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An answer from another person was to change the opacity of the clip, not to zero but somewhere in between. Another responder said go to the FX area and change brightness and contrast, then try color correction and color curves. Just to let everyone know. It sounds quite similar to Photoshop correction techniques.

Dave S.

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Just Pinnacle. I haven’t gotten started in Vegas only to upload one video event.

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Thanks to all of you for your responses – MdG_NL, Gary Kleiner, SteveT, and jeditdv.
Bit rate is one of the issues that I am most unfamiliar with, so I will study up on that.
Glad to hear that there is some confirmation re:Pinnacle’s synchronization problems. Perhaps their new bosses at AVID will straighten things out. That one comment helps me justify switching.

Happy New Year everyone. I am away to study up more. Am doing upland bird hunting and how-to-train bird-dog films. It is real hard to get a steady shot in the field. Also very hard to anticipate the bird being flushed and in flight.

Dave

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I still did not fully answer your question Ed. Let me try again. The skipping occurs at certain points in the movie consistantly.

At first I thought it had something to do with the sensitivity of my new Pioneer DVR-A08 DVD/CD recorder – like the amplification of some strong wind sounds was causing the jumping. But there were other areas which were out of sync and had no associated volume spikes. So I ruled out that theory.

I went back and eliminated some of the clips that seemed to exhibit the problem thinking my New Sony miniHandy cam might also be causing the problem. Either the battery was low, possibly, or the pickup device might have been dirty. I did eliminate one problem area by starting over and rerecording that section. It could be, now that I think more about it, that my SONY DVR-HC21 is the possible culprit.

But then why do I have no problem when viewing these DVDs on my new Philips Portable DVD machine?

Got my retired brain in a real stew. I just hate to send out a product and have half of them returned.

Dave

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Thanks for the reply, Ed. Sorry I was not more specific. The skips and out of sync conditions I mentioned occur sporadically on DVDs I create. These occur on DVDs played on some DVD players and not on others. In my home I can play my project burned to both DVD+Rs and DVD-Rs on a new Philips Portable player just fine and then I can go to my main TV with an older Panasonic player and both formats will skip.

I need to produce these DVDs to be playable on as many people older machines as possible and so I am trying to decide what format and what else I need to do to improve the quality for the masses. My thought was that at least going to 512 meg of RAM might help as by one of the GEEK squad at Best Buy suggested. Another expert on Pinnacles message board said the opposite. Just increasing RAM was not necessarily going to improve the quality.

So that is my confusion. My guess is that improving RAM, upgrading the video card, and making sure I have all the latest Microsoft upgrades to my Windows XP SP2 will be the most logical moves I can make. Also, of course, I think that moving to Vegas will also be a big help because frankly Pinnacle has been 10 months of torture.

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I also just self-graduated from Pinnacle 9 after 10 arduous months mastering the learning curve. I would be interested in your thoughts and observations as you enter this world. I purchased Vegas Movie Studio + DVD and will continue producing training films for hunters. I hope to stream some video through Flash MX web sites that I create. But I cannot advise on going to Vegas 6. Sorry.

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