Nathan Tinsley
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OK I’m following up on my own post here for the public good! It was the main fuse, not the power board. Again the repair guy said out of THOUSANDS of units (his words) that he’s worked on he has NEVER seen a power board failure other than mine the first time it failed. Gee aren’t I lucky! He said that 99% of the time it is the main fuse and it is blown by people hooking up their anton bauer brick batteries wrong, getting the polarity reversed. Well I don’t own any anton bauers but he didn’t have a good answer for why the fuse blew. It is the original fuse but still that is unclear. But anyway he replaced the fuse and ran the cam for quite a while before packing it back up to return to me. Incidentally the tripod screw plate inside the cam was cracked in half. Oops. Take it easy on that mount! I have read in one other posting here that this plate is prone to cracking and flaking and sometimes results in internal damage. Could this be it? I mentioned it to the repair guy and he didn’t think so. He did mention that he’s seen little flecks of metal from shattered mounting plates get lodged in the zoom gears causing hitching in the zoom but never power issues. Hmmm….
Well that’s all. May you never have a power failure like this!
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Thanks Noah,
Good idea. It is in a soft case right now. I’m sending it off to have it fixed tomorrow. Incidentally I checked out the power board in the service manual (we have the manual at the station) and apparently there are two power boards on these cameras. My question now is which one went in the first instance and did the same one go again or is it the other board this time. Perhaps I’ll post again when I get word.
Nate
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Could you tell us more about your editing workflow?
1. Did you originate in Mini DV?
2. Did you use a capture card/accelerator Like a matrox RTX card?
3. What is VRO?
4. Did you use the Adobe Media encoder to make an MPEG2 video?
5. If you worked in DV did you consider exporting a DV AVI file and import that into Encore?You see I’m an Encore user and I just know that this program will work for you if you start with the right materials!
Regards,
Nate
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I don’t think it’s to any advantage to “leave some space” at the end of the disc for scratches but one thing you might want to be careful of is raising that bit rate too high. 8 Megabits is pushing it when you add audio, especially if you don’t compress the audio. Sometimes players have a hard time when the data rate reaches the maximum spec for DVD which is 10.08 for video and audio together. The max bit rate for DVD video by the way is 9.8. As you approach this ceiling you run the risk of older or flakier, cheaper players not being happy! I typically do 7 megabits and CBR if its just for dubs or something that’s not too long.
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One Final NOTE!
When I’ve had Mini DV tape problems a last resort that can SOMETIMES clear up problems is playing the tape back in the camcorder and capturing the video through the ANALOG outputs of the camcorder. Of course you loose the ability to split out the clips into discreet individual shots BUT at least you would get the video into your system. However if you don’t have an analog capture card this won’t help you.
GOOD LUCK!
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Chris!
Awesome! Thanks so much for the tip! Will be in touch on the project. The 24Pn is the “native” 24p format that panasonic uses in the HVX200 correct? Shoots only 24 frames second natively I’ve heard. Anyway great info! Now I know I can use a good 2/3 inch chip cam for this thing! Talk soon.
Nate
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Ugh,
I may have just answered my own question. Follow the link below. Looks like I may be out of luck with DVCPRO HD. No windows CODEC. I don’t have FCP. I use Premier Pro.
https://www.hdforindies.com/2004/12/more-reader-questions-cross-platform
Is there a different camera out there that can shoot to the firestore or tapeless in some way? I had initially thought of the XDCAM HD but that’s compressed. It’s for exterior stuff on a sunny day. Might be fine, but it will artifact.
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Great Advice So far!
According to the rental house the Firestore can handle the throughput but it’s worth asking others. Anyone?
Thanks for the 23.97p tip. I actually initially planned on that frame rate but was a little worried about the pull down going back to SD 29.97. But if people are doing it successfully then I really probably should do it.
Excellent tip on needing the extra utility. I thought AE would read them directly. I’ve looked at Raylight. I’ll have to check it out again. But even if I had this utility would I still need the DVCPROHD codec for windows as Steve mentioned?
Thanks all.
nate
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It’s strange that the ripped file was an odd raster(576×320). Seems like a small 16:9 piece of video. Is that right? In that case your real problem is you need to up-rez or up-raster it to 720×480 in order to work with it in Premier. Premier will do this. Use the effects controls window to change the SCALE of the video until it fills the screen. Then you will have to decide if you want to output an anamorphic widescreen movie or a letter boxed movie in a regular 4:3 screen. Either way do a small test to see your results. If the quality still seems bad you must go back to the original DVD and RE-RIP to get a larger image preferably 720×480! Good luck.
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My Friend I believe I have bad news for you. It appears to me as if you shot in LETTERBOX format on your DVX. NOT anamorphic. My DVX100, the original one for the US, shoots wide aspect in the same way. A brief explanation:
Anamorphic Widescreen: A 720×480 (720x576PAL) DV image with a wide field of view Squeezed into it and a pixel aspect ratio of 1.2. In a Widescreen project in Premier this is the type of footage that you would use and Adobe unstretches for DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY but you’re final timeline is still a piece of video with the same characteristics. In the end it’s the DVD player that UNSTRETCHES this squished image for playback.
Letterboxed Widescreen: A 720×480 (720x576PAL) DV image with a wide field of view inserted into the center of the screen with black bands at the top and the bottom and a pixel aspect ratio of 0.9. This video is for all intents and purposes 4:3 aspect ratio footage and to keep it’s proportions correct you would need to edit it in a 4:3 aspect Premier project. Your final product here would be a 4:3 piece of video with the black bars at the top and bottom and that