[Joy E reed]

Mystery solved!

Went back to the camera op, who fortunately had not formatted the P2 card yet. Turns out the problem was a bad Duel P2 laptop adapter, which had been slightly damaged. The problem was repeatable when using the first adapter, but when he used a second, undamaged adapter the files copied with no corruption. Dodged a bullet there!

Thanks, Shane, for putting your time & energy into this. I really appreciate it.

Now back to logging….
🙂

Peace & respect,

Joy E. Reed
http://www.ohmyproductions.net

[Joy E reed]

Thanks, Shane!

Your answer confirms what I already suspected, but it’s good to know there’s software available to help–I thought we might be S.O.L.

I look forward to hearing Jeremy G’s thoughts as well.

Much appreciated!

Peace & respect,

Joy E. Reed
http://www.ohmyproductions.net

[Joy E reed]

Hey, Shane,

Good info! Many thanks. 🙂

Peace & respect,

Joy E. Reed
http://www.ohmyproductions.net

[Joy E reed]

Yep, that’s what I’m saying.

Here’s what I decided to try: For the title cards I just made the whole thing in Photoshop and skipped FCP’s title mechanism altogether. For the bits over video, I duplicatedthe sequence, fixed the titles & locked all the tracks before exporting with Compressor. That seemed to do the trick. It didn’t fix the original problem, at least it was a viable workaround.

Peace & respect,

Joy E. Reed
http://www.ohmyproductions.net

[Joy E reed]

Hi, Dave,

Thanks for chiming in.

The photoshop file was set up with the proper pixel aspect ratio — and none of the text was generated in photoshop, just the background image. The proper look is thin.

Many thanks!

Peace & respect,

Joy E. Reed
http://www.ohmyproductions.net

[Joy E reed]

Hey, FY everybody’s I,
After several failed attempts, we bit the bullet, bought BitVice, set DVNC to 3, and the problem was solved almost immediately.
Thanks to all who replied for your help!