[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Wow.
You, of course, can use any tape you’d like.
Choose your gear and expendables as you see fit.

But, I have never, ever, EVER, heard of anything like this.

Physically there shold be no “EXTRA STRESS” involved in “DVCAM SPEED”.

Absolutely nothing is “different” in the camera except the tape MOTION (past the heads) is increased by 30% in DVCAM vs DV SP.
The heads are still rotating at exactly the same speed.
If MOTION was a factor, you could never fast-forward or rewind a tape in the camera for any reason… it would “stress” the tape.

I HAVE had some head-clog/drop-outs using certain BRANDS of tapes (never Panasonic or Sony) but it had nothing to do with using a tape marked “DVCAM”.

I have personally shot hundreds of miniDV tapes, at either DVSP or DVCAM speed… no difference whatsoever.
I am involved with many production houses and shooters who have never reported any problems like this either.

To continue the “scope” of this, the question has been discussed
many times on many web-boards over the years since DV DVCAM DVCPRO, etc. has been available…
The times that I’ve heard from anyone who actually reported a “problem” with using a DVSP TAPE at DVCAM speed was…
ONE
and that was today.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Questions like this are posted very frequently. And many (most?) of the problems are solved by a simple procedure.

There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Questions like this are posted very frequently. And many (most?) of the problems are solved by a simple procedure.

There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Trevor Ward] “The driver is wearing white pants and highlights on the hand and shifter are white. I suppose this will entail using some garbage matte or something.”

Sure. Just block out (“garbage matte or something”) the areas you DON’T want to key-out.

Otherwise,just use the “Luma Key” on the driver clip and set it to “Key Out Lighter”.

Put your “good” sky on the video track below the driver footage.

Fine-tuning the adjustments will make all the difference.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Danrnw] “Of course it can be done just with DVE but that won’t really be
the genie effect per say.”

Why not?

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Can you FULLY describe (many more details) what are trying to DO, and the physical environment that you are shooting in.

What will the tape be used for?

Do you have CONTROL over the “event” or are you just documenting something that is happening independent of your recording?

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Couple of ideas:

This is a CLASSIC.
Omni-directional pick-up and rugged as a battleship.

https://grtv.org/links/index.htm

But it may be hard to find (I’ve bought them at pawn shops for $15).

This is a great inexpensive directional pick-up mic thats been around forever.

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Live/Sound/Microphones/Wireless?sku=270102

They are EVERYWHERE! (And sound great!)

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Did you try this?

There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

You can input from a sound board with a GL1.

You just need to use a MIC-level feed from the mixer and then adapt it down to a stereo “mini-phone-plug” (to fit the GL1’s external mic input).

Find a local audio guy to help you… its a snap.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

What part of the process are you asking about?