[John The video man]

Well, now that I got off my butt and looked, I have the LiteOn LVC-9006. And, no. I have not actually tried to transfer via Firewire. Sorry. I just haven’t tried it.

The one I just bought at COSTCO is a mouthful. It’s a LVQ-5115GHC+.

I like the user interface of my LVC-9006 and didn’t know that I could fiddle with what the opening DVD screen said over and above the burn date and time. Thanks for that tip.

John the Video Man

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[John The video man]

Hello!

I’m Bogiesan’s friend.

Yes, I now have 2 LiteOns. The last one came from COSTCO for $120. I got the first one because it would record MPEG1 in real time. They call it VCD. It’s the only deck that I know that will do this. Real time MPEG1.

I have used both + and – R disks. I feel most confident with -Rs. I’m not so sure that the +Rs are widely accepted in other decks. I can’t imagine why not, but strange things happen.

One think I wish they’d change is what the screen, says when a user play a disk. I’d like to put in something special of my own. Maybe even actually use a keyboard connected to the deck. Now it gives you only the exact date and time of the recording which could be confusing to a customer.

Thumbs up for LiteOn.

John the Video Man

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[John The video man]

Hello Mo!

I feel your pain. In fact, I have felt it for the last year or so.

But, then I came across a work around.
1) Disconnect your ethernet and maybe your firewwire cables from your workstation.
2) Reboot.
3) Try your Compressor again.

It’s my understanding that Compressor gets confused with the network connections.

Now for my good news.

A few weeks ago, I discovered that my Compressor no longer needs the work around. Hummm? The only thing that I can think that has changed is that during a routine Apple software update via the web, Apple snuck in and fixed this problem for my Panther OS.

For me Compressor is now rock solid for me. In fact, I now export a QuickTime file first, drag this QuickTime file into Compressor, get it going and shove it to the background and go on working with something else. I keep editing on FCP.

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[John The video man]

Thank you very much. The Cow is Great.

Last weekend I did an extensive test by process of elimination and found that my XL-1 would accept a firewire input signal, but defectively. The picture as seen in the viewfinder would come across for maybe 3 seconds and then go to blue screen for a couple of seconds and then back to the picture. It would continue to oscillate like this and never settle down to a continuous picture.

Under no circumstance would the XL-1 firewire port output a signal.

So, I conclude that my XL-1 needs service. My buddy Bogie says that service for the XL-1 might be prohibitively expensive. He also suggests that my 1998 XL-1 may have ancient firewire drivers and that just some driver updates may fix the problem.

What do you all think?

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