[Rafael Amador]

As Shane says, no. When you make aa MPG2 all the values that oversteping the legal levels are just cuted-off.
The Video-out of the DVD will be allways legal.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

No.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

Yes. You capture a full broadcast composite video signal before to be compressed (5:1) to DV. The difference of quality is amazing even if you are using a cheap camera.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

In the “Users Prefferences” try un-checking: WARNING WHEN IMPORTING NO-OPTIMICED MEDIA.
After that try to set your camera to record 16b audio and your life will be easier.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

Hi haven’t try with H264, but with Sorenson at 6/7Mbs the play fine from a CD.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Mench,
I edit 8/10b Unc with small external HDs Firewire 400 with out any problem in FC. In fact a bought a LaCie 320Gb Firewire 800 a couple of years ago but after that I went back to the smallers (200Gbs) Firewire 400.
For AE you can work even with slower HDs than with FC. AE take his time to render so it doesn’t need to be feed in real time.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

You don’t need even to record. Just open the camara and plug the Composite Video Out to the Composite Video in of the BM.You only need a cable with RCA in one extrem to branch to the camera and a BNC in the other to branch to the BM. Them you capture 9 or 10b Uncompress.
If would be even better if would be possible to switch the S-Video to the BM Component Video In, but I do not know the way.
I try thisI system a bit for fun because I really do not use C-Keys but I know that if I ever need to do one I’ll do it like that. As I told you before the quality is astonishing. You can capture with the BM and record in tape at the same time. Them just compare the two imiges. Try it, you won’t regret it.
The main inconvenient is that you need your computer not to far from the camara. But no so close. A BNC cable too long produce looses in the signal and you need to amplifiy it (although I think the BM could do this function). However I thinck untill 15 meters or so there is not problem.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

Try setting “Ignore Ownership ” in the external storage.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

GHOST, that is.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

You can download for free the “Stib’s” and the “Telly’s’ plug-ins. They’ve got few different blur-transitions and they works great.
Cheers,
rafael