[Christopher Key]

Thanks John, I’ll try that right now. I’ll let you know what happens

At one point during this project I remember it seemed like the problem went away when I rendered the original as AVI uncompressed and then let DVD architect do the mpeg2 conversion. Does this make sense? Is it better to do so or are the rendering engines in Vegas and DVD architect the same?

Christopher Key

[Christopher Key]

Whew – I was thinking that system would be costing me more than I was planning – although if this project is successful maye I’ll be able to afford it for the next one. We have a great story so I’ll count on that – thanks for all your help!

Christopher Key

[Christopher Key]

Thanks for your input – Now Im really not sure what to do so I have 2 more questions – #1) do you know of a reliable company I can go to who can put together such a computer system? – When I go to shoot interviews I already have to haul a truck load of gear so I guess a computer wouldn’t add that much to the load – it be really cool if I could have a rack-mountable computer system that I could put in a nice shock-proof case and…# 2) We are hoping that when this doc is finished we can show it at festivals and broadcast it on TV and we want it to hold up as well as possible against our competitors as far as visual quality – will the difference between using the firewire and the BNC actually make a substanial difference in the end product?

Christopher Key

[Christopher Key]

Thanks John,

I’m just starting to shoot the first interviews today so I might want to invest in a laptop and use the BNC with Adobe’s On Location and capture to a hard drive in the future. I may even reschedule this interview for a week so I can find a laptop that will work.

Thats interesting about FCP – I shot some footage at a recent event and the guys who want to edit it were confusing me by talking about the different codecs I could use for their FCP set up – so now this makes sense. Im thinking I should edit the footage in Vegas and save them some time and I’ll stick with it for this project. Thanks for your input. Now the challenge will be where to find a kick ass laptop that can be used to capture footage, run CS5 and my Cubase/Nuendo software with all its plug-ins – Ill need a 64 bit system with as much memory as possible. – I do music as well as video

Thanks again

Christopher Key

[Christopher Key]

This Titler does seem to me to need some sort of deep and intense tutorial – I wanted to replace “the Brown Fox” same as Mary yet cannot find any instruction on how to do it. I was able to replace the text but then the effect changed. When I try to drag a preset to the timeline as stated in online help it simply creates a new brown fox title, it does not apply the preset to my already existing title. Also, once I figure out how to use this thing, it would be nice if others could post presets online – since it only comes with a few.

[Christopher Key]

Thanks – from my understanding that’s what I thought.