[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Use a proper fully featured QuickTime utility – MPEG Streamclip, rather than playing with a consumer iPod movie tool like Handbrake.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
I stripe from the beginning of the tape, and do the assemble edit about 30 secs into the tape, normally at 00:58:20:00.

You may understand that 23:59:59:00 + 1 sec rolls over to 00:00:00:00, but I don’t chance it that the edit-control automation software does…
My caution is born of 16 years experience doing this NLE sort of thing, and of identifying problem points… 😉

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Replied to your other identical reply:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/10204130

[Paul Dickin]

[Jan Joubert] “…still results in the final product on tape being out by 1 frame…”
Hi
Not my experience – I get spot-on Assemble edit results every time, with both a DSR-25 and a DSR-11 deck.
But as I explained. I don’t ever put the edit anywhere near the programme media.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
That’s a legacy codec for analogue hardware capture cards:
https://lists.apple.com/archives/quicktime-talk/2000/Nov/msg00269.html
Quote:
If you’re compressing non-interlaced content, use Photo JPEG.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
The DSR-25 (and the DSR-11) are simple decks, and only do Assemble editing.
So Insert Edits are done as assembles – and you hope the end comes out cleanly….
So most people stick to Assemble editing.

Shane’s procedure works fine for Tiger – I do it most weeks.

Set your own timecode parameters to suit.

I use SimpleVideo Out to black the tape from 00:57:45:00(ish), and set up a timeline which starts at 00:58:20:00.
So that is the point at which I aim ETT’s in-edit point – and at which my edit (the only one) happens.

On my timeline I have a slug until 00:58:30:00, the a minute of bars & tone.
Then a 30 sec countdown clock/slate, with a 2-pop sound blip/flash frame at 00:59:50:00.
Show starts at 01:00:00:00.

By doing the edit before the bars I keep the edit point well away from any significant timecode – in case of t/c discontinuity.
But there never is – the deck gets it right every time…

[Paul Dickin]

[Jan Joubert] “I’m trying to export a tape for broadcast”
Hi
Since a deck needs pre-roll to get up to speed before switching to Record at the assemble-edit point, your timecode needs to start before the edit-start point.
It cannot do this if you start at 00:00:00:00.

It is usual to lay down timecode onto the tape from say 00:59:00:00 (which gives as programme start point of 01:00:00:00) or 09:00:00:00 (for 10:00:00:00).

Then you can do an Assemble Edit with the deck having timecode to roll back on to cue up the edit.

Read Shane’s Stock answer in this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1013791

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Seagate have posted the Firmware updater (Windows only):
https://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

[Paul Dickin]

[Steev Hise] “Too bad there’s no Uninstaller. “
Hi
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_remover.htm

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Well, what with all those lovely new prototype/early production no-FireWire iMacs in China being shipped off to landfill because Steve recognised that to launch the models in that form would REALLY fuel the FW-free MacBook protest fires once more, and some…

Hey, even Apple can’t re-engineer a new motherboard to add FW800 in six weeks flat 😉
So Phil had to spin the rest out as best he could…

Quote:
The demo of the new version of iMovie made me want to scream. Loads of confusing new features, a zillion new pulldown menus and functions that nobody in their right mind will ever sit down and learn.
That ‘ll be Randy Ubillos, the wonderful ‘chief architect – video applications’, ie Final Cut, demonstrating his handiwork….