[Quentin]

Thanks for the reply SyndneyS.

Here’s my followup question. I know that when I use the camera to record in 16:9 mode, the footage played (on a 16:9 HDTV) looks as though it was recorded with few pixels, or at least wider pixels (which makes sense). If I do record in 4:3 how should I treat the footage in the NLE? I’m guessing that I’d be clipping off the top and bottom and then stretching (or fitting) the footage into a 720×480 clip with a widescreen aspect ratio. Is the scaling of the footage in the NLE going to be a higher quality that originally recording with a width-compressed version of widescreen?

Thanks again!

Addendum: …. It is highly likely that I have failed utterly in trying to express my question. If this is the case, feel free to point and laugh and I’ll just figure it out through my own experimentation.

[Quentin]

Yes, AE7’s palettes and frames can be moved outside of the application window. Set sails for dual monitor freedom.

[Quentin]

That’s what surprised me so much about the Men In Black feature. It was one of the subtitle tracks (you could arbitrarily turn it on or off while the movie was playing) and it was fluidly animated.

[Quentin]

The first export I did wasn’t progressive, and that was the one that had the field order problem on the HDTV. The second was rendered progressive Adobe Media Encoder, which appeared to work on my progressive TV, of course.

The biggest problem with all of this is that the only DVD player in my house that will play burned DVDs is attached to my HDTV, so I don’t have a standard tv to monitor this on. Ugh.

(It’s frustrating that the only way to test to see if the video is correct is to burn (waste) a DVD, then move to another location to play the disc… so you can see why I’m anxious to find out what’s wrong with a minimum amount of testing :-D)

So, you’re saying to render without a progressive setting? If I’m going to do that, should I reverse the fields on the individual clips?

[Quentin]

I’m not using any output hardware other than the desktop. I tried changing every one of the playback options just to be sure, but no change – the waveform is not read and the audio is not played in the project window.

This problem only seems to affect the videos that I’ve captured – other videos (either downloaded or part of training packages) play their audio fine in both the clip and project windows.