[Laurie Stewart]

Have had Canon XL1 XL1s & now XL2.

Have used the tapes from these on a Sony 1000 with absolute sucess. The unit is a real beauty. Small reliable & has a small monitor. I film weddings & use the Sony1000 at the reception to give the Bride & Groom a snippet of what is to come with the final film.

As far as using a camcorder to do the work. I would question that.

If you just have long streams of video then probably OK. If you have short clips to be put to a batch capture forget the camcorder. The searching for the in & out point using a camcorder is torcher.

With the Sony 1000 it is a joy. The Sony is so responsive pause & it is almost instant. Frame inch & it does it perfectly. Camcorders are not instant they over run by secs after pausing & inching by frame is frustrating.

I note the problems with the Canon. I have not had any problems in the four years with Canons. Have used a small Panasonic, the Sony 1000, the Pansonic player/recorder2000, a Sony camcorder. They all played the Canon tapes perfectly. I wonder if he Canon the previous writer had problems with had mis-alighned heads.

Regards

Laurie Stewart

[Laurie Stewart]

If you captured in 16*9 it will conform to that aspect.

If you right click in the project window on the clip a window comes up with intepret footage. Change this form 16*9 to 4*3. I think that this will do the trick (I hope).

However after that you are going to have to resize the picture using motion as the proportions will need correcting to 4*3 from 16*9.

Regards Laurie Stewart

[Laurie Stewart]

Being in the UK all my stuff is PAL. Not sure if there is a different procedure in NTSC.

To get the video & audio in the same MPEG package when the main screen comes up & you have set the video side click on multi plexing this (in the case of PAL) then gives you a packaged MPEG file with both video & Audio.

When I first used this system I had the same problem. Then I read the instructions. Funny that it is all there. My impatience !!!

Regards

Laurie Stewart

[Laurie Stewart]

I capture regularly from extended mini dv 85 mins no problems at all except to avoid the following.

Do not cpature on the fly ie start at the beggining hit record & leave. Invariable when I first installed Prem Pro. I did this & ended up with the conforming files. If you do do this detroy the offending conforming files for that clip. Place the clip on the timeline & it will in aprox 5 mins or so for 85 mins of clip re-conform.

Best is to In & Out your clip & capture for that length not had any problems then with the conforming files.

Using PremPro with Canopus Storm2 for capture. Soon going to Canopu Edius which does not have all these & many more problems.

Regards

Laurie Stewart