Noah Kadner
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I prefer to burn multi copies in Toast but quality wise it doesn’t matter.
Noah
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I believe FFMPEG might be up to this or Audacity- assuming we’re talking OS X here. Otherwise a google would do it.
Noah
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If you are moving the data from the PCMCIA slot immediately to the USB-2 external drive- that’s essentially doubling the amount of time it takes to move data because it must pass through the PCMCIA slot at one data rate, then through the Powerbook’s motherboard then finally back down the USB-2 slot at a much slower data rate.
I’d suggest making enough space available on the Powerbook’s internal drive to ingest an entire card at once. Then you can move it to the much slower external drive as you’ve ejected the P2.
-Noah
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Not really. Only way to make changes now is via ripping, demuxing, reauthoring and reburning- or going back to the original source media used with the DVD project. Major quality hit and time waster. Consider it a lesson for the future: hard drive space is dirt cheap compared to your time…
Noah
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This comes up a lot and the solution is pretty easy- keep some of the larger assets out of the test build- use placeholder clips. That way you can make sure navigation and logic are perfect. Then test the assets as they’ll fit on another disc to make sure the video and audio quality are good. Then build and test the full project on the hard drive and you can be reasonably sure all is well.
Noah
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I’d try FW 800 or SATA raid- much faster transfer than USB-2 despite what the claimed USB-2 numbers might be. Also a second 8GB or even 4GB card would help a lot in avoiding downtime.
Noah
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Tony- you are aware the DVX100 PAL shoots 25p not 24p- correct?
Noah
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Just my opinion, but personally have not had a single PCMCIA card since I started using laptops four years ago. I just don’t see this as really that big a deal- adapters are already coming down the pipe, for example:
https://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/the-first-expresscard-memory-card-readers-148241.php
And it’s not just Apple moving onto ExpressCard, Dell is doing the same thing. So you can see the PC market will go that route pretty quick. If we kept every interface past models have, we’d still be stuck with serial and SCSI connectors.
-Noah
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The DV tapes are reasonably tough- I’d say there’s not a reason to back them up like this- especially to more DV tapes which are just as vulnerable. Normally you capture everything from the source tapes once and then store them. You can also keep a hard drive or two with all the captured media as a backup. That’s just as reliable if not moreso than a pile of new tapes and much much easier to get done.
But if for some reason you’re dead set on going this way, I’d rent a deck. Personally I’d stick with the Panasonic tapes- the Sony one’s are not going to improve the signal and in fact contain a different type of lubrication that clogs the DVX100’s heads a bit faster than the Panasonic tapes. Bottom line is whatever is on the tapes you have now is as good as it gets already.
Noah