Rolf Howarth
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If you downconvert HDV->DV you will get both the timecode and date-time information. (CatDV can also read this information from a .mts HDV stream by the way, though this isn’t generally too useful because you can’t directly play that stream using QuickTime).
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The way to think of it is that the subclip button inserts a new subclip marker in your log, the event button inserts a new event marker, and when you come out of the verbatim logger you can either “apply” those changes (create subclips and/or events) or “save the log as text” (perhaps you haven’t finished logging the clip yet and plan to come back to it later, or you know you only ever want to create textual transcripts and aren’t bothered with subclipping using the verbatim logger).
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You’re right that the null1) name is a bug in the verbatim logger and will be fixed in 8.1.6. For now, using the ClipName-1 option will probably give you the closest to what you want.
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I was on vacation… still catching up with emails!
One possibility, do you have Final Cut running at the same time? If so, that might be keeping the FireWire device open, preventing other apps from using it.
Also, bear in mind that Live Capture Plus only works with DV, not HDV, as the formats are very different and LCPlus was designed specifically to take advantage of the DV format (ie. self-contained frames with no interframe compression). If you need to use LCPlus on HDV tapes set your deck to downconvert HDV->DV on playback. All the metadata and scene breaks are preserved, and it’s fine for cataloguing tapes while building low-res proxies, though you will need to recapture relevant clips in FCP to edit at full res.
Finally, if you still can’t power up, make sure you connect your deck straight to the computer (not via a FireWire hub), disconnect any other devices such as FireWire hard drives, and try again after a fresh reboot without launching any other apps first. If you still have problems, try a different FireWire cable and do some tests with a plain DV tape, or try another machine.
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By default the Notes field and user-defined fields have a limit of 64K on the server for efficiency. If you do need to copy and paste War and Peace into your logs, use the Big Notes field (which I believe will take up to 2GB, War and Peace is only 2MB!). We have an outstanding change request to use Big Notes instead of Notes for the verbatim logger, which may happen in a future release. In the meantime, if the 64K limit causes you problems, it is possible to reconfigure the database schema fairly easily with some SQL commands to change the data type of text fields (drop a line to support@squarebox.co.uk if you need the details) but this isn’t recommended for most users as it would slow down all access to the server.
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The easiest fix is to edit the path-based preview entry and blank out the ‘original location’ field. That way all media files regardless of their location will have their previews in the same Test Preview folder. Using the original location field you can have multiple preview folders depending on where the original files were.
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The Record Date field isn’t modified, that just shows the date stored by the camera. The results of applying a timezone/camera clock adjustment are shown in the Location Date and GMT Date fields, which you can see if you go to the ‘Other’ tab (or customise your views).
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The “camera” and “location” timezone adjustment is to handle the case where your camera may be set to New York local time, say, but you’ve travelled to India, and want to display times in GMT. You can also enter a camera clock adjustment however. It’s designed for synching up multiple cameras, where the clocks may be out by a number of minutes relative to each other, but there’s no reason why you shouldn’t apply a correction of 4 days if the clock was set incorrectly.
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The Timezone Adjustment command shouldn’t be global. It only applies to the clips you select and apply the correction to.
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Make sure you can do the operation from the command line first so you fully understand the command syntax, and only then work on doing it from the worker. Also, as Kevin suggested, you might find that curl is a more powerful alternative to the ftp command (it will also copy files by sftp, http, ssh, etc., not just ftp)