[Dave Friend]

Peter,

You can convert the drive to NTFS easily using the Windows utility convert.exe
You do not have to reformat drive or move the files currently on the drive.
See this link for more information.
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx

Hope this helps.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

[Tim Kolb] “I don’t mean to sound harsh, but I don’t know of an app that can do what you describe…(“

Well…. Probably the most versatile NLE in this regard is the Avid Liquid line. It uses an interesting approach where the video and audio from a clip occupy the same track. But you can patch it any way you like to change this default behaviour. Also, once it is on the timeline you can move the audio out to it’s own stereo and/or mono tracks. This can be reversed too as the tracks can be collapsed backward in any fashion you like. This separation of A from V does not affect linking – unless you want it to. Too bad that much of the rest of the UI is so wierd.

[Tim Kolb] “maybe *Edit could…”
Edit does not have stereo tracks on the timeline. If you want to cut a stereo source to the timeline you have to target two tracks. They will be panned appropriately once on the timeline. A two-channel mono clip will, if targeted to two tracks, lay both channels on the timeline with each track center panned. IOW, edit knows what the source is (stereo or mono) and treats the clip accordingly.

So, I guess this is a situation where edit can’t. Then again, because of the way it is structured there is no need.

Didn’t want dissapoint you and not mention edit. 🙂

Dave

[Dave Friend]

[Brett Nelson] “The fact that I have to make a distinction between stereo and mono up front is a challenge.”

A challenge? Sorry Brett old friend, but I feel you are making much ado about nothing. (That’s not meant to be as contentious as it probably sounds. So please don’t be offended.)

Suppose you had the option to choose stereo or mono during capture (ala edit). Is that not equally (if not more) challenging? Isn

[Dave Friend]

Nice to know. Thanks for the speedy reply Aanarav.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

It seems that H.264 is not part of the QuickTime 6, which explains why I can find it.

Does anybody know if QuickTime 7 Pro is playing nice with Windows? I did read of some compatibility problems early on.

Also, does it work well with the current release of the Adobe Production Studio? Everything is mostly working and I would hate to muck it up by messing with the QuickTime installation. Advice please.

[Timothy Kurkoski] “the QT Player on Windows does an absolutley AWFUL job of decoding DV codec AVI files. It introduces a lot of artifacts, like heavy JPEG decompression.”

Tim,
What you describe sound like what happens if the “High Quality” option is not set for the file. When it is set, I see no appreciable difference in DV files played in QT Player or the WM player. (Well, except that the QT player doesn’t do as good a job displaying an interlaced file.)

Dave

[Dave Friend]

[Norman Lafranchi] “Do you find Red to be worth the price?”

If I was making a buying decision today, I don’t know what I would do. At the time I acquired it, it made sense. Now that AE is making good use of OpenGL the speed difference is not so great. In fact, now AE might actually be more responsive when adjusting a comp. Boris probably renders faster, but that’s a guess. I haven’t done any benchmark testing.

There are some tricks that are much easier to accomplish in Boris vs AE. I really like the ease with which you can turn vector art into 3D objects. And there are some pretty cool materials that can be applied to 3D shapes. Not that the same couldn’t be done with AE. Boris makes it a snap.

All things considered I’ve gotten my moneys worth from RED over the three+ years I’ve had it.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

[Steve Freebairn] “it looks much better than Windows media.”

Based on the quick test I just ran, I can’t agree with that statement. Maybe I need to upgrade my QT Pro (currently 6.5.2) or maybe I wasn’t using the right codec, but WM looked much better.

I set them up to be the same screen size and bitrate. The file sizes ended up being within a couple hundred KB of each other (the mp4 was the larger). Used Windows Media Encoder for the wmv file and QT Pro for the mp4 file feeding each the same DV codec avi file for input.

Do you know if my version of QT is using the H.264 codec for mpeg4?

Dave

[Dave Friend]

[David Cherniack] “the chronological order in which you’ve created things”

This isn’t exactly what you are looking for but the “Media Start” column would sort timecode based sources in chronological order – sort of.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

On my system the that made Red work with PPRO 2 are
FL6-BorisRED3.prm
IM-BorisRED3.prm
FX6-BorisRED3.prm

I put them in the PPro/Plug-ins/en_US folder.

If there are other files I don’t recall what they were.

Red has functioned perfectly so far, but I have not used it heavily enough to claim absolute certainty on that score.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

[Kowboy] ” use the media encoder for mailing samples to customers. And some of them are requesting .mov