[William Mcqueen]

I believed I was asking about a specific printer as in the header, howeverwhen I print from photoshop, photoshop always clips a portion of the image around the edges, i.e. doesn’t print the whole image eventhough I’ve set it exactly to 4×6 in the case of prints, or the images I want to print on the CDs and DVD-Rs.

The above was the question I was posing. I always use preview, and I do believe I understand resolution issues, but I do not understand why photoshop clips/crops a actually sized images of 4″x6″ when sent to this printer for printing on 4×6 paper.

I was also wondering if anyone knows of an excellent discussion group for Epson printers?

Thanks for your collective wisdom.

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks so much, Craig.

[William Mcqueen]

Can you describe how you type in the Log Comments after the clips are in the bin, I don’t know how to do that.

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

I think I must have been unclear on one of the points, Aanarav.

I have one still picture and also one still gfx image of a crest.

In the first case I would like to zoom INTO the picture. I’m sure the clip has enough detail that I’m sure I can go to at least 150%.

In the second case, I would like for the opacity to gradually change to a full colour image while the clip zooms forward to full size from a small size. I can accomplish the zoom OUT using the zoom video transition, but can’t seem to have a graduated opacity.

Thanks for your help.

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

The downloadable file knows where to install the plugin. The help file says it is intended information proviced by a digital camcorder. “If the clip’s format is not DV, nothing happens,” the file says.

I tried transferring a tape made on an 8mm videocamera, and of course the first problem was that I couldn’t use PP1.5 scene detect with it. I used a Sony Media Converter for the transfer. Made sure the video started from Zero.

If you read the help section, the “scene detect” breaks clips when a scene break is detected. As I understand it digital information associated with Time of Day and Tape Time Code is available to the programme from the digital tape. But once the “entire” analog tape is transferred digitally, you can apply the timecode from Zero, or from the timeline. You can get pretty close to the original if you’re careful in the transfer.

Well, that’s my take. It’s just time consuming (you have to render the timeline), DV encoding to MPEG2 (DVD) is slow unless you’ve got a watercooled racing box.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

If you have access to Premiere Pro 1.5, there is a plugin effect which can be added to the PP timeline and encoded to DVD. There is another thread on this subject nearby, and below this one on DV Date, an “effect” plugin for PP.

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

You’ll find earlier discussion of this option in which I participated. I have also worked out a protocol for myself to transfer either original time of day or tape time code to DVD using the DV Date plug in for PP1.5.

The developer is Ilya Topolnitsky (Digital Video Engineering)and the plugin is available from
https://dve.teletex.ru/index.shtml

It works very well. There are four steps:

1. Transfer of footage to HDD using PP1.5

2. Adding footage into PP1.5 timeline

3. Adding the DV Date “effect” to the timeline footage and rendering.

4. Encoding “edit” to DVD and burning DVD.

Cheer,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

I can’t really give you anything definitive, I’m afraid. I might try reinstalling the plugin, first of all deleting just that directory in the plugin directory/folder. I assume you’re using PP1.5. Then, reinstall the plugin, and afterwards copy the key into the newly created folder. Beyond that you might write to Ilya Topolnitsky at dve@nm.ru

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

I assume you purchased a key for the programme? It isn’t costly and the benefit of the programme for my work is very significant.

It you did purchase a key by email, you need to copy that file into the directory where the plugin resides. Namely,

Root\Program Files\Adobe\Premiere Pro 1.5\Plug-ins\en_US\DVdate

It’s a very useful programme and hope this helps.

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

The solution in the end was quite simple. Ilya reminded me that the colour settings had to be “Highest (32 bit)” and the image became available immediately. Ah…what a wonderful thing this Internet and the people who give so freely of their time and encouragement.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto