Kevin Hamm
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Another issue that you might have is one that I ran into recently – disk speed, space, and location. I, too, have a Sony deck at work, and I personally have Canon cams and we sometimes get stuff from people who use Panasonics – and given that DV is a standard, it should all just work
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I agree with Jeremy that it might be a loose connection, but before doing all that, check your cables and just power down everything, including your monitor, speakers, et al, and then restart a minute or two later.
What may be the problem is a filter is putting a superwhite area large enough to cause the card to spit, or to cause the monitor to freak. You might just skip to that area and check your scopes.
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you can also duplicate your sequences and then combine them into a multiclip, which will let you see them as a 2 up in the viewer and whichever you deem better by choosing it, by itself in the canvas.
Or you can export quicktime reference movies to your desktop (uncheck the “Make Movies Self-Contained” and then just open them both with the Quicktime player, choose “Play all movies” from the File menu and you can see them both side-by-side that way, too.
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Try Aja, their stuff is damn good, and not very pricey at all. May I ask, tho, why are you needing a converter? Is this a one off project or will this be an ongoing need?
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What codec did you use to capture them?
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Once you’ve got the solution working for you, be sure to let us all know what and how it did – you never know when your solution will be a life saver for someone else.
Good luck!
kev~!
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you’d have to define your chart area, pick a frame to choose as the start point, click on the bar and set it’s height (or width) to 0, and add a keyframe to that property, and then move the playhead in the timeline to where you want the full-growth of the bar to stop and change the height (or width) to be whatever value would line up with your chart area mark for 35.
I don’t know of any way to generate this via a data table. If anyone else does, please let us both know.
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Ok, a couple of quick questions for you to help find an answer:
1) you say “standard DVD” which is 720×480. So if you’re motion project is set to that, you aren’t losing anything there. Are you sure you’re having an issue with your resolutions?
2) you say it’s in 16×9 – that means you’re losing some of that 480 height, and are probably cutting out 20% or so, so you’re really at about 384 pixels in height. If you are higher than that, you aren’t putting out a standard DVD.
3) you’re using the standard compressor setting for a 90 minute movie – how long is your movie?
4) compressor settings are great suggestions, but have you tried setting the compression yourself? You can adjust quite a bit, but do avoid going too high with the peak settings as that can cause a regular DVD player to crap out on ya.
My only other suggestion is that you might want to just try the background default rendering in DVD studio pro – sometimes it works quite well, but it’s, again, not perfect.
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check to make sure that you don’t have some effects with keyframes attached to the “group 2” that you moved. If you do, you need to move those effects as well, and they don’t always stick with the group, they sometimes go with the project and stay right where they are – don’t ask me why, i run into this rarely but it has happened to me.
You might also try duplicating the group and putting it on another layer, then moving it while you’ve got the inspector panel open so you can see if the in and out points change for you.
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That’s a good question, and right now, the answer is “maybe”. I’ve got a fully up-to-date 10.5.1 OS with FCStudio on it, FCP is 6.0.2, and at work we have a 10.4.11 with FCStudio updated on it to FCP 6.0.2 – and the 10.4.11 machine’s version of Final Cut says that it “cannot read or the file is from a newer version of Final Cut Pro”.
So, if you’re going to do major editing, you might want to do your Motion stuff in leopard, and then reboot into Tiger and import them into your timeline then. Shouldn’t be a problem. You might test, this, tho, by simply rebooting to leopard, building a quick Motion project, and then go back to Tiger to import and render/export as you’re going to do with your final.
I will add, however, that my leopard machine is both faster and more stable than 10.4.11 has left the work machine, and they are basically identical G5s. You might just take the plunge if you have the time to do so.