[Robertp]

When I shoot in 60i sometimes it will play back in a Sony deck, and sometimes not. It seems that the XL A1 has a touchy tape transport and sometimes records correctly and sometimes not. It can almost always be played back on the camcorder, but once the XL A1 wouldn’t even play the tape it had itself recorded!! I’m using high end Sony HDV Master tapes. I guess it needs to go in for service.

Anyone else finding this?

Robert

[Robertp]

I’m pretty sure that resume is a function of the DVD player, and cannot be programmed into the DVD. To do that you would need a way to write data to the DVD, and that’s not possible with DVD-R (nor is it in the DVD spec).

[Robertp]

I’ve learned from a guy who is Actually doing it that he can do it with Serious Magic DV Rack HD, which you can find at discount for about $500. You can’t use PPro capture window, you use a separate program. Since Adobe just bought Serious Magic, and I hear that they will incorporate their products into Premiere, they “might” add DVCPRO50 capability to PPro in the next release.

Check out my posts on the Adobe Forum:

https://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc2472f/1

So it’s $500 now for something we might get later as part of an update … and it’s a separate capture program.

Let me know if you find out anything else.

Thanks.

[Robertp]

Thanks, the answer was so obvious that I missed it!

[Robertp]

Thank You!!

[Robertp]

You can open a new (blank) project at your desired settings. Then import your old project into it. The framing will change a bit though.

[Robertp]

If you absolutely want NO loss in quality (and don’t mind the large file size) you can use the Quicktime Animation codec … it is a lossless compression scheme and works quite well.

[Robertp]

I think what is missing from this equation is that the aspect ratio is something that the Player (whichever that is) uses to determine the aspect ratio of the pixels. I don’t think Quicktime recognises the aspect ratio data. In PPro when you import video you can change what aspect ratio is used by changing the “interpret footage” setting … this doesn’t change the size, just how it’s displayed. Windows Media Player uses the aspect ratio data, the Quicktime Player ignores it.

[Robertp]

When it’s on the timeline you are then looking at the sequence monitor, so you want to be sure that the quality setting is set appropriately, such as “Highest” to look the best. The quality can be set differently for the sequence and clip monitors.

[Robertp]

I’m about to upgrade to PPro 2.0 as well and would love to get the answer to your questions. If you try uninstalling, please post the results.

Thanks
Robert