Okay, it’s been a few days since returning from Chicago. The wedding shoot went… well, there’s a reason I use the word “aftermath”.
Let me avoid hyperbole and get to the facts.
I have footage from four cameras. Three were mini-DV. One was HDV. The venue was very dark. While great for atmosphere, it was not optimal for shooting. All the footage is rather murky. Sadly, that’s not the worst of it. The two oldest cameras have massive glitches whenever a flash goes off… which is like every 0.7 seconds; I’m guessing their sensors couldn’t handle the sudden and dramatic spike in brightness. The glitches look something like this…
(not actual footage)
I could work with the glitches but Final Cut Pro won’t let me capture the footage using the NTSC Firewire capture presets.
Ugh.
So I’m thinking I need to trick the system into seeing these tapes as analog and capture using the “non-controllable device” preset.
Just one tiny problem: I don’t have a non-controllable device.
I’ve been using an old DV camera to capture. I could wrangle access to a DRS-11 but I don’t think that’ll help me. I think I need something like the ADVC110 but that’s a $200 gamble on a possible solution.
Two questions:
Sigh. Many lessons learned.
Tags: Crowdsourced, Final Cut Pro, Post-Production, Wedding Videos
Karen 
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