[Kent Smith]

But AspectHd can (.mxf files), but it won’t read any sample footage I’ve tried. I don’t know why. I even tried renaming the extension, and it still didn’t like it.

Budget is a big issue…even another grand to buy Canopus Edius isn’t worth it, if I can shoot on the Sony Z1 and doesn’t cost anymore. I need to turn a profit when I shoot.

Hell, I think HD is over-rated, over-advertised and under-viewed right now. Percentage of 1080 tv’s out there is ultra low, most are 720. And what’s up with this EDTV….(wide screen 480…)? I can shoot very good EDTV, wide screen with, the DVX100 right now, and it looks great.

And I own a 1080 tube 37″ tv, and prefer to watch in HD, but I also have a hard time getting good programing. But that’s another matter….

It’s just that PPro. advertises that I can cut projects in DVCPRO HD, and I’m trying to figure out if that’s true or not. Seems not. The alternative is to go with another camera, not another edit system.

If I can shoot with the HVX200 without jacking the price up, I will. If not, I won’t. It’s that simple.

Thanks for the info and sample footage, tough. I’m not done yet trying….

Kent

[Kent Smith]

Downloaded the file, but PPro 2.0 doesn’t see it, and quicktime says it doesn’t have the compressor, and the P2 viewer wants a reader in an USB port, and the drivers wants a camera hooked up…. So I don’t know what’s up… Appears to be a quicktime files, not a P2 or .mxf file.

Kent

[Kent Smith]

Thanks,

I’ll try the sample footage out….

Kent

[Kent Smith]

That’s be great. I’m in Santa Monica. Let me know if I can drop over…

drop and email at dogofthemoon@hotmail.com

Kent

[Kent Smith]

You can’t review HDV on firewire, so that option is normal. If your monitor is not set to the DV deck, but the card, make sure the DV option in the playback menu is NOT clicked. Also, make sure your card is set to overlay. Also, you have to be on a video line from the card to the monitor, and the HDTV line (component) unpluged. At least that’s how mine works. Having them both plugged in and toggling between the two, creates a video drop on the tv, and I don’t get true color in composite. As for setting the card to overlay, I don’t now how the ATI works. or a more slimple option is to play DV hardware when you’re in DV mode and run it through a deck or a camera to the monitor. Sorry I can’t help with the card.

[Kent Smith]

I don’t know how you’ve set up your system, but going from HDV to DV on mine, I have to re-set the graphics card. Also, your DV project may still be set to playback on firewire hardware, and your card is set to your graphics card overlay. So it’d appear as if you have no monitor, but you have to re-set proeject settings not to playback on firewire hardware. Or if you’re playing back on DV hardware, make sure your monitor is set to your DV hardware, not the graphics card. Sounds confusing, I know, but unless I know what graphica card, how it’s wired to the monitor, and what your project settings are, it’s impossible to say why you’re losing your 2nd monitor. But look into the playback option. That’d be my guess.

[Kent Smith]

Within reason. I just imported a 15 GB avi file (uncompressed DV), and Encore had problems playing it. It probably would have transcoded it out fine, but ti’s scramble after playing for a few seconds, but I imported it into Prem. Pro., and re-exported it at around 2 GB, and brought back into Encore the smaller file. It handled that much better. Quality was still very good.

[Kent Smith]

It took a while, but I finally figured it out. The mpeg files turned out to be fine. But for some reason, every so often, one of the wav files was funny. So what I did was re build the DVD adding one item at a time, and burning to an image. When I’d add a video and/or audio clip, and get the end of file error, it always turned out to be a wav file. The workaround was simple. I imported the audio into Prem. Pro., and then exported it back out, and re-imported the new file back into encore. And so far, three wav files, which caused the end of file error (no matter what size the DVD was) ended up working fine.

[Kent Smith]

I finally called tech support, and was on for a while. They said a few things can cause the problem. Audio in a menu, something in a menu. I tested both those, but that wasn’t causing the problem. So he said he thought that the Mpeg files themselves were triggering the editing message, and stopping the burning. So he suggested re-exporting the source from P.Pro. Problem is, these files are from another editing software, so I think the mpeg codex is not compatible, although it plays fine until the burn process. So I’m re-exporting everything to another format (most likely DVCAM TAPE), and moving over to P.Pro. But I’ll let you know if that helped this situation.
I’d suggest doing a test burn to an Image file on a hard drive. Save project under another name, as a test. Eliminate one item at a time, such as audio in a menu, then one menu at a time until you have nothing left. Then just burn (skip warning messages)the video files by themselves. If you keep getting the end of file error, then it’s the video. If at any point, the project burns, then the last item elimated is the source of the error message, and needs something fixed in it.

Good luck.

[Kent Smith]

I haven’t upgraded to 2.0, but I’m thinking of trying that. But you’re using 2.0 now,right?