[Jerry Norman]

Well, if you don’t need the arrow head just use Media Generator to create a solid color rectangle and give it the dimensions of your line (e.g., 400 x 5). Then use pan crop to animate the two positions.

[Jerry Norman]

Normalizing may or may not be what you want. Normalize simply raises the volume of the track until the loudest part is zero db. A better approach might be to:
1. Create a bus
2. Assign all audio tracks that you want “normalized” to that bus
3. Add the Wave Hammer fx to the new bus
4. Apply the Wave Hammer adjusting as necessary to get the desired “normalization”.

[Jerry Norman]

jr, I thought supersampling applied ONLY to generated media?

[Jerry Norman]

John, your experience is similar to one I am having, and I’m thinking I may have fried a firewire port. I attached my ADVC-300 analog-digital converter device into the same computer I have used it with for the past 4 years, and the computer failed to recognize the device. I then connected my video camera to the same computer and it was instantly recognized.

I contacted Canopus tech support and they sent me some tests to run to determine if the ADVC-300 was damaged. The test results indicate it is in fact damaged.

I was not aware of the grounding issue with firewire until reading here, but I see now that in Canopus’ instructions they tell you to turn off the camera, ADVC-300, AND the computer before making the firewire connections. They don’t explicitly mention grounding issue, but it seems logical that is why they recommend powering everything down.

If you decide to hook up your camera to your computer, you might want to follow Canopus’ advice and turn off the computer and camera before connecting.

[Jerry Norman]

Edward, do you use a port replicator or docking station with your Sager? I looked on powernotebooks but didn’t find one.

[Jerry Norman]

Steve, I got the same results as Edward… unless I didn’t have any media on the track(s) below the png track. Then I do get the black square.

As an experiment, try inserting white generated media in the track below your png and see if the black box goes away – it does for me.

I do not know of a way to maintain the transparency using a transition. However, a possible workaround is to use track motion to fly in your png. Then, transparency is maintained.

[Jerry Norman]

T, here is what I do:

Track 1 (this will be your graduated filter):
– using insert generated media, create a black to white gradient image
– set composite mode set to Multiply (Mask)
– add a Sony Mask Generator Effect

Track 2:
– insert your footage
– make this a child of track 1

Track 3:
– using insert generated media, create a blue image for your new sky color.
– keep this as a parent track

Now, track 1 is your “graduated filter”. You can adjust the gradient to your liking. The blue (track 3) will show wherever the track 1 mask is black, and your clip (track 2) will show wherever the track 1 mask is white.

Jerry