[Steven Gonzales]

You might want to buy the whole package from a reseller. Then it will be tested and ready to go, and they can explain your choices to you.

Some on this site have recommended Promax and WH Platts.

http://www.promax.com
http://www.whplatts.com

[Steven Gonzales]

Stirring up antagonism does not enrich a forum.

[Steven Gonzales]

You can import the ALE into a cinema tools database, then export a final cut pro batch list from cinema tools.

Then you can import the Final Cut Pro batch list into a bin in Final Cut.

[Steven Gonzales]

When in doubt on a mac, think of contextual menus. When you hold down the control key, then click somewhere, you get a menu based on the context of where you’re clicking.

Press the control key, then click on the frames display number. You should see options: non-drop frame (timecode), feet+frames, and frames. Select non-drop frame.

[Steven Gonzales]

It could read them in or out of the cartridge.

Here’s the info on that option:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58276

[Steven Gonzales]

Either that or find the files from the original capture, before they were changed to 24.

[Steven Gonzales]

All the caveats apply, of course. I also run with scissors.

https://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html

[4.3.4.2] How do I remove a DVD-RAM type 2 disc from the cartridge?

Type 2 DVD-RAM cartridges allow the disc to be removed so that it can be played in standard players or drives. (However, most players and drives still won’t be able to read the disc — see 4.3.1.)

First break (yes, break) the locking pin by pushing on it with a pointed object such as a ballpoint pen. Remove the locking pin. Unlatch the cover by using a pointed object to press the indentation on the back left corner of the cartridge. Data is recorded on the unprinted side of the disc — do not touch it. When you put the bare disc back the cartridge, make sure the printed side of the shutter and the printed side of the disc face the same direction.

Most DVD-RAM drives will not allow you to write to a bare disc. Some will not allow you to write to a cartridge if the disc has been removed.

[Steven Gonzales]

The length possible is dependent upon the shielding of the cable and the data rate. Better shielding and a lower data rate will allow longer distances.

A common calculation is that cable length in meters and data signaling rate in bps should not exceel 10 to the 8th.

So for 500 meters the fastest you could send information is 200kilobits per second (with 8 bit groupings, about 25,000 baud rate). If you’re talking to a deck at 9600 (a common speed recently) which is 76.8kilobits per second you could get 1302 meters.

[Steven Gonzales]

I don’t think you need another transfer. I think you need to get the original files on disk (from the digibeta at 29.97, before converstion) or recapture the digibeta and convert it to 24 again.

[Steven Gonzales]

Interlaced isn’t the problem. What happens during film to video transfer is that the transfer is done by fields in a 3-2 or 2-3 basis.

So the first film frame (A) (using 2-3) creates 2 fields, or one complete video frame we’ll call 1. The next film frame (B) creates 3 field, which is complete video frame 2 and 1/2 of video frame 3. Then another two fields are created from film frame (C), which is the 2nd half of video frame 3 and the first half of video frame 4. Then 3 fields are created from film frame (D), the 2nd half of video frame 4 and both fields, the complete frame, of video frame 5.

So the 5 video frames are composed like this:

AA BB BC CD DD

So video frames 3 and 4 share frames from different film frames.

When you try to go back to 24 frame video, you need to extract properly. If you start extracting assuming 2-3 sequence at video frame 1, you get the correct 4 video frames for 24 fps playback:

AA BB skip a field CC DD skip a field. Four video frames with the correct information.

however, if you start the same extraction on the second frame, you get

BB BC skip a field DD DA skip a field. Four video frames, 2 of which have information from two different film frames (perhaps what you see as “interlace”.)

If the method extracts only the first field, and starts on the 2nd frame, then even worse things can happen:

AA BB BC CD DD

B skip field B skip field skip field D skip field D skip field skip field

You end up with no A frame and no C frame at all.

This is a simplification, but you can see a lot can go wrong.