Bill Stephan
Forum Replies Created
-
If the system was capturing & playing reliably at 1:1, something else is slowing down your system. You said you moved — I wonder if the PC was banged around, damaging the drive. Also, did you install or uninstall anything on your system?
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
As I recall from when I set up my home XpressProHD system awhile back, Avid has to run at 1280×1024 resolution on the computer monitors. (Mine is set to 1280×1024/75Hz.) Set your system back to this resolution to see if the problem goes away. If not, then there is another problem. I don’t think the specific brand/model of computer monitors would be an issue, as most displays run at the specs Avid needs. There should be some specifics on setting up the computer monitors either with the documentation that came with your Avid software or on Avid’s website.
Avid needs the displays to be set up correctly because the motion video in your source/record “monitors” are created as overlays sitting on top of the computer graphic interface.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
An overrun during capture means the data is coming in faster than the drive can store it. A single drive is fast enough for DV25, HDV or 14:1 compression. What resolution are you trying to capture?
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
If you want to grab audio from only a portion of the original DVD, just capture it into an edit system directly from a DVD player.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
If you are putting pans and zooms on your slides, you are no longer in the realm of a DVD slideshow. You are creating video media just as one would in any edit session.
The exact specs for scanning the slides depends on the specific requirements of the tool you are using to do the moves, whether than be Avid Pan & Zoom, Boris, After Effects or something else. The general rule is the larger the scan, the more you have room to play with it.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Does you new Firewire card have a Texas Instruments chipset? If not, Avid probably can’t deal with it.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You need to figure out what kind of files the camera outputs and whether Avid imports that. Otherwise you are limited to capturing from the S-Video out.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
I wouldn’t assume that the client can use a QT in Avid Meridian codec, especially if they have only servers to feed the material and no edit systems. I have not seen a content delivery server that uses Avid or Animation codecs. Most want MPEG-2/4 program or transport streams plus one of dozens of variations for the audio.
Always get the specs in writing. We don’t accept this kind of job (no matter how much they beg) unless we get the spec sheet for the server the customer wants to use.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
This problem illustrates how not all DVD players follow the DVD Spec or implement certain features the same way. I would not expect what you are doing to work correctly in 100% of DVD players because not all players use the SPRMs in precisely the same way.
Most Hollywood film DVDs have widescreen menus with the text, buttons and major graphic elements restricted to the center 4×3 area. That way the menus play correctly no matter what aspect monitor the player is connected to without needing to test the SPRMs.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Yes to both questions.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City