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Wayne,

They are excellent TVs, and, the next best thing behind a broadcast monitor …

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Two things to try:

1. Before capturing go to easy setup and choose the proper setting there — its the easiest way to insure that your setings for your type of footage are all in agreement.

2. If that still doesn’t work, trash your preferences and try again.

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Dean,

The Captain makes nice little tutorials doesn’t he? Wish he’d do a

To apply the scale to all clips, click on the first clip to select it, copy that clip, then select all the other clips you want to affect and then do “paste attributes” and choose “basic motion” from the box that appears and hit OK. Bingo, everyone gets the attributes…

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Check the “preview” box in “Clip Setting” tab in Log and Capture.

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Frank,

The typical DVD box that we are used to is technically refered to in the biz as an “Amaray box,” and the printed part that slides into the plastic liner is called an “Amaray Sleeve.” You can find templates all over the net for creating artwork for Amaray sleeves, and those templates are typically provided in three formats so graphic artists may choose their favorite app for the job — you’ll usually find PhotoShop, Quark, and Illustrator templates provided.

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[deanhamer] “It shouldn’t require any resizing or even rendering of the 16:9 footie. Mahalo!”

Well, maybe it shouldn’t, but it does. The 16×9 frame is in fact larger than a 4×3 image, otherwise you would not be able to pan and scan on it. In a 4×3 you’ll need to resize to 133%.

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Procoder accepts standard QT DV files right out of FCP, so its certainly not a MAC to PC issue. What version of QT are you running on your PC? If yo haven’t updated QT lately you might be getting incompatibility based on that alone. But, be certain that none of your apps on the PC rely on an older version of QT…

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Mortimer,

Export to QT is about it. Since DVDs are compressed typically at about 25 to 1 you’re not gonna get a silk purse, but it shouldn’t look horrible either if the original was profesionally encoded.

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Wow Kristian, that was fast… I got it to work, but only with a strange View > Video Playback that strangely does not seem to match my setup. Tomorrow a.m. when I get back into the edit bay I’ll post the one that works and maybe you can tell me why. I can’t remember exactly the one, but its ceratinly not the logical choice.

THNX,
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Joshua,

What is the native file format Newtek uses?

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