New to digital editing and three questions re: logging and deck?

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Ralph nixon

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1) May seem like a stupid question but I plan to dump my original tapes to vhs to log and pull audio cassettes off for transcribing and doing a papercut before I go and selective capture. How do I set up My 100B so that I know that only the timecode will be recorded onto my vhs tapes and none of the other osd info.

2) If I use a cheap camera for my loading deck that can turn analogue to digital and vise versa can I hook that up while I edit, and through it plug into my Sony XBR T.V. (standard def) so that I can see my digital footage on an interlaced analogue system. Will it be sharp enough? Is that a good way to mix it and do colour correction?

3)I have a 250gig harddrive that now is more like 170Gigs after installing Final Cut Pro Studio. I plan to have about twenty hours of material to edit and it seems like I would be smart to get an external harddrive. What are the best most dependable ones?


Thank you very much for your help. I've been reading as much as I can and am currently working my way through the apple training books but sometimes the easiest answers are the hardest to find.
 
1) Why would you want to transfer DV to VHS? You're going to take a serious quality hit and put it through many stages of unnecessary compression/conversion.

2) Yes you can hook up your cam via firewire an preview on a external TV. It's not as good as a produciton monitor, but if you calibrate it with color bars it can pass.

3) If you capture DV footage over firewire you're looking at approx. 13GB/hour. So, with 170 GB's left you have (and if you take into account leaving 10% open) you have about 145 GB's left, which will give you 11 hours of DV material time. Good, but it's much better to have an external drive. Check out GTech GRaid drives: http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-RAID.cfm
 
1) there is a way to do this, but I'm not sure. I always use my DSR11 for this. I do understand why you'd want to go to VHS...

It's in the menus somewhere...

CaptM
 
oneinfiniteloop said:
1) Why would you want to transfer DV to VHS? You're going to take a serious quality hit and put it through many stages of unnecessary compression/conversion.

I guess I was unclear. I'm doing a documentary and wanting to view the original tape as little as possible before selectively capturing it I thought I could watch it on my Television once as I record it to VHS and then simultaneously dub out of that one more time to a cassette player. Then I have cheap VHS tapes to review the content of the material and to get to know it really well in the comfort of my easy chair and cassette tapes to send off to be transcribed so a detailed papercut can be done. Then after that I can go back to my almost untouched dv tapes and capture them into FCP.
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This is also good because then you'll also have a better idea of what to log and you won't be capturing all 100+ hours onto a HD.

CaptM
 
I have shot documentaries before and it sounds like you are making more work for yourself. Why don't you just put the tape in your deck or camera which ever you are going to use to import the footage. Get yourself a notebook and jot down the timecodes and the IN and OUTS of the sound bytes you want (portions of an interview). DO the same thing for you B-roll footage. Have all your stuff on paper and refer to your notes of timecodes for your import.

Doing it that way, gives you a chance to look over your tape as you jot down timecodes. Then go to FCP's Log and Capture select a New Bin and start adding all your timecodes then do a batch capture while you go watch TV or something...
 
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