I diligently logged and captured footage on the rest of Tape 1 and all of Tape 2 last night. <\/p>\n
I connected my new 1 TB(!) external HD to my laptop via a FireWire 800 cable. <\/p>\n
Next, I connected the camera to the laptop via a special cable. I haven’t really done any footage-dumping to a computer, so it’s a neat experience for me. I actually control the camera from the editing software I am using.<\/p>\n
Anyways, the process of logging and capturing begins with logging the shots. Logging consists of marking start and end points of a shot, and giving it some sort of name. At this point your editing software stores the endpoints’ digital timecode (there is timecode on all the footage).<\/p>\n
After you have logged some shots, you can then capture them. Basically, you’re giving the software a set of endpoints, and it will take these endpoints, find the relevant timecode on the tape, and capture the footage into a digital file.<\/p>\n
Everything was working great, until my last capture session. I had logged about fifty clips and kicked off the batch capture process. The capture process has to be done in real time. In other words, if you have a ten minute clip to capture, it will take ten minutes to capture the clip. So, I let my computer chug for a while and came back to it around midnight.<\/p>\n
Something is wonky with the last batch of footage I captured. Any motion on the screen goes blocky, mosaicy. The original footage does not look like this. I can’t use shots with this blockiness. It looks horrible.<\/p>\n
I am relatively confident that my footage is okay, and there’s something else at play. Maybe I tried to capture too much footage at the same time, maybe my computer couldn’t handle it. I talked to Lance, who told me, based on my description of the blockiness-in-motion, that it might be a compression problem.<\/p>\n
I’m going to review the footage again tonight, and recapture it if it still looks crappy, but do smaller batches of clips per capture.<\/p>\n
Wish me luck, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I diligently logged and captured footage on the rest of Tape 1 and all of Tape 2 last night. I connected my new 1 TB(!) external HD to my laptop via a FireWire 800 cable. Next, I connected the camera to the laptop via a special cable. I haven’t really done any footage-dumping to a … Continue reading Oh, Snurf<\/span>