[Craig Lindvahl]

Thanks for the response. Obviously, I’m not allowing them to use existing marketing strategies. I play the president of the company when they pitch their ideas, and I tell them I’m not paying for something that we’ve already done as a company.

I was concerned about the legal side of things, and your response makes perfect sense.

Thanks again.

Craig Lindvahl

[Craig Lindvahl]

Thanks, Jeremy-you’re right on. The forum is full of this exact problem. I’ve emailed them for help, and we’ll just keep our fingers crossed that they’ve corrected the problem in their drives.

[Craig Lindvahl]

You know, it’s the first time I’ve experienced that. Weird.

In the end, I think I have a hard drive that’s dying. I trashed the render files, and then the project wouldn’t let me render anything without freezing. After a couple of tries, I couldn’t even open the project. I’m pretty faithful about backing up the project file, and when I tried that, the computer didn’t recognize what kind of file it was.

I opened an older copy, and that worked fine, except I couldn’t render. I use a G-Raid, and the light just blinks slowly on and off, and it sounds like the drive is spinning up and spinning down.
I have a new drive on the way and I’ll just hope and pray that it’s not some corrupt file that is making everything act this way.

It’s a huge corporate project, which was due yesterday. Aargh. Such is life.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Craig Lindvahl]

Thanks you guys-I’m sure one of these things will work. I had read about deleting audio render files, so maybe deleting all of them will do it.

I’m far from a tech guy, but I’ve used compressor a lot, and I’ve never had the issue with stuff turning darker during the process. Strange.

Thanks again.

[Craig Lindvahl]

Thanks everyone-this is going to work just great.

Craig L

[Craig Lindvahl]

I cleaned the posts, but no luck. I think I’ll probably have to send it back in to Canon. I imagine it’s due for servicing anyway.

Thanks a lot

Craig L

[Craig Lindvahl]

Don-

You only have to know one more thing than me to qualify as an expert in my eyes. Thanks so much-I’m printing the article as we speak. In the end, the images are so beautiful that it’s worth whatever it takes to make it happen.

Thanks again.

Craig Lindvahl

[Craig Lindvahl]

Don-

You sound like just the guy I’ve been searching for. I’ve shot some stuff on the XL2, 24 p (2:3, not 2:3:3:2), and I’m struggling with the FCP 4.5 end of it.

When I digitized with a JVC BR-DV600 deck through an AJA IoLA, I had some trouble, so I’ve been digitizing through the camera. Here’s the thing-when I drag stuff from the bin to the timeline, I have to render it. After all that, when I’m finished, I make a new sequence, without the 16:9 selected, drag the original in it, wait til it renders, and then I have the letterbox version. Kind of time intensive, you know? i also have a couple of strange issues going to dvd studio pro, but I’ll save that for another time.

Am I doing this correctly? Here are the settings I’m using.

Thanks so much.

Craig Lindvahl

Audio/Video settings:

Sequence preset: DV NTSC 48 Khz-23.98
Capture preset: DV NTSC 48 KHZ anamorphic
Device control: FireWire NTSC
Video Playback: ProIO-NTSCUS-Component YPbPr SMPTE N10-10-bit 422
Audio Playback: ProIO Out

Sequence presets:

Frame size: 720×480 pixels
Editing timebase: 23.98fps
Field Dominance: none
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC-CCIR 601/ DV
Anamorphic 16:9 on
Video processing: high precision YUV allowed
White Point: White

Compressor: Uncompressed 10 bit 4:2:2
Millions of colors (24 bit)
No data rate limit
No keyframes set
Quality: 100

Audio settings: 16 bit 48 k

Capture presets:

Using Dv video for video input
XL2 using NTSC
23.98 frames per second
DV/DVCPRO-NTSC at best quality
24 bits per pixel
720×480 (anamorphic 16:9)
Using DV audio for audio input
Input: First 2 channels
Rate: 48k
Speaker: off
Volume: 100, Gain 0