[Lee Burrows]

Guys,

That is great information and I appreciate it. Tell me what you think of this thought.

DV is 25 to 1 compression while Photo-Jpeg is 2 to 1. Having said that then I assume that DV 50 is 12.5 to 1? If this is indeed true then isn’t Photo-Jpeg a better choice due to less compression?

Thanks

Lee

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[Lee Burrows]

Did you upgrade to QT7…If so then that could be your problem. There seems to be a lot of bugs out there with that upgrade.

Good Luck

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[Lee Burrows]

“Alternatively, Is there a way to dramatically shrink a QT movie in FC Pro. (From 2.4 GB to under 800 MB?) without converting to MPEG-2? I know that sounds ridiculous so there probably isn’t a way.”

Shrink the QT video size and this will make your size more managable. I don’t know if it will get you under 800MBs though. Toast can burn to DVDs if your friend wants to get an external burner and that might be cheaper than what Jerry is talking about.

Good Luck

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[Lee Burrows]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!!

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[Lee Burrows]

Thanks for the advice Thax:) I’ll let you know what happens.

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[Lee Burrows]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I will give these a try and write down the error message if I can’t solve the problem. Thanks Again!

Lee

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[Lee Burrows]

Thax,

Thanks for the quick response. I’m not sure that I followed 2 of your 3 questions. We laying off to analog Beta tapes and from there we notice the sync issue when playing back interviews. I have also run several tests involving bars and tone and a film clicker(directors take card/board). These tests confirm that the A/V is 2 frames off.

We output from FCP to the Blackmagic cable. Audio then goes from the BM cable to another XLR cable to the Mixer then from the mixer out to beta deck. On note – We had to attach gender switching connectors to the XLR ends of the BlackMagic because they were not configured right.

The video goes from the BM cable to an NTSC monitor where it is looped through the monitor and to the beta deck.

I hope that answers your questions

Thanks Again

Lee

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