[Jeff Nelson]

It’s hard to say without knowing what the range is. I agree it could be good to have a board which discusses dollies, cranes, steadicams and various camera mounts. There are posts about this from time to time on various boards, someone recommending the CobraCrane (which I own) or some VariZoom product, but it’s the kind of topic which could have it’s own board, if enough people wanted to participate and Ron felt it merited it.

I just wonder what dolly is used by a small crew working in the Canadian Rockies where you’re carrying a lot up the side of a mountain to set up and get shots.

[Jeff Nelson]

Thanks, Bill, for all that, including the tip on Dolby digital.

Here’s another question — can you mix formats on a DVD? Can I encode half my show in mpeg2 and then one other portion in mpeg1?

Looking at ebay, I’m seeing this:

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39978&item=5202631979&rd=1

Look like a decent one? This connects via a scsi card in the back of my PC, right? And then my DVD program can see it in the same way it would see my DVD burner, and I have it write it to the DLT rather than the DVD burner?

Thanks for your help.

[Jeff Nelson]

Thanks, Steven. When I clicked on that on the far left and made it dark, suddenly it works like a charm. Appreciate it.

[Jeff Nelson]

Not sure what you mean. I just put the edit line right between the two shots, on Video 1, and sometimes even hold down the shift key so that the little arrow shows I’m lined up right at the cut line, and then Control D, and nothing happens. It was working fine for a while there. Can’t figure it. THanks.

[Jeff Nelson]

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[Jeff Nelson]

Is there a way to synch up picture and track when you’ve unlinked them? I unlinked a clip and moved it some w/out moving the audio, and now I’m having a dickens of a time synching them back up. Before in 6.5 there was a little visual on both audio and video that you could align and be back in perfect synch, even when you had unlinked the two. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Jeff Nelson]

Using DVStorm2 card from Canopus. Interesting. Thanks for the info.

[Jeff Nelson]

I went and put a brightness effect on the title — and it got rock solid clear again! That is, I didn’t adjust the filter at all, just kept it at 100% brightness, but it fixed the problem! What the — ?

I realize that if I put *any* effect onto the title, and don’t even adjust the effect to have any effect, it goes back to how I was seeing it in the preview monitor, crisp. That is really strange. Well at least it’s a workaround to solve the problem. Shouldn’t have to lay an effect on a title just to get it to show up on the timeline like it does on the title editor.

But thanks for the link and the suggestion to mess with that. Appreciate it.

[Jeff Nelson]

Thanks. Exporting to a new avi looks the same way, everything looks good except the title fonts which look like crap. Hm…what the heck could this be?

Anyhow, I shouldn’t have to export it to a new avi, once I’ve rendered it I should see the final thing in my broadcast monitor. Like I said, when I’m working in the title composer, it’s rock sharp and looks perfect — I like that new feature of being able to preview the title while you’re making it in your monitor. But once I drag the thing into the timeline, it’s pixelated and crap, no matter what font or size, background, dropshadow, stroke or whatever. Looks great on the monitor while creating it, save, drag into timeline — crap.

[Jeff Nelson]

I opened premiere 6.5 and did some tests with the same fonts, titles over an announcer. Crisp, clear images, sharp titles. But in Premiere Pro, it’s a non-starter. The quality is such that I would have to do my show, export it as an avi and then open it in 6.5 to do the all the titles. Man, that sucks for a program advertising itself as providing “broadcast titles…”