Seth Bloombaum
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You can make your own.
From the Render As dialog, click on custom, set the parameters you want, then name the template in the top-most field, add comments if you want, and click on the disk icon to save. You’ll have your new template forever.
384K refers to 384Kb/s, or, 384 kilobits per second, commonly referred to as bitrate. Note that this is bits, not bytes. Likewise, someone with a 56K modem might actually connect at 48K, and if you look at the template settings for 56K you’ll see a video bitrate of about 38K and an audio bitrate of maybe 8K. A DSL connection might be anywhere from 512K to 1.5M, etc.
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Looks not bad, esp. for $166! More info here. I like that it’s hi or lo impedance, peak or average. I’d probably set it for peak for use with a daw or nle.
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Takes me to the Markertek site OK, but displays the product page for Mid Atlantic leveling feet (for a MA rack?)
Maybe it refers to a cookie on your computer?
How about a product name…
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There’s a little problem with the link…
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Interesting info. No DVX here, but still interesting and I might experiment a little.
The old standby I always use when trying to detect aspect ratio or pixel aspect ratio distortion is to show a perfect circle. The brain is very capable of telling when a circle is not perfectly round, and a picture of a circle tends to end all disagreements.
Rant is not so interesting to me.
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I realize you’re probably on a very limited budget, but you should at least check out DVRack from Serious Magic. There’s a “lite” version for (I think) $150. It’s a specialized hard-drive recorder that will give you a lot more info and flexibility when recording camera to hard drive via firewire, much more info and monitoring than Vegas Capture. Your application is crying out for this, IMO.
Note that sometimes you’ll need an additional FW card to make a DV source work with external FW hard drives in DVRAck – but this is all of $25 or so.
Yes, you either need to bring in audio at the camcorder or at an external converter box.
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Ditto John’s experience, this is a great deck.
Realtime transfers are sometimes a hassle, it’s true.
Recordings are great, functional design of the MDP500 is great, and it’s a unique color!Oh yes, I was writing to say that digital transfers come across s/pdif as wav files. I record directly into sound forge or sometimes vegas. Although you are going through the steps of “recording”, what’s actually happening is a 1s and 0s realtime file transfer, same function as when you capture DV tape.
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check out the videoguys web site – they’ve posted a couple DIY builds, including a dual proc (with MOBO reccs!) system just a couple weeks ago.
Most pros (seems like you are looking pro, not prosumer…) are going with a minimum of M-audio FW410 for 5.1, and many using M-A delta 1010 or Echo products. Seems like these are the two companies that really keep up with drivers and their products play nice with others. Surround monitors are another issue – how much cash do you have for this part? Solutions I’m aware of range from a $400 prosumer then make a quick jump into the low thousands for pro gear.
HDV, 422 covered many times on this forum and others, try some searching.
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a shorter “attachment” might be a better choice. If you’re dealing with noise in the edit suite perhaps you could put the narrator in an adjacent room.
An external mixer and compressor may help, but you should be able to achieve good results just with the mobilepre to a computer. Record in a program that gives you meters on the input, try to peak between -10 and -6db. Normalize the recording, then add a little compression at a ratio of 3:1. Attack at zero, release at .5 seconds or 500 milliseconds, adjust threshold downward so that largest peaks in program cause between 3 and 5 db of compression.
If that’s not going to work for you, you might bring in an audio engineer to get you set up. Buy them a nice lunch in exchange for 10 min. work?
No t-shirts! Nylon/coathanger OK if needed, but as someone mentioned, you should be able to get good results just by changing mic placement.
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This could easily be bad media. Try another brand?