Ted Snow
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In the future if you have a question about a seller, check out http://www.ResellerRatings.com and look up the company. You can read reviews from customers about sellers. USAphotonation have a VERY bad rating from about ALL of the reviewers. I called them out of curiosity when I was in the market for my VX2100. I think their price at the time was $1000 or less. I already knew I wasn’t gonna order anything from them after reading the reviews, but I just wanted to see what they had to say. The company is a joke and a scam.
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When I attended “The Recording Workshop” school in Chillicothe, Ohio…one of the topics they touched on was copyrights. The way they explained it was that NAMES, TITLES and PHRASES were not copyrightable but the design of the logo was (as a trademark). Of course that was 20 years ago and things do change. (dang, am I REALLY THAT OLD???)
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Sorry Stephen, no, I never hooked up the power supply connector on the card. As Zip stated it only supplies power to 6 pin firewire connector.
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I have the ACEDVio card I use with Vegas all the time. Great card. I never installed the software. I think it’s mostly just for adjusting analog signals such as VCR tapes, etc. And you can do any adjustments to that once in Vegas. If you do adjustments during capture, you’re stuck with the changes. As for the connector, I use the 4 pin connector with my Sony VX2100…works great. The 4 pin is data only whereas the 6 pin is powered. Since a camera has it’s own power source you can use the 4 pin. But you can also use the 6 pin jack also without problems, either one will work fine.
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If you do use the headphone out method…be sure to go into the LINE in and NOT the MIC in. The mic in has much more gain.
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I have a Soyo Platinum II MoBo with built in firewire and had worked flawlessly for well over a year until I installed a Canopus ACEDVio card. The only reason the onboard card doesn’t work now is because the Canopus card took control of the IRQ which it shares with the onboard card. The onboard card uses the Via chipset but it always worked great…but I have read in the past that Via firewire chipsets are known to cause problems. I guess I was one of the lucky ones.
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When I built my editing computer a couple of years ago I tried to get the best I could afford of everything. At the time that was a P4 2.8 HT with 1 gig ram (have since went to 2 gig). I also got an Abit Nvidia powered video card with 256 meg ram onboard. I later came to realize that this video card was way overkill for video editing with Vegas since none of the power of the card was used. But at least I do have the card if that option is available in the future.
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I have also done this manually by splitting the video, then splitting the video again one frame before or after the first split. Zoom in on the single frame and add brightness and contrast and boost the brightness up. This worked perfect for me but Ed’s suggestion might be easier…I haven’t tried his way before but will experiment with that also.
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Also, try to go to the rehearsal if there is going to be one so you will know where everyone is going to be standing so you can position your tripod camera accordingly. It’s bad when you get all set up and start rolling and you end up getting the back of the bride’s head for most of the ceremony. This happened to me just a week ago. The wedding was in another town so going to the rehearsal was a problem for me and they informed me I wouldn’t need to be at the rehearsal. Luckily I had three cameras going throughout the ceremony. Just make sure you have at least one camera capturing a good shot of the bride.
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One thing to remember is that the quality of the sound you get depends entirely on the sound generator. MIDI is nothing more than the information sent to the sound generator telling it what note or key to hit and…on what instrument, how hard to hit the note, how long to hold the note, yada yada. For instance, it tells the tone generator to hit a C5 note on a saxiphone etc. MIDI doesn’t actually output any sound, it’s just the info sent to a tone generator telling it WHAT to play. The sound generator built into a computer sound card is not going to sound as good as a Korg Triton, Yamaha XV, etc. But some of the newer sound cards can surprise you on the sounds they can generate. It just depends on what your needs are. For simple background music, one of these sound cards would probably work just fine. But my point of the response is mainly just explaining “what” MIDI is.