[Erik Pontius]

I’m about to embark on a similar exercise…but in the opposite direction… I’d like to move from one large drive to a bunch of smaller drives. Would the same procedure also work? What would be the procedure to prevent any problems. I’m a little worried since I have files from lots of active projects on the drive so I’m a bit cautious the Avid might throw a rod having the files spread across several drives.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

It’s called “Lensfeed”
https://frischluft.com/lensfeed/introduction.php
Read a write up somewhere…might have been DV magazine.

[Erik Pontius]

This article from the Flash FAQ can probably help explain:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19166

[Erik Pontius]

His, as well as others, are encoded in flash. You’ll need to download the latest flash player to view. Also IE has some built in “security” measures to prevent “unwanted” programs from installing themselves without you knowing it (spyware, etc..)causing this “click to activate” message at the top of the browser window to warn you. Clicking on the bar should give you the option to “allow” it to install.
Macromedia was recently bought by Adobe, so you can find the latest flash plugins on Adobe’s website:
https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

As others have said, use the status view to see how much to clip white/clip black. Also adjusting the screen strength option very slightly might help as well.
You might also find that you are having to clip black by a large degree to get the majority of the background to key (unevenly lit, wrinkles, etc…). I’d recommend following Aharon’s tutorial on super-tight junk mattes. This way you remove most of the background and only have to worry about a small portion to process with keylight. Also, Andrew Kramer’s tutorial on keylight is a good down and dirty intro to keylight.
Keylight will use a color to replace spill being removed, often adjusting this color from the default grey color may help.
Another option is to tell keylight just not to process the majority of the face by drawing a mask around the center of the face and setting keylight’s “inside mask” option to this mask.
Keylight’s thick manual is a good read as well as it goes into some of the more advanced features that might be of help as well (screen/alpha bias, color correction, etc…)

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Might want to check out Microsoft’s Windows Media knowledge base. Here’s an article specifically on producing multi-channel audio WMV.

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/Multichannel.aspx

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Might try these tips from the Adobe Encore knowledge base.
Looks like you can tell Encore where to put the break.
https://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332885.html
https://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331054.html

[Erik Pontius]

My apologies if you’ve already done this. Check the sequence to see if you have all your video and audio tracks that you are wanting to export are active, check to make sure that the your in/out marks are either not set or are in/out around the area you want to export.
Then check your export settings you are using for uncompressed, look at the “Use marks” and/or “Use selected tracks” (can’t remember the exact wording) options and set them appropriately. “Use Marks” will export only the area within you in/out marks, unchecked it will ignore them and export the entire sequence. The “use selected tracks” option will export only the tracks that are selected in the sequence, unchecked it will export all the tracks, regardless.

[Erik Pontius]

Also
https://www.morguefile.com/
poke around in the “texture” folders…

[Erik Pontius]

I did some tests following your steps. Using the MS DV codec, and then converting to h.264 (I just used Quicktime’s export to Ipod setting). It shows your artifacting on the edges of the text…most likely an artifact of interlacing in the DV.
I exported the same comp, using Quicktime animation, then converted to h.264 and it looks fine.
As for the AVI file, If you’re opening it in Quicktime and looking at it it probably will look smudged and pixelated, just the way Quicktime is handling the amount of data and performing de-interlacing I guess. Opening the same file in windows media player, it looks quite a bit better.
You’re best bet is probably going to be to find out what you can give them in terms of files. Most likely even if you are able to create a pristine DV AVI file, if they then give it a hack job of compressing to MPEG-2 for the DVD, it’s going to look like crap anyway. If they’ll accept an DVD compliant MPEG-2 stream, you might want to export your clip from AE as a Quicktime uncompressed and convert to MPEG-2 using a good quality transcoder…get it looking right and hand it over to them to add to the DVD they’re compiling.

Erik