[Tkg Media lab]

I have to say that our experience isn’t too far off with yours. We’ve had our Bravo II for about a year + now. At times, it has been great to have! However, the ink has definitely gone to more reddish than black. We’ve also sent it back twice because it seems to “lose it’s place”. Without going into too much detail, it seems that the sensors that determine where on the encoder track it is get mucked up. I can’t imagine it has anything to do with all the ink that gets splattered on the inside from when the cartridge slams against the side.

Despite sending it back a few times, updating firmware, etc. they can’t seem to get it to work right. At this point, whenever we have to print a disc we have to do some voodoo and shake a rubber chicken over it to get it to go. At least it is consistent now, but it is still a pain.

I have an epson too, for backup, but it’s almost more hassle despite being SOOO much cheaper. It’s slower, it is more complicated to setup and calibrate, and you can’t do large quantities. I’d rather have something that just works.

[Tkg Media lab]

Thank you, that makes so much more sense and my world is no longer shaken up.

Why does quicktime display it that way? Is it trying to help in a consumer kind of way? I’ve also had the problem where I’ve exported video and in Quicktime it shows a huge color shift. However, you open the same file in After Effects or another program like Keynote (where it was destined to play back) and it looked like the original file in final cut, without shift. Very frustrating.

So, when testing files that you’ve made, is there anything key that you include in your process (besides checking the file in a program other than quicktime?)

Thanks again

Renata

[Tkg Media lab]

So are you telling me that it actually is 720×480? I’ve tried looking at it in FCP, and it tells me that the file is also 720×404. Quicktime tells me 720×404. I just want to get the most pixels possible- 640×480 has more pixels than 720×404. thanks
renata

[Tkg Media lab]

Hi;
I’m trying to do the same thing- make an mpeg2 movie that will be played back from a ddr onsite. I’ve used Compressor2 to encode my video. I have anamorphic footage currently in dv codec.

I modified one of the “best quality 60min dvd” settings. I tried to output using 16:9 as the setting, but it smooshes it to 720×405, not the 720×480 I’d expect. So then when I try to keep it at 4:3, it keeps outputting it at 640×480. I’m trying to keep the highest resolution possible… what am I missing?

renata