[Mark Gillespie]

Thanks…the spots developed while I was in the field shooting, and I couldn’t get the camera cleaned until I got back home. Trying to salvage the video and make it as clean as possible. It wasn’t actually a dust spot…the technicians advised me that Canon DSLR’s have a nasty little habit of throwing minute drops of lubricant off the shutter mechanism over time, and this is the second time I’ve had a dark spot in the same place that needed to be cleaned.

I’ll try these ideas on a clip…was able to clean them up frame by frame in the final output over the weekend with no loss of quality.

Thanks!

Mark

[Mark Gillespie]

Just build your DVD with the .avi files and let Encore DVD do the encoding for you…

HTH…

Mark

[Mark Gillespie]

Geez…I hope that’s not the case. It would make importing a bunch of clips at the same time impossible!

Thanks for the suggestions, guys…I’ll give them a try!

Mark

[Mark Gillespie]

OK…thanks!

[Mark Gillespie]

Chip:

Send me the details…I’ll be glad to help since it’s for a final exam and not for commercial work. I’ve posted my e-mail address to you through your web site…

Mark

[Mark Gillespie]

Thanks for the quick response…I had no other applications running, and even went into Task Manager to close anything in the background that I could live without…also re-booted. I’m figuring out a workaround with a shorter version that rendered before the crash…

Mark