[Dave Schweitzer]

Try this: open the console in AXP on the laptop and type alldrives 1
This should enable Avid to use a network drive as a media drive, and you should be able to access your media again.
You may need to mount or hit the network drive before launching AXP…opening a folder on the drive should do.

[Dave Schweitzer]

It’s in the menu settings of the deck to allow it to record MiniDV instead of DVCam. I haven’t touched one in a while, but I seem to recall it’s in the enhanced operation menu.

[Dave Schweitzer]

I believe the attic is a repository for copies of bins, not the whole project. Try creating a new project, then open the bins (adding the .avb if necessary) and if you need to, create new bins in your project then copy the attic bin contents to your new bins before trashing the attic bins.

[Dave Schweitzer]

America, right?

[Dave Schweitzer]

I’ve hit this one, too. The Windows file system that can be read but not written to is called NTFS.
If writing to the drive on OSX is something you’d like to see, and if the drives are not to be used as media drives on OSX for , then the quickest way to go is to format the drive to FAT32. It’s been so long I can’t remember how to specify the format on a PC, but using OSX open the drive utility, select the drive from the panel on the left (the drive, not the associated volume) go to Erase and select MS-DOS File System. Command-I shows the format as Macintosh PC Exchange (MS-DOS). The drive will now show up on both systems.
FAT32 format is less responsive on a mac, so using the drive with this format as a media drive is asking for dropped frames, but being able to consolidate/export to it and walk it back to the PC room is convenient.

btw, I’ve read using a program called Macdrive on the PC will format and translate the mac drive well enough that it can be used as a media drive on both systems. Using Macdrive under XP, the drive gets formatted Mac & can be seen on the PC – mounts and can be written to/read from. It also performs as normal on a mac, allowing for full-speed writing/reading.

Geek Out,
Dave

[Dave Schweitzer]

How does the picture look on your TV? Is your complaint mostly about compression artifacts around your text or areas of sharp contrast?

Check out this informative article right here on the Cow regarding DV and text:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles/index.html

Also, After Effects’ Best Quality setting from the factory has field rendering turned OFF! Make sure for NTSC video that you turn on lower field first and keep your Avid import setting at lower field first also. This has more to do with smooth motion in animations, but I just wanted to pass this on.

[Dave Schweitzer]

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[Dave Schweitzer]

If you have “export as RGB” selected or “use Avid DV codec” unchecked when exporting you usually get quicktimes that have that richer darker look.

[Dave Schweitzer]

These’s really no other way to…
get major upgrades to the software
get free hardware replacement if it goes down
get all the phone support your telephone can handle

without paying a la carte pricing if the need arises. And if it does, the costs are siginificant.
I believe the “free” major upgrades to your software a la carte are in the $2,000 range. Without Assurance, if the Avid hardware develops a problem the cost is bound to be exorbitant.

Good thing these kinds of expenses are a write-off.

[Dave Schweitzer]

A lot of people call them Baseballs – for the name we’d put up over the batter.