[Hagop Goudsouzian]

Thank you.

Hagop

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

Are you referring to recent issues or a few years back (single pin or 5 pin plug power supplies)? Because, I did have the same problem with the old LaCie drives were the 5 pin plug power supplies, but the drives were never damaged and they replaced the power supplies. Now G-Raid as well as LaCie use the single pin power supplies. I have several LaCie as well as G-Raid, all now single pin plugs. As odd as it may seem a G-Raid single pin power supply died about 4 weeks ago and was replaced. The Thunderbolt drives are a single pin and it seems the LaCie 8TB 2big offers more raid options and replaceable drives, plus they throw in a Thunderbolt cable (G-raid does not.)

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

Thanks. Hagop

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

Yes, before posting, I moved as many (Adobe and After Effects) files I could think of but did not help. I also created a new template, then searched the computer for a file that was modified in the last few minutes, but that did not help either. So, it appears that .ars file you mentioned is only created on demand. I hoped it would be otherwise. Thanks, H.

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

Thank you, I hoped it would be just a file to move over. I have the drive, the computer died. My current retina does not boot from 10.6.8. So I’ll try to find one and boot from my drive, open a project “save all” (render settings template, window) and import that into the new environment.

Thanks,
Hagop

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

I’ll go ahead with default and slim side bars. The oversan does make sense, I’ll see what happens.

Now it is coming back to me! I did do some similar tests a few years back, then abandoned AME for DVD and used Apple (without probing further,) but my recent experiences encoding for Blu-ray were great so I thought I give it a try for DVD. Very nice!!!

Thanks Jeff for your advice, appreciated.

Hagop

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

Thanks Jeff,

I did a side by side test previewing with both Apple’s Compressor and AME, using exact same frame.
I chose a default setting with Compressor, and I see no cropping, comparing source vs compressed.
I chose a default setting with AME (mpeg2-DVD) when I select, “Scale to Fit” I get the slim black bars.
But when I choose in AME “Scale to Fill” I do not get the slim black bars but the image is cropped top and bottom.
I do’t know if Compressor is imperceptibly altering the image but seems true to source.

Maybe I am missing something, source is 1080 interlaced NTSC.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Hagop

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

thanks

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

Eric, I am not sure if I understand correctly, do you advise against switching .m2ts files?

I know exactly the two files at this point, the numbers do not change much, and am further able to identify by viewing and size. So they are exact matches.

Can I switch?

Thank you,

Hagop

[Hagop Goudsouzian]

if it plays back differntly on a sony than a pansonic, I can only do so much trimming of the loop in encore before the audio starts cutting. earlier the two sony blu-ray players were not giving the same results, i trimmed two frames and the particular menu is fine in both (ps3 and another current). software playback is not reliable for me at all. so Stan, i will now try to find a panasonic player to test.

thanks