrong on that), but either way glad to know i’m not alone in failing with these inserts. hopefully it will be addressed soon if it needs to be…

thanks for your reply.

thanks again!

mh

[J. Tad newberry]

well, here’s my status:

trashed prefs, no change. I can insert video, but not audio. very strange. believe it or not, i’ve even read the manual on this section! : ) i tried “mastering” vs. “editing”, and no change. i’ve selected audio (all audio, no audio, specific channels) and video on the “edit to tape” window, no change. anyway, i’m just dropping the whole show to tape again…

thanks again!

mh

[J. Tad newberry]

cool, glad i could help. did you try the animated crop idea? it will give you much more control, and is very easy to do.

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mh

[J. Tad newberry]

i can think of two quick ways to do this, but there might be more…

WIPE: the quickest would probably be with a built-in wipe transition. line up the clips, one on top of the other, and starting on the same identical frame. scoot the in-point of the top clip to the right (without moving the entire clip lest you take them out of sync with each other), drag that clip down to be on the same track as the lower one. at this point you should have only one track active, and if you watch it, the video will suddenly jump to/from one color balance to the other, but the timing/sync should be perfect. now just put any transition you want on the point where they join. drag the length of the transition to whatever you want it to be, and it should be what you are looking for.

ANIMATED CROP: this way would give you more control on the timing of the transition. start like above, but keep the two clips on two adjacent tracks. animate the crop settings of the top one. i.e., keyframe the left crop setting at it’s original starting point, then figure out where on the timeline you want the “transition” to stop (you might like the transition to stop halfway through so you can more easily compare the two shots, then maybe continue on across the screen to completely reveal the bottom shot). just do that with you keyframes on your left crop setting (or right, or top or bottom depending on how you want to reveal the bottom shot).

thanks again!

mh

[J. Tad newberry]

interesting…i’m having a similar issue. tried to replace a spot on a show tape, mainly to fix the audio from a bad mix, and it looked like it was working, but then i see that it only replaced the video and not the audio. on the good side, it does appear to be frame accurate. have you received any feedback on your question above? i’m going to trash prefs and try it again. oddly enough, i had just trashed prefs last night, so these are pretty fresh…

thanks again!

mh

[J. Tad newberry]

Thanks, ya, at this point I have archived the HD sequences as DVCPro HD files. A 22 minute show is in four segments, and each segment is around 4.5GB. I saved the files with the music tracks separately, and of course, have also saved the real timelines with all the cuts, graphics, and transitions along with all the original media on my hard drives. I wouldn’t have saved all the media (some HDCam, mostly XDCam, and HDV) except that I do not have that format of decks readily available. I have to rent them when I capture, so I figured it most cost-effective to buy another drive or two. Right now, it all takes up (2) 500 GB drives and seems to be working well. At some point, Blu-Ray would be the way to go to better archive what will soon be old shows and media.

My main concern now (other than my hard drives crashing and loosing all of this!) is how best to master the new SD shows: 8-bit or DV50? I’m probably leaning more towards the 8-bit, but then again, I won’t really be adding much to these shows (graphic-wise) other than simply inserting tv spots in the black holes. Maybe DV50 would suffice? In other words, I won’t really be “editing” in SD, but really more down-converting and then dumping out to BetaSP.

thanks again!

mh

[J. Tad newberry]

…or how might ProRes fit into this mix?

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mh

[J. Tad newberry]

…uh, and all installed nicely in a G5…

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mh