[Carl Varney]

You are THE MAN!

Yes, please send me the patch at carlvarney@imageassociatesllc.com

And thank you for your hard work on this.

Carl Varney
Image Associates

[Carl Varney]

Well, Craig,
Simon from DGF just called me. He had told me he was going to consult with his Episode guru on my behalf, and it turns out that you are he. I guess I was right when I pegged you for being THE guy who knows how to do this.

I eagerly await the results of your latest test.

Thanks very much.

Carl Varney
Image Associates

[Carl Varney]

Mr. McIlwain,

This is something I may be able to help you with.

Are you opening the mpg files in Quicktime Player? I think I had the same white screen when I did that the first time. I haven’t tried using the QT MPEG Playback component, though. It’s possible it could solve the problem.

Try opening the files with VLC. Mine display fine there. But I will warn you that even if they look great in VLC, it’s no guarantee that they will pass certifcation on Fastchannel. As one tech told me, “VLC and others are far more forgiving than our hardware”.

Carl Varney
Image Associates

[Carl Varney]

I made a mistake in my last message. I am using Episode 4.4.1.
Sorry for the error.

Carl Varney
Image Associates

[Carl Varney]

Mr. Seeman,

You seem to be about the only person I’ve found who has successfully uploaded files to DGFastchannel. I have been going through this nightmare for the last week, myself. I am using Final Cut Pro Studio 2 and Episode 4.2.2. Though I did persuade one of the Fastchannel dropbox support techs to review the Episode settings with me step by step, my video continues to be “pixelated”.

I am trying some new tests using settings derived from your postings here… While I await those results, my questions to you are:

1. Were you able to successfully update your Episode 4.1 settings to Episode 4.2.2 and pass Fastchannel certification?

2. If I’m interpreting the posts in this forum correctly, it would seem that Fastchannel USED to accept video at 720×480. Now, the only acceptable size is 720×512! To my mind, this would certainly account for a lot of potential weirdness in the final file. Have you successfully encoded video at that size and passed certification using Episode?

If you could share any additional info on this topic, you would be my hero and I’ll recommend that DGFastchannel put you on retainer (since none of their techs seem able to solve my problems)

Thanks

Carl Varney
Image Associates