[Todd Gillespie]

QuickTIme Broadcaster is the app you want.
It’s free
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/broadcaster/

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Chris,
As Chuck listed. The files are pretty small. Save them to a flash drive or CD. Then do your clean install, and before you open Safari, IE, etc, place the files into the same directory, and you should be good to go. I did the same thing when switching computers, worked out fine.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

I don’t know all of the code that goes into QT reading a m2v file, but yes it takes a little while to load all of a movie into QT Player before you can view it.
I only notice it with m2v files.

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Chris,
Just go to Macally to get the latest drivers for your Keyboard, you don’t have to open your tray to do that.
Not sure why your printer disappeared, but I’ve deleted and added printers a lot to get them to work again. It’s fairly straight forward thru the OSX.
Can’t help with Norton…it’s pretty much dead on the Mac side.

Good Luck

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Warren,
I use to do the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon for our local ABC afiliate. Fun stuff.

Not sure I agree with Digi-Beta being that much better than DVCPro 50??
But if it’s the deck your interested in, I would go with the Digi-Beta deck. It’s more used and considered to be a Mastering Format. Plus it can record/play Beta, which everyone has, not true with DVCPro.

Best Wishes

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi,
Don had some great advice.

Since we do a lot of event video at theaters, halls, etc, we run across the same set up.
taking the feed from the ‘house’ is usually the easiest and best option. Since they should have already invested the time and energy to making everything sound good. We will run that feed thru our Mixer (Mackie) then into the camera/deck. (Also suggested by Don) The reason being is that we need to control the volume differently than the live audio would. If you run straight into the camera, then your hostage to the level on the board which is concerned with the sound quality for the live audience, much different for video. For our ‘field cart’ (GL2 with VCR & Monitor) we run the feed thru a Radio Shack 4 line mixer. It’s cheap, it’s ugly, but it works. You can switch between Mic-Line level and has a Master level. I would recommend getting a Shure field mixer. They are very nice and compact with a lot of features.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=118708&is=REG
Also you should run Tone thru your sound path before you start taping. This is critical in setting a sound level. I imagine that if you did it now, your tone would come thru to hot.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=197233&is=REG
Bringing your own mics will add a lot of work, and shouldn’t sound any better than the mics already in place.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Did you check here first?
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/6cards.html
Adobe list all of the avalible cards. I would start there, then post again if you have specific questions about makers, configration, etc.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi nbrazzi,
Sorry for the delay,

One would think that buying a camera is better than buying a deck. You get a camera and a deck, all in one!!
Unfortunately, this is not the case. You will find many posts in this pastrue as well as others, where people did much the same thing only to realize now they have a camera that doesn’t work well. The most resent post I remember, the person had the camera less than 6 months! Then it died from too much editing use. Video cameras are not design to be playback or recorder units. The heads and support system are far inferior to deck components.
I remember the first time I started working in pro video with a BetaCam camcorder, I was told then, never to use the camera to playback, FF, or Rewind any tapes. It wares out the camera heads and components too much. And this is with a $40,000 unit! So this rule holds true across the entire spectrum of production. WHile DV tapes are small and do put less wear and tear on your camera, it’s still not a good idea.

So, you should probably decide what is best for you now? Would you benifit more from a deck? (because the bulk of your work is editing) or Would it be better to buy a camera? (since you shoot more footage than edit)
Of course this is an over simplifacation, as price, rentals, avalibility, etc matters as well.

q[nbrazzi] ” shot some stuff in DVCAM mode, but was surprised to see that it played back fine in a cheap Mini-DV handycam. Does this mean that I didn’t successfully record in DVCAM mode or does it mean that that handycam has a DV-CAM playback mode?”
It means you didn’t record in DVCAM mode. If a deck CAN play back DVCAM footage that is not a DVCAM deck, then it will usually playback slower. I’m not sure how to check if you’ve shot in DVCAM mode without a deck? Try playing back in the camera with all of your display setting on, one might tell you DV/DVCAM.

[nbrazzi] “Am I right in thinking that there is no difference in FCP when I’m editing DVCAM versus DV? The settings are all the same, right?
“
Yes this is true, DV is DV. The only difference with DVCAM is that you get a better recording because the tape is moving faster (more info over less space is better) and DVCAM is locked audio with video. A lot of editors run across this problem, where the audio will drift away from the video. DVCAM is a little better about this, although I’ve experience the same thing with DVCAM (although not for a couple of years).

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

There’s 2 card makers that Adobe Certifieds http://www.matrox.com and http://www.bluefish444.com.
I don’t use Premier for that much, so I don’t have a lot of experience with PC cards, but I’d go with bluefish.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Doug,
I don’t think fonts are your trouble. They can be, but not for this.

This is a Boris thing. Happened to me quite a bit with v.2.5. Using Boris as a stand alone or with FCP. So I know it’s not Media 100. In my experience, Boris get’s a little buggy when you start using the library browser. What I usually did for this is do a little at a time. I would choose from the lib., change fonts, add shadows, etc. etc. Somewhere along the line it would crash. So what I ended up doing was doing a little at a time. Go in, choose from the library, save and quit. Go back in, change some setting, save and quit again. Usually once I applied the library transistion saved and quit, Boris would be stable for me to do the rest.
If that doesn’t work, you might try just using Boris, not inside M100. See if it’s any more stable. You might be able save your transistion in Boris, then apply it in Media 100.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production