My workprinterXP is placed upon a 18.5 x 36.5 (47 cm x 14.4 cm )
table top. My camera is placed on a tripod with an adjustable center
column. Your setup is better because the camera is mounted to the
same plane as the Workprinter (leveling) and less susceptible to
movement. My Manfrotto 3130 tripod baseplate moves too easily.
I capture the video through a firewire connection using Cinecap
(old name Dodcap) to a raid 0 (striped) configuration through an Adaptec
raid card with two ATA 100 connections to two 8MB cache 7200 rpm
80GB Western Digital drives. I monitor the focus and framing through
a 13 inch Broadcast monitor fed by a s video connection from the
camera. I turn off the lights, computer monitors. I leave the broadcast
monitor on with a piece of matte black construction paper taped to the
side in order to reduce any light reflections.
I need to follow the advice that Roger gave about using a cardboard
tube that has been made black on the inside. I also need to place black
material in front of the camera in order to reduce any reflections
directly off the camera.
The most difficult aspect has been getting a rewinder system
where I can deal with cleaning and undwinding 8mm to super 8
reels efficiently. I am using a pair of Ediquip model 1000 16mm
rewinders. I placed the two rewinders 92 cm apart on a piece of
dried plywood to give the cleaner residue time to dry before being
taken up upon a metal reel. I have tried using ECCO VSF299 and
Filmrenew (urbanskifilm.com) I use heavier gloves instead of two
pairs of vinyl gloves to reduce my exposure to the chemicals. I also
run a box fan nearby. I have not been using a large amount of film
renew to try and hide scratches. I have also been thinking about
getting a HEPA air filter system for the transfer room.
This is a brass 16mm to super 8 converter. It has a square hole and a
pin for the key. There is an allen screw for tightening it onto the spindle.
I usually use a black paper clip instead.
Another issue I have is with the DV .avi mpeg-2 transcoding time for
my film captures. I am using the Adobe media encoder that comes with
Premiere Pro 1.5 and Encore 1.5. I have been using a 2 pass VBR
with a range of 1.5 Mbs to 8.2 Mbs with a target of 7Mbs. I have an
Athalon XP 3000 (2162 Mhz), 166x2 Mhz processor bus, 512k L2 cache
and 1.5GB of 166x2 Mhz system memory. I am observing times of
about 14 hours for 60 minutes of video. I am reading the video from
the system disk and writing to the raid 0 drives. This site shows that
software transcoders are CPU bound. The frequency of your processor
is the most important variable.
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/int ... ndupvideo/
http://videosystems.primediabusiness.co ... _shootout/
Obviously old 8mm and super 8 film transfers are more difficult to
compress due to all of the noise, scratches, and dirt particles. Newer
film should be easier to transfer because of the lack of scratches.
I have been investigating Canopus Procoder as an affordable software solution.
I also have been looking at hardware based encoders. Has
anybody had much experience with the quality of output from the
hardware based encoders? Canopus?
I have a DVD-5 single layer drive. I will be buying a DVD-9 dual layer
drive soon so that I can greater than 2 hours of high quality film transfer.
Stoney
