[Sebastian Riezler]

i learned just a day ago that some encoders crop 2 or 3 lines (depends on the encoding program) from each the top and the bottom of your images. so if this happens u will end up with your desired format.

riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

you’ll have to unselect the tracks you dont want to be corrected.
if you want to correct a clip on V2 just select this track. everything else will stay uncorrected.

riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

first i want to thank you for all the answers, there where some really good tips with them!

@maverick: sorry for not first searching the post within the forum, but i was really pissed by that problem, because i tried to get the show on a dvd for a week now (i dont have a dead line :-)).

@epontius: i never heard of this cropping-phenomenon. so from now on i will have an eye on this!

@dave schweitzer: my specs: im from germany, so working in PAL. software: win xp pro, avid xpress pro 4.5, dvdit 6 (tryout) i will buy it when i’m a master in encoding and authoring (so this will give me some time to earn money for the program). my computer is a pentium4 1,8Ghz with 1GB Ram and a (local) 250GB HDD where the OMF files are located.

@bouke and the others: i found the problem which took it so long to export the QT Ref file. Please dont hurt me, ok? ALL the music tracks i used where at 44.1 kHz. My project is at 48kHz. I just imported them with the wrong sample rate. Never happend to me before, that`s why i dind’t check it.

again thank you very much.
riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

im using these settings:

Quicktime Reference

Use Marks
Use Enabled Tracks

Digital Mastering
Flatten Video Tracks
Fill Spaces with Black
Render All Video Effects
WidthxHeigth: 720×576 (601-non square)

Mixdown Tracks
AIFF-C
44.1kHz
16 Bit

But now i have a new problem…argh. is there a way to change field order while exporting as quicktime reference?
i burnt a dvd and i have obvious field order problems. whenever there are pans or zooms my images jitter like hell.

now i know why there are experts out there for dvd authoring….

riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

in fact i do have a lot of cc and fx on my clips (to be honest the complete show is modified with an aged film effect).
but it is only the audio export which takes very long.
i get two files, one mov-file which looks to me being an link cause it is never lager than 1MB.
it’s the audio file which gets up to 700MB. a little large for just being an link…

riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

just can second alex’ post. its the easiest way to do it.
open media tool open; sort by project (crtl+e) and consolidate the project-related files to desired drive which you then connect to another system. that’s it for the media files. project data must be copied seperately. but this is just a little folder.

rock on
Riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

i think it means, that avid wants to capture with 16bit, but you camera plays just 12bit audio. try to change the settings of your camcorder

riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

this is weird. first i found out, that if i remove the camery from the firewire card everything works fine within the avid software.
after that i changed the firewire cable and now i can use both devices (harddrive and camcorder) at the same time.

only thing is, that my camcorder (panasonic nv-gs 11) is still not detected by the avid software (xpress pro 4.5)
when i deinstalled the xpress pro version and installed the xpress dv Free, i could control the camera by remote, but when i tried to capture video and audio, it stopped after 4 seconds with an error “lost signal”.

can anybody help me out?

Riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

your answers are one more proof why the creativecow forums are the best!
ok so from now on we will clean our machine’s heads every day or at least once a week.
thanks guys!!
greetz Riot

[Sebastian Riezler]

thanks for your answers guys.
the reasons for channel condition red you mentioned are the same that came to my mind when i thought about this ‘black hawk down’ as we call it for fun. i just thought, there is a more technical explanation for the hole thing, because, to be honest, i have to explain these problems to some people wich have no expereince in technical things and i just want to blow them away with technical terms 🙂

so i will have to clean the heads more often from now on. but, debe, don’t you think it’s a bit often to clean the heads every day?

anyway
thanks
Riot