[Allen Zagel]

Thanks Ken
I’ll keep that in mind. No problem about touting a company you’re happy with. We all need to hear about both the good ones and bad ones.
Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

I just got this response from Canon USA. Go figure!

>Canon USA has made the decision not to include the
>CDR/DVD printing feature on consumer printers sold in this market.

Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

I’ve heard of clogged print heads using the generic ink. Has anyone had that problem or was it just in the beginning? I see a lot of ink stores here locally too.

Oh yea, Primera and some others sell CD printers at $1500 or more and I think they all use the Epson ink ha ha but for the price the R200/220 and I think the upgrade version R400 or something like that you can’t beat for the price.

Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

Ditto to the R200 mentioned above. However my personal opinion about that Supermedia store ink is it’s NOT original Epson ink and I “personally” don’t believe in using these ‘compatible inks’. I’ve heard too many horror stories and they will void your warranty.

Calumet Photo in Chicago area sells complete sets of the Epson OEM ink for $69 and the average retail prices here run from $89 to $120 per set.

I also print my own case inserts and you can buy template paper at many sites, Shure Thing is probably one of the best I use but Neato has them also as well as some other paper supply sites. Print them and tear off the scored extra and insert them into your DVD case. Very professional looking.
Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

OOPS! No wonder nobody responded. I’m loosing my mind here Ed. So very sorry. I had a colonoscopy yesterday and the medications didn’t wear off.

What happened was I saw the 856 and forgot the decimal point. Darn!

Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

HA! What the heck. At that price I got it too. Pricing good only till 10/31.

Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

6 letters starting with an ‘M’ would be marker maybe?
Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

Another thing you may try is what I did before I knew much about bitrates. I rendered to AVI in Vegas then brought the 2+ hour video into DVDA-2. There’s a check box “fit-to-disk”. I tried that and came out with a nice 2’+ video on DVD. I think it was 2h 5m. DVDA did all the work for me 😉

Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

For DVD then you should download the MPEG-2 and it will be ready to burn. You’d need smething to edit MPEG files, I think I heard V6 or 7 will do that but there’s also others like Woomble, I’m still sticking with V5.

MPEG-4 is not good quality for re-rendering to MPEG-2 IMHO and it’s a much smaller picture size. I’ve tried it and while I got acceptable results, it wasn’t a perfect video; some artifacting. I stay away from Real Media for personal reaasons. Used to be heavy adware and spyware. Don’t know if that’s changed though.

The Cinepak is a codec that Vegas uses but I’m not sure about whether it’s an AVI or not. MPEG-1 is for VCD (Video CD) which in simple terms is VHS quality on a CD (poor-man’s DVD) popular in Asia.

Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Allen Zagel]

Hi Doug
Thanks for your reply. No way am I going to get rid of the NTSC monitor. I’ll continue to use it through my Canopus ADVC100. My current View Sonic CRT would go to my son’s computer as he needs a newer monitor.

After all these years of editing I just figured out something many of the folks already knew about that ‘tiny’ preview screen in Vegas. I undocked it, clicked the “Best-Full preview and enlarged it. WALA! No more temporary rendering so I could see how my effects are. Then I figured I’d put that full sized preview window on a 2nd monitor. Didn’t need the NTSC monitor for this project as it’s only for play-back on computers, as are most all of my technical videos for this one company.

My question more was concerned with which type of graphics cards, as the field of preferences changes weekly 😉

Thanks again
Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com