Rob Mack
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Vegas is designed to assume that all still image files have a pixel aspect ratio of 1:1. You don’t really have to do anything to your images.
However, for the image to fill the NTSC frame it should be 654.5 x 480. Or, if you like whole numbers, make it 720×528. Vegas is quite happy with that dimension.
While Vegas is very forgiving, it’s worth spending the time getting your head around the topic.
Rob Mack
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Sorry, I wasn’t too clear. You can’t use the 100 without AC power. The problem I had was that it would still take in the bus power from the 6-pin cable. The 100 did’t have adequate protection or isolation from the unusable bus power and occasionally you’d burn up the unit.
Later on Canopus started putting warning labels onto the unit saying that it should be turned on and connected before the computer is started and then never disconnected until the computer is turned off. My opinion is that the problem stemmed from the bus power, which is eliminated with a 4-pin connection to the computer.
What you are describing with your 110 could be consistent with poorly regulated bus power coming from your PC, I suppose. I’m suggesting ditching the 6-pin cable, using a 6-4 pin cable, and using an AC adapter with your 110. Assuming you have an AC adapter for it, this would be an easy thing to try and certainly wouldn’t hurt.
Rob
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I don’t have the ADVC 110 but I do have the 100 and I never run it with the six pin cable coming from the computer. This is my third unit because the first two eventually smoked. It was bus power that did it, even though the 100 wasn’t supposed to use it.
I know the 110 is designed to run off bus power but I suppose you might consider running it off the AC adapter and using a 4 pin input to isolate it from bus power. This is a really wild guess but maybe the unit is overheating and cutting power for a second?
Rob Mack
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By the time you’re done you’re going to have some great skills!
I lit a similar place in San francisco many years ago. It was for a job and we had the cooperation of the aquarium so what I did was get in their raft and refocus their exhibit lights over the tank.
Lights outside the glass can make really dissorient the tank dwellers so they weren’t allowed. In fact, I’ve heard stories of a large tank dweller killing itself against the glass over at the Steinhart aquarium in Golden Gate park.
When it rains it pours. I also got to do a bunch of lighting at the Monterey Bay Aquarium about the same time. Good times.
Rob Mack
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At first I thought that these were black frames. Wow those are dark. I’d be weighing the time spent correcting Vs the time spent reshooting.
Others will have better ideas, I’m sure. Normally, I’d use levels because they’re a little simpler. I suppose another possibility to add to the mix is to create a loose mask to suppress the levels adjustment on areas that are “not shark”. That might kill some of your blooming.
I don’t envy you.
Rob Mack
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Peter, if you have a transcript then please read through the DVDa documentation. You can skip the whole process of regions in Vegas.
If you want, I can send you samples of what I used when I did this and walk through the process as much as I can remember.
rmack350 at sbcglobal dot net
Rob Mack
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And just keep in mind that the division that makes the XDCam and the division that produces Vegas are very, very separate. It’s not actually a given that Vegas would be first out the gate with support.
Rob Mack
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First off, not everything in the world goes to DVD so the question of why they’d let you do it if it looks bad on a dvd is kind of pointless.
So you’re saying the text looks jaggy in DVDA, on your computer screen (in addition to looking bad on a TV)?
How are you going about playing things on a TV? Are you burning a DVD and then playing it on a DVD player? or are you looking at output from DVDa output to a TV over firewire?
Rob Mack
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Forget about rendering to DV25. The lossless choice would be good.
Fiddler’s strategy is to just give DVDa source files and let it do the rendering. If you do that, start with good source renders. DV25 isn’t one of them because it tears up text.
You’re going to have to experiment a little and build up your own expertise.
Rob Mack
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I don’t have an NTSC monitor attached to my computer right now but I suppose if I did, and I was outputing the picture over firewire, I’d see jaggies. That would be because of DV25 compression.
The mpeg is another matter. I rendered this with the DVDArchitect template and it looks pretty good. Again, if you are prviewing it out of your computer over firewire then it has to convert it to DV25 and you’ll see jaggies.
Rob Mack