[Mark]

I have both Sony and Pioneer burners at home. In my home system I use a Sony burner, and it has proven to be problematic. In my home production machine I have 4 Pioneer drives and have had virtually no problems whatsoever.

Some things I always do when burning…. Turn off any Virus Scanners. Virus Scanners can cause spikes in the ram and can affect the burned disk. I also make sure that no other application is open when burning. Again, even when an applicaiton is in the background, it is a running process and can cause issues. Am I being too cautious, maybe, but there again I have had great results with this practice.

Taiyo are supposed to be great disks. I have read very good reports about them. I personally like TDK. I use the printable TDK -R disks. I also use TDK miniDV tape for shooting. I just like TDK stuff. I have not had issues with their media.

Good luck to you,

Mark

[Mark]

Not to be rude, but when you created the camera, did you check the box for depth of field ???? You can check this by clicking on the camera layer, then going to the layer menu and clicking on camera settings.

Regards

Mark

[Mark]

I have gotten so used to working without OPENGL that it doesn’t bother me….at work I have a Matrox Millenium G450 card….not exactly the best card to try and get OPENGL power from. It is not an apporved card, but works well with my Liquid Blue editing station.

At home, I am running with an ATI X1800XL. It is a powerhouse for my Avid Liquid editing station, not so good for OpenGl.

Glad to hear it worked.

Mark

[Mark]

If you take the clip into Audition, you should be able to see the echo clearly in the waveform…..remove it between words by either just cutting, or try using the noise removal tool…..

Mark

[Mark]

I like to be heavily involoved in the editing process. I will argue my points (of course politely) to help get my point across. If I do not have a valid point, then yes I have to bow to the powers that be. If I have made my case and the directory/agency still goes in their original direction, well at least I can take solace in the fact that I probably made them think about.

I am not now, nor do I ever hope to be a mere button pusher.

Mark

[Mark]

It could be something to do with OpenGL settings…In the preferences of Red, turn off OPENGL. (This can be done either in the filter or the Engine, it will turn it off for both). My card doesn’t play nicely with OpenGL, although yours should.
Now, let me know if that helps. Next question, are you on the latest NVidia drivers, if not I would suggest loading them.

Let me know if this helps

Mark

[Mark]

Also add a quick shake to the final image (I’m thinking wiggler), it will help sell the effect of speed.

Mark

[Mark]

We will do this as a 20 second loop, scale this method for other lengths.

Create a 20 second 1 frame comp.

Place your video on layer 1. Nudge the video so that you have some loose frames at the head (also make sure that you have loose frames at the end) Now at the 20 second mark set the out for that layer (alt- close square bracket) Also set the in for that layer at the :0 mark (alt-open square bracket)

Now duplicate that layer. Take th head of the layer and nidge the layer so that the start of that layer is now at 20:01. Now take the in-handle and drag to the left (revealing more in frames) Drag the in-handle to let’s say the 15 second mark. Now set an opacity keyframe (0 transparency) and then go to around 18 seconds and set 100 transparency, this will create a dissolve (note, make sure that this is the uppermost layer).

Now change the duration of the comp toy 20:00 and render out. This new movie will loop as many as times as needed. You shouldn’t see the dissolve too much as clouds do change over time.

Good luck,

Mark

[Mark]

I find that I have a better success rate with -R than with +R. I also burn my media at a slow rate. I do not go above 4X. My home DVD player (Pionner) will not play anything that has been burned over 4X….well, it will play, but not properly.

I also use good media. I prefer TDK disks. I have burned around 450 of these disks with 2 coasters…a pretty good record I would say.

Mark

[Mark]

What you get is a very intuitive program. One that offers the ease and freedom of both pre-made menus and easy fabrication of your own menus.

Encore also offers a much better encoder than LE. Encore will also take your fused AVI movies directly into Encore, no need to convert to MPG2 before hand.

Encore will let you set cahpter markers without menu items. It will also let you set a play all without having 2 copies burned to disk. It will also let you have a chapters menu with return to the menu after each chapter, but a play to the next, depending on where the clip was selected (chapter list vs play all).

It is basically a very user friendly application. Creating a looping DVD is soooo easy, just set the end action to return to the start. In Liquid this can be done, but it is a workaround.

Encore will also create projects in 4:3 and 16:9 with no problems (at least none that I have encountered) It also supports multiple burners, although I usually create a disk image and burn through Nero.

These are just a few highlights, but they are some of the reasons that this has become my application of choice for all of my DVD authoring needs.

That said, Liquid does a decent job for very simple stuff.

Mark Harvey