[Lawrence Vaughan]

OK, ill check it out when I get home from work. thanks

[Lawrence Vaughan]

I’ve fixed it!
I used the four point garbage matte on the clip, moved the points around and it vanishes!

It was in V2, I’m not sure if this would make a difference, but it’s a wierd problem I have never encountered before.

Thanks for your help Mike.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

The box outputs from the timeline to the Monitor I’m using, even after rendering. So I’m guessing it’s not a bounding box.
I have tried scaling the footage, then putting the blue key on (as the box is the size of the preview window) but it didn’t work.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Hi again.

Many thanks for the help. The 16point garbage matt seems to be fine, is there a way to add more points for finer detail, or a different effect which achives the same results, but with more control?

[Lawrence Vaughan]

I will try it after work and get back to you.
thanks

[Lawrence Vaughan]

I did miss them. Apologies. Thanks for your help.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

I was hoping for some feedback from people that may have used the camera and have an un-biased, independent opinion.
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[Lawrence Vaughan]

LOL!
OK, i see your point.
Is there a noticeable difference in quality, which has the best lens?
I don’t want pointless features, I need a solid – well made peice of kit suitable for making music videos and indie films / docs.

Having used the PD150 and XL1, I prefer the XL1 in terms of picture quality, but the PD150 is more user friendly and more solidly built.

Is this the same for the HD versions? I also hear that the lens for the Sony is not interchangeable. Is this true?

So far it sounds like I am swaying toward the Canon camp, I just wondered what everyone else thinks.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

many thanks for your help mike. I’ll look into it.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Many thanks Mike. That sounds fine. But if I export as an avi then the file size will be large, does Flash refer to the original video file when loading in a webpage?
I know i’m kinda in the wrong forum for this reply, but when i upload my site to the web do I include the original video file as well as my flash video? If so i’m going to run out of webspace pretty quickly.

I did a quick test and my avi file (320 X 240) 1 min long was in the region of about 60meg ! Are there any other settings i need to be aware of?

Also – And I apologise for dragging this thread out even longer, but I have some video files encoded as “.m2p” , how can i import them into premiere and convert them as standard avi files? They won’t import.

Alternatively, is there any third party software that will convert? I have tried several free and shareware ones, but they don’t seem to work thzt well.

Many thanks