miniDV transfer question, need help please

[tubmyk]

Roger,

I ran my camera at 1/60 the first time and tried as hard as I could to bring my projector to 20fps, but no matter how hard I try with this "supposedly great" chinon 2500GL machine, my film never runs through at a constant speed, leaving flicker noticable even while viewing it on the projection screen. I've never seen it this bad before, because my old B&H projector at regular 18fps never would flicker on the screen; just when I tried to videotape it. This projector I get both issues: it flickers due to unstable speed (because this "brand new" unit apparently works for sh*t) and if this is seen on screen, no doubt it will look even worse on the transfer.

do you anything about these brand projectors and why they're not stable? I heard otherwise before I bought it because it has the vari. speed knob and is supposed to be better than a str8 18, 24 projector. Now I'm not too sure....

[MovieStuff]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by tubmyk:
I ran my camera at 1/60 the first time and tried as hard as I could to bring my projector to 20fps, but no matter how hard I try with this "supposedly great" chinon 2500GL machine, my film never runs through at a constant speed, leaving flicker noticable even while viewing it on the projection screen.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, if your projector flickers on the projection screen, then it stands to reason it will flicker on video, regardless of what shutter speed you set your video camera to. If you have a three bladed shutter, your camera is at 1/60th of a second and you can run your projector at 20fps, you should not get any flicker at all on NTSC. On PAL, you will be running your projector at 16.66fps but still there should be no flicker. I would try another projector off ebay (or a CineMate-20, perhaps?) [img]wink.gif[/img]

Roger

[Colorburst300]

Roger,

Thanks for all the information. I sprayed the inside gears of my projector with WD-40 and now it doesn't jump anymore. I made a beautiful transfer at 1/60 and 20fps. Thanks again!!