Composite vrs Firewire Transfer

[MovieStuff]

Hi, Tom!

It would appear that you are getting better at both doing your transfers as well as creating clips for the web! The analog clip seems darker but the firewire seems soft focus on the left hand side, as if you weren't totally on axis. However, the firewire camera definately seems to have more latitude than the analog camera. Keep posting! You're getting better at it!

Roger

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 01, 2002 01:58 AM: Message edited by: MovieStuff ]</font>

[tfunch24]

The source film is slightly out of focus on the left. I bumped the focusing ring on my camera when I shot the clip earlier this month. When transferring I spent several minutes moving the DV camcorder around trying to get it to come into focus but no dice.

Tom

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 01, 2002 02:55 AM: Message edited by: tfunch24 ]</font>

[tfunch24]

I recently transferred some S8 footage via composite and firewire. You can compare and contrast the two clips here: http://www.angelfire.com/indie/tfunch24/test.avi

The white mark on the left edge of the digital firewire clip is not a telecine artifact--it's the right edge of the sprocket hole. And I know about the flicker in the DV clip, too--my camera was set to the wrong shutter speed.

The only other problem I had was that the analog camcorder has a greater optical
zoom (32X) compared to that of the digital camcorder (15X). Therefore, the
composite image is more cropped than the firewire image

Feel free to comment.

Tom