[Wesley Dysart]

I’ve been told this is a known issue with Blackmagic, evidently since I’m trying to convert from Blackmagic 10-bit MOV to Blackmagic 10-bit AVI it’s using the same component for both reading & writing, hence it chokes and can’t do it.

[Wesley Dysart]

All the boxes in the mastering settings were unchecked. I too thought that my out point in the sequence would work, however, when I dragged the sequence over to the mastering window into “insert” it kept recording past the out point, it effectively ran black over the start of the program.

We wound up editing tape-to-tape to fix it, because it seems for some reason we can’t get final cut to do an insert, it wants to keep rolling and black out whatever is past the end point. I’ve mostly used FCP for assemble editing, I’m very frustrated with inserting. I was basically asked to fix a slate and wound up blacking over the hour mark… and to make things worse I couldn’t simply insert the original footage back onto the tape because FCP is ignoring my out point in the sequence and won’t let me enter an out point in the master window.

I need to spend some time practicing with a work tape!

[Wesley Dysart]

I’m watching it on a CRT monitor. Perhaps I should shed some light, this project was originally transferred to a Mac in ProRes422 SD/MOV format. Then it was played at 23.98 and captured at 29.97 in 10-bit uncompressed AVI format on a PC.
I’m about to try a fresh project (I didn’t create the original) and then I’ve also been told I can import the ProRes MOV files directly into Premiere and render them. If that doesn’t work I may just edit on the Mac in ProRes format.

-wes

[Wesley Dysart]

You’re right, I googled it and most of the tops hits mentioned OS X, when I first clicked the Miraizon page it didn’t mention Windows, until I clicked ‘learn more’. And it does in fact look like a very powerful application.

Either way, I have a friend who does primarily music videos for himself, he’s a Sony Vegas user, and as it turns out, Vegas has a very simple ‘import from DVD’ option that has helped me out. I should have a hard drive on the way the raw files soon, so for now I’m all good, thanks for the info guys!

-Wes

[Wesley Dysart]

This MPEG program is asking me to Uninstall QuickTime and install something I’m not familiar with. I own a QuickTime Pro license, so I’m not going to uninstall it. The new version of Handbrake no longer supports AVI, they say AVI is obsolete… and they say their software isn’t made for pirating DVD’s…

I’m at a loss. I thought VirtualDub could do it, but I’m having no luck, I even posted on the Virtualdub forum. All I wanna do is make video clips for the web, perhaps it’s worth it just to re-capture from tape.

-wes

[Wesley Dysart]

Cinematize looks to be mac only. MPEG Streamclip won’t do anything unless I pay Apple $20 for MPEG2…
The foreign tutorial looks like it would work, but it’s incredibly long and I can’t read the explanations.
I tried a program called VirtualDubMod but it just asks why I don’t have corona.dll when I try to run it.
I’m about to just use Handbrake, I’ve used it before and I didn’t like the results, but it actually installs and works. It seems getting video off DVD is much more difficult that I thought.

-Wes

[Wesley Dysart]

agreed, I have no need to break copy protection, I actually made most of these discs, it’s just that now I need access to the footage and many of them were directly dubbed from tape to DVD.

I’ll look into the app you mentioned, thanks!

-Wesley

[Wesley Dysart]

Since this wasn’t a major project I just time stretched the audio inside Final Cut Pro. I think the main issue is that I recorded at 44.1 instead of 48khz.

It seems most people want to maintain length when converting sample rates, so a simple sample rate conversion wasn’t helping. The audio was longer than the video which would make sense if it was recorded at a slower speed then imported while preserving length.

Thanks for your help guys! Next time I do a video I’ll let the board know how it goes!

-Wesley

[Wesley Dysart]

Thanks for the advice. The time adjustment thing is really freaking me out. I can line up the beginning and the ending, but there is still drift in between. Correcting for the end pushes the earlier parts ahead of where they should be. Then adding time back to the early parts pushes the later parts out of time. If there is a magic setting it’s at a decimal place that’s less than 1 frame.

I’m able to get single songs to work, but it’s an ungodly amount of work considering I thought I’d be able to line up the beginnings and have everything fall into place. With this problem even a slate or a tone pop wouldn’t help, as somehow the audio is literally at a different speed.

How do they film live bands? Usually they’ll want the audio to come from the mixing board. I’ve done some sync before where I lined up a beep with a red flash on the screen, then everything fell perfectly into place. would you need a camera that can send or follow sync from a workstation? I’ve seen film sync with analog tape, if that works why on earth would digital be drifting so badly?

Is it typical for MiniDV camcorders to run a bit fast or slow? I was thinking in the digital domain 60 seconds should be 60 seconds. I’m alarmed to think that either my audio workstation or my camcorder is running fast or slow. The audio workstation is clocked to an ADI-2 via ADAT, so if anything I’m thinking it’s the video camera. I was hoping this would just be a sample rate thing. I can’t seem to find a way to alter the sample rate and have it affect the length. Everything I try seems to want to preserve the length…

-Wesley D.

[Wesley Dysart]

Thanks for the advice David! I’ll check with the guys in the audio pro forum, I haven’t been over there yet!

Bests,

-Wesley D.