[Lawrence Vaughan]

How do I do this? When I try and change or select the capture device Premiere claims it is offline… I am trying to capture directly from a Mini DV camera via firewire / DV.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

In the report it breaks down when and where these instances happen. It gives timecode and the value (as far as I know from 0.1 to 5). It gives red, spatial and luminance in a column. Mine is just a problem of luminance.
Blue, strangely – isn’t mentioned.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

No. Normal speed/ The first time it failed I had some footage of a car speeding down a street (on a totally different part of the video, so unrelated) Sped up X 500! Obviously, that had to be taken out.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Wow! A massive response. Thanks guys, it is really really appreciated.
I will answer in order:

The shots are basically simple shots of some people in a street. Nothing from what I can tell that crazy. No flickering flames or anything like that.

It’s getting rejected from MTV Europe, so no problems converting it to NTSC as of yet.

MTV will only perform the harding test from a digibeta tape. No other formats are supported (apparently). As far as I know, they are doing it from the tape itself not a dbeta txfr. However – I have no idea how the process works – I literally send them the tape. I will ask however – and let you know on that one.
In terms of the transfer itself, everything seems fine to me. Not entirely sure if they use analogue or firewire. However – I will be getting another transfer done, I might hold their tech hostage until he tells me everything I need to know!

I understand they, MTV and OFCOM are covering their arses. My girlfriend is a lawyer! I also understand these tests “have” to be done, it’s just becoming an expensive method of trial and error (£60 per transfer).

In terms of a “fast edit” this apparently, is safe (providing it’s not like a shot per frame). The test looks for flashes, patterns (such as moving lines, hypnotic circles etc). The video is fairly fast, but nothing that MTV or indeed anyone else would consider unsafe.

I’m having seizures from dealing with MTV, they are honestly the most unprofessional company I have EVER worked with. When contacting via e-mail If you want answers from them you are guaranteed a response of two, maybe three words of little help, often patronising.
When asked if there was any way of me testing if the video would fail I was greeted with a response which read “find a harding machine”.

Personally, I feel the harding test is non a con, merely inconsistent. I’m not entirely sure of it’s efficiency, I’ve never seen one working. However – I have read the repost, although fairly detailed in it’s content there is something niggling away that isn’t quite right. I am 90% confident that the transfers that I sent were identical. Something may have gone wrong during the trnsfer, I cannot rule that out. Worryingly, all of the local TV / broadcast / corporate video stations near me have never even heard of the harding test, yet they are broadcasting content nationally!! I think they are probably looking into it by now…

I understand I have posted this in two forums (apple forum), once I get everything sorted I will post my results and close the thread. I sincerely want to help anyone who might have this problem in the future. Posting in two forums – I just need help.

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Any other response it greatly appreciated. My next step: Calling the tech who has done these transfers and ask him if they can test it once the transfer has been done (providing they have a harding machine). I will also ask for the video MTV currently have to be tested again. I want to see if the results are the same as last time. There is a chance that their harding machine could be faulty / inconsistent.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Nice one. Works fine, Thanks Vince!!!

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Thanks Vince,

Unfortuantely, I can’t open the project file (I am using 6.5). I tried what you said regarding the types of transparancies. I really can’t figure this one out.

I have the following:

Video 1 – Surfing footage
Video 2 – guy on a beach
PSD file of thought bubble. This file is a white bubble with a black outline (or stroke) on a transparent background. The bubble isn’t exactly circular, it has wavy lines. I have also tried getting rid of the white inside the bubble andleaving just a black outline on a transparent background. Neither work.

I need video 2 with the overlayed bubble, which has the video 1 displayed inside.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Excellent, thank you.
But what compressor for the WMV? Surely if i make a windows movie file it’s going to be a big file?

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Good point. The CD will be for home users.
If i export a WMV what codec should I use?
Also – sound’s like i’ll do a h.264 too. Can anyone give me a link for the codec for pc users if they want to play this? I cannot find one anywhere.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

As it happens I cannot get the footage in any other type. I will try and convert it in compressor, which codec / file format will be best for me to convert it to?

[Lawrence Vaughan]

thanks guys! massive help.