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By the way..
I just checked out your profile-impressive.
I tried the link to your website on .Mac and got a window saying that your Homepage couldn’t be found. Just thought I’d let you know.
Nice shot with Ozzy!
rock on.

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Hi Chuck,
I don’t know, maybe you’re using 10.3 or 10.4 or else something’s missing from my OS package but there’s no .Mac pane in my System Preferences and no iDisc Utility in my Utilities folder. The iDisc does appear on my desktop after I launch it from the Finder (Go>iDisc) but it has the name that I used when I set up my iTools account (required when installing OSX 10.2) which is different from my .Mac account name.
Something else I noticed while searching the Utilities folder is that in the Keychain Access pane both my iTools and .Mac accounts are listed and they both have different names under the “Names” heading but the same original iTools name (same as my iDisc) under the “Account” headings. If, as you said, “Anything you set in the old iTools should not be applicable to your dot mac account”, then something ain’t right.
I hope I’ve explained this well enough-it sure doesn’t make any sense to me.
Thanks,

Adam

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I’m happy to report that all is well.
Not exactly sure what I was doing wrong but I went back and recaptured the footage with a non-anamorphic preset which resulted in the same distorted image in the viewer and then dropped it into a non-anamorphic sequence. It looks fine now. I also thought that changing the sequence settings once they contain media would yield strange results but I tried this too and it works despite the manual’s warnings. The one caveat I should add is I haven’t viewed it yet on a standard consumer tv but I’ve printed it back to tape and it looks fine in the log and captue window.
I guess I can chock another one up to operator error.
Many thanks for helping me work this out!

Adam

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Hi David,

Yes, this is happening in the Canvas even when the anamorphic box isn’t checked in the Sequence Settings.
Here’s the rundown of my Capture and Output settings:
I’m capturing footage from a mini DV tape that was printed to video from an anamorphic sequence (hence the letterboxing, right?). The original source was mini DV shot in 16:9 and then captured with anamorphic presets (if that helps). I’m trying to recapture the letterboxed footage because, tragically, the original source tape was lost and I have to revise the finished product with some new footage also shot on mini DV in 16:9. The problem, in addition to the horizontal stretching, is that the frames don’t match up between the old and new footage when printed back to video. I’ve tried outputting from both anamorphic and standard 4:3 Sequence Settings but the results are the same.
I could probably live with the horizontally stretched images if I had to as long as the frame sizes matched up but I’d really like to know what’s going on here to try to prevent it from happening in the future.
I hope I’ve been specific enough.
thanks for your help.

Adam

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thanks for getting back,

I’ve tried capturing both with anamorphic and standard presets as well as working with both types of sequence presets and the result is always the same. I did try outputing to tape from a standard (non-anamorphic) sequence preset again and instead of getting the sides of the frame cropped with black the top and bottom are squished down more than the original letterboxed image. I don’t understand this. The letterboxed image looks fine in the log and capture window but as soon it’s captured it becomes stretched horizontally and the size of the frame is squished vertically no matter what presets I use. I suppose I could try trashing my preferences but I just started this project and I’m already getting behind on time because of this issue so I’d hate to waste more if it’s not necessary.
Any suggestions would help at this point.

thanks.