Hello all,
I am after some advice.
I am petrified, that one day, when capturing direct from my MiniDV camera, one of my tapes is going to get chewed up (must happen sometime!) I would be heart broken as it is all precious footage of my children growing up.
I generally capture my video using Scenalyzer - which gives each clip a filename based on the date it was shot. This means you get one .avi file each time you effectively record a scene.
If I copy a DV tape onto my hard drive, then back onto another DV tape as a backup - would the timecode be effected in anyway?? ie. If I have a project on the go (Premiere) and re-capture a clip from a different tape (but the clip ends up with the same filename, as it is based on when it is shot), would Premiere still have the in / out points set correctly?
Indeed - would the shooting date on the backup tape in fact not be the date it was shot, but the date it was backed up??
I have copied them to DVD - which is great for watching, but not if I later want to edit that footage.
Has anyone any better suggestions - or am I just being paranoid???!!!
Many thanks,
Andrew
PS - Great magazine!
This might or might not help, it depends.....
If I capture DV footage by any route, put it on the timeline in my NLE software, and print it back to tape, I find that the original Date and Time of Day stamps are still there in the clips on the new tape. If I do anything at all to the clips that cause a re-rendering, then that data disappears and the Datye and Time of Day of the rendering is saved instead.
All that happens reliably for me, but I don't know if it will work for you, it depends on what you use to put the clips back onto tape. the only way you can be sure of knowing what it does is to try it yourself. You can find the Date and Time of Day data on the clips by playing the tapes back in your camcorder, where you should have the option to see the data on the viewfinder screen.
Don't rely on the clip name for this data, that will always be lost when you print back to tape.
I'm pretty sure that our DSR30 has a 'clone' function which will copy everything exactly as is on the original tape including time code and user bit info.
I'm closing this thread and moving it to a more appropriate place - the "Desktop Video - General" forum.
Bob C