Has the driver been installed for HDV? XP SP2 supposedly does it automatically. Previous versions require you to manually do it. Here's the basic procedure:

Go to Control Panel>System>Hardware>AVC Subunit with no driver Right click to Update Driver Tell Windows you'll locate driver yourself.

Browse to the Sound, Video, Game Controllers.

In there, you'll find two Sony driver options, choose the top one.
In there, you'll find two Sony driver options. Choose the upper one.

What version of DVDA are you using? Also, what FORMAT are the DVDs? (PAL or NTSC). First recommendation is updating to the newest version of DVDA2.

Got it works now!!! Thanks

Thanks for the reply Ed.
DVDA2; version 2.0 (build 94)

It figures that 2.0b is 30 MB.
Is there a list somewhere that lists all the fixes?

I found the list & here is my fix;

"A bug has been fixed that could prevent text-only buttons from being displayed on a burned DVD when a video was used as the menu background."

Thanks again Ed!

Shane

external previewing
 

I know how important it is to preview your hd work on a real hd big monitor of course. Just wanna see what you guys are using for your external monitor to preview your work in hd. Right now am just using the FX1..all that matters to me at this point is making sure the images are crop right and that my scrips don't fall off the page if you know what i mean.

thanks

Another approach: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?f=70

This way doesn't work in post, though. :)

Well, I haven't looked at vo. 3 #3 yet, but was wondering
if Bezier generally works like some of those photoshop-type
programs insofar as it will automatically find outlines of
objects in the image?

Yep. It was a known problem. Just had to verify you were on the version that had the problem. Get the update and all should be fine.

No. It won't automatically find the edge. You have to painstakingly add the points in the proper places.

Yes, that did it.
Thanks Ed, saved my bacon once again!

Shane Schmidt
VSF Productions

Render a quicktime file with an alpha channel
 

Hello,

I've rendered a few animations using premiere and the "animation" codec for quicktime to get the transparency to carry over into our pinacle thunder, but i prefer vegas. I just made an animation in vegas and i cant seem to render it in a way that the alpha channel holds. any ideas? It seems the "render alpha channel" setting is only available for uncompressed avi, and when i try that the thunder doesnt see it.


the option for the:
Quicktime Animation Codec in Millions of Colors+
doesnt seem to be there like it is in premiere

try rendering as uncompressed QT and slide the quality slider to 100% ( default is 50%)

some friends took a NTSC DVD (-R) to London i made and they said it played on about 50% of DVD players and of course and 100% of computers ...

i have a $200 sony DVD player and it will NOT play PAL .. i have a $39 cyberHome DVD player and it plays PAL/SECAM/NTSC DVD's to NTSC Tv's = converts them to NTSC real time = they look good to me ...

can computer 1 using NRS assigns a rendering job to itself ( computer 1) ..

can computer 2 assign itself a NRS rendering job

can computer 1 assign a solo ( non distribute) job to computer 2 ..

remember all folders that contain any media , the folder where you are storing the rendering job , temp folder , must be SHARED on the network..

if the rendering job stops - see what is being wrtten in the LOG ...

make sure both computers have the same DNS suffix ... my computer-properties-network ID - properties-more - look at DNS suffix name