[Paul Dickin]

Hi
That seems to be the way QuickTime Player works – its for playing movies on a computer desktop and has always only understood square pixels.

Once you have finished editing in a non-square-pixel savvy application like FCP/AE etc and exported a final version then you can use QT Player Pro to resize the play window to give the correct aspect ratio, and Save the movie so it remains this way. To do the resizing, open the Get Movie Properties window, select Video track on the left, and Size on the right, which will show the pixel size of the QT movie.
Then hold down the Shift key, and resize the player window until it is altered to 640×480 (or whatever you need to give it the correct the aspect ratio).
Then Save the movie to make it stick this way when opened in all QT-playing applications.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Checkout the Mpeg Streamclip page where there is a reference to how to capture/transcode MicroMV:
https://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Typing your error code into google produces:
https://www.pinoymac.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=503
“when useing the jaguar hardware test cd, make sure you unplug ALL external devices FIRST!! it gave me a ” ERROR CODE: 2MEM/1/4: DIMM1/J22 ” error.
i started to panic!! i thought i killed one of my 512Meg DIMMs. the usb MIDI interface was the culprit”

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
No compression. There is an overide button to switch it off if its lit up.
If your writing software asks for the tape to be inserted then that may be a better way to do it, letting the contrtolling software take full control.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Here’s one link
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=857809

The thread in the Apple discussions is no longer easily found, but should be there on
https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@596.0AlEawvlRDG.0@.ee6bcd7
somewhere:

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Whilst FCP 3 puts out Sony-compatible timecode down the FireWire, apparantly, according to older threads here, this was disabled in FCP4+ so as to make the FireWire data stream more compatible with Panasonic record decks. Sony and Panasonic do things differently. Something like that.

There is a workround to get specific timecode laid down on a record tape in a DSR-11, if that is what you are trying to do. Its been mentioned here several times.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
There’s a free utility from Quantum that tests/diagnoses DLT4000 or more recent drives (under Windows 98SE or later):
https://www.quantum.com/Products/TapeDrives/DLT/SDLT600/DLTsage/Index.aspx

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
An Apple utility called Plug-in Helper used to do this in the days of QT5.
I don’t know if its still functional in recent versions of QT:
https://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/pluginhelper.html

Also Kiosk mode can be embedded in the actual movie itself using the Export: Movie to QuickTime Media Link mode, and this can also be used to place an unplayable dummy movie in your HTML code, which when clicked on starts the proper movie playing. This means your movie file server location is invisible to a web browser, so your movie can’t be downloaded except to play in Kiosk mode within your web page.

All the necessary tutorial information about QT Media Link mode is up there on Apple’s QT pages.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Note that the Center-ing right-click keyframe is on the Canvas, not the Viewer Motion tab…

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
I prefer to use the basic DV capture utility in Sorensen Squeeze 3 in this sort of capture problem instance. It has no setting controls whatsoever, and seems to ignore a lot of problems that more sophisticated programs don’t – and it captures FCP-compatible QuickTime clips.