[Joseph Puma]

Hello, I have the same problem where Playback Settings is greyed out and i’m using Cs6.

I am trying to fix the issue where the video on my second monitor which is a TV hooked up via hdmi and when I play a video the aspect ratio is messed up. I used to be able to go into Playback Settings and switch the option for aspect ratio from hardware to software (going off memory)

but now I cant see playback settings. I use Cineform and create projects using their presets and that changes the playback settings to the cineform dialog box for opengl and such, but I want the adobe dialog so I create a new sequence using a DSLR preset and thats when the playback settings dialog box is greyed out.

[Joseph Puma]

Okay, so no love for the MX02?

btw, will the AJA ioHD work on a PC? I have a quad core with Adobe CS3 where I do my inhouse editing on. That is where I need TV monitoring.

The Macbook is for field recording and editing as well, but I havent gotten into the habbit of using the MBP as my main editing machine. Its just backup for AE and Cinema 4D.

[Joseph Puma]

Hello All,

I have a few questions. I am looking to capture HD on my macbook pro, but without firewire. I am doing that already just fine. What I am trying to do is bypass the HDV on my canon XH-A1 and go straight from the component out of the camera to a capture device for a cleaner no artifact capture then what you get from the firewire connector or tape. The AJA looks like the right animal but I am wondering if there are other cheap alternatives.

I also want to monitor HD output when I am editing, in real time on a tv screen. I have a small Sony NTSC TV with component.

Thanks for your help!

Joe Puma

[Joseph Puma]

That makes perfect sense. I did my best to line up the talent in the shot by adjusting angles, distance etc. I actually never thought about making sure the 3D camera in Cinema 4D had the same focal legnth. Thought I used a default setting which may very well be 50mm but I am not sure of the focal legnth I had the camera set to. btw, I have a Canon XH-A1….and I am new to this, so your wisdome is greatly appreciated.

[Joseph Puma]

Interesting no one responded to this. I happen to do this which I learned from another Director. Also, Bill Oneil has a 3D tutorial on here and he used the same technique.

I’d like to hear others input on this. Like for instance….does turning the camera 90 degrees alters the perspective distance (bad explaination) of the talent vs shooting normal. Confusing?? yea, lol…let me explain.

I did a green screen video. https://www.vimeo.com/2102336

And I noticed that when I put the talent in a 3d enviorment there feet didnt have the correct angle I needed for the shot. I had the camera centered to them mid body, I might of had it higher which could of been the reason, or maybe I was too close to the talent. but try to picture viewing someone at a distance and picture there feet. not try that in a camera lens flipped 90 degrees with them filling the shot. You seem to lose the perspective look of the feet and they seem to look like the ankle is extended.

[Joseph Puma]

Hello All,

I actually fixed my problem yesterday with the suggestion of changing the rendering optimization to Memory. For me I guess I was really experiencing a memory issue when rendering. I am not sure if this will present a problem with larger HD projects, my project was only 2:40 in legnth. Or maybe the memory optimization setting will help keep the memory managed better for any size project. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

I noticed that when the optimization was set to Performance, I would get the error around 500-300mb of available available. With Premiere CS3 running and the project loaded I start with about 2gb available before it starts rendering.

With the optimization set to Memory, my available memory dosent drop below 1gb during the whole exporting to Quitcktime process.

A few other notes. With the rendering optimization set to Performance I was able to export my projects as Adobe Flash Video, as well as Uncompressed AVI video. To me the problem only existed when exporting to Quicktime.

All the clips in the timeline are Quicktime as well, either renders from Cinema 4D or AE.

[Joseph Puma]

I have just incountered this error. Was up most opf the night trying to fix it. I found that it seems to have something to do with memory. if I have other apps open it happens sooner the later in my 3 minute project. If I export with media encoder to Flash video it works fine, no errors. Its only when exporting to Quicktime. I will check the verison I am using of quicktime, since I am not sure which version I have but this bug just cropped up. Before I get this error “”Application failed to return a video frame. Canceling the operation” I see 4 error messages, which suggests some source code error. I dont have the exact message handy but when I googled it I did find much but did find that it was related to quicktime.

Nathen, did you ever resolve youre problem?

Thanks,
Joe Puma

[Joseph Puma]

Last night I discovered the same problem. I did have a slight work around. BTW, we are outputting to a small NTSC Sony TV. What we did was put the camera in DV mode and not HDV. Then we setup video output to the Apple NTSC Firewire profile. We saw video output on the TV screen but it locked on the first fame is displayed. Not the right way to do it, I know. But we were able to get a preview of the output even thought it was one frame and that was good enough for us at the moment. I also think theres a box called AKA Io that will do it the right way, not sure how much it costs.

Hope this helps.