[Les Kaye]

[JeremyG] “Double check in your browser that the alpha is turned on (scroll to the right until you find the alpha column)”

Thanks I’ll do that Monday. If this is the case, then I’m curious though why it won’t work from the browser, but will from the viewer.

Has ANYONE else seen this problem?

[Les Kaye]

Thanks guys, I will check back on Monday after I reboot. But again CM, I doubt it’s a LiveType issue as the file(s) DID appear with alpha channel in the FCP timeline, but only if dragged or edited from the Source Viewer. Dragging from the bin resulted in a loss of the alpha channel.

[Les Kaye]

[Tom Wolsky] “Cmd and the keypad number toggles the video tracks on and off.”

Not if you’re in multi-cam… Then it’s remap time.

[Les Kaye]

“v”

[Les Kaye]

This happena (at least to me) when choosing to scale a clip AFTER a transition has been added. I don’t have problems when adding a transition after a motion effect.

[Les Kaye]

[Mark Raudonis] “This topic has sparked quite a debate over on the Avid-L2 over the past few months. It will be interesting to see how it’s going to affect the industry.”

So will next season bring “The Real World, New Delhi”?

[Les Kaye]

[Ben Holmes] “Why bother to develop an OS X version if it’s a small part of your market, or even if it’s half your market?”

First, you tend to forget that while Apple may be a small part of the OVERALL PC market, it’s HUGE in the content creation market. Even if it’s ONLY 50%, that ain’t insignificant.

Second, as many on the other NLE sites can attest, it’s NOT just the Win XP/2000 OS. Most of the high end (or higher end) PC NLEs such as Avid & Matrox Axio have quite specific hardware requirements, and will not run on any generic box (although some do work well, many also don’t). Just being able to run XP on a Mac doesn’t mean that it’s now fully capable of supporting Avid.

Finally, the 800 lb gorilla of Windows Vista is looming in the not so distant future with very little mention of how successfully it has been installed on the Intel Mac platform, let alone on how it even works. The last I read was that someone was “somewhat” successful in installing it, although not without issues. Again, and that’s just the installation. Which leads to (and take this from someone who’s platform agnostic):

I’m constantly amused by those PC adherents who refuse to consider a Mac because they already have a “substantial” investment in PC hardware. They’ll be in for some nasty surprises when they find out they’ll be forced to upgrade when Vista’s release. If I’m not mistaken (and I’d like to be corrected if I’m wrong), it’s only the most current PC hardware (like the duo cores) that will fully support and Vista, and work properly.

[Les Kaye]

[Matte] “Sure. Touch the cursor to a BLANK area above the video tracks.

The highlighted clip will be released.”

or Shift+Cmd+A

[Les Kaye]

Bob you can also disable the volume “beeps” if that’s what’s bothering you.

[Les Kaye]

Thanks David.