Tom Matthies
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Not running Snow Leopard yet (it’s sitting on the shelf waiting) but when I changed my eSATA drives over to my MacPro, I not only had to install new drivers but also update the firmware on the card before it worked properly. I’m running Firmtek products. Just a thought.
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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I always carry a standard gray log chart on multi camera shoots. I shoot the chart with each camera at the beginning of each setup under the lighting conditions that that camera will be shooting in. I then use the recorded chart clips in the edit room to rough color grade the camera together. I pick the main camera as a reference and balance the others to it.
If you are doing live shows, take all of the cameras into a studio setting with the same lighting and set them all on a chart. Tweak your main camera and then adjust the others to match. Most cameras have menu driven setups these days. You might have to do a little research into each to find out what you can adjust on each one.Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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A playback monitor is usually a higher quality than a standard TV. It will have professional inputs such as BNC connectors and a better picture tube or LCD screen. It will be able to play back (usually) composite, component and possibly SDI digital video. It has controls not available on a TV like underscan, cross pulse, blue only and others.
A TV will have a demodulator with RF inputs. It can have all of the above playback abilities but will usually had RCA-type connectors or HDMI for digital inputs. It won’t have any of the extra controls the monitor has.
A computer monitor will have (usually) RGBS inputs and a D connector type jack on the monitor. It could also have digital DVI inputs or a combination of the two.
Use the playback monitor for quality control, the computer monitor to see what you are editing on your computer and the TV to watch it on the air once you finish your spot!
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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It may just be a severely clogged head(s). MII is metal particle tape from what I remember and sometimes when the heads clog, it practically welds metal particles across the gap in the heads. I had a problem with an MII machine a while ago and no amount of cleaning with freon or head cleaner worked. I finally got it cleared up using Ampex head cleaner (nasty stuff) along with a Panasonic head cleaning tape. These tapes are pretty abrasive and will wear the clogged heads down a bit to clear them out. Don’t run it very long. A little goes a long way. If the tape plays on a different machine, it can’t be the tape at fault and is most likely clogged heads. It’s possible that the machine just finally gave up, but I’d look into a good head cleaning first. It takes some effort.
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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I believe that the new version might have that feature. You’d need to do it in layers, I’d imagine. I haven’t loaded my copy of Studio yet (waiting for Snow Leopard) but I’m pretty sure it;s in there. Otherwise Joe’s filters has a keyframable soft pattern filter that could work.
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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I think he’s thinking about the S&W as an INPUT to the Beta deck. Yes? That’s how I read it anyway. If the S&W has component outputs, that’s what you want to feed into your Beta deck. Composite isn’t as clean.
Try to define blurry video a bit better. Unless there are some kind of processing controls on the external TBC to “sharpen” the video, it’s probably not going to help you that much. The Beta deck is capable of a decent recording if the signal going into it is good. If the incoming signal is much better looking than the output from the machine, the Beta deck may be to blame and may need repair or alignment. In this case, adding more processing to the input isn’t going to help.
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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I don’t remember quite where they are (it’s been a few years) but make sure that the air filters for the vacuum pumps are clean.Check the air line to the capstan and make sure that it is clean as well. I don’t remember if anything changes with the vacuum to the capstan as the transport modes change, but check this out to be sure. There could be a dirty relay or a stuck air valve hiding somewhere in there.
I miss the old VPR3’s.They were so fast and locked up in an instant. They also make the best noise as the scanner spins up. Once you hear it, you will recognize it forever.
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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Jeez…
Even the phrase “ditto” is ancient and no one even knows what it refers to anymore.Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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Ditto…
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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By the way, part of your problem may be all of the “splitters” in your signal path. Baseband video is not like RF video that can be split several times. If your video is “split” too many times, there may not be enough voltage left to get a good signal into your Canopus. Black and white video might indicate a weak subcarrier component due to the signal loss of the splitters. What happens if you go directly from you deck to the Canopus? A better solution would be to send the VTR video thru a frame synchronizer before all of the other devices. Many converters don’t play well with nontimebase corrected video.
Tom
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller