[Rick Neely]

Thx for your help from last month.

I’m now in a quandry as my ultrastudio 4k is acting wonky.

I would consider the <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>UltraStudio Recorder 3G as you suggested, BUT I’m on a 2013 mac pro (trashcan thunderbolt 2) and I think that’s a thunderbolt 3. Does anyone tried using it with a thunderbolt 3>>2 adaptor with some success?

Rick

[Rick Neely]

Bret,

Thanks! I found one of Levine’s videos on youtube that showed an alternate way to what I was doing that worked! Cheers!

Rick

[Rick Neely]

Chris,

thx for the response. Most of my clients who give me VHS want DVD so for efficiency and client expectation, I got to DVD than export the h.264 from it when they ask for it.

I have tried different workflows using canopus, aja io, elgato, dv input;etc but they all yielded different outputs with many losing audio/video synch + slowing me down.

I’ll do the handbrake to rf18 and see if I can do similar setting in media encoder. For now, I’ll also look into adjusting the export by trimming the range (in seconds).

[Rick Neely]

Hey Shane,

yes it is PAL. I confirmed.

I think I got it working (to my satisfaction). The FCP capture settings were PAL DV (with a audio sampling change to 32 khz for audio to come thru. Matched the settings on my sony dv deck).

The workaround to get video was to switch deck control to ‘non-controllable device’. That got me video and I disabled all the settings to stop capture on dropped frames, tc break; etc in user preferences (yes, it’s been awhile). then just ‘capture now’ and manually stop.

For my purposes, simply converting pal dv to digital quicktime movie file, this works for me (did try this in Premiere Pro but kept hiccuping on TC and signal breaks.)

Thanks!

[Rick Neely]

It’s an 1080 HD sequence being downconverted to MPEG2 DVD. It was fully rendered (CC, scaling, and blur) in Premiere before Export. No customizaton preset. It’s about 19 minutes long.

Have done this in the past with no issues.

Rick

[Rick Neely]

David,

SUPER THANKS for this! The capture worked after following the tutorial. I think this updated workflow came out about a year after I last captured HDV content like this.

One more followup issue – I am now trying to export the footage as mp4 (one big file of the tape). I’ve tried to make a quicktime reference, quicktime self-contained, and compressor. All have failed either with ‘i/o error’ or ‘quicktime error’. I’ve both tried trashing preferences and render the sequence (there are no other renders in manager).

Am I missing something else?

Rick

[Rick Neely]

Herb,

you are dead on. Yes, that was how the film was captured. I did reduce vibration significantly by breaking up the machine and re-securing the parts on a firm worktable (plus reducing tension on source reel). It’s just the remaining vibration I’d like to clean up a bit. Pretty sure the client will be happy with what I’ve done so far, but I’d always like to improve.

Rick

[Rick Neely]

Hey Ann,

yes, I figured that. Just trying to find the happy medium- between 90 minutes and 90 frames 🙂

[Rick Neely]

Appreciate the responses.

Yes, the issue here is I’m not dealing with individual shots. It’s purely a 90 minute 16mm film transfer. It could be upwards of 600-700 shots I’ve have to insert edit points. The vibrations are simply minor shaking from the system vibration. nothing more.

Have to figure something else out as I really don’t want to fork out $400-500 for those really thorough plugins.

Thanks again!

Rick

[Rick Neely]

Thanks Guys.

I decided to get another HDD (and bill client). The idea of copying full folder root structure I understand and will do so. The new headache is the audio issue with Mac OS Sierra, Premiere 2018 and AVCHD files. I found a work around to get the audio for them. Just a headache of a show.

Again, Thanks for all your help.

Rick