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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Changing end jump of stories in DVDSP - 16 years agoAlso a great idea - I think there's room on the disk for another version of that asset - I might try this as well. THANKS!!by lyswood - DVD Studio Pro Re: Changing end jump of stories in DVDSP - 16 years agoOoh - interesting! Worth a shot...will do. Thanks!by lyswood - DVD Studio Pro Re: Changing end jump of stories in DVDSP - 16 years agoIt does work great - it just clips the last half-second of audio. All my stories jump back to the appropriate chapter menu just fine, but the nature of the piece (a dance without pauses between steps...each step is one story), the markers have to be set as such that this audio clipping will always occur. Next time I'll just shoot the dancer doing one step at a time with pad at the top and theby lyswood - DVD Studio Pro Re: Changing end jump of stories in DVDSP - 16 years agoThanks for the response! I actually need it to jump at the end of stories, not tracks. I don't want it to play through the whole track, then jump to the menu, but rather play to the end of the story, then jump back to the menu. I gave up for now - tried adjusting the markers in FCP, etc, to no avail. It's probably not possible - as you said, setting the markers will always cause some lossby lyswood - DVD Studio Pro Changing end jump of stories in DVDSP - 16 years agoHello all - Can you change the end jump of a story in DVDSP? I'm losing a tiny bit of sound at the end of my stories before they jump back to the menu. The video is there, but the last half-second or so of sound is not. It's important because it's a tap dance choreography video that will be used to teach students each step in a routine - in some cases that last sound is necessary. I maby lyswood - DVD Studio Pro Re: transfer footage from miniDV tapes to DVDs or CDs - 16 years agoI had the same problem and the workaround worked perfectly for me. I've since captured 3 tapes - no more dropped frames. Good luck! Lysby lyswood - Café LA Re: To those using iMacs for editing - 16 years agoThanks a million, Dave! I'm glad someone else thinks the genius is speakin' hooey! The first time this happened, they had to have a FW drive plugged in for a good hour or so before it started "acting funky," after which they determined it needed a new logic board (which I suggested to them in the first place) and they swapped it. This most recent guy gave it about 20 minutes and dby lyswood - Café LA Re: To those using iMacs for editing - 16 years agoThank you so much - that's what I'm looking for, other folks who use this system who either do or don't have the same issues. Do you have a FW hub as well? I bought one, but haven't unpacked it. Genius said take it back - it's just asking for more resources to pull from that same port, which is already an issue. I saw a post on a Max FixIt board that said a port can maybe help. So confusing!by lyswood - Café LA Re: To those using iMacs for editing - 16 years agoCable's good - high-quality, works great on other computers. Trashing prefs, I'll try, but not sure it will help. FW ports on drive are toast. Many thanks for the drive brand advice - will try them! Two things though - my first post was apparently not very clear, and I apologize. 1. The camera is NOT the problem. I can use the camera perfectly - I'm capturing from it now. 2. The drivesby lyswood - Café LA Re: To those using iMacs for editing - 16 years agoThanks - camera isn't the problem, though. Mounts and works just fine. It's the fact that after the cam is mounted, the external drives will no longer mount using FW, only USB. The Mac Genius said the camera was at fault and that I should restart between camera and drive use to make sure the iMac's FW port "knows" that the camera is no longer attached and that the bandwidth is avaby lyswood - Café LA Re: To those using iMacs for editing - 16 years agoI know the whole LaCie kerfluffle - have come across MANY posts in this last week. ;-) However, they've worked great for me for years, and these particular drives both worked perfectly on the G4 until being plugged into the iMac. Only after that were they unable to mount on either machine. My simple brain says something in the iMac messed 'em up. I am indeed a little leary of LaCie at theby lyswood - Café LA To those using iMacs for editing - 16 years agoHello all - please bear with me. I'm wordy, to say the least. I just bought a new iMac for my home editing business - upgraded from an old G4 and FCP 3 to the new suite (not yet here) and the iMac. Couldn't spring for the Mac Pro just yet - was hoping iMac would be a nice fix in the meantime. I had firewire issues off the bat - external LaCie drives worked fine, then the next day wouldn'tby lyswood - Café LA Re: Drive won't mount! - 16 years agoI had this happen with two drives last night - two drives that were working perfectly until plugging them into a new iMac that had just updated to 10.4.9. I have to say that after Googling the problem and seeing similar problems by other users, I think it's the update. Here's my situation - might help or might not: One drive worked fine - I used it two different days on the new iMac withouby lyswood - Café LA Re: iMac 20" vs 24" and FCP Suite 2 - 16 years agoThanks Mike! I'll look into a G5 iMac as well. I don't think I want to go backwards to FCP Express, though, and since I also want to update DVDSP, I figure it's cost-effective to upgrade to the suite rather than each program individually. I'm kind of excited about Motion. It would be nice to have the ability to incorporate more complicated graphic elements than I do now, though because it'by lyswood - Café LA iMac 20" vs 24" and FCP Suite 2 - 16 years agoHello again - Thanks to those who answered my other post about upgrading my G4. Now I'm looking into iMacs, but am looking for some advice regarding the video card difference between the 20" and 24" models. Either way, I would opt for the 256 MB version of the available cards, but where I'm stumped is whether or not the difference between the x1600 and Nvidia 7600 would be enougby lyswood - Café LA Re: Possible to upgrade G4 for new FCP Suite? - 16 years agoThanks guys - I think I feared that a new system was in order. Ugh. In PC-land, it's so easy to just upgrade individual componenets, but I suspected it wasn't necessarily the case in Mac-land. I hadn't considered an iMac - I was going for the screamin' big $3800 tower. =) I'll look into the iMac as another option. Thanks again! Lysby lyswood - Café LA Possible to upgrade G4 for new FCP Suite? - 16 years agoHiya gang - If this is a dumb question, please forgive me - though I work daily on Macs, I'm really a PC-type who is still confuzzled a bit by Macs. In short: I want the new FCP suite, but cannot afford a new system right now. I'm wondering if my older computer is upgrade-able. Is there any hope for me? Here's what I have: 933 MHz PowerPC G4 1.25 GB SD RAM Panther OS (I think...1by lyswood - Café LA Re: Bleed issues - image distortion - starting to panic! - 17 years agoI'll try it - I think I brought them down using the procamp, which probably isn't the way to do it. The gfx are RGB, 72 dpi and while I didn't think they were true white, perhaps they are. I'll check on that. It does seem to be a contrast issue - maybe bringing down the white will do it. I thought I had tried that, but I bet I didn't. I'll try that and if no luck, I'll try to get a screen sby lyswood - Café LA Re: Bleed issues - image distortion - starting to panic! - 17 years agoThanks for the response, Koz - I'll check on a third TV, but I've already tried 2 TVs, 2 players, same result. It's maddening. Seems like I'm missing something pretty simple, but I just can't figure out what. It looks fine when played on a computer screen - I went to show someone at work what it was doing and it was fine on the laptop. If I thought most of the end users would view on computers, Iby lyswood - Café LA Re: Bleed issues - image distortion - starting to panic! - 17 years agoThe graphics were made in PhotoShop - I've seen it happen without graphics as well, so I'm not sure it's them. I've edited several things with "chapter breaks," if you will, where I take a photo and crop it/resize it, then have moving text - all on just a black background. A few times I have seen the upper corners of the resized image be distorted in this fashion. Not sure whatby lyswood - Café LA Bleed issues - image distortion - starting to panic! - 17 years agoHi all - I posted earlier this morning with this same problem - I apologize for posting again but I'm getting nowhere and I'm starting to freak. I've also read more throughout the day and believe my earlier post isn't accurate. After Googling my brains out, I think the problem might be an issue with levels, but I cannot seem to figure it out. Here's the short version of the issue: Iby lyswood - Café LA Output problem - whites? - 17 years agoI posted this question this morning, but after poking around some more, the title wasn't accurate. I'm now wondering if my problem could be a levels issue or a size/pixel issue - the problem only occurs when viewing on TV monitors and is find on computer screens. I have some things I can try, but if anyone has any further ideas, I'd love to hear them. I'm not sure I'm totally clear about it.by lyswood - Café LA |
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