[Bob Pierce]

Thanks guys,
I think you misunderstood me, Dave – I was asking about recapturing, not the initial capture. Or maybe I’m the one misunderstanding! I’m working on a mulit-camera interview show and I don’t want to have to capture all of the interviewer questions and other (wide shot) cameras. All the tapes have timecode, so I want to capture the interviewee’s answers, then go through and chop up the clip to define where the questions are in the clip, then re-capture just those clips. I used to use this method on my old Media 100 and it worked great – saved a lot of time (these are LONG segments).

Nick, you mention a “capture tool”. I don’t find any mention of it in the manual. Do you mean “batch capture”? As I said in my initial question – there HAS to be a way!
As always: Thank you!
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Thanks Guys. Yes, it does this even when starting up with a new project (I had deleted the preferences). So I don’t think it’s looking for lost media. The system drive is about 70% full (this is my laptop system, which I try to keep lean and mean, but more full than I’d like). I’ll try emptying the caches.
THANKS!
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

I would recommend any one of the many training dvds available these days. It might take a while before you’re cranking out stuff like CNN, but it’s a really fun learning process and a good training dvd (for After Effects or Motion) will get you started.
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

It actually added a graininess that in this context actually a nice touch. Just a tiny amount is required for an amazing improvement.
Thanks!
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

I just read on an after effects forum about this: a common solution is to apply some noise from photoshop’s “Add noise” filter. I did so on the gradient fade ( a seperate layer) and shazam!! No more banding!
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Hi, Thanks for the input. I’m using ver 5 right now and have tried changing the sequence setting to 10 bit uncompressed. I’ve rendered bits of it with the new setting but still see the banding. Now, I should say that I’m monitoring with a firewire connected dv deck (with an NTSC monitor) so maybe what I’m seeing is still dvd related artifact. I tried rendering out a small sample of the sequence as a quicktime (at “current settings”) to view on the desktop with QT player and still could see quite obvious banding. Hrmph!
bob

[Bob Pierce]

Thanks Guys,
Yeah, I’ve got squeeze and have used it a bit. I think I’ve got my answer, though I don’t know if I like it! Quality doesn’t always win, I guess…
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Thanks borjis and zrb. My issue is that the people I’m trying to reach are corporate types who have wintel machines that have been set up by IT drones who don’t care about quicktime. Or at least that’s what I think they have. I’ve always sent clients crappy wmvs for review since I’m so concerned with not frustrating them with movies they can’t play. Do you guys know of any resource that can tell us what the installed base is like out there? Kind of a census…
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Yessir, that was it – all the problems are gone. I’ll be ac3 all the way from now on. Damn, I wish someone told me about this a long time ago! I feel like I owe all you guys a beer. Thanks again!
Bob Pierce

[Bob Pierce]

Yep, exported straight out of fcp. I’ve re done the dvds using AC-3, buildt the disk out of DVDSP, used toast to burn at 1x. We’ll see if that’s any better. It dropped the size of the build by almost a gigabyte! Thanks again for the help.
Bob