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Thanks a million John; we’ve been scratching our heads over this for months. I’ll let you know how it all works out!

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Thanks for the quick reply John.
Forgive me though; I’m an editor/grfx guy…
When you say the detail is too aggressive, is this a DBeta camera setting? Or better yet is there a website that explains this to a camera novice like me?

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Found the answer. In QT Pro I can save the QT Ref files as a self-contained movies. Time consuming but it works.

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Actually I originally thought the problem was MB but I began to wonder. Yeah, I contacted MB but got no replies

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Avid Meridian 1:1 Interlaced Decompressor
720 X 486, Millions
16-bit Integer, Mono, 48k
29.97 fps
Data Size 497MB, 171.97 mbits/sec

AE interprets the clip(s) as 29.970 fps
Timecode base: Auto
Comp Frame Rate 29.97

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The file has no indication that it’s PAL in the Quicktime Movie Properties or Information windows; besides I has no problems with these file before yesterday, and I get the same warning on every file I use (including thaose I didn’t encode).

At this point I’m so frustrated. I don’t even know where the problem is orginating…

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Thanks Mark. I’ll give that a spin and report back.

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Update to this issue. So far I have:

Re-installed AE7 (deleted old preferences)
Re-installed Quicktime 7.1
Rolled back to Quicktime 6.5
Re-re-installed Quicktime 7.1
Re-Installed Magic Bullet 2.1

But still no luck. Anyone?????

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Dumb question. I know how to delete preferences on the Mac but where do I find the preference file in XP?

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I followed your steps to the letter, but under messages Magic Bullet says it’s now able to convert my PAL interlaced footage to 23.976 fps.

Here’s the issue: my footage is not PAL. It’s the same NTSC footage I used yesterday, and After Effects thinks the projects and compositions I created prior to this morning now contain PAL clips. I had this problem a few weeks ago and was only solved by reinstalling After Effects.