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The best thing out that I have seen and bought is a two-hour video on the Canon L-1. Apart from the timecode feature, the cameras are identical. This video is extremely good and informative. It is from KnowledgePath Video, ph. 800-537-3050; (206) 527-3050; fax 206-727-5161. -Glenn Scott
video in Rome
Message #3674
I will be in Rome for three weeks at the end of May and half of June on a shoot. Are there any members from Italy or anyone else who can tell me the best source (shop) in Rome to buy video equipment and supplies (tapes, batteries, etc.)? It is…
Tom, For those kinds of cuts, just mark the range in the editor and hit right Amiga + D and they will be gone. Never had a crash doing this. After you are finished editing the sample, do a Make Permanent. Glenn
There is a fine Windows shareware program that can be downloaded from CIS called Paint Shop Pro. I forget which forum. It is from JASC, Inc, Minnetonka, MN (612) 930-9171. It is basically an image format conversion program that handles many different formats and platforms. I use it all the…
There is a Windows shareware program called Paint Shop Pro which you can download from one of the Windows or Graphics forums. I forget which one. It will read both Amiga .IFF and DPaint files. They can then be saved as TIF or whatever you want. This program has a…
Bruce, The 1012 board will come with the 3.0 software. Its not much use without it. Version 3.01 is still in the beta testing stage and isn't available. I am told it will be sent to registered owners as a free upgrade. Hope this help. The manual is excellent by…
The latest STudio16 software will install for either board. The basic differences between the two boards is that the 1012 is only mono and will handle up to four tracks of sound. The 516 is stereo and will handle up to eight tracks of sound. Both will record sound to…
John, Correction: to select all of the lines on a CG page, hold down the Shift key and double click on the first letter of the first line. Glenn
John, Don't know the answer to your first question because I don't use them. The copyright symbol is available by holding down alt and striking "e" in most Toaster fonts. The registered symbol (R) is alt-r. Those are lower case letters. To select all lines of text, double click on…
Studio16 3.0 track drift
Message #42195
This is a follow up to all of you who were reading and responding to this thread a couple of weeks ago. I finally received the SMPTE output module from Sunrize, and as promised, it did fix the problem of the sound triggering too soon. This is a software program…
Hello Michael, Filmclips in Toronto are a very good bunch of people, and have a close rapport with Newtek and other hardware and software companies. They have given me very good service. You might try them out if you are not already. I am in the Toronto area too. Glenn
After I wrote the message to you, I was looking at an issue before last of Video Toaster User where they announced the Passport 4000 board, and it does apparently handle a SECAM translate and a few more obscure standards as well. It also announced the retail price, which is…
The final story on this problem may not be in yet. I received this by e-mail tonight: "After reading your response from Doug, I decided to do a definitive test as follows: 1) Strip a video tape with SMPTE from the SMPTE output module synched to the video signal. 2)…
Their SMPTE output module is, primarily, for striping previously recorded video tape with TC, such as a master. I completely assemble the video, keeping in mind, of course, lengths for my audio needs, and one I have a master, I stripe it with TC. The TC Gen prog I have…
I think you probably picked up my long reply from Sunrize when you were posting this one. I was using version 3.0. Version 3.01 is not available yet and is just coming to a beta version. Sunrize said they would be offering this to their 3.0 owners free of charge,…
I had to pick a recepient for this long replay but it is directed to ALL. You're it. Hope you don't mind. Doug Shannon of Sunrize sent me this today, and with his permission, I am uploading to the forum most of his letter: "I do have an answer for…
You're right about the Toaster. Loading the Toaster sets up its genlock function which stays operational after you quit Toaster. That's why you get that overlay of Workbench on the Preview monitor until you shut the entire system down. That is how you make a TC window dub tape which…
Wayne, At least I had the good company of one of their Beta testers who had exactly the same problem, and who also couldn't find a solution. He also has both the 1012 and 516 boards. I am working with the 1012, and he encountered the problem with the 516.…
I got some very good feedback on BPFORUM. Even Disney Studios replied with a conversion problem they encountered in Paris. I also heard from a pro from Australia. I was also curious about conversions to SECAM as well, though that only involves France, Iran and Russia. Did you know that…
I have now read your second message. I experimented with recording levels and Doug and Sunrize told me what the tolerances were for the Sunrize board. Those experiments did not resolve the problem. I still think that my most recent test with ver 2.08, which I posted, puts the blame…
You should send the suggestion of an Internal/External message to Doug at Sunrize. Its a good one. Read my message I posted tonight. Sorry about the formatting. I did it on my wordprocessor and got the margins wrong. I have a couple of people on e-mail who wanted to know…
EUREKA! Good for me, but bad for SunRize. I have narrowed down the problem to a bug in the Studio16 3.0 program. They are working on 3.1 but they have some more work to do. Tonight I went back to the previous version of Studio16, version 2.08 to be precise.…
John, Thanks. I have my dup house dump my Hi8 masters to BetaCam SP and then hang on to them in their vault. That has lots of advantages. For this initial marketing trial, I'll get someone else to do the standards conversion. They can probably do it, but I haven't…
I am with you there. I am suspicious of most upgrades too. As often as not they cause more problems than they solve. I can see where there might be a difference between VITC and LTC if it is my TC that is at fault, since VITC can hardly be…
My samples are already mostly less that a minute in length. The problem is that they trigger early, at least according to a TC window dub tape I made for testing purposes. After 30 minutes, they are triggering about 2 seconds before the TC where the sample is entered in…
Last night and this morning, I tried a few more experiments. With a fair amount of effort, I removed BigBlocks from my Audio partition, so I am back to 512 blocks — no difference. I had also noticed before, that when I played back the narration track, it seemed to…
Thanks John. I am glad to hear that with the right service, this should work out. I got a message today over on the BPForum that said I needed to look for a four field standards converter, and gave me the names of four good ones. It sounds like the…
Terry, Many thanks for taking the time to offer your experience. All of the things you have mentioned, I have been aware of, and have experimented with. One thing I did notice was, although I had set Preferences to external TC, when I checked on Preferences while the CueList was…
Hi John, My acquisition tape is in Hi8 and I want to keep as much of that quality as I possibly can, including dumping the original cuts to BetaSP to cut a master. The second, and cheaper possibility as I see it is to dump a Hi8 master (I keep…
My longest audio clip is just over a minute, so that isn't the problem, and I am only using two tracks. I have tried non-dropframe, dropframe (even stripped a copy of the master with dropframe LTC and tried that but it didn't make any difference. It is only in a…
I have a couple of DPS TBC II boards I am not using. Work fine with the Toaster.
#NTSC>PAL conv quality?
Message #41875
Does anyone reading this have experience with converting a NTSC format master tape to a PAL format? Is there a great loss in quality, i.e. more than one could expect from one generation loss? I am not interested in buying the equipment to do it. There are a lot of…
I see what you are getting at. You could also create a TC window dub for each of the TCs and compare. I finally did that to show Sunrize how much drift there actually was – about 2 secs every 30 minutes. In a 50 min video, this plays hell…
I tried your suggestion of lowering my Channel Buffer to 64K. My system handled it with no problems, except the drift in the sound tracks was just as bad.
By testing, MediaPhile's TC Gen won't output TC with the Toaster running. However, I have loaded the Toaster and then exited, which leaves its Genloack function still operation. This did not solve the problem. One of the techies mentioned that I milght have an Amiga timing problem. I hope not,…
I really didn't quiz them on the features of the new version, although maybe I should have. That is the only one I know about. I did suggest adding a "governor" to the mixer so that you can set maximums and minimums for each track, so that when you are…
I reduced the buffering to 256, but not as far down as 64. I have had a number of phone and fax exchanges with Sunrize since the last message, and we got their programmers onto the problem. As my last test, I made a TC window dub tape and used…
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Flicker Fixer for sale
Message #151269
What does it do? how does it connect? Tell me more? I have a flicker problem on my monitor with some programs which I would like to solve, but I thought a new monitor was the solution. Glenn from Ontario
Not your favorite topic, but I am using the TC Gen program that came with MediaEditor. I have tried non-dropframe and dropframe. However, I don't think that is the problem. The TC is reading properly. Tonight I discovered an anomaly in the Sunrize program, between the software and the hardware.…
Brian, The few people I know who use the Sunrize and use it this way, aren't experiencing this problem. The tech people at Sunrize tell me they have had three cases of it, including someone in New Zealand. Just about everything has been tried, including putting the board into another…
#Studio16 3.0 track drift
Message #41691
Has anyone here experienced this problem and/or have a solution? I recently bought the Studio16 3.0 upgrade from Sunrize and I have been using the program for a few weeks now. First of all it is terrific, even the manual. I am making the sound track for a 50 minute…
D2, Betcam SP and Toast
Message #83477
Hi to you too. We're out here. Welcome to the wonderful world of endless upgrades in quest for the better image. I am sure you will have fun if you get involved. Glenn
There is no way to answer your "couple of questions" because they present a lot goals. Output to tape is one thing for demos and displays, and portable to multiple platforms (is this to mean PC, MAC, etc) is another. You also don't say what, if any, tape decks you…
I left a message somewhere here, that the latest, and apparently stable version of MediaEditor is 3.9.6 (I am waiting for my disks). Avoid 3.9.5 which is full of problems. You will like this new generation. Lots of improvements including a better Transition command, automatic player recognition in logging cuts,…
Aki, Now why didn't I think of that? How many times have I asked myself THAT question. Good idea. I will try it out – must be faster. I can probably write a TRexx script to do this to insert before it is needed while the MediaEditor script is just…
I know the problem you are talking about, to get titles to move along in a snappy fashion. I haven't found a solution. The think the only one is to get a faster Amiga. What I do in cases like this is to put all of the commands in my…
Paint Pro is an IBM program running under windows. I use it for cross platform transfers, particularly to DTP which I do on the IBM. Glenn
There is a terrific shareware program (won awards, etc) which you can download from one of the CompuServe forums called Paint Pro. It loads into a windows environment. Very snappy interface. I use the Toaster to grab a from from the Hi-8, load it into TPaint then save it as…
Sorry Betty, I didn't know about that rule. I guess I broke a few because I posted it there and a couple of other forums too. Glenn
MONTAGE 4Sale + BONUS
Message #130501
Registered package of current MONTAGE Video Toaster titling software for sale. See Video Toaster User Magazine, Jan 1994 issue for review and comparison. This is the original, legal copy with upgrade ver. T1.01. Change the registration to your name with InnoVision Technology to get on-stream. Street price $324.95. Buy this…
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