...how long is the test sequence?...mixing down and applying different frame rates seems simple enough....

....sorry to report big problems with 24.12.1 creating new projects under NTSC 30i...this is on Win 10, Win 11 and Intel Mac....they either crash or throw an error and the resulting project has no bins in it and no color correction presets...opening older projects can also cause issues...rolling back to 24.12....will report back... ....btw...got an

is it just this file or have you tried another file to test from Motion? ...Shutter not being able to deal with it is a red flag...does it happen with other Motion files or is this one maybe corrupted in some way?

try flipping it to Prores in Shutter Encoder...its free....

...go for it....dude...if its on the approved cpu, etc. list its your call....lets us know how it goes...

....true 4:3 with a 480 vertical is 640x480.....that is 64 lines cut off the sides of a 704x480 DVCAM image...32 lines on either side.... ...std def needs all the help it can get....use your entire image! (this is in NTSC...PAL no clue....) one tip.....if bringing DVCAM footage into a HiDef 1920x1080 project....Picture in Picture scaling settings are

....one note about capturing and using DVCAM material....AVID brings this in as 4:3 Interlaced...that is the only choice....but, if a user takes note of the image coming in from the camera...it is not 4:3...it looks a bit wider....a resize is called for to reduce the vertical once its used in a project... ...shooting a round dinner plate will see what

24.10 is OK with Boris?

....rent a Betacam deck?..is that possible? DVCAM decks are about $100 US these days on EBay.... ....you will need a way to control a Beta deck with a ComPort or other means.....Beta does not do Firewire?.... ....VHS is funky for sure....buy a decent player on EBay and get all your stuff off while there is still life in the old tapes?

...immediately....challenges...no camera battery for one...running off an AC power supply....a new battery is on the way....so real field shooting can be done.... ....the camera has two Neutral Density settings to reduce the light getting to the chip....however, even with it fully engaged...there is not enough range in the manual exposure...especially