[Steve Slocomb]

thanks…it is amazing how many little irritating things are encountered working on computers.

…Off to a very nice documentatry film festival for a couple of days: https://highplainsfilms.org/festival/home.html

[Steve Slocomb]

Wow, that is a drag…I wonder if all the other LANC devices, like remote focus and zoom controls, are also that way.

[Steve Slocomb]

I have one of these: https://www.spcomms.com/ltcexport/

There seems to be a new model

[Steve Slocomb]

I just noticed that the “capture duration” readout in the Capture window starts to slow down as it hits around 8 seconds…just where the breakup starts to occurr. When I stop the capture the Cineform codec is 80% of the way done with transcoding…maybe it is trying to start the transcoding process at 8 seconds and that is what is causing the computer to bog down.

[Steve Slocomb]

thanks, I was sort of thinking that. BTW the read speed on my hard drive is 38MB/S.

I hope to buy a dual core Operton in the next couple of months…pending my getting a contract that will be bid out nationally. That will become my HDV machine.In the meantime I just need a few nature scenics off the HDV tapes.

[Steve Slocomb]

Image Lounge plugin package does this easily in After Effects. The plug in is called “Real Shadows”. I use it all the time. Render time is not a problem. The problem is that the maker (Puffin) sold it to Pinnacle, who buried it. I don’t know if anyone else bought it. Scott Squires (ILM) was the creator and he has a blog…maybe knows where it can be found. BTW, the coincidence is we worked together on Star Trek in 1978.

[Steve Slocomb]

I found that the install allows one to install just the programs one wants and not the whole package. I just can’t afford to put the new Premiere on the computer and “rock the boat” with so many large edit projects on it. Also I held off on After Effects right now because I may lose some of my plug-ins (like Puffin Image Lounge?)

[Steve Slocomb]

did the same backup here (both in Ghost and Acronis)!! I have some major editing projects on my sytem.

[Steve Slocomb]

So a complete (upgrade) installation will leave all the prior versions of the programs intact, and not overwrite them?

[Steve Slocomb]

The project is made up of 210 scanned Kodachrome slides.They are 3000 pixels wide. Each image has zooms and pans on it. Many also have lower thirds captions.

I originally started the project as HiDef in After Effects, but was such slow going I moved to Premiere. I want to eventually author it into a Blue Ray disc.