[Frédéric]

do you capture with pro vtr?

if not, try this – could help

gr, Fr

[Frédéric]

Thx for the reaction Baz – i don’t believe a lot of real pro’s are working with ppro – and i’m beginning to understand why

ppro is a good finisching tool but to edit in a real pro world – stinks

so i’ll go to my fcpro – i’m digitising via sdi with serial remote – in fcpro i suppose i will go to an offline dv codec

thx. Fr

[Frédéric]

ok thx Lee,

i have a friend with protools ans digitranslator so i will doe the test

Fr

[Frédéric]

Steven,

i found the problem, you’ll always see that when you do something for the first time – in my case exporting to dvd from hd project – they cange something else also – the player to quality check our dvd is new and was wrongly setup, played everything letterboxed.

So everything works just fine now,thanks anyway,

regards, Fr

[Frédéric]

Hi Steven,

here is the info you kindly asked – to help me.

matrox axiohd, hp certified system.
matrox 1080p uncompressed 10 bit pal project

This is the first time i go from a hd timeline to dvd, did it numerous times in sd without any problem

I tried different settings in Matrox media encoder

fe: paldv 16/9 highquality 7 mb cbr 1 pass field order upper
pixel aspect ratio 4/3 and 16/9 give both the same mpeg letterboxed file!
also other settings i tried fe: pal progressive 16/9 high quality 7mb cbr 1 pass gave the same letterboxed mpeg for the 2 aspect ratios

so choosing the aspect ratio doesn’t change anything. i always get the letterboxed image…

one weird thing more, after your reply i wanted to output one more test, a straight export to dvd and weird is that when i go to my encoding settings my source is 720 576 instead of 1920 1080..and i only see that little part of my image…this stays even after a few reboots of the whole system..and i only have this with a straight export to dvd, not when i choose matrox media encoder…

i don’t say the problem isn’t related to my system – but feedback from other users that did this before would be welcome

regards, Fr

[Frédéric]

To digitise your material the camera is set in vtr mode, then be sure that the playback standard (menu – signal setup – playback standard) is set to the right setting – if you work in a hdv project and the playback standard is set to dv you will have the problem you described.

so in vtr mode – menu – signal setup – playback standard

also you can only change this setting with the camera NOT connected to the firewire – once connected you cannot change this setting

hope this helps, Fr

[Frédéric]

hi.

in which project are you capturing – hdv or sd(dv)

you have to change the output of your camera to the right project settings

regards, Fr

[Frédéric]

what you are looking is called an editing system?

and don’t you need a deck to feed that?

regards, Fr

[Frédéric]

thx Vincent for the really helping hand,

Fr

[Frédéric]

what kind of problems are you speaking of?
please explain, a mail as you send is to easy

i own a hd matrox axio system editing with ppro, and i cannot complain – seen the price i payed for it

regards