[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Ronaldo–

I just went through exactly what you’re going through. QTPro worked for awhile, and then starting a couple months ago I’d get lots of flickering and weird artifacts at transitions. I spent three days poking around the web looking for free/cheapy converters, but nothing I could find worked worth a damn.

I finally ran out of time and sanity and caved and bought Sorenson Squeeze 7. It works great, but it’s hard to figure out and costs your first born child.

[Kelly Griffin]

My only experience with DSLRs has been that they’re way more trouble than they’re worth. Recording separate audio can be enough of a pain in the butt all by itself by the time you get to edit (it’s real easy to get out of synch between the camera files and the audio files), and yes, when the camera gets up to temp it starts aborting on the recordings, which is also loads of fun.

[Kelly Griffin]

Thanks, John. No, it’s probably fine, just another instance where I have to change my thinking from what I’ve been used to for so long…

–Old Dog, New Tricks

[Kelly Griffin]

A man after my own heart. I’m still using Photoshop 6 (I’ve been boycotting “upgrades”).

[Kelly Griffin]

Thanks Mike!

I’m betting my version of Photoshop won’t like it, though…!

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Mike: Well, I thought about that, but depending on what the graphics fall on top of makes the determination of how dark to make my shadows. I was hoping to keep things flexible in that regard.

I’m going to try to get used to John’s suggestion, but I’m nervous about how easy it seems like it would be to screw something up with keyframes all over the place with just positioning static elements.

[Kelly Griffin]

Yikes… okay, I’ll try to wrap my head around that.

Thanks.

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Frank–

Just in the past few months I’ve jumped from delivering spots on tape (BetaSP) to electronic delivery. There’s about eight to ten stations to which I normally have to deliver, each with their own specs for digital filetypes. I asked them to humor me in an experiment to find one filetype that works for everybody, and the winner was MOV with H264. You might want to try the same; it’s worked like a charm so far, and I’ve been making it successfully with either QuicktimePRO ($30) and Sorenson Squeeze (way overpri$ed).

[Kelly Griffin]

Never mind! Where would we be without Google…

[Kelly Griffin]

Dale– I’m not sure what to “conclude” about this, because I haven’t had a lot of consistent time on Vegas lately to know for sure. But, the last few times I’ve worked on stuff I don’t recall having any of the phantom audio anomalies I was having before I disabled the USB3 port.