Rennie Klymyk
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1- Can you study the tape on a vectorscope to see how the dots line up. Being you are capturing analog did you capture useing scopes? How do your color bars look on the fcp scopes during capture? Remember capturing digital is basically transfering data from tape to hdd but capturing analog involves a lot of slip, slop, and slide that needs adjustment for each device depending on phase of the moon, season, temperature etc.
2- Blue is traditionaly a difficult color for ccd’s. You could check the camera on a vectorscope. It could be an encoder level is out of adjustment on the camera if all other colors are good.
What is the cost of a beta sp to dvcam component dub in your neck of the woods? (I’m just curious)
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Try a search on this forum. Just in the last month I’ve seen some great suggestions and others have provided links to books and what not. There’s a great resource right here for starters.
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It sounds like you do a few of these. If so you may want to consider useing a decent digital camera and a copy stand with proper lighting as opposed to the scanner. If you capture at around 4mb you can sell a cd of the digital copies to your clients too. You can copy stills F-a-s-t with this set up and they drop right into fcp. Also Shane’s suggestion of 8 bit uncompressed will make the difference. Once in fcp you can adjust the levels and color correct. I only use photoshop for spot removal, restoration or repair work and only if it is within the budget. My clients always tell me “they look better than the originals” and they do.
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There was an earlier post regarding this a few months back and it was stated right on apple’s site that you could install on your tower AND your laptop. As a single operator I must commend apple for allowing it. I’ll probably buy a laptop from them now, just for logging on those 2 hr. ferry rides I take. Actually I’ll probably end up moving down to the beach.
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Play inc (when they were around) also made a product for this that recieved many accolades at the time.
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The only other think to watch is set up. If you’re dv is set to 0 ire black level you need to switch the “add set-up” switch on the beta deck “on” or you can change this in your aja control panel. A wf monitor on the end of the beta deck is always nice.
“everything is broken”
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[Winston A. Cely] “I found this on http://www.bcs.tv:
SONY / BVMD14H1U”These are sony’s better crt monitors. Before I’d pay $7800.00 for the pvm I’d go with the BVM-D but the one you’re looking at is the 1U which has no controll pannel, you need a seperate control pannel ($1000.00) or a monitor that has one. Google BVM-D14H5U which is the same monitor WITH the control pannel on the sides. Fits perfect into a rack this way too. I have one of these and they are excellent. They take the:
BKM 142 ($4000.00) hdsdi input card or the new
BKM 143 ($1600.00) hdsdi input card.
DAC-9213-PVM (Ross) hdsdi input card $1395.00I don’t know what the difference is between these 3 cards other than the price. Ross made an hdsdi card as a replacement for the BKM-142 a few years ago and perhaps that’s why sony has introduced this newer lower priced card. The BKM-142 takes 2 slots up, I don’t know about the other 2 cards.
https://www.rossvideo.com/gearlite/dac9213pvm.html
Only the BVM-D or BVM-E series monitors do HD. The earlier model BVM can not display HD.
The last character in the name U = smpte phouspours or E =ebu phousphors
The 2nd last character (which is a numeral 1 = no control pannel or 5 built in control pannel.
2 different remotes (wired) are available or you can plug into any bvm with built in controls. 1 controller will run about 20 monitors but that’s a pain, I would not want one with out it’s own controller. Way too many menu options.“everything is broken”
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I just recieved this email from squared5-
MPEG Streamclip is freeware so I can’t (currently) accept donations.
Please tell other users that (for the moment) there is no way to send
me money. All Paypal donations will go back to senders, at least for
the next 2 or 3 months.In the future, I’m going to give users who like MPEG Streamclip a way
to donate me something. I will post more details in a few months.Thanks for the idea of the donation, I appreciated it very much!
Development of MPEG Streamclip continues and a new version will be
available before the end of this year or earlier.Squared 5
Oh well, It’s the thought that counts!
“everything is broken”
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[Laura H] “I’d like to keep the video @ 400×380,”
Opps, don’t you mean 480×360? 400×380 is basically square.
It’s been a long time since I did anything for powerpoint but it seems to me most everything on that side is windows media.
Check out this earlier thread-
“everything is broken”
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I recently had to work with one of these dvd-camera discs. What I found was there were tc breaks every time the camera was paused during recording. I used squared8 streamclip to convert the files and even though I had “repair tc breaks” checked in the preferences it still choked on these ones. You could see about a 1 second freeze at the end of every new take (in slipstream). I’m not sure if this is to do with the gop structure of mpeg2 as opposed to solid frame video or what but this is definatly not a great editing format. Then I discovered in the menu bar there is a second “fix tc break” function, I think it’s under “edit.” Selecting it went through and repaired all of these breaks. Streamclip has virtually every codec fcp has. I ended up spending a lot of time on it as it’s fairly complex compared to the drag and drop simplicity of other apps. I didn’t time it but the re-encoding went fast. However my 1GB mini-disc yielded a 13GB qt mov file (704×480). If you can finalize the discs so they play in a dvd player there is a lot to be said for Walter’s suggestion of patching a dvd player to your kona.
“everything is broken”