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How come my computer cannot connect with my camcorder?

Jul 21, 2005 at 4:16 am in digital video news by · Leave a Comment »

I don’t know, but maybe this will help:

Navigate to Library -> Receipts on your main drive (not from your personal folder).
Remove all files of the form QuickTime*.pkg, where "*" is a version number. E.g. QuickTime600.pkg, QuickTime650.pkg, Quicktime700.pkg and QuickTime701.pkg. This simply tells your system that those packages are not installed.
Go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/downloads and click on the "download Quicktime" link. DO NOT USE THE AUTOMATIC UPDATE UTILITY. Download QuickTimeInstallerX.dmg. Double click this file (probably on your desktop) and [read more →]

VLC media player

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VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a free and highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (FLV, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

by Josh Mellicker

Musicbed DV 1.0.3

at 4:16 am in digital video news, post audio gear by Josh Mellicker · 1 Comment »

An intuitive and easy to use production music tool. You can browse and shape professionally composed music beds to suit your video, DVD, or web project quickly and easily. download here (103 MB disk image)

by Josh Mellicker

How should I record narration?

at 4:16 am in location sound, post audio by Josh Mellicker · 4 Comments »

The ideal voiceover (VO) or narration mic is a large diaphragm condensor- like the one your favorite singer uses in the recording studio. This mic sits happily on a floor or desk mic stand with a pop filter and connects to your XLR adapter/phantom power unit, then your camcorder, computer or audio recorder.

My favorite VO mic is the Rode Podcaster, especially with it’s cool studio boom arm.

As a second choice, a [read more →]

Why don't I hear any sound from Final Cut?

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If you don’t hear any audio, you probably have your output set to FireWire, but don’t have any speakers plugged into your DV camcorder or deck.

When you’re sending video through FireWire to view on an external monitor, Final Cut Pro is also sending the audio through FireWire.

Plug some headphones or speakers into your DV camcorder or deck and you’ll hear sound.

If you want to just watch your computer screen and listen through your Mac output, set External Video to “Off” [read more →]

What causes dropped frames or out-of-sync problems?

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Check the Apple Tech Info Library summary here.

How do I capture and edit "24 fps" video in FCP?

Jul 18, 2005 at 4:16 am in editing, film by · 2 Comments »

There are several formats of video people call “24p”:

true 24p
To capture this, you’ll have to create special capture and sequence presets. But it’s a very rare format.
23.976
This is more a much more common frame rate. Use the appropriate capture and sequence preset. (Note: FCP calls 23.976 “23.98″ for some odd reason).
24p with pulldown (actually 29.97 fps, aka 59.94 fields/sec, aka “60i”)
Capture and edit using 60i presets.
24p “advanced” (2:3:3:2 cadence – actually 29.97 fps, aka 59.94 fields/sec, aka “60i”)
Use the capture [read more →]