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Steve Hull
September 29, 2009 at 9:10 am in reply to: altering exposure during digitisation

Many thanks for the advice, guys.
Steve Hull
January 4, 2007 at 8:56 pm in reply to: multiplexing MPEG-2s with BitVice Helper

I did at one point and oddly it also gave me problems. After that I think I just stuck to QT without thinking about it.

As it stands, I still have a problem: although I can make the muxed file and QuickTime plays it perfectly, I still can’t get WMP to recognise it… which is par for the course with WMP in my experience. Any thoughts?
Steve Hull
January 4, 2007 at 4:28 pm in reply to: mux problem with BitVice Helper

Problem solved. Seems to have been interference between two compressors. Exporting uncompressed has cleared it up.
Steve Hull
January 4, 2007 at 4:27 pm in reply to: multiplexing MPEG-2s with BitVice Helper

Thanks, Kieran. I’ve not noticed the white frame, though it may be there. I’m also not aware of adding any compression markers. However I’ve found a fix (just — test confirmed it about 10 minutes ago). I’d been generically exporting the program as QT, i.e. with a bit of compression. Evidently the M100 compression and BitVice interfered in some way. I changed settings so that M100 exports uncompressed QT and everything seems to work.
Steve Hull
August 1, 2006 at 1:57 pm in reply to: interlacing headache

Thanks very much for your (as ever) quick and comprehensive reply. Don’t you ever sleep?

A question. You said that footage should be interpreted in AE as top field first. Yet in the de-interlacing tutorial (De-Interlacing the Cow), Barend states that DV footage is lower field dominant. Which of you is correct?

Another headache which you may or may not have insight into. I’ve tried rendering a test in AE with field rendering off as you’ve suggested and when I try to encode it in BitVice, as soon as I’ve specified the source file (i.e. even before I hit the Encode button), BitVice crahses. I’ve never had problems with BitVice before. Does this ring any bells? Thanks once again.

steve
Steve Hull
July 31, 2006 at 4:11 pm in reply to: UK freelancer using Media100i 7.5 / OS9???

Sorry for the delayed response — I haven’t looked at messages for a while. I use M100/xr version 7.5.1 on a G4 running OS 9.2.2 (I also have OS X and version 8, but since my After Effects is only OS 9, it doesn’t normally get used). I’d be pleased to hear what sort of stuff you’re doing.
Steve Hull
February 22, 2006 at 10:47 pm in reply to: Radeon 7500 graphics card and Media 100i

Thanks for the quick response, Floh! I should have mentioned that I was able to boot with the Media 100 extensions switched off an the Media 100 board still in the computer, so it definitely seems to be connected with Media 100.
Steve Hull
December 22, 2005 at 6:37 pm in reply to: controlling DVW-A500P

It’s rather puzzling: The DWW-A500P doesn’t have anything that’s marked as being RS-422, but it does have a 25-pin connector which is explicitly marked RS-232C. There are 4 other D-type connectors, marked “Control Panel,” “Remote In,” “Remote Out” and “Video Control.” None of these are described in the manual as having anything to do with RS-422, but I wonder if the Remote In might possibly, given that it’s a 9-pin. Any ideas?
Steve Hull
December 22, 2005 at 3:54 pm in reply to: controlling DVW-A500P

Thanks very much to both of you for your help! I have one additional question regarding cabling. I have a 9-pin cable running from the Keyspan which I can, I understand, attach an RS-422 to RS-232 adaptor to. I also gather that you can now get USB to RS-232 cables. Wouldn’t that be a better option, doing away with the Keyspan unit entirely? Thanks for the help.