JVC, Panasonic or Sony DV deck?

Here's what I'm looking at. Anyone want shoot any of these down or give one a gold star? Industrial video, light work load using FCP HD, G5 & XL1s.
Sony DSR-11 DVCAM
Panasonic AG-DV2500
JVC BR-DV3000U

I don't miss the audio meters. I have audio meters in FCP, and since a firewire output is just a simple file transfer, the audio levels remain the same when I output to the DSR-11.
Shane
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>I dont need an answer to the deck problem ... just wondering if anyone has some insight on this deck problem
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#44: FCP acting weird - Trash Prefs
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If the program was working fine, and now isn't, or just isn't working the way it should, the first things to do are:
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http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/trashing_fcpprefs.html
2) Open the Disk Utility and Repair Permissions.
3) Shut down for 10 min. Go for a quick walk around the block and get SOME exercise today. Come back, turn on the computer and see how things are.
4) (optional) Do the Hokey Pokey and turn your self about. Results may vary.
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But we now have access to a Sony HD-1800 deck, so can we edit-to-tape w/ these assets/project settings? Will the deck even recognize the footage,timecode, etc. b/c of it being DVCPRO footage in aDVCPRO timeline?
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How do you set up the deck and do all that? I haven't a clue. I have someone manage that for me. HDCAM decks take engineers, or people who really know them well, to record onto properly. I tried once, but fumbled for a day and figured that paying someone to manage the output was cheaper than renting the deck for a day and not knowing how to use it. Because one tricky thing is that because you are cross converting the footage, there might be frame slippage...generally it is one one frame, and it generally means picture starts one frame LATER than expected, but that isn't always the case. My guy has a trick to figuring out if we are spot on right away...so that we don't output the full hour or two hours only to find that we are off.
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Part 1: How to import .mod video to Windows Movie Maker
Part 2: How to edit the video with Windows Movie Maker
Part 3: How to upload your video to YouTube
Know More:
1. Which Camcorders record video in .MOD type?
2. What file types are supported by Windows Movie Maker?
3. What file types are supported by YouTube?
Part 1: How to import .mod video to Windows Movie Maker
Step 1: Load files
First copy the MOD file from your video camera to your hard drive, then download, install and run MOD Converter, click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard disc and load the MOD/TOD video files you want to convert to the program.
Step 2: Output Setting
In the bottom of the main interface, select an output format supported by Windows Movie Maker for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.
Step 3: Start convert
Click "Start" button on right bottom of the main interface, you are allowed to start conversion.
Step 4: Import converted video to Windows Movie Maker
Click on "File". Then click on "Import". A window will appear. In the window, navigate to the video clip you converted just now. Then double click on the file. You'll see the icon for the file in your Windows Movie Maker "Collections".
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Step 1: Add transitions and special effects
In the Movie Tasks pane, under Edit Movie, click View video transitions.
Preview transitions by double-clicking them and watching the Preview Monitor. Once you've found a transition you like, drag it from the Video Transitions pane, under Edit Movie pane to the box between two of your clips. This inserts the transition between the two clips.
Step 2: Add titles and credits
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2. Video length is shorter 10 minutes.
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Audio files: .mp3, .wav, wma, .mp2, .aiff, .aif, .aifc,.asf, .au,.mpa, and .snd.
Picture files:.jpeg, .jpg, .jpe, .png, .bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jfif,.tif, .tiff, and .wmf
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.MKV (h.264) If you do not think your current video file format is recognized by YouTube, you may get the best uploading results from converting your file to MPEG4 video with MP3 audio.

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No external video from HDV timeline through Sony HDV deck.

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No. Sorry, but the format doesn't allow it. You can send a downconverted SD signal out via firewire in realtime, but it won't be your full HD image. If you want the full HD image, you need an HD capture device. #25 HDV external Monitor Viewing
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To view HDV on an external monitor in high definition you are going to need to purchase a capture card, like the ones Decklink (www.decklink.com) or AJA (www.aja.com) offer. They will both play out HDV in real time. The catch is that you cannot view this on a regular TV or NTSC monitor. Since this is HD, an HD monitor will be needed. HOWEVER, both cards are capable of down converting the signal so that it can be displayed on an SD monitor. This won't be color accurate
The real reason why you can't monitor HDV through a Firewire camera is because Firewire HDV cameras don't decode incoming HDV streams and route them to their outputs like DV cameras do.
Good options for you are the Matrox MXO2 mini...$450...coupled with an HDTV. Or a Matrox MXO (DVI connection) coupled with an Apple 23" display gets you good quality.
And there are the Decklink Intensity and Intensity PRO cards as well, and the AJA I/O Express...
You can, however, view HDV out via firewire as DV...lowering the resolution to that of DV, but still viewable. This is not full quality nor should it be used to judge the quality of your footage or used to color correct to. This is just a way to view the footage on a large monitor.
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- An HDV sequence output to a DV FireWire output
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When I capture it looks like it's working, then it doesn't even have a file. I have tried batch, clip and now captures, no luck.
Sometimes I get an unknown file error or an "unable to read the moview file just captured" error. I have tried the QT library reset, no luck. Of course Apple wants $200 for a support guy to tell me that they don't recognize this great deck.
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A few thoughts:
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2) Is there a particular deck setting you need to have .. ie L1, F1 etc that tells it to recognize the firewire port you're using ... my JVC dual deck has to be set to F1 when using the front firewire port
3) Does the deck have some kind of dubb function that would, say, allow you to dubb from the DV to DVD Recorder side ... is this set properly? In other words, your not going from DVD to DV
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I am about to start editing a documentary that was shot using a JVC GY HD100 camera using 720P25 and a sony camera using 1080i (interlaced)PAL.
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What I want to know is what is the best sequence settings to use, so that I can edit both in the same timeline.and have the best result.
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any ideas?
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I am using a quad with 6 gig ram
but if I do that don't i loose quality from the jvc footage?
may be go the other way, then I can crop the 1080 footage accordingly?
I intend to deliver in DV and DVD.
Thanks for the response, it seems not many people know what I am trying to do. But the director/camera man shot the documentary using both cameras, the Sony for underwater stuff and the JVC for interviews and other out of water stuff.

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