DVL-Digest 754 - Postings: Index B&W vs color viewfinders Sony Hi 8 Tracking adjustment Where to buy royatly free music? - (2) B&W vs color viewfinders - "Perry" If you can accurately focus manually with the color vf then you are a better man than I Gunga Din! Although not as sharp as a crt, the PD-150 vf is definitely better. The trouble is that Sony took off the arrows fed from the auto-focus circuit that were there on the VX-1000, so you are entirely reliant on the vf for manual focus. Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ Sony Hi 8 Tracking adjustment - "Perry" Jim Reidenbaugh posted: >Can anyone forward directions on how to adjust the tracking on an old Sony Video hi-8 handycam? I'm guessing that it will involve realigning the play back heads. I have a very good client ($) that recorded a few tapes with a camera that was out of adjustment. He no longer has access to that camera.< Hi-8 format doesn't use a control track, so 'tracking' is automatic and done on the actual video tracks. If the tapes don't play well it's because the tracks are recorded wrong due to the tape path being wrong; probably one of the guides was misplaced or damaged. If you can find a deck with LP speed available, it may have a narrower head and be worth a try. I cannot remember whether Hi-9 ever did LP? Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ Where to buy royatly free music? - "Perry" >>4) You contact your local audio 'shop' and negotiate something. This is by >>far the best option! >I think it will turn out that this is the way to go indeed.. (First I was thinking that you meant: the record shop around the corner, and asked myself whether I would have to correspond off list on this point.... Then I realized you meant the audio production / editing company...)< That's right (shop is US slang for workshop), I have a voice/over and editing studio near to me and the owner has close relations with 2-3 composers who make custom music for computer games. A couple of times I have told them I need something very cheap and they have just played it direct to tape whilst they watched the video, sort of silent movie style. Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ Where to buy royatly free music? - "Perry" Ton This is the way it works in the UK, probably throughout Europe: You have four obvious choices: 1) You buy a CD(s) with an up front licence, I suspect this is what you allude to with your comment. They are not cheap if they are any good. 2) You use library music from one of the dozens of Publishers that put out this stuff. You then pay based upon your use and how long it is. The cheapest rate (which is agreed across the industry and administered by the MCPS) is about 1 per second for 1 country non-broadcast with <100 copies and it escalates up from there. The CD music is free, you just pay when you use it. If you let the Publishers know you are a video production house, about 1000 CDs will arrive through your letter box in no time! Most are synthesiser rubbish, but occasionally you hear a nice tune which then invariably turns up on a broadcast programme! 3) You buy one of these do it yourself applications like 'Smartsound' but this can be as expensive as option 1. It seems to me that the cheaper ones like 'Acid' need quite a lot of musical skill. 4) You contact your local audio 'shop' and negotiate something. This is by far the best option! Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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