[MacDV] Analog to DV pass-through conversion questions

[Granville Kennedy]

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I was reading an interesting article yesterday.  It was rather long and
involved but the gist of it was that when using a DV camera to convert
analog NTSC footage to DV format and then editing it in FCP, the values
for absolute black get incorrectly converted and your blacks end up
looking milky.  Here's the URL if you wish to read it yourselves -

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/video_levels_nattress.html

Since I haven't needed to try this using my Canon Optura 200MC as a
pass through converter, (yet ) I was curious and rechecked the manual
to see if it indeed lacked the ability to properly make this
correction.  It doesn't have any options for the pass through
conversion process.  I've sent an e-mail to a friend that did borrow it
to convert some VHS tapes to DVD a while back to ask him if he noticed
the washed out blacks.  Since he's at Lake George now, I doubt he has
access to the DVD's or tapes to double check.  And it may not have been
a problem for him since he captured the footage in iMovie4 (?) and not
FCP.  Does any have any idea if iMovie handles this issue automatically
or differently than FCP?

Is this problem handled by the stand-alone converter boxes like the
Canopus models?  If so it is yet another reason to invest in some more
hardware if I get serious about doing this sort of work.  I'll probably
need to get a good, small NTSC monitor to run along side my 17" LCD
Apple display.  As much as I like getting new hardware, I may not be
able to afford to get real serious right now :-)

Thanks in advance!

				Joey Kennedy.




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