[Chris D]

They actually sent me a check for full payment earlier this week, and it cleared! I just returned the drive yesterday, so all seems to have turned out well in the end. It took 2 months to get paid, but hey, better late than never.

[Chris D]

Thanks for all the input, guys.
Here’s the latest:
I talked to an executive of the company and very politely told her I was willing to work with them on this drive. I was looking to get paid, but since they hadn’t paid me I was assuming the drive was a form of payment. It wasn’t what I wanted and the money was worth far more to me than the drive. So if they could pay me half of what they owed me then I would send them the drive minus the files I created which I would send them upon full payment. She said obviously I didn’t read the e-mail she sent me which said they were penniless. I asked if they had filed bankruptcy and she said they were on the verge, trying to avoid it.
She then told me to keep the drive if that was what made me happy.

Unfortunately, I didn’t ask her if they were penniless, how they were able to afford $700 of brand new Maxtor drives.

[Chris D]

Thanks for the advice Tony & Debe. I’ll give the drive back to them, but I’m going to delete my files from it, and make them get it at their expense.
Not sure if they are telling the truth about going bankrupt. On my last day there, 5 days ago, they had just purchased $700 worth of drives that they were having me copy files onto from another drive that wasn’t theirs.
Does a company facing bankrupcy do that? Sounds fishy to me.

[Chris D]

I’m using Compressor 2.1, Joe.

Actually it was an interlacing issue. I went back and re-rendered the original animation in Combustion without frames,
then imported it back into FCP and exported the same way as I did originally in Compressor and that cleared it up.

Thanks for the help!

[Chris D]

Thanks for the suggestion, Ben.
I tried exporting it out of compressor non-interlaced, and it looked pretty much the same.
Hmmm. I wonder if I need to go back to the original animation and re-render it de-interlaced, then drop it back into my edited sequence and re-export. Or maybe apply a de-interlace filter to the anim. in my FCP sequence? I’ll try both, but it’ll take some time.

[Chris D]

Thanks for the info!

[Chris D]

I’m having the exact same problem after switching from a Blackmagic SD card to a Blackmagic Decklink HD pro card. Voice Over Tool used to work fine with the SD card.
Have you found a fix?

Thanks