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[fafounet] “Is it furnished with the capture card or is it standard ?”

Do you HAVE a capture card?
Without one, you can only capture DV video & audio via FireWire.

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Shift-S “Audio Scrubbing” On and Off

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You need to adjust the speed of your clips BEFORE they are edited to the timeline.
But you can solve this problem afterwards by adjusting the matching “original” clip(s), then editing these newly adjusted clips to replace the one(s) on your timeline.

On the timeline: Put the cursor on the FIRST FRAME of the clip you want to Slo-Mo or Fast-Mo.
But do NOT double-click IT into the viewer, but hit the F key so a “match-frame” of the original clip appears in the Viewer.

Then, adjust the speed of the clip in the Viewer (Cmd-J) to any percent you want.

Next, on the timeline, use REPLACE to change-out the regular-speed clip with the newly speed-adjusted version.

Your other clips will all stay in place.

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1. What kind of audio? (Source)
2. If some of it is sync sound from your video tapes, did you capture the audio and video as separate files? (big no-no)
3. Was the camcorder set to 48 kHz audio sampling, 32 kHz audio sampling, or some of each?
4. How many Realtime Audio Mixing audio tracks have you chosen in User Preferences?
5. Is your playback set to High Quality?

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[edr] “How can I record the analog tapes to my miniDV camcorder? The problem is that I have no where to insert the hi8, 8mm, tapes to make them digital.”

Please re-read the first and second sentences of my post.

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If you need to do a LOT of Hi8 and 8 analog transfers, shop eBay and buy another D8.

If you only need to do a few, just borrow or buy any Hi8 camcorder and connect to you new camcorder.

According to the specs, the DVC30 will convert analog audio and video (S-video or RCA) to digital and then send it out to FireWire.
Or better still, first record the analog tapes to miniDV tapes so you will have Timecode when you capture the DV copy.

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Well, the resolution NUMBERS would, of course, be higher on a 23″ vs a 19″ monitor.
(Like a Photoshop image, the numbers get “higher” as the size gets larger.)

But, the Apple 23″ does have one of the best-looking monitor images, regardless.
Many think its worth the extra money… it is very fine.

That said, I like to use two monitors whenever I edit, regardless of the size of an individual monitor.
I like to group the various windows on respective monitors.
And you DO generally get more desktop area with two monitors.
Right now, I’m on two 19″ monitors which (after I throw out the case rims between the units) I have effectively 30 diagonal inches of screen area.

To check it out, go to any computer store (even if they don’t have the Apple) and see what you think of just looking at one large monitor vs. two more “standard-sized” units.

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What camcorder recorded the tapes?

Are you using the same camcorder for digitizing?

Did you have the camcorder set to 48 kHz or 32 kHz?

“Sync-slippage” can happen during some longer captures.

Tapes recorded on certain camcorders from Canon have been somewhat more problematic but it also can happen with other brands of cameras as well.

To reduce the problem on capture, break your captures into sections no longer than about 10 minutes each.

You can then “reconstruct” the full tape’s recording (or any longer takes) quickly if you need to.
Mark (and log) your first clip to End (Out-point) about 10 minutes or less from its In-point.
Continue to mark (and log) your clips this way throughout the rest of the tape.
Just make sure the In-points of the subsequent clips are EXACTLY ONE FRAME LATER than the Out-points of the previous clips.

You can do all this while actually scanning the tape(s) or just by inputting arbitrary TC numbers, logging them… then use Batch Capture to bring in all of your clips.

Its very easy to then “reconstruct” the shorter clips back to any “continuous” length you want on the timeline by just “clicking” them on in order.
EVEN FASTER… select ALL successive clips at once in the browser (with the browser column-order set to “Media Start” highlight all clips) and drop them, all at once, on the timeline… they’ll all pop up in continuous order.

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One way would be to Export your 2-Camera version as a Quicktime Movie (I’d choose “Self Contained), then bring that Movie back into FCP, make it one of your “sources” (in place of a camera) and sync the other camera tapes to it.

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[Sam Mallery] ” or when I scrub the playhead across the time line I get no audio squeekery”

Well, it is a FEATURE.
Its called Audio Scrubbing.

It can be turned on and off.

To turn it ON:

View (menu) > Audio Scrubbing > Check mark
Or hit “Shift-S”