DVL-Digest 630 - Postings: Index 24fps dvd clips to canopus 29. Disagree with DigitialFilmGrou - (2) Mac Audio Extension Problem PIII, AMD, Celeron ??? Software for DV-in and DV-out video switchers 24fps dvd clips to canopus 29. - Adam Wilt Wow ! I did'nt know that....I should go back to DVD school :> DVD school? Try http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html Cheers, Adam Wilt Disagree with DigitialFilmGrou - Adam Wilt This was another thing about Digital Film Group that bugged me. > Why are they so insistent on widescreen, when it incurs a > loss of resolution? They don't own up to that in their FAQ, > but some of us are already hip to the fact. Because if you're aiming for a 1.85:1 35mm release, you'll wind up cropping off the top & bottom of the 4:3 image anyway (you'll even crop a bit from a 16:9 image). If you're going for 1.33:1, it's a different story... Blair Witch, anyone? Cheers, Adam Wilt Disagree with DigitialFilmGrou - Adam Wilt Never having done any real resolution tests with the Xl1, I had never > thought about that "green CCD vertical pixel shift" trick causing a > loss in chroma data. Does it sort of overlay the R & B thus causing a > reduction in saturation? Saturation isn't really affected; chroma data are line-doubled as best I can tell (thus you wind up with 4:1:0 chroma, and it still looks pretty good, so there!). I have noticed a very slight shift in color rendering, but I haven't tracked this down precisely. > "Judder", (for those of us who are NOT English speaking but rather > American speaking) may be more familiar to you as "jitter". Not that > I'm correcting Adam. He just talks funny sometimes. I do talk funny, it's true, but in this case "judder" refers to the predictable, periodic syncopation of temporal data as in the inverse 3:2 pulldown of NTSC tape to film, whereas I usually think of "jitter" as a random fluctuation in the timing of what should be isochronous data. Cheers, Adam "nit picker" Wilt Mac Audio Extension Problem - Adam Wilt During playback, my audio went out and I get a high pitch hiss. > > I thrashed Final Cut Pro and Quicktime prefs and rebooted. Got an Audion > Extension error prompting me to restart holding down the shift key to > temporarilly turn off extensions. Fine but now no sound at all. Have you zapped P-RAM? Amazing how this will fix things sonetimes. If that doesn't work, you could hunk and peck for hours trying to fix this... what I'd do would be a reinstall of whichever version of MacOS you're running, a fresh QT install, and a fresh FCP install. It's a brute-force approach but the Mac makes it fairly painless and I've done it so many times now without a problem (and this coming from a Windows background where OS reinstalls are A Big Deal) that I'd try this without further ado. Cheers, Adam Wilt PIII, AMD, Celeron ??? - Adam Wilt I'm looking into a portable editing solution and need to stick with > Win2000... ...and an external Firewire HD. > Most of all I want it to work well ;-) I realize (am convinced) a > PowerBook with FCP would be best, but I really do need to stick with > Win2000...really... Well, you *could* get the PowerBook and FCP, no worries, and add DAVE 2.5.1 for transparent networking to and file interchange with Windows machines... Or, have a look at FAST purple., a turnkey laptop DV NLE running on a VAIO and/or a Gateway (I saw both at IBC). Check out EditDV running with OHCI 1394 drivers. Even Avid has announced Newcutter DV and XpressDV versions, probably to be supplied as turnkey systems running on Thinkpads. Pick the software first. Then figure out what hardware that software is compatible with, and buy that hardware. It may be a bit early to look at FireWire drives for the video drive, as performance is compromised by the 1394/IDE bridge and by not-necessarily-ready-for-prime-time 1394 bus sharing between the DV device and NLE and the disk driver. One advantage of the Mac is how-swappable device bay IDE drives from VST, MCE, and the like. I'm not sure what other good options there are on the PC, other than getting a big, fast internal drive and partitioning it into two bits. Cheers, Adam Wilt Software for DV-in and DV-out - Adam Wilt Can anyone point me to some freeware/shareware programs which can be used for DV-in/out... Some pointers at http://www.adamwilt.com/DV.html#CamerasLink Cheers, Adam Wilt video switchers - Adam Wilt I've got a multi-cam shoot coming up and I'd like to use all XL1s. Problem > is, if we want to switch live to a master tape, will we need a special > switcher that has frame buffers built-in? Yes. > What switchers are capable of switching cameras that don't genlock? Any? The Videonics line has been mentioned. They're fine if you stick to programmed transitions using the take button; don't use the T-handle as the processor can't keep up and the transitions get stuttery. If you're used to traditional SEGs with big control panels and button-per-function design, be sure to spend enough time with the Videonics before the show to get used to its very different user interface -- it's perfectly functional, but it does "think different." The MXProDV even lets you connect the XL1 using 1394 -- try the Videonics DistanceDV cables, which will run 50 meters (at S100 speeds) without repeaters or extenders. Cool stuff! Panasonic makes two SEGs, the WJ-MX30 and the WJ-MX50A. I use an older MX50 with Bob Rall's resolution improvements and proc amp controls for all my live work. The Pannys are more "traditional" in button layout and function, and the T-handle can be used live for silky-smooth manual transitions. Cheers, Adam Wilt (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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