[Sassafras]

that was basically the work flow i was using. I found compressor to have very poor results. not to mention an extremely long time to convert. I would suggest the approach on Shane’s link, along with a simple QT conversion “movie to quicktime movie” ( i used H.264) but maintain the current fps. I am able to work on a 15fps timeline. And overall I’ll be saving a lot of time. (aside from the 4 hours today of trying sort it all out).

sassafras

[Sassafras]

it plays in quicktime and in the viewer. Really in the end it’s an .avi file. From QT i’m going to export movie to QT movie H.264 at 15fps and then edit in the sequence with the multiclip sequence trick. (thank you so much for that by the way). I’m losing a little in the conversion (less contrast), but i’m sure i’ll end up tricking it all out in the end anyway, at least i don’t hav to go from 15 to 30, and back to 15!

thanks,

sassafras

[Sassafras]

Thanks Shane. that was exactly what i was looking for. unfortunately I am getting an error when i click on the sequence. “codec not found. you may be using a compression type without corresponding hardware card.” follow by an “out of memory” error. When i “apple”+0 the sequence it tells me “Video compressor DV/NTSC was not found. Please check that the hardware is present and enabled for this compressor. Setting the video compressor to 3ivx D4 4.5.1”

Opening the sequence setting i see that the quicktime video settings are now set to compressor: 3ivx D4 4.5.1

The quicktie info on the movie file is:

Apple OpenDML JPEG, 640 x 480, Millions
8-bit Unsigned Integer, Mono, 11.024 kHz

Any ideas? I need to search a little on OpenDML Jpeg i think.

thanks,
sassafras

[Sassafras]

Okay good. Yes. It was a professional facility. I just got a little nervous and feared a great headache somewhere down the road. A little preventative medicine. Thanks for the information.

sassafras

[Sassafras]

Yes. I was afraid I made that too confusing. In the end what I would like to do is create a multiclip of 4 different captured tapes ( 1 hour tapes running at 25% because I need to view them at that speed to make selects). And i would like to view them all at once as a multiclip. Instead of 1 at a time. The multiclip would be 4 hours, and when I create the clip it is only 1 hour. Even though the individual clips at 25% are 4. This isn’t an issue with sync or anything real-time. It’s more about view four images at once instead of only one and creating a file of that length.

sassafras