[Mike Smith]

Maybe you could try calling in on your (ex-?) clients and trying to make up. I’d guess they weren’t thrilled to find their projects on your website, without their permission, and perhaps not crediting them? You would probably feel the same way yourself if the situation were reversed.

So you could try an “aplogy and of course I’ve removed”, then ask them if there was a way they’d be happy – like for example you make clear the client was x, producer was your client, you did just whatever you did – free extra publicity for them.

If they say no, you’ll just have to rely on describing your experience on the web, and perhaps using the sample files one-to-one in client meetings, but never publishing them … Or, better, creating yourself a cracking little 2 minute demo which shows off your very best ideas and work (free of client considerations) – an investment, for sure, but probably a good one if you have people who might want your services and want to see samples.

[Mike Smith]

Isn’t frame size on NTSC DV codec 720 x 480 ..?

[Mike Smith]

What happens for you if you temporarily lock all tracks except those you want to extract from, try your extract, then unlock again?

[Mike Smith]

And while you’re thinking about the essential moving images and audio, maybe you should be asking yourself just why your target audience might find the site great – and how to put those aspects {benefits of using the site} across.

[Mike Smith]

Sounds like a bad place to be – but no doubt you have a good programme coming there, and it will come through eventually!!! (My middle name is Polyanna ..)

Have you tried making the timeline window active, then from the edit menu select “select all”, then copy.

Then create a new sequence, and from the edit menu select “paste”.

It will work fine on shorter sequences, but on a long complex timeline it’s going to be RAM hungry.

Otherwise you could set the timeline to show the entire project, and use the pointer to “lasso” / click and drag sections of the timeline to copy and paste …

[Mike Smith]

Hmm. Here, I can click and drag with the pen tool, and only audio key frames are then selected (and deleted), though I have to do this one track (not clip) at a time.

If you were to create a new sequence, and the copy and paste into it the entire timeline (perhaps in smaller sections to ease memory load) of the sequence causing trouble, would that work?

[Mike Smith]

Of course, you’ve tried a reboot ..?

[Mike Smith]

Does seem troublingly illogical …. not an issue I’ve hit yet. If nobody can think of a setting that could be doing this, maybe Steven is right with the suggestion of project damage?

If you create a new test sequence in the project in question, does that allow you to write track levels successfully ?

On your other query of how to select all track keyframes and delete them – can you not click and drag with the pen tool to enclose your target frames, and then hit delete ?

As a workaround, in case there’s some hidden setting or project damage affecting the tracks you’re working on, could you reroute the tracks you want to remix to a new submix track, and try adjusting the levels in that track?

[Mike Smith]

Just a thought – are your tracks set to show track keyframes, of clip keyframes?

[Mike Smith]

If your drives are fast enough, a Decklink card might give you component out to feed the beta deck decent signal at a sufficiently low $$$. Don’t know how that would intersect with HDV though ..

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