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digitizing 8mm

X-Todd
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May 1, 2003, 12:07 PM

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I am digitizing some footage shot by a client.
He used 2 cameras.
One is a D8 and the other was 8mm.
He gave me the D8 camera to import video and that was good.
Now I have dropped frames when importing using the D8 cam to
digitize the 8mm tape.
I use FCP with a Matrox RT card.
Please tell me how you would set up the FCP capture settings.
I used a non controllable device setting.

Thanks,
Todd

X-Philip
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May 1, 2003, 12:23 PM

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: I am digitizing some footage shot by a client.
: He used 2 cameras.
: One is a D8 and the other was 8mm.
: He gave me the D8 camera to import video and that was good.
: Now I have dropped frames when importing using the D8 cam to
: digitize the 8mm tape.
: I use FCP with a Matrox RT card.
: Please tell me how you would set up the FCP capture settings.
: I used a non controllable device setting.
:
Couldn't plug the analog out of the 8mm into the D8 or one of your digial camcorders and copy the 8mm onto the D8? It would then be digital and could be imported via the normal firewire connection with no additional quality loss. It may be timeconsuming but it would work. How about the AV-DV pass through conversion built into some cameras. Some of the D8 cameras have this feature (one of my models does) and many of the newer prosumer MiniDV (like VX2000 and GL2) have this feature also. This way you don't have to copy the tape first and you have 2 DV streams.
Just a few ideas?
Philip