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Re: Importing Old Footage. . . - 18 years agoHi Tom, Didn't see you post before making my last post. Thanks for the info. This option was kinda hard to find. But found it under the Apple menu! -Scottby Scott_r - Café LA Re: Importing Old Footage. . . - 18 years agoOops, just found the setting under "Easy Setup" option under the apple menu. It's called "DV- NTSC 48KHz DV-Converter". There is not automatic control of the camera but the capture is perfect. No conversion just perfectly captured footage ready to edit. Thank you so much for the tip. You have saved me many hours of time. -Scottby Scott_r - Café LA Re: Importing Old Footage. . . - 18 years agoHi Derek, Thank for the advice. Is the "Device Preset" a FC Pro feature? I can't seem to find it in FC Express. -Scottby Scott_r - Café LA Re: Importing Old Footage. . . - 18 years agoJust tested putting in a digital 8 tape and capturing by clicking the "new" button vs. the "clip" button and it worked just fine. No conversion! But still doesn't help the problem with capturing the older tapes. -Scottby Scott_r - Café LA Re: Importing Old Footage. . . - 18 years agoHi Derek, Thanks for the quick reply. I am using a SONY digital 8 that can play back both the newer digital 8 tapes and can play the older tapes (circa 1991-1997). The camera is connected in tandem with my 2 fire wire drives. FC Express is version 1.01 When I open the capture window in FC Express, the camera responds to all the transport commands. When I start the tape playing the picture shoby Scott_r - Café LA Importing Old Footage. . . - 18 years agoHi All, I have serveral hours of old family video shot on 8mm video. I have FC Express and it refuses to import any of the video. I am trying to import on a new Digital 8 Camcorder. The newer footage will not work either. But I can import both vintages using iMovie. But the only draw back there is converting the audio. 1 hour and 30 minutes of video and audio took 9 hours to convert. 99.9% of thby Scott_r - Café LA |
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