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G4 Firewire and bad input from Sony TRV510

 

 


X-Ed_Haskell
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Dec 22, 1999, 10:55 PM

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: I've had a Sony TRV510 for about 4 months and love it. The digital stills are great. You can check some out online at http://24.6.250.19/Current%20Clips/199911/19991119/catalog_1.htm
: I have a PC for inputing the stills, a Mac 6100AV (upgraded with a G3 board) and I just got a G4 PowerMac.
: When I input video via Firewire to Adobe Premier 4.0 I get very poor results. The image is much worse than when I input on the 6100 or the PC with Buzz input. I've also tried some shareware input programs for the G4 with the same results. The results show a kind of tiling with maybe 4 pixels combined. The instruction manual says that non Hi8 tape will produce a mosaic effect but I'm using TDK metal Hi8 tapes.
: This link http://www.dvcentral.org/DV-Beta.html discusses some DV compression artifacts that look somewhat similar, however I'm getting vertical as well as horizontal edges.
: Anyone get good results inputing from the TRV510 using Firewire?


X-Veera
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Dec 27, 1999, 4:06 AM

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Re: G4 Firewire and bad input from Sony TRV510 Can't Post

I'm using Sony DCR-PC1 and a G4 and have no problem capturing, only problems printing back to video (can't do it).
To your problem I suggest that you go to Adobe's site and download the newest version of Premiere - 5.1c and be sure to download also the DV plug-in (firewire DV devide 1.1 which goes in the Premiere plu-in folder).
That should solve it most likely completely.
Good luck.
Veera


X-Ed
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Jan 1, 2000, 10:16 AM

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Re: G4 Firewire and bad input from Sony TRV510 [In reply to] Can't Post

I tried downloading the Premier demo and the firewire driver and still get the same result. I wonder if the problem is with the new software DVD decoder in the new G4s?