MSP6 DV patch online

[jeff b]

Ulead MSP6 DV patch available at:

ftp://ftp.ulead.com/pub/Updates/MediaStudioPro6.0

Downloaded it. Installed it. Had problems. Installed it again, and then it worked.

It's nice that we've gotten this far, but I get little glitches at beginning and/or ends of transitions, just like it's been doing all along in preview. It's possible that there's still some as yet undiscovered tweak I might be able to do for this. I won't belabor the MS DV codec color shift problems...

There's also a new problem in that timeline playback defaults to a computer screen playback when I only have my DVMC-DA2 on the 1394 line. This works fine with export and TI device control, running the clip out manually (button to the left of the record button), but not on the new timeline playback option. I have to turn on my camcorder in addition, so that it 'sees' a device it recognizes as a camcorder. Then it will go out 1394 to both the camcorder and the DVMC-DA2.

Aside from that, however, it's nice to have this progress being made. Also, it's nice to be able to preview out 1394 instead of on the computer monitor, so that I can see what it's REALLY going to look like in the end.

"The end" is still to save to a single file (or a file for each scene, if over the project's over filesize limit), since everything looks great out 1394 that way.

my system:
Asus P2B-F
PIII-500
256meg ram
5 10gig drives
1 30gig drive
SIIG 1394
Win98SE


Jeff B

[DrMordrid]

I just installed it too. It DO work. I don't have a media converter to worry about so it just sees the cam and goes.

As far as using the MSDV codec goes, I don't. For recording the final cut I usually render to files using the RT-2000's VfW codec(s) and then send it to the cam, if I even use the cam.

Often the destination is not DV, in which case I load the rendered project into Premiere/RT-2000 and output it (usually) to the JVC S-VHS deck in realtime.

Why do I do this? Just one example is that I can do titling and effects for a DV project in CGInfinity, Cool3D 3.0 and MSPro6 that would be a royal pain, or impossible, in Premiere without expensive plugins or addons.

Once rendered with the RT-2000's codecs this can be imported into Premiere and used in conjunction with the RT-2000 realtime effects if necessary.

What would be REAL-NICE is an RT-2000 realtime module for MSPro6.

ahh...Valhalla!

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by DrMordrid (edited 12 May 2000).]

[jeff b]

Well GOLLY! They also fixed the audio drift problem, too! I haven't noticed anyone making any big hoopla about this yet on this or any other message boards that people talk about MSP6 on, so I thought I'd make a point of bringing it up.

Previously, long captures of DV via generic 1394, when imported to MSP6 VEditor timeline would immediately be decoded with the audio slowly drifting out of synchronization, the further out toward the end of the clip you got. By 18 or 19 minutes out, the audio would be about 8 frames behind the video.

I checked after installing the new patch, and my test clip (which was captured a month ago) imported to the timeline with all the audio in sync from beginning to end. I also re-captured the same 19 minutes of DV tape with the same good result.