[Mark Weaver]

Jan,
Yes this does help. Film making and cameras are both very interesting fields
themselves, but being able to put both into one job seems like a blast. Especially
if you get to interact with the users and help them create their ideas. Presently
I work in the wireless market doing ASICs, and unlike wireless, Video is positioned
at the point where technology meets the human sense of vision. Decisions like
interlanced vs. progressive not only have technical aspects but also visual preference
in their definitions. If our eyes were different, 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 color subsampling might
never work. Boy would that change things!
Anyway, it must be fun to listen to customers and try to help them with their issues.
From all that I’ve read the HVX200 looks fabulous. It should allow even the dedicated
hobbyist to make wonder films and 4:2:2 video capture will definitely help green screen
applications.
Thanks for sharing some of your path. I really enjoy hearing about others career
paths and the things people do. It never stops amazing me, the different paths people
take.

Mark Weaver

[Mark Weaver]

Jan,
Just curious, but how does one get to be involved with the
product design of a camera. I’m a Electrical Engineer with
an excitement for video and love to read about cameras/software
and movie making however, the video bug really hit me when I started
playing with Premiere Pro. Just curious…

Mark Weaver
markbweaver@yahoo.com

[Mark Weaver]

Willie,
Just noticed this message. PPro 2.0 utilizes the NVidia 7800 hardware
for real time rendering. Presently, the ATI isn’t supported. I’ve been
looking into this as well and AE7.0 as well as Magic Bullet for Editors v2
use the 7800 series chip for real time render support.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Thanks for the confirmation. $50 isn’t much to spend
on the Codec, but I was hoping that there were examples
of the difference between MS DV and MC DV. Oh well,
I guess when I install PPro 2.0 I’ll purchase the
MainConcept DV encoder since most of my work is in DV

Thanks again.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Carl,
My understanding is that Adobe internally uses the DV codec from
MainConcept on the timeline, but any writing of AVI files is in
the Microsoft DV codec form unless you’ve purchased the codec from
MainConcept. I could be wrong though… Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

I do this for customers all the time. If I get VHS tapes
I use my camcorder to pass-through the analog signal
into to computer. However, if I get DVDs from customers
my favorite software is VirtualDub-MPEG. It reads the
VOB files and outputs uncompressed AVIs. Watch out for
the audio/video skew that happens. It can be taken care
of in the software, but you need to be aware of it.

Search google for VirtualDub-MPEG.

Good Luck

Mark Weaver

[Mark Weaver]

Glad I could help… 🙂

[Mark Weaver]

Graham,
The last project I did that was over 2 hours, was home
videos from a VHS tape. To get this on the single layer
DVD, I encoded it in PPro with the target bit rate of 4MB/sec,
the quality set to 3.5, Max bit rate 7.0 and Min bit rate
set to 2.0.

Worked fine for my case and in fact I used this setting
for other video(DV) and there was very little noticable
defects in the output.

Hope this helps.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Stefan,
The name has changed from Movie Looks to Magic Bullet for
Editors, but it is something like Default or Filmic. This
seems to adjust colors and contrast just to be a little
smoother. I like it for most shots. Again, it is not a
complete fix, just a simple addition to hopefully enhance
what you already shot.

Good luck.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Stefan,
I’ve been using Movie Looks 1(the free one that came with PPro)
for a year or so and just bought Magic Bullet for Editors 2. I
really like the feel of the video after it has gone through
the Movie Looks filters. Unfortunately these filters take
forever to run. Version 2 is supposed to speed things up by
using the graphics card, but I haven’t verified this personally.

As it is, right now, if I have time I use Movie Looks for
as much as possible.

Mark