DV-L Sun, 22 Jul 2001 Volume 1 : Number 924
In this issue:
Re: field monitor
Re: VCD
RE: Canon XL1S Test Results
Interval Timer Software Needed
Re: Interval Timer Software Needed
charging batteries in Ireland
Re: charging batteries in Ireland
Re: Raptor/Win2k oddity
Re: charging batteries in Ireland
RE: charging batteries in Ireland
Re: Interval Timer Software Needed
D8 Capture?
Re: Adobe Premiere 6.0 puzzle
RE: charging batteries in Ireland
NEW CODEC AVAILABLE
Re: charging batteries in Ireland
RE: D8 Capture?
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 07:26:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill
To: DV-L@dvcentral.org
Subject: Re: field monitor
Message-ID: <20010721142633.18498.qmail@web4002.mail.yahoo.com>
The problem with a TV set is that it doesn't have blue
check or underscan or enough adjustments so you can
adjust your bars for true accuracy.
--- Info wrote:
> hi
>
> when talking about a field monitor connected to the
> camera to check on
> lighting, colour, etc. is this a reference to a
> specialised monitor or would
> a TV set do?
>
> thanks
>
> regards
> clive
> Independent Digital
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:19:14 -0700
From: kenneth
To: "DV L DVCentral.org"
Subject: Re: VCD
Message-ID:
Check out this site for VCD help - it's where I went to find the software to
download, buy, etc - it's a super-informative site!
http://www.vcdhelper.com/
-Kenneth
http://www.thescourge.com
Film and video antics
>
> Is there anyway i can convert my Pinnacle DC10 plus movie to VCD? Any good
> website on VCD that i can use to get me started on this field?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joselito
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:42:20 -0700
From: "Fred Greissing"
To:
Subject: RE: Canon XL1S Test Results
Message-ID:
High end underwater housings can control just about anything
on the Sony Cameras through Lanc.
Fred
-----Original Message-----
From: Perry [mailto:perry.mitchell@btinternet.com]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:00 PM
To: DV-L@dvcentral.org
Subject: RE: Canon XL1S Test Results
The first time I ever saw Firewire, Apple were demonstrating it with the
just released Sony VX700/1000. They were also demonstrating control of a
little Sony industrial camera via Firewire. The Mac could control
iris/zoom/focus and probably a few other things I've forgotten (as well as
getting the video signal). I suppose the limited standard Firewire cable
length makes real life situations a little more difficult!
Perry Mitchell
Video Consultant
http://www.perrybits.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Molnar
The most important feature the next generation prosumer cameras can
include is computer control of all camera functions. Right now,
Canon is beholden to Sony on the Control-L features. Audio control
is totally manual - it's impossible to vary gain without shaking the
camera by adjusting manual pots. Exposure control is not possible with
Control-L. Control-L regulates tape transport, focus, and zoom.
Perhaps Canon can work around Control-L limitations by using Firewire
or USB 2.0 connections for "remote" control. All camera functions
could be superimposed over live video on a laptop PC. It's basically
a poor-man's heads-up-display. Camera adjustments while videotaping
wouldn't shake the camera when when remote inputs depend on a touch-
screen LCD display. A purpose-built remote control (like the new
Panja models) would provide smooth camera moves - smoother
than any viscous head or manual lens.
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:44:27 -0500
From: Bill Finch
To: DV-L@DVCentral.org
Subject: Interval Timer Software Needed
Message-ID: <3B59CD8B.9432CEB5@ix.netcom.com>
Have DV camera - have 1394 input to computer - need interval timing
software that will capture video to hard drive at prescribed intervals
for prescribed number of frames - any ideas?
Do any commercial or free software packages do this?
If not is it possible to write code to control Premiere or the like to
accomplish the task?
Bill
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:36:26 -0700
From: Evan Robinson
To: DV-L@dvcentral.org
Subject: Re: Interval Timer Software Needed
Message-ID:
Premiere will do it. Check the help for "time lapse". You set up
Stop Motion capture, then a new menu appears where you can set the
delays.
Evan
At 1:44 PM -0500 on 2001.07.21, Bill Finch wrote about "Interval
Timer Software Needed":
>Have DV camera - have 1394 input to computer - need interval timing
>software that will capture video to hard drive at prescribed intervals
>for prescribed number of frames - any ideas?
>
>Do any commercial or free software packages do this?
>
>If not is it possible to write code to control Premiere or the like to
>accomplish the task?
>
>Bill
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:53:10 -0700
From: blacktelephone
To: DV-L@DVCentral.org
Subject: charging batteries in Ireland
Message-ID: <3B59EBB7.49627C0B@blacktelephone.com>
I'll be traveling in Ireland next week and need to know about power
conversion. I'll be bringing an NTSC Sony PD-100a camera which was
purchased in the U.S. I bought a plug converter from Radio Shock that
changes the plug ends and converts the power. Will that do? It's a
1600-Watt "Foreign Travel Voltage Converter" and says it "Converts
Foreign Electricity 220/240 VAC to Standard US 110/120 VAC. One of the
plug converters is for "England and Africa" which is the three prong
pattern with two horizontal prongs at the bottom and a top vertical
prong. Any comments? Advice?
Thanks,
Joseph
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 22:21:03 +0100
From: Roy Esmonde
To: DV-L@dvcentral.org
Subject: Re: charging batteries in Ireland
Message-ID:
Joseph,
That should work fine for normal use, but as far as I know the Sony
power/charger units are dual voltage and work with 230/240 volt as
well as the US voltage. If this is the case for your camera then all
you need is a simple adapter to change your connecting plug to the
Irish three pronged one. I have a Sony VX-1000 and the Sony power
supply/charger covers both voltage ranges.
Look out for using your camera with our flourescent lights though.
Our AC frequency is 50 hz and can cause unpleasant flickering with
cameras based on 60 hz.
Regards,
Roy Esmonde
Dublin, Ireland.
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:53:10 -0700, you wrote:
>I'll be traveling in Ireland next week and need to know about power
>conversion. I'll be bringing an NTSC Sony PD-100a camera which was
>purchased in the U.S. I bought a plug converter from Radio Shock that
>changes the plug ends and converts the power. Will that do? It's a
>1600-Watt "Foreign Travel Voltage Converter" and says it "Converts
>Foreign Electricity 220/240 VAC to Standard US 110/120 VAC. One of the
>plug converters is for "England and Africa" which is the three prong
>pattern with two horizontal prongs at the bottom and a top vertical
>prong. Any comments? Advice?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joseph
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:04:52 -0500
From: "Alejandro V"
To:
Subject: Re: Raptor/Win2k oddity
Message-ID: <000b01c11228$c96e5ed0$744b1ec8@irealvistuti8l>
yes it is normal, win2000 handles IRQ sharing on a different way, but that
doesnt mean something is wrong.
about disk speed , it might be due to a fragmented HD, the way you
configurad your partitions to work on win2k, your hardware resources.
you will have to give a more accurate information about your hardware and
software setup.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Couch"
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:56 PM
Subject: Raptor/Win2k oddity
> Greetings to the list.
>
> Recently I've changed from NT4 SP6 to Win2K, on a machine running
> Raptor/Premiere. A couple of things seem odd.
>
> Raptest reports that the hard drives are running much slower than they did
> under NT4. The 2 gig boot partition used to show a not very fast but
> workable write time of 8MB per second. Now it's under 5MB per second! The
> larger partitions are less affected than the boot partition and the read
> times less affected than write times but every thing is reported as
running
> slower. (Read times down from about 20MB per sec to about 18). Perhaps
> Raptest is just getting things wrong, but has anybody had anything
similar?
>
> Also Win2k seems to have ignored the way the IRQs have been assigned in
the
> BIOS and put Raptor, the Diamond VGA card and the Creative Vibra card all
on
> IRQ 6. Is this normal? (Asus p3b-f motherboard)
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert Couch
>
>
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:32:36 -0400
From: Joe Maller
To:
Subject: Re: charging batteries in Ireland
Message-ID:
joseph@blacktelephone.com wrote:
> I'll be traveling in Ireland next week and need to know about power
> conversion. I'll be bringing an NTSC Sony PD-100a camera which was
> purchased in the U.S. I bought a plug converter from Radio Shock that
> changes the plug ends and converts the power. Will that do? It's a
> 1600-Watt "Foreign Travel Voltage Converter" and says it "Converts
> Foreign Electricity 220/240 VAC to Standard US 110/120 VAC. One of the
> plug converters is for "England and Africa" which is the three prong
> pattern with two horizontal prongs at the bottom and a top vertical
> prong. Any comments? Advice?
I have the same camera and have traveled to 7 or 8 countries with it. The
charger is rated for use internationally and can be safely plugged into
non-US outlets without worrying. All you need is the plug adapter which
converts the US two-prong plug into whatever configuration they use in
Ireland.
Here's how I know that:
Look on the bottom of the power adapter brick, specifically at the rating
for AC IN. Mine says 100-240V at 50/60Hz. This covers probably every power
flavor in the world, the US is 120V 60Hz, I think Europe is generally 220V
50Hz (from memory, someone confirm this?) The power adapter brick for my
Powerbook has the same ratings.
Electronics companies do this because it saves them money. They can ship the
same power adapters to every market in the world by changing only the
removable plug (the only regional component) and the sticker's language.
Joe Maller
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:02:06 +0100
From: "Perry"
To:
Subject: RE: charging batteries in Ireland
Message-ID:
First of all Joseph, throw away the power converter! They are usually based
upon switch mode and can produce some evil waveforms! The Sony module should
be multi-voltage.
Second, for charging single batteries you can usually survive by using hotel
shaver points which have a US style 110V socket.
Third, I always like to buy local plugs and fit them on the device. They are
usually pretty cheap and I've never found a multi-way travel adapter that
either works properly or doesn't get lost!
Actually you can get around the whole of Europe with a 'flexible' 2 pin plug
if you don't need the ground, but I wouldn't recommend it to the faint
hearted!
Perry Mitchell
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph
I'll be traveling in Ireland next week and need to know about power
conversion. I'll be bringing an NTSC Sony PD-100a camera which was
purchased in the U.S. I bought a plug converter from Radio Shock that
changes the plug ends and converts the power. Will that do? It's a
1600-Watt "Foreign Travel Voltage Converter" and says it "Converts
Foreign Electricity 220/240 VAC to Standard US 110/120 VAC. One of the
plug converters is for "England and Africa" which is the three prong
pattern with two horizontal prongs at the bottom and a top vertical
prong. Any comments? Advice?
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:29:55 +0800
From: Em
To: DV-L@dvcentral.org
Subject: Re: Interval Timer Software Needed
Message-ID:
Hi,
I've used Premiere for both Animation and Time lapse
I 've had no problems so far.
Hope this helps
Em
>Have DV camera - have 1394 input to computer - need interval timing
>software that will capture video to hard drive at prescribed intervals
>for prescribed number of frames - any ideas?
>
>Do any commercial or free software packages do this?
>
>If not is it possible to write code to control Premiere or the like to
>accomplish the task?
>
>Bill
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:49:42 +0800
From: Em
To: DV-L@dvcentral.org
Subject: D8 Capture?
Message-ID:
Hi All,
Any D8 users out there? just wanted to know if there is a way
to Capture old Hi-8 tapes with having to dub onto a D8 tape?
Also, is it best to use S-Video versus Analog for dubbing....? or
let say....D8-w/ Hi-8 Tape to DV....hmm?
Sorry to sound like a Newbie but I'm from the old school of
Targa and Linear editing...
Thanks
Em
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:32:53 -0400
From: John Jackman
To:
Subject: Re: Adobe Premiere 6.0 puzzle
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20010721213244.00aedf00@pop.compuserve.com>
At 12:18 AM 7/19/01 -0700, Roy Esmonde wrote:
> I want to cut down about five
>interviews separately and place them in my project bins ready to
>include in the overall edit when I need them. The interview material
>is already captured as part of my project.
Virtual clips and importing projects are solutions, but everyone has
overlooked a solution I've used frequently: export as a new movie.
Cut it on an empty bit of timeline after the end of your existing edit,
then export the interview only as a new movie using all the same
settings. Delete the files from the timeline, edit the next interview on
the same TL space, export that, etc. Then import the finished, edited
interviews into the project and use them as finished blocks. The beauty of
DV is that the new clips are 1s and 0s identical to the old ones, except
they're edited the way you want!
John Jackman
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 06:51:32 +0200
From: "Drakes"
To:
Subject: RE: charging batteries in Ireland
Message-ID: <00cf01c11269$fa759340$0a01a8c0@ATHLON>
I believe that the AC converters for most Sony cameras are for 'world'
power. They will convert anything from 110V to 240v to DC for the
camera. You can just look on the underside of your Sony power adapter
and read the specs. If it says 110~240 then you are fine. All that you
need to do is buy a small plug adapter from Radio Shack to convert the
US plug to the European style.
BTW: I've had very good luck with the heavy duty power converts (They
cost about $25.00) sold by Brookstone. They are quite rugged.
Hope that this helps.
Ciao,
George W. Fisher
Prague, Cz
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blacktelephone [mailto:joseph@blacktelephone.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 22:53
> To: DV-L@DVCentral.org
> Subject: charging batteries in Ireland
>
> I'll be traveling in Ireland next week and need to know about power
> conversion. I'll be bringing an NTSC Sony PD-100a camera which was
> purchased in the U.S. I bought a plug converter from Radio Shock that
> changes the plug ends and converts the power. Will that do? It's a
> 1600-Watt "Foreign Travel Voltage Converter" and says it "Converts
> Foreign Electricity 220/240 VAC to Standard US 110/120 VAC. One of the
> plug converters is for "England and Africa" which is the three prong
> pattern with two horizontal prongs at the bottom and a top vertical
> prong. Any comments? Advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joseph
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:51:25 -0400
From: "Dany Coryet"
To: DV-L@dvcentral.org
Subject: NEW CODEC AVAILABLE
Message-ID:
DIVX development
Thought everyone would like to know- DIVX codec has reahed BETA
ststus...until now we've been using Alpha 3.11, now there's a true beta
version, based on new code that is backward compatible with 3.11
http://www.divx.com/features.php
in case you dunno, DIVX is a MPEG-4 codec that allows compression similar to
Windows Media Formats, but is not a Microsoft Product. In fact divx is free.
Many DVD enthusiasts are using this CODEC to compress MPEG-2 files to save
them on CD-ROM or for "RIP"- o- matics
(agencies use illustrative DVD footage withoust 'stealing' it to create test
spots)
Dany
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:16:19 -0700
From: "D. Webster"
To:
Subject: Re: charging batteries in Ireland
Message-ID:
I'll back up Perry on this one. I worked with a fellow in the Republic of
Ireland a few years ago, and he had lugged a 50+ lb, $5000, power
conditioning transformer from the job site back to his hotel room so that he
could use his razor. He hadn't noticed the power point on the side of the
mirror with the slotted circles! Worked just fine when he tried it and no
adapter was needed.
David Webster
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: blacktelephone [mailto:joseph@blacktelephone.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 22:53
> > To: DV-L@DVCentral.org
> > Subject: charging batteries in Ireland
> >
> > I'll be traveling in Ireland next week and need to know about power
> > conversion. I'll be bringing an NTSC Sony PD-100a camera which was
> > purchased in the U.S. I bought a plug converter from Radio Shock that
> > changes the plug ends and converts the power. Will that do? It's a
> > 1600-Watt "Foreign Travel Voltage Converter" and says it "Converts
> > Foreign Electricity 220/240 VAC to Standard US 110/120 VAC. One of the
> > plug converters is for "England and Africa" which is the three prong
> > pattern with two horizontal prongs at the bottom and a top vertical
> > prong. Any comments? Advice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joseph
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 07:51:23 +0100
From: "Perry"
To:
Subject: RE: D8 Capture?
Message-ID:
1) D8 decks/cameras play Hi-8 tapes and output DV digital for 'capture'.
2) S-Video IS analog, but better than composite
Perry Mitchell
Video Consultant
http://www.perrybits.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Em
Any D8 users out there? just wanted to know if there is a way
to Capture old Hi-8 tapes with having to dub onto a D8 tape?
Also, is it best to use S-Video versus Analog for dubbing....? or
let say....D8-w/ Hi-8 Tape to DV....hmm?
Sorry to sound like a Newbie but I'm from the old school of
Targa and Linear editing...
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