[Bouke Vahl]

while you’re at it, i can remember there is a function somewhere (forgot where of course), to ‘cue’ the clip.
(doing all the preload stuff and so).
Use that when you have time. When the producer shouts, you have instant start instead of ‘about’ instant start.

hth

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Don’t worry about the choppyness. If it’s native resolution, it’ll work out just fine.
Make sure you flag them in Encore as being wide.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

You export as 16×9.
Huge mistake…
Even 16:9 is in fact 720 x 576
What happens is that your QT has a ‘display’ set for 1024 x 576.
Now what you have to do:
either scale the QT’s to 720 x 576 in QT pro and save (mind you, this is NOT a render, it’s just the display you have to change!) or export again from avid with 4:3 set, just as 720 x 576

For the encoding you have to ‘flag’ the clips as being widescreen.
While i’m at it, watch out that Avid uses ‘studio RGB’, you have to tell Encore that or your blacks will be grey (not an Encore expert, do not even know if it is possible there)

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

At the risk of sounding arrogant, how about using the client monitor?
Or, (dunno if MCA can), set your LCD to, eer, FULL SCREEN?
(it’s in the settings, after that you have to press a button…)

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Not that i know.
Why would you want that? Afraid of the crossfade audio on Inpoints?
Never has been a problem for me so far…

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

You can have 4 colors, and my favourite is .TIFF
You want them all. White FG, black border/shadow, of course transparant and that leaves you with one level of anti aliasing, eiter between the black and white or between the black and the video.
Since the contrast between the border and the white of the title is the most visible, i prefer to place my anti-aliasing there.

I use Photoshop, in combination with the Chris Linke plugin.
Those files are less than 3 Kb, and in the correct format.

https://home.comcast.net/~c.linke/dvdsub/

When done good, they look gorgeous (well, relativily speaking)

Hope this works for you.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Sorry, my bad.
I think it’s trying to decode the number as TC…
Only fast solution i see now is to add a dummy character before the number, and manually edit those out after import, or place them between (brackets) or .

I could alter my subtitler application to generate a FAB file from your files, but i think that’s overkill for your specific situation. (It would set you back 169 dollar, kind of steap for a family trip video…)

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Did you save your file as UTF 8?

format should be tcIn tcOut subtitle text

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Sometimes this happens on my McSoft with Mojo too.
Just recording a second fixes it.
Hope this works for you too.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Half a frame is very well possible if you have an interlaced show.
Make a still in photoshop of white and black lines, WITHOUT ANTI ALIASING!, just one pixel horizontal.
Use that as a key signal on one frame. Voila, one field show, other field subliminal message.

I already feel the urge for a coke coming up…

Bouke

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