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Recommendation Needed: Video Card with SVHS Out - 15 years agoI am wondering if there is a video card I can install in a G5 Quad that has SVHS outputs that would echo what is being displayed on the monitor (primary or secondary). The reason is, I am frequently asked to convert Powerpoint slideshows into DVDs. Currently, I am using the TigerDirect GT Grand Ultimate XP VGA to analog converter to get the secondary monitor recorded to MiniDV, after which I caby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: OT Recommendation Needed for Wide Angle Lense - 16 years agoThanks, Wayne for the reply. My principle camera is a Panasonic GS400, which has a 43mm screw on ring. I checked out what I could find on 16x9 Inc and B&H, dvshop.ca and it does not seem any of the lenses go quite that small. Would you have any other suggestions. If you could supply a preferred retailer link as well, that would be fantastic! If test the Raynox 0.5x and 0.35x andby Gary Sumlak - Café LA OT Recommendation Needed for Wide Angle Lense - 16 years agoI am sorry for this off topic question, but I figured members here may have the experience I need. I have started doing a lot of event video shoots, and many of them are in very tight situations where the standard 1x does not have a field of view wide enough to capture the entire scene. I've looked at various Wide Angle lenses, .5x & .35x, and all add that Fish Eye look, although the fieby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: URGENT HELP Needed Compressing 24 fps file to DVD m2v - 16 years agoThanks for the reply and letting me know the 29.97 thing is not just me. On the other (black frames) front, I discovered that the Black Frames were introduced into the PAL conforms as well. Just at a different time code (3:25;16) than the NTSC. It did not matter how long the PAL clip was, the black frames were ALWAYS inserted at precisely 3:25:16, and only once for the duration of the clip.by Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Re: URGENT HELP Needed: BLACK Frames Introduced by Conform - 16 years agoA Quick update: Although I have not found a resolution, I have discovered that any clip over 3:35.16 in length @ 24 fps, has the video replaced with black frames at *exactly 3:15:16*. I have tested this with 4 completely different clips made from unique content, and the black frame occur in every clip.by Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: URGENT HELP Needed: BLACK Frames Introduced by Conform - 16 years agoI have the plugin and Graeme recommended Using Cinema Tools conform. The plugin is designed for standard 29.97 video, not 24 fps. Thanks for the reply.by Gary Sumlak - Café LA URGENT HELP Needed: BLACK Frames Introduced by Conform - 16 years agoI am working on a multi-language PAL DVD. The original project is in 24fps NTSC from film footage. The DVD was supposed to be sent to be glass mastered today, but can not because of the following problem. We had the exact same problem with the NTSC version, but I was able to use a non-Cinema Tools work around that unfortunately does not work with the PAL version. The completed time linesby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: URGENT HELP Needed Compressing 24 fps file to DVD m2v - 16 years agoWell, taking a cue from that the PAL scaled video did not have the BLACK frame problem the NTSC 720x486 sequence had - (I type-o'ed 480 previously), I created a new NTSC sequence at 720x480 and dropped the 720x486 sequence into that, which resulted in a nice bright red "render me" line. Rendered and exported, and this time the Conform did not insert any black frames. What a pain!!by Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Re: URGENT HELP Needed Compressing 24 fps file to DVD m2v - 16 years agoOK, After a very long night with no end near, I figured out the drop frames are the result of feeding 24fps into Compressor instead of 23.98. I took the footage conformed the clips to 23.98 and that particular problem was resolved.... However, conforming introduced a whole new problem: When I conform the clips, 2 black frames are introduced at EXACTLY frame 7900. I have 4 tracks of similarby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro URGENT HELP Needed Compressing 24 fps file to DVD m2v - 16 years agoI am working on a project where all the source footage is 24fps film (in 720x486 uncompressed 8 bit QT files). I have edited the footage in FCP6 with the sequence at matching settings to the source footage. Every thing good so far. I then export out a reference file of the final edit. Review the ref file and all is beautiful. The problem occurs with I use compressor to convert the 24 fpsby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Recommendation Needed for VHS PlayBack Deck - 16 years agoI have been transferring VHS tapes from a variety of decks including a JVC S7000, Sony, Sanyo, and even an Electrohome G95 SVHS decks. All have worked well for me as playback decks which feed into an Edirol VMC1. When a tape comes in, I try it in all the decks, and the deck the plays the tape back the best is the one I use for the transfer. My problem is that I am getting more and more tapesby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: audio to transitions-- scripting solutions to save disk space? - 17 years agoMake ALL movie video assets for the transitions m2v and audio ac3. If the menu uses a static image, use the raw image as the background. DVDSP is more than happy to use AIFF files as is for the DVD. DVDSP will not convirt AIFF audio to ac3 on the build. This is probably what is causing the DVD to swell. If you use the same asset for each transition, only one asset will be copied to the finalby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Help Needed Recovering Video from Bad DVD - 17 years agoA customer has dropped off a 3" video camera DVD that has a un-recoverable error about 12 minutes into the DVD - you can easily see the section of the DVD surface that is bad. I need to recover as much of the DVD as possible. When I load the dvd, DVD player shows the chapter thumbnails up to the point where the DVD fails and after that, a question mark is displayed instead of the image froby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Re: OT Kindof.... Advise/Recommendation on NAS Needed - 17 years agoThanks for the reply, John. The vast majority of the content to be stored on the NAS is standard DV footage. We have not gotten into any HD work yet. We also do quite a bit of Telecine work, compiling all the film captures into QT DV files. Gigabit throughput is very adequate bandwidth. If we ever graduate to HD, we will definitely start looking at fiber. But we are not even close to beinby Gary Sumlak - Café LA OT Kindof.... Advise/Recommendation on NAS Needed - 17 years agoHi, everyone. I realize this is not specifically an FCP question, but I am sure there will be many opinions and lots of experience with NAS in conjunction with video capture storage and shared editing. I am looking at getting a NAS unit so that I can effectively share projects among 4 Macs (2 G4s and 2 G5s - the G4's are primarily used for capture and rough cuts, and the G5s for effects and rby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: Advice Needed on Purchace of External TBC - 17 years agoThanks for the reply Koz I was reading a couple posts at dvCreators.net and the VMC-1 seems to be highly recommended: Canopus ADVC 300 VS the VMC-1 I downloaded the manual from the Edirol site, and it mentions that the unit may cause some audio delay, which worries me. I will post a query to the Admin on dvCreators and see if I can some more details and get back here with the results.by Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: Advice Needed on Purchace of External TBC - 17 years agoThanks, BJ. I have a friend who recently bought a G5 and has been using a couple MX-1s in conjunction with a Casablanca for a number of years. Once I can get him up to speed on the G5 and the joys of NLE, I will try to get him to loan me one of his units (we swap gear all the time) and avoid the whole eBay thing and save the trepidation of possibly get hosed with a malfunctioning unit. BTWby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Advice Needed on Purchace of External TBC - 17 years agoAfter many years of fighting with capturing old VHS and Beta tapes and all the inherent problems that go with severally degraded tapes and EP/SLP recordings (or Beta III!), I am looking at purchasing an External TBC. One I have been looking at is the Edirol VMC-1 Video Optimizer & Media Converter, which seems to be reasonably priced with lots of features. I am wondering if anyone here hasby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: Confused about DVD compatibility - 18 years agoAfter doing some lengthy digging into the subject on various newsgroups, I came up with a solution (I think) to my compatibility problem. I found a program called DVD2oneX2 that is specifically designed to create DVD Video discs. I have created 4 DVD Videos from Video_TS folders on my system (4 different projects) and they ALL work in my Apex. ALL the DVDs were create using Verbatim 4x DVD+R dby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Re: Confused about DVD compatibility - 18 years agoAlex, I think you just answered a problem I have been having. You mention "book type". I have been having a hair-pulling couple days trying to figure out why burns I make with Toast 7 do not work with my Apex. I use Maxell DVD+R 2.4x media to create a DVD and it will not play on my Apex A600, However, when a buddy copies the disc I made with DVD Shrink, the new DVD plays back perfeby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Re: Line 21 - 18 years agoHi, Bob. Please reread my previous post. Although they may seem to be the same thing, "Subtitle" tracks and line 21 "Closed Captions" are not related and can not be interchanged within DVDSP. You can not created Line 21 (closed captioning) in DVDSP. You can only create Subtitles within DVDSP. Refer to the manual (page 611) on adding Subtitles or Closed Captions.by Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Re: HELP: Oppinion/Suggestions Needed for DVD Dual Layer Compatibility - 18 years agoIt could be semantics, or it could be that double layer means that both sides of the disc are writable, single layer media. I've seen a couple of these, as well as pressed discs (i.e the original Stargate movie) of this configuration. Personally, I hate the media, pressed or burnable, as you can't put any kid of labeling on the media, and there is no SAFE side to set the disc down on outside ofby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Re: HELP: Oppinion/Suggestions Needed for DVD Dual Layer Compatibility - 18 years agoThanks Alex for the link! Cool that Verbatim is putting out DL media as well, however maybe a little late to the plate, since I have yet to see any DVD-R DL compatible burners, including my LG, which is only compatible with +R DL discs. That and the reseller is very small at this time. But, good to know none the less.by Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro HELP: QAdministrator Did Not Install With FCS - 18 years agoI recently installed and setup Final Cut Studio Upgrade for a customer and all apps seem to be working great. However, when I went to set up the distributed processing, Apple QAdministrator was nowhere to be found. The entire install was done from the FCS Installer, entered in the old passwords and put in the discs as FCS requested. When done, the installer said installation was successful. Wheby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro HELP: Oppinion/Suggestions Needed for DVD Dual Layer Compatibility - 18 years agoA week ago I picked up an LG GSA-1463A DVD+R Dual Layer burner and installed it in my G4-500 Dual Processor. Installation went perfectly and I have burned several single and Dual layer discs with, initially, Toast 6 and now Toast 7. I did not have one coaster! I am using Maxell DVD+R DL 2.4x discs. My problem starts when I play back the Dual Layer discs. I tried reading the dual layer discsby Gary Sumlak - DVD Studio Pro Re: HELP: Entering Time Codes In FCP5 is TOTALLY Wacked!! - 17 years agoThanks, Kevin I still have not figured out why the goofy behavior with the problem sequence. I was able to create a new sequence in the same project and rebuild the sequence from scratch dragging the clips over from the browser. It was a little over 300 edits, but I had them already mapped out, so it went pretty fast. Fortunately, being able to create the new sequence in the same project, I didby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: HELP: Entering Time Codes In FCP5 is TOTALLY Wacked!! - 17 years agoThanks, Koz for the reply. >>What happens if you settle on 1;00 and type +100 If the play head is at 1;00 (my sequences all start at 0:00:00;00), when I type +100, the play head jumps to 0:00:08;15, not 2;00 as it should. BTW - the sequence is set to the NTSC DV (3:2) preset as is the job. As for Text Editor, or any other app, everything functions as it should. This problem is 100% locaby Gary Sumlak - Café LA HELP: Entering Time Codes In FCP5 is TOTALLY Wacked!! - 17 years ago* NOTE: Appeal for help previously posted in Apple Discussion Forums without ANY replies! I am sincerely hoping members here are more responsive. I am trying to enter timecodes in FCP5 and what ever I enter gets translated to a completely different code. Oddly enough, depending on the window and what I enter, the timecode translation is completely consistent or inconsistent. For example: I havby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: VHS Digitisation through MAC - 17 years agoOn the item of cleaning fluid, I recommend a product called PEC-12, Archival Photographic Emulsion Cleaner. You can pick it up (or something very similar) and any Camera shop that caters to Pro photographers. It is fairly stinky, but does not leave any residue and is much safer than alcohol. Taby Gary Sumlak - Café LA Re: Advice Needed on Deck to Convert PAL NTSC - 17 years agoI purchased the Nattress Plug-in some time ago and use it often when converting. However, when you just want a quick, on the fly conversion, you need a "direct to" hardware solution, which is what I am looking for. The Sony DSR-11 is a nice unit, and PAL/NTSC compatible, but it does not do conversion, which is what I need. What I need is a MiniDV player that will play PAL or NTSC tapby Gary Sumlak - Café LA |
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