Jeff Pulera
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Hi Kevin,
Another option is BlackMagic Intensity or Matrox MXO2 Mini hardware, providing a true video output signal to HDMI (or analog) displays.
I’ve tried the second PC monitor route running off the display card, and while not terrible viewing 1080i AVCHD on a 24″ LCD via DVI, was still a little choppy/rough around the edges in general, while MXO2 provided a perfect output all the time. I believe the issue is because computers don’t do interlaced display.
Jeff Pulera
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Thanks for the link Cody. I see on their site that the service is called “Treasured”, so I’m surprised it didn’t come up on my web search
Jeff Pulera
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As it was explained last night, the data recovery software programs won’t work because if the camera loses power while recording, the files are never closed, therefore are not recoverable by normal means, since the file header is not there. A company was mentioned but I didn’t catch the name but they charge $79.95 PER FILE without sound, $99.95 with sound. They will go through the card and provide you with a thumbnail of each scene so you can decide if worth it or not.
I can try and find out the name of the company, thought it was “treasure” something but did a web search and came up empty
Jeff
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I attended a panel discussion on video for DSLR last night and that very subject came up. One of the panelists has had ongoing issues with 7D and Sandisk cards and Canon service repeatedly has said the camera is fine. Another panelist suggested it was the Sandisk media with that particular camera (7D) as he has had no issues with Lexar cards.
Jeff Pulera
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Max Quality doesn’t always help really, it is more useful when scaling the video. If staying at the same size, try without and I bet you will be happy with the result…and the huge time savings.
Jeff Pulera
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Going from memory here – in Export Settings, look under the VIDEO tab, if not there then somewhere in Export Settings, look for “Deinterlace” and uncheck box. Just thought of another thing – you may see option to export as Interlaced (Upper or Lower Field) or Progressive.
Maybe there is no Deinterlace button in CS3. In that case, look for Fields – should have option of Upper, Lower, or Progressive. Any time you export for the web, you will want Progressive (non-interlaced), since computer displays are all progressive.
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Hi Jimmy,
I see now that you are referring to the stair-stepping issues (jaggies). When you export, is “De-interlace” checked in the settings? This might cause the issue you’re seeing, especially if the video was non-interlaced to begin with. Uncheck that if so.
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Hi Jimmy,
It is easier to help you if you tell us what the issue is 😉
I’ll assume that maybe you want a 16:9 widescreen aspect, in which case you should export at 640×360 and not 640×480.
Hope that helps
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Markus,
Seems the cutting is resolved, but at the beginning you mentioned that you “consecutively” drag video clips to the timeline. Do you mean one at a time? Just wanted to make cure you are aware that you can multi-select a group of clips and move them all the timeline at once, or also use “automate to timeline”.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Wes,
Hopefully you have some knowledge with Windows settings – go into Control Panel and find the 1394 controller and try switching it to the “Legacy Driver”, that helps a lot of users. Try a web search for “1394 legacy driver for windows 7” if you need more explicit instructions
Jeff Pulera
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