[Norm Peterson]

i see, it is all stills so thanks for the tip Gunleik.

[Norm Peterson]

i see, guess i might just have to buy dvd studio pro then.

thanks.

Norm.

[Norm Peterson]

ah i see, excellent, now we’re cooking.

A quick question about the problems you previously mentioned with iDVD and widescreen: Would it be possible, when the film is edited, to export it as a self-contained movie, save on cd and then take to a machine with something like DVD studio pro? does it work like that?

i ask because last year i tried something similar and when i took what i thought was my self-contained movie to another machine it wouldn’t load up as it said all the media was offline.

Cheers.

[Norm Peterson]

Hello there.

launching the application loads up with a copy of the project i made a few minutes ago by double-clicking on one of the Autosave files (the very last Autosave file would not open so i deleted it). Loading the original version of the project from within FCE HD still gives me the “unable to open project files” message.

so now i basically have the original version of the project which will not open and a copy thats ok. I’ve trashed the preferences also.

so does that mean i’m okay to just go ahead using the copy? can i delete the original project file?

In regards to the still image cache, a novice question here, is this cache directly related to the amount of images in the project? i.e. set at 20% the cache says around 40MB, so does this mean at that setting i can only have 40MB worth of stills in the project?

Best Wishes

Norm

[Norm Peterson]

hello Gunleik, thanks for the post.

i had a look and there isn’t an animation codec or DVCPRO-HD in Express, so i guess it has to be the 1080i50.

although i seem to have a new problem, dont know if you know why this is happening. Basically i started a new project with the 1080i50 codec in both the easy setup and sequence setting, i did a little bit of editing and then saved the prjoect.

However today FCE HD wont load that project back up, it first says “unable to locate external device: Built in Audio” and then was FCE HD has actually loaded up it says “unable to open project file”
Any ideas whats going on?

thanks

Best Wishes

Norm.

[Norm Peterson]

Hello Tom, thank you very much for the reply.

Yeah i made my stills the size they are so that i could retain some high quality images for printed material etc… despite there being no HD DVD.

so both the easy setup and sequence setting need to be 1080i50?
Is there anyway around the widescreen problem in idvd?

Again thanks for your time and help.

best wishes,
norm.