Stephen Mann
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I can’t imagine what it would give you except a more buggy program?
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If it’s a SATA-1 (First Generation) drive, make certain the cable is plugged in tight. There’s nothing but a little friction to hold them attached, and if the connection is intermittent, then you’ll get a really slow drive.
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Ask the replicator. Many are accepting DVD-9 projects on multiple 4.7Gb DVD-R discs. Others will take your files on a hard disk since you can buy 60Gb or smaller hard disks for less than $1/gb, it would be a lot cheaper than DLT.
Since NEW DLT drives go for several hundred dollars, one must ask, why are “barely used” drives selling on E-bay for $20 to $50? That’s too big a gap for normal depreciation to account for.
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If you dragged the velocity envelope with the mouse, it could be at 0.0001. Right click the handle (that little box on the envelope) and enter zero for the velocity.
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…, what is the appropriate term for this text,…
Babble.
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Here’s another idea. I haven’t tried it, but it might work.
Make your first project in DVDA3.
For subsequent projects, in DVDA3 – open the DAR file from the first project, and select the media that’s changing from the prior project and select “Replace”. Give DVDA the path to the new project media.
When you go to prepare the DVD, the new “Smart Prepare” feature will think that this is an old project with new media and it will zoom through the unchanged media in seconds.
Steve Mann
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The only difference from the Sony Premium and the Sony Excellence tapes are the profit made by Sony and the tape reseller.
I have used over three-hundred tapes in the past four years, and I buy the cheapest Sony tapes that I can find. I buy them 25 at a time and never paid more than $3 each for them.
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I just “jumbled” my events with Multicam. But it was my error, I had two “2S” markers. (Three camera tracks, and sync markers “1S”, “2S”, and another “2S”).
Easily fixed.
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The AGP slot will be the first slot closest to the CPU. If you have AGP, it has a different, smaller connector than the rest of the PCI slots.
AGP doesn’t offer any advantage with Vegas, but I would go with the AGP card because it doesn’t compete with PCI resources (mostly interrupts).
If your motherboard has the video built-in (I.E., the monitor connector is soldered to the motherboard), then you will need to disable it in the BIOS after installing the dual-head card. Not a big deal.
Or, you could run three monitors…..
Steve Mann
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“Is a normal TV set limited in it ability to revolve a color gradient? Or is it something I did wrong?”
No, what you are seeing are digital artifacts (your TV is analog), compounded by compression. Gradients are very difficult to do in digital – it’s the nature of the beast. As the color or intensity changes, the digital value “snaps” to the next level – like a staircase. Worse, when compressed, the software looks at nearby colors and levels and groups them into a bigger “step” as the same color and level. On your PC you were looking at the AVI which is compressed at 5:1, and your PC screen could resolve 4-million colors. When it compresses to MPEG, the color gamut is reduced, so everything that is almost the same color is changed to be the same color. Thus, color gradients become stairsteps. Similarly, everything close to the same intensity becomes one intensity, so level gradients become stepped as well. When you are dealing with both, then it will really look bad when compressed.
If you look at titles and menus in Hollywood DVD’s (they are MPEG also), I don’t think that you will find any gradient effects. If you do find one, I would like to see it.
Steve Mann