[Victoria Murphy]

Hi David.

I’m running OS X 4.11. I forget which jungle animal gave rise to that upgrade. Upon closer reading of the Disc Utility instruction, it says that if I want to repair my startup disk I have to start up from the Install disc. But that’s not what I am doing, I am simply repairing disc permissions, right? As soon as you confirm I will go ahead and do that.

[Victoria Murphy]

I don’t own Disc Warrior. I trashed my FC preferences. Re the disc utility: FC is of course in my applications folder on my main hard drive; should I select the hard drive and click on “Repair Disk Permissions”? (Is the main hard drive the “startup disk?” If so, the Disc Utility says to start up from my OS X install disc, then run Disc Utilities. Do I need to do this?)
Thanks.

[Victoria Murphy]

This helps Andy. Thanks very much.
Victoria

[Victoria Murphy]

Thanks Shane. I took a quick look at Traffic. Right now I don’t want to take that detour, but it has piqued my curiosity. At a later time perhaps I will check it out.
Victoria

[Victoria Murphy]

Thanks Andy. I took a somewhat cursory look at the link you provided to GUI scripting. Right now I am not going to put the time in to learn about it so I don’t know if it would help out for my task or not. I appreciate the suggestion.
Victoria

[Victoria Murphy]

Hi Jerry, (I had to take a few days off from this project, hence my late response.) The 3 steps are:

File/Export Using Quicktime Conversion/Still Image (from the format menu).

I have to do this many times to export clips to help me visualize my project and eventually build a storyboard. A while back I posted re efficient ways to export a lot of stills for this purpose. I didn’t come up with anything more direct than this.

Thanks. Victoria

[Victoria Murphy]

If it comes to redigitizing on another unit, what deck(s) do you recommend? (I don’t know which of the ones David suggested are for miniDV.) I have a Sony GVD300. It is probably five years old. Thanks.

[Victoria Murphy]

Hi David. I redigitized a clip with one or two frames of drop out and what I feared might happen did indeed happen: There is more drop out on the newly digitized clip than the old one. Wednesday when I checked this section on the tape it looked good. Today I check the tape after I did the redigitizing and there was all the drop out that appeared on the redigitized clip. I guess it must have happened while the tape was queing up. Is DV this unstable? I was working off a clone of my master tape. The clone is only a month or two old. (The master is pretty old now, almost five years.)

So going forward I want to come up with a system to redigitize my clips with drop out in a way that if the redigitized clip is worse than the original one, I can switch back. I guess the best way to do this is to note the in and out points of the clip, enter them into the log and capture window, capture it with a similar but not identical name. Would you agree?

[Victoria Murphy]

David,
The deck works so fortunately I don’t have to borrow a camera. I’ll do this on Friday and let you know how it goes. Thanks. Have a happy T-day.
Victoria

[Victoria Murphy]

No Matte, I shot it on miniDV. I just posted a further question to David re redigitizing. (I am a real beginner, as you will see if you look at my post.)