a few old hand questions

ushere wrote on 6/19/2005, 4:18 PM
i'm rather rushed at the moment with a couple of major projects, both of which have thrown up questions, so forgive my abruptness, and mixture of questions under one heading:

a. i'm still having a bloody entry problem in advance capture: having to add a . between times - can't simply type in 123423 and get 12:34:23 - seems no one can answer me why this happens.
am using pal ebu 25fps timeline. tried with time and frames, same thing. originally put it down to
a quirk on my old amd system, but this new one is intel, and still doing the same thing... does anyone know if it's a pal quirk?

b. suggestions as to decent c/g plugin. am really only after scrolls and crawls - with shadows, outline, etc.,

c. a reliable capture deck for edl work. my dsr11 is fine for dump and record, but doesn't seem to reliable pickingup t/c in fast forward - i can guess better than it where's its coming back on the heads!!!

many thanks,

leslie

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Grazie wrote on 6/19/2005, 11:35 PM
Ushere - I can only respond to your first request.

In AdvCap - for me - I need to enter and USE the COLONS and PERIOD . .meaning I need to type:-

12:34:23.23

- otherwise I get a spurious timecode. PLUS, as you implied, the last 2 digits for "23" frames gets defaulted forward to 23 minutes - yes I see this too. However, if you enter 12:34:23.23, of course, you do get > 12:34:23.23 <

Now here's the kicker, which I think you are questionning - I would! Using "Current location" under the main, Capture Window, I/you/we can quickly type in 123423 and we get 00:12:34.23 - Ok this is good! Now, as you say, try and repeat this "approach" in "T/c in" in AvdCap. Nope! Well I can't. I can't carry over the same logic as the functioning of "Current location" and get this to happen in the "T/c in" in AvdCap field.

Nope! Current location does not act the same as the "T/c in" in AvdCap field.

However, AdvVidCap "T/c in" in AvdCap field dioes something a bit more .. . As you review thre Tape and keep "tapping" the IN point ( or "I" on kb )this gets updated. Once you've got the required IN move downwards to the OUT icon and keep tapping that ( or the "O" on the kb ). This will be continually updated. Once you are satisfied with the OUT point hit LogIn/Out ( or Ctrl+L on kb )and you've got your "clip" ready for batch capture - but I guess you knew this. So, maybe this continual updating option works "counter" to the free-fall entry method for "Current location"? We need the Sony Programmers to step in and tell us this? Yes? But yes, . . it would be nice. It may be a difficult thing to augment .. but if we don't ask?

Cheers,

Grazie



Grazie
ushere wrote on 6/19/2005, 11:44 PM
thank goodness it's just not me!!!!

was beginning to get a bit paranoid there (but i really do know they've got it in for me, honest).

what gets me is ntsc characters don't get this problem?

and why not auto highlight next entry box?

agreed you can do it marking i/o, but i work a great deal from edl's - and those extra (or missed;-( . can cause waste of time, or much worse....)

buttoning on,

leslie
Grazie wrote on 6/20/2005, 12:00 AM


"what gets me is ntsc characters don't get this problem?"

HAH! Now THAT's interesting!!! I didn't know that - I wonder if the reference to use this within Timcode IN in AdvVidcap has NOT been set as an option within the programme for the PAL option? Now this could be something you could put forward to the Sony Programmers - they may not be aware of it NOT happenning . . ah go on! Yah knows yah want to!!

Hmmm... interesting . .so NTSC people have this? We PAL-ers don't?

Grazie

ushere wrote on 6/20/2005, 1:51 AM
ok. who do i write to at big brother?

i think it's basically a plot by ntsc'ers to try and globalise their system ;-)

ah, perfection at last.

leslie
rs170a wrote on 6/20/2005, 9:14 AM
Hmmm... interesting . .so NTSC people have this? We PAL-ers don't?

That's right Grazie. It's the NTSC way of getting back at you PAL users for having a better video format :-)

Leslie, all I can suggest is filling out the Product Suggestion form (top of this page under the Support tab) requesting this feature. I find it very odd that we have it and you don't.

Mike
ushere wrote on 6/20/2005, 10:43 PM
huh!

that's the last time we go to war with ntsc'ers

from now on, we'll stick with secam'ers (are there any out there? doves vegas even do secam?).

love

12.34.23 not 123423
farss wrote on 6/21/2005, 2:02 AM
As to the question of a deck. I don't think you'll do any better than the DSR-11 unless you're dealing with DVCAM. As I understand the TC on DV isn't terribly reliable.
But if you want to spend some dollars, the DHR 1000 is pretty robust and it's got an edit controller built in, if deck to deck edits are your thing and you've alread got a DSR-11 I think the two of them will dance. DSR 45 is another nice deck but you;re paying for a lot of stuff you'll never use like 4 XLR outputs.
But we just avoid the whole batch capture thing and dump entire tapes to HDD, wife does that on one machine while I edit on the other, much more efficient use of resources and I've once (and once too many) had a clients tape go snappo while it was being shuttled.
Bob.
ushere wrote on 6/21/2005, 4:44 AM
ok. will stick with dsr11, and having played with scenalyzer 4, i think it's going to be one option worth persuing.

that said, i'll still have to .............. with all my edls all the f--king time!!!

it's the first time ntsc has ever looked attractive.

oi vey,

leslie