[Fmpro] Canopus Box

[jon j kirch]

Yes, I think so as well.
 For the tightest sync on an external monitor it probably would mean 
some sort of black box sync with vtc or Ltc stripped to tape and all 
that. I don't know of anyway to drive a dvd player via smpte, but it may 
be possible.
If part of the problem is desktop space, it might be easiest to keep the 
movie tiny ( or maybe just minimize it)  and then display it on the 
external ntsc monitor using the Canopus box or similar.

MPEG Streamclip is great. They have released version 1.8 BTW.

Yes, shorter video clips should help any lags. I think there may be a 
way to adjust start points of the movie to help reduce lag times. You 
might check the Motu or Logic user groups. The subject comes up from 
time to time.

As an aside, I recently had a conversation with a post house engineer 
who complained about sync issues using flat screen T V monitors.
Have you heard anything like this?

jjk

Fernando Rivas wrote:

>Jon, 
>
>I think Gaili was talking about keeping the file off the desktop, however.
>I'm not sure how that would work if you're incorporating the demuxed movie
>into a software platform (Logic, Protools, Performer etc) in order to score
>it.  If the demuxed movie is not on the hard drive but on an external drive
>or other type of external device then there may be sync lag when the
>processor tries to access and synchronize to whatever platform you're
>working on.
>
>I use MPEG Streamclip to work on a Mac G5 and I've taken an hour of video
>from a DVD, made it accessible to QT and sync on Logic.  That length tends
>to slow down the program just a bit and it would probably be smarter to take
>the video stream in two segments of 30min each.  Streamclip also allows me
>to create a lower quality MPEG which will run with less weight on the
>processing speed but then I have to live with smaller images or blurry
>quality.
>
>FR
>
>
>
>On 1/25/07 2:45 PM, "jon j kirch" <jonkirch at cox.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>G,
>>If the movie is on a dvd it has been digitized. You would need a utility
>>installed on your computer to lift or 'demux' the movie from the dvd to
>>your computer. I use a free utility/application from squared5
>>www.squared5.com  which is excellent.
>>Once the movie is in the computer you can use quicktime to view the
>>movie. If you are using a scoring program ( finale) etc. The movie
>>should lock to
>>the program and your ready to go.
>>If you want to output the movie to a tv monitor ( the one that has been
>>lifted/demuxed), rather than have it play on your desktop, you will
>>probably need an in/out box hooked up to your computer to drive the
>>television monitor. I use an old miromotion card for this. There are
>>many available including ones from Canopus. ( I've read many complaints
>>about canopus but I can't speak to the complaints because I don't use one )
>> If you have a digital video camera, you can put it between
>>your computer (via firewire) and your T V monitor ( via a cable which
>>usually comes with the camera ) and be good.
>>For a dvd player, there are many inexpensive players that will work just
>>fine. I use one from Coby which cost about $40.00 and has never let me down.
>>
>>Good luck,
>>I'm sure others on the list will have recommendations as well.
>>
>>jjk
>>
>>
>>Gaili Schoen wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>Composers:
>>>To digitize movies from a DVD I've been told to buy a Canopus Box along with
>>>an external DVD player so that picture stays off the desktop. I'm not sure
>>>which Canopus Box to buy -- this is a pretty simple function. Or which DVD
>>>player to buy-- nto sure where the firewire connection should be-- between
>>>the canopus and the computer I'm assuming. Can anyone further advise me on
>>>this? Thanks, g
>>>
>>>Gaili Schoen
>>>Doubting Thomas Music
>>>www.gailischoen.com
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