[Milton Hockman]

i just checked my SONIC dvd authoring program and i can select PAL as my source encode.

Do you know if i need to be playing the tape off of a PAL deck? or can i use NTSC deck and encode it with a PAL setting?

also you are saying I need a PAL playback deck and monitor as well?

[Milton Hockman]

my company can buy a transcoder for PAL. is that all we need? what is the process involved to get it to work?

[Milton Hockman]

thanks. i changed it to standard quality and now it only takes 11 minutes.

[Milton Hockman]

there is no HQ setting on the effect. I am on MComposer not xpro

[Milton Hockman]

im running windows xp. im an on a network for my job so i am not sure if i can create a new account or not.

[Milton Hockman]

i dropped 5.7 and went back to 5.6.

read my post below about corrupt user settings. no matter what they keep getting corrupt and i couldn’t import a movie with an alpha channel.

[Milton Hockman]

grinner,
not sure if you saw the movie, The Secret, but i think they use the exact trick. I stepped through it frame by frame and it seems to be the same.

[Milton Hockman]

thanks for the tip grinner!

i used this effect to blow up a MS to a CU. It looks a little pixelated at 150 percent, but it is passable.

i used a zoom blur to make it look good and also a levels adjustment on the layer above. Looks sweet especially with a swoosh sound effect!

[Milton Hockman]

thanks for helping me out grinner.

i am not at my computer to try you effect but am in understanding correctly…the first and last keyframes are set to what?? i would imagine they would be set to 0 percent so the effect ramps up and then down. is that the case or no?

[Milton Hockman]

the clip had banding during the transition but i think i made it out.

so basically you are using the wide shot and resizing up to the max percent to match your medium shot of the woman. then you are cutting to the medium shot of the woman? and at the same time using a little blur to make the resize not look pixelated?