[Ed Dooley]

Do a search of the posts! It’s a very popular issue.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

If you’re shrinking it, have you tried moving the image up or down 1 pixel to keep the interlacing the same?
And when you say you’re “skewing” it to fit 16:9, it sounds like you *are* stretching it. What do you mean by that?
Ed

[AngelG1] “Does anyone have experience with this problem? I am editing on FCP with a dual G5. I am trying to resize an image and composite it over another to make a picture in picture. The image is being resized less than 40% the original size and then skewed to fit a 16X9 screen. It creates jaggies and aliasing throughout the image and around the edges. The director insists that it is possible to do this without the distortion. The image is not being stretched at all; just resized. Anyone? Please help!”

[Ed Dooley]

Image Control/Desaturate or Quicktime/Color Tint are 2 choices.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Remove the chroma.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Thanks, but I’ve done both many times. Closing FCP and reopening has helped sometimes, cycling the IO power has not.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I just unlinked the audio from the video on one of these clips in the timeline. Once unlinked
it immediately showed the offset in sync, the video was 3 seconds ahead of the audio. It’s easy enough
to drag this particular clip’s audio 3 seconds to the left, but not so simple for other clips.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I believe 30P works natively. But 24P isn’t supported yet. There are 3rd party options for 24P (LumiereHD
is one that comes to mind- MPEGSTreamClip too?) Not to push you away from the FCP forum (since your
question *is* a FCP question), but there are more Q&As about the JVC FCP workflow over at the HDV forum
here on the COW. You might get a quicker, or better, response.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Storage review did a review of 500g SATA drives a couple of weeks ago. But they left out the Hitachi.
I didn’t see anywhere in the review why they didn’t include it. They did the Seagate, Western Digital, and Maxtor.
https://www.storagereview.com/articles/200607/500_1.html
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

The unit supports *any* SATA drive, 1.5 or 3 gbps. The cost per gig sweetspot still generally favors 300g SATA drives, on average,
but just like the 500g drive mentioned, it’s now getting better with the bigger drives. The recent troubles with the new perpendicular
drives notwithstanding, Hitachi, Seagate, and Maxtors seem to get the best reliability, warranty, performance marks. Barefeats
tests them all, and they’ve been favoring the Maxtor Maxlines for performance and 5 year warranty. I’ve even owned a bunch
of Western Digital ATA drives that are still going strong after 5 or 6 years.
I don’t have the Seritek model, but every other 4 or more bay enclosure I’ve had allows any number of drives up to the max.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

That’s true *if* someone in a company is allowed to download anything to their computer. It’s the same issue
with H.264 for QT and WM9, a lot of IT departments do not allow computer users on their network to DL stuff
because of the risks it includes. It’s not an issue at all for a home user or in a company without those restrictions,
so it depends on who your audience is (meaning, where they work). In my business I can’t risk that the 20-40% of people
*not* using Flash8 yet are the very ones I’m supposed to be reaching. I always doubt statistics when they come from
the company that produces the product; just because Adobe says it doesn’t make it true.
Here are some penetration stats from Adobe:
https://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html
Ed (not trying to be grouchy, but I’ve run into this a whole lot of times with my corporate clients)

[John Fishback] “It’s true you need the latest Flash player. It’s easy to have your Flash application test for the version of Flash player on a user’s computer and offer a link to download the latest version. Here’s a part of an April 2006 Microsoft release about the use of Flash.

“Macromedia Flash 8

Macromedia Flash 8 has emerged as a potent force in the streaming media marketplace since it introduced streaming video. In fact, in the past two years, Flash 8 has become one of the most widely used streaming media players in the marketplace: