Christopher Kinsman
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COW Coins
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Hey Bob, That’s a very mysterious problem. I just exported a 12 hr program in 2 hour segments and it worked beautifully. The only time I’ve ever had audio export crashes is when there was a corrupt audio file (they’re hard to find but not impossible) or there was just enough room on the target drive for the video (which exports first) but not for the audio. Hope you can work this out! Kind Regards! Chris K.
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Thanks Floh! I worked it out in the wee hours!
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Hope you didn’t give too much away in the DVD as he may take your plan and let someone cheaper implement your valuable ideas! It’s easy for someone to undercut you now. You’ve given them all the ideas and the Dentist might shop it. Just a thought! Best of Luck! Chris K.
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hey MacAttack, The M100 backup folder only holds backups of the programs and bins – not the digitized media. Also you should only digitize media to a non-program drive. ie All programs on your System Hard Drive and all media on your media drives. You can, if you need to, put music onto your System HD. Do you know what type of media drives you’re using. It sounds as if you’re just full/or drives are too slow. Your media drives should be 7200 rpm ata or SATA drives. They can be in your G4 or in a raid. Firewire drives other than lacie may not work or playback depending on your quality settings. Hope this helps and good luck! Kind Regards, Chris
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I had similar issues when trying to output to self contained movie. Everything had rendered with no freezes. I narrowed it down on the timeline by watching to see when the export would crash. Turned out to be a corrupt audio file that just went bad one day. I redig’d and replaced and it then worked great. Try to methodically isolate the file. It’s a pain – I know! The only other thing I can think of is any updates to any software lately? Best of luck! Kind Regards, Chris K.
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Hi Guys, Don’t forget to check into the MacGuru’s site. They have great products and super customer service. If you have the ability to assemble things yourself you can save a bundle and their performance speed is awesome. A 5 bay drive will utilize 1 sata cable into your sata control card. 2 bays will utilize 2. It’s very expandable and been rock solid for me for 9 months. Best of Luck! Kind Regards, Chris K.
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Hey Guys, does either of you have the old rosetta stone /serial controller and the lanc cable? Maybe the M100 would see it then. Run deck control through the Lanc cable and info through the firewire. It could be a conflict for the port with HDV info and machine control. Just a thought. Best of luck! Kind Regards, Chris K.
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Hey Paul, I still can’t believe it either, after all the good things that have been said about Bitvice. Compressor is handling the motion and the 640 to 720 scaling much cleaner than Bitvice. Bitvice color is far superior, but it adds unacceptable noise in areas of high motion – which is about 30 percent of my feature. By the way, if you ever scale via AE don’t flip the fields from upper to lower. Leave it in upper and move your image 1 pixel down and 1 pixel right and you’ll notice much sharper images, especially in Titling. I understand a pixel down but don’t ask me how the hell 1 pixel to the right helps – but in split frame comparisons – 1 pixel shift right gives sharper lettering in the titles. I then send it out as an animation file and it looks great – except BitVice adds too much noise. By the way, I tested BitVice with about 20 different combos of upper field/lower field/1 pixel shift/no pixel shift/M100 720 codec/Animation/ and they all add noise to the picture. Noise that was not there after the scaling from AE! I have enough test DVDs lying around, I could re-tile my kitchen and yours with em! I’m happy, for the moment, I didn’t spend the 350 on bitvice for this project. I hope the makers have been reading our posts. Best of Luck! Kind Regards, Chris K
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Hey Paul, I still can’t believe it either, after all the good things that have been said about Bitvice. Compressor is handling the motion and the 640 to 720 scaling much cleaner than Bitvice. Bitvice color is far superior, but it adds unacceptable noise in areas of high motion – which is about 30 percent of my feature. By the way, if you ever scale via AE don’t flip the fields from upper to lower. Leave it in upper and move your image 1 pixel down and 1 pixel right and you’ll notice much sharper images, especially in Titling. I understand a pixel down but don’t ask me how the hell 1 pixel to the right helps – but in split frame comparisons – 1 pixel shift right gives sharper lettering in the titles. I then send it out as an animation file and it looks great – except BitVice adds too much noise. By the way, I tested BitVice with about 20 different combos of upper field/lower field/1 pixel shift/no pixel shift/M100 720 codec/Animation/ and they all add noise to the picture. Noise that was not there after the scaling from AE! I have enough test DVDs lying around, I could re-tile my kitchen and yours with em! I’m happy, for the moment, I didn’t spend the 350 on bitvice for this project. I hope the makers have been reading our posts. Best of Luck! Kind Regards, Chris K
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Hey Jack, Yes the dissolves tend to get a bit crispy – I also believe it’s the blacks. Maybe compressor will add an rgb studio range adjustment in the future. Glad to have helped somebody! Kind Regards, Chris K