[Ben Wharton]

Roadkill –

Unfortunately there is no quick test. The original captures from DVD contain no cuts from black – they’re all created in the edit. So have to render out AVI files from Avid instead.

Yawn.

Also now Encore is acting up! – not jumping back to the start of a new sequence which the end point says it’s supposed to. It jumps back to the start of the same sequence instead. Problem is, this is INTERMITTENT. Another bug me thinks…

Ben

[Ben Wharton]

Roadkill –

Thanks for the reply.

More precise workflow (and I’m suddenly thinking it’s QuickTime) all in PAL domain:

1. DVD->Composite Output->OpenDL AVI (DV Codec)

2. OpenDL AVI -> OMFI Avid Files (i.e. import into Avid Xpress Pro)

3. Edited sequences -> QuickTime Reference Files (everything rendered beforehand/mixed down)

4. Procoder 2 -> PAL MPEG2 Elementary Streams

5. Author with Encore (but you can see issue in MPEGs beforehand)

To clarify effect: First frame takes 2 frames to appear, like it’s interlaced, but it’s actually a frozen frame, then after that clean frozen frame appears, the video actually starts.

I’m using Avid Xpress 4.3.1 with QuickTime 6.5.2 – I’ve had issues with QT Ref before and I;m wondering if I exported the sequences as AVI files instead the thing would work without a flaw.

Any thoughts?

Ben