Stephen Mann
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Try liiting the render/encode to only one or two cores.
Steve Mann
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Are you using the Recording Unit software that Sony provides for the HVR-DR60?
Steve Mann
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John, I use my DR60’s on my Z1’s all the time now – without tape. Just start/stop the record from the DR60 and don’t touch the red button on your LANC controller or camera. (And ignore the blinking tape warning).
Steve Mann
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Burn speed: midway between the min & max works very well for me. Never, ever burn a DVD at the highest available speed. Also, if your max available rate is unusually low, like 4X on a 16X DVD, then your player doesn’t recognize the media and probably needs a firmware update.
Verbatim Media: Are you sure that those DVD’s in the Verbatim box were made by Verbatim? Consumer-boxed media is a commodity market, and you don’t know which manufacturer’s DVD’s were put into the box unless you examine the mfg data using DVD Identify or similar software.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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That’s a cool solution. I’ve never had this problem, but I’ll remember it. Since I don’t do network rendering I hadn’t thought of this.
Note, however, that network rendering is for RENDERING. Not encoding. MPEG, AC3, MOV, etc are encoded – not rendered. (Which is why I never bothered to set up a renderfarm.)
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” Is there a way to “white balance” a monitor (LCD in my case)? ”
No. It is impossible to correctly calibrate a consumer LCD monitor. Studio LCD monitors cost a few thousand dollars each, so if you spent a few hundred dollars for the top of the line LCD, you still can’t accurately calibrate it for video.
There is no “black” on an LCD. It’s an illusion. Try putting a black image on the screen – it’s really gray. There’s also no “white” because the color of white depends entirely on the color of the LCD backlight. There’s also no contrast control because the contrast is directly affected by the viewing angle.
For this reason, you can NEVER depend on your LCD display for color and video level settings. This especially means your camera’s LCD displays.
If you are in the market for a new monitor, look seriously at the LED/LCD displays. The LED’s provide the backlight and white is possible, and black is more black because the LED backlight can be turned off for individual pixels.
You can still find pro video monitors (heavy picture-tube units) on eBay for $200-$300. I have a pair of Sony PVM-14U monitors here. I also recently bought the Color Munki (because it also profiles my printer for photographs). Even two identical Dell LCD monitors next to each other still look slightly different. It’s close to what I see on the Sony PVM, but it isn’t “perfect”.
But, I don’t need perfect. 99% of my product will be viewed online or on home TV’s, usually LCD or Plasma TV’s. So, calibrating my monitors and getting a “pass” on my home TV is *good enough*.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Wow – that sounds like a fun project. How many hours did you put into the final production?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I don’t see enough information to guess what the problem is, but it could just be a coincidence but 12.5 Minutes is about the max for a FAT-32 formatted media.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I don’t see enough information to guess what the problem is, but it could just be a coincidence but 12.5 Minutes is about the max for a FAT-32 formatted media.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com