[Lee Mceachern]

There are small apps that let you stitch wmvs together without any re-rendering. I haven’t done it, myself, so I can’t give you a direct referral but I have seen it done. (Perhaps Windows Media File Editor — directly from Microsoft — does this?)

[Lee Mceachern]

Be that as it may, bogiesan — and I always appreciate your take on these things — I am doing video for a client here and if they want to do “Inside Out” then that is my current favorite topic. If, instead, they chose “Upside Down,” then that would be my current favorite topic.

The VP of Marketing doesn’t look to me for instructions on how to do her job; she looks to me for some expertise in video that can help her to explain her own thinking. Right or wrong though it may be.

If lives were at stake, I’d have a different approach. But in this case it’s only dollars. (Someone else’s.)

Cheers,

Lee

[Lee Mceachern]

Expert/export/expat/exfoliate….One of those must be right.

I left the “Inside Out” definition rather vague because I didn’t want to limit anyone’s thinking. But, in general, this refers to an element of corporate culture whereby people in the company are encouraged to focus their thinking on the “outside” — on customer needs, essentially — and then bring that knowledge back “inside” their own company to develop products. The idea is to be customer-responsive and avoid the all-too-prevalent approach “let’s build this really cool software and then go outside and see who we can sell it to.”

Thanks for asking. Glad I got a chance to see your post before I walked out the door for the weekend. HTH. And thanks in advance to anyone who has some thoughts about this. (Again…I’ll be back online and able to respond on Monday.)

Lee

[Lee Mceachern]

I’ve been away and just got back to the forum. Thanks for being the test pilot on this! I’ll give it a try.

Lee

[Lee Mceachern]

Thanks Floh. I’ll leave you alone now…..I have plenty to do!

Cheers,

Lee

[Lee Mceachern]

Thanks, Floh. I think you’re right. I was hoping to avoid such measures but, oh well…

First I’m going to isolate my arrays to see if one of them might be generating the problem.

Say..if that’s the case, do you know if fibre channel drives or arrayed firewire drives are a good/less expensive option these days? (I haven’t bought a new array in a long time.)

Lee

[Lee Mceachern]

Thanks Floh. But, sorry to say, this problem seems to be deeper than the M100 prefs. (It would have been nice to fix it that way!) Other strange things are happening with my normally highly reliable G4 Dual 800: I’m getting kernel panics. I often (but not always) get a startup message that says the computer’s date and time are off by 20 years, even though the battery is quite new. And, strangely, the computer is not receiving the signal from the Internet via Ethernet cable. That has never happened before and a test shows that the cable is delivering a signal. Seems like a near meltdown and I just have to start trying things. Trashing a few other prefs and deleting recently created files so far hasn’t helped.

Any suggestions definitely are invited.

Great! Rright in the middle of one project and just as I’m starting a new one.

Lee

[Lee Mceachern]

I forgot to mention in post above: There seems to be an indication that Media 100 is not to blame for this problem but that the Finder is actually what is crashing…and then causing Media 100 to go down. I’m not certain of that, of course; so does that make sense? Does that get any closer to a solution?

[Lee Mceachern]

Thanks for the advice, Bobby. I’m sure your suggetion would work. In the meantime I found that there can be a big difference between anamorphic 16×9 files. By finally determining the properties of the material I was working with, I was able to use my normal workflow and achieve success. But if I hadn’t, your note would have been invaluable. Thanks.

Lee

[Lee Mceachern]

Thanks very much Sam. I’ll give this a try.

Cheers,

Lee