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SonyDennis wrote on 5/5/2003, 1:40 AM
Only the latter, not the former. Some older analog capture systems had scopes before or during capture, but they made sense there because you were adjusting the analog capture decoder parameters. A DV capture has already been digitized by the camera, it's a straight digital transfer, so scopes would be out of place. We have heard of making scopes available live from Firewire for use as an on-set camera setup feature, which has been logged as a feature request.
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Astronuts wrote on 5/5/2003, 1:54 AM
Thanks Dennis,

yeah, that's what I was getting at - setting up a shot and monitoring its levels onset - making adjustments there. I'd love to be able to do this via my laptop on shoots.

Thanks again for the reply.

DW
farss wrote on 5/5/2003, 7:31 AM
How about being able to monitor the audio levels also during capture, or can you somehow do this already?
I know I can do this during record to an audio track but can I do this while capturing video. I know this may sound like a strange request but VCRs such as the DSR11 provide no audio metering and quite a few poeple are using them to record from A/V inputs. I realise Sony probably have compression/limiters on the audio inputs so your not going to get real input level metering but I figure looking at what it feeds back out on its firewire output during recording would give a better indication than none.
Sure, we could hook meters up on the inputs but a lot of VCRs like this one don't even spec what the input level should be and it varies from one model to the next, at least metering the sampled audio would tell us that we are in the right ballpark.