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SonyEPM wrote on 1/15/2001, 12:29 PM
You can probably do what you want with your current card,
but it requires that you render (export) files from
VideoFactory with exact settings your capture card
requires. You'll need to check your capture card
documentation- that should tell you the exact way to set up
your "render as" settings in VideoFactory.

Once you have that figured out, you can save the settings
as a VideoFactory template for easy recall. It might take
some sleuthing the first time, but once you get
everything "right", subsequent export sessions will be easy.

Tony Charles wrote:
>>I have no problems with importing or editing video, but I
>>cannot find a
>>suitable solution to EXPORT the finsihed project to a
>>standard VHS
>>videotape. Can I do this with a "firewire card"? Is
there
>>an
>>adapter/cable that will allow a standard VCR connection
>>(RCa type outputs)?
>>I do not have a digital video camera (dv). I do have an
>>ATI all in wonder
>>128 card which has "TV out", but I cannot find the right
>>combination of
>>"file type" and "player" that will play back a saved file
>>"full screen".
>>
>>Is there a media player that will play back ANY of the
>>Video Factory files
>>in full screen, high resolution, NSTC frame rate video?
>>
Disintegrator wrote on 1/15/2001, 5:03 PM
>>I do have an
>>ATI all in wonder
>>128 card which has "TV out", but I cannot find the right
>>combination of
>>"file type" and "player" that will play back a saved file
>>"full screen".

Step 1: Make sure you can record the TV OUT of your Windows
desktop. If you can get your TV OUT working on your video
card with your desktop, you can get a video played back
fullscreen to work.

Step 2: Free up some space and defragment your harddisk

Step 3:
You want to choose a file output which you will allow you
to output your entire file in one go. If you use a
streaming format like Real (RM) or Windows Media (WMV) and
the a high data rate template(1Mbps Video). Both the Real
player and the Windows Media Player have an option to
playback full screen.

You can also try MPEG (download the free file plug-in). Use
a DVD NTSC template. Not sure which player works best with
MPEG2 (DVD) style files. I've got a software DVD player
that works well and does full screen.

Lastly you can try outputing AVI using the DV codec. This
is a good, high resolution choice but the filesize may turn
out too large to get your whole project in one file. Play
the file with Windows Media Player.

>>Is there a media player that will play back ANY of the
>>Video Factory files
>>in full screen, high resolution, NSTC frame rate video?

Yes most do - but your hardware (disk speed, etc.) may or
may not be able to handle it.

Disintegrator wrote on 1/15/2001, 5:13 PM
Even if you are going from DV source to DV output if your
events are NOT aligned (snapped) to the project frames AND
you have "Resample the frame rate of all video" on
or "Motion Blur" on you could get the results you are
talking about.

For best results, set snapping to frame boundaries and have
your project framerate set to match your input media before
creating your project.

Nicholas Lamartina wrote:
>> I've been trying to render an NTSC DV project with
NTSC
>>DV sources files and having a bit of trouble. The video
>>renders fine and completes okay, but I've noticed that
the
>>frames are "ghosting" or "echoing" in the final
rendition.
>>It looks almost like a Gaussian frame blur, but I don't
>>have that enabled. Why is it doing this? Also, when it's
>>rendering my project, the program sometime recompresses
>>frames. And I've checked... I haven't touched the video
in
>>any way. It SHOULD just breeze through with the SmartDV
or
>>FastDV or whatever it's called, but in rather regular
>>intervals, it decides to recompress. How can I stop to
>>program from doing these two things?
>>
>>Thanks for any help,
>>Nick
SonyEPM wrote on 1/16/2001, 8:47 AM
Cards like the all-in-wonder require specific render
settings in order to print back to tape. Please check the
card's documentation, do some tests in VF until you get it
rendering correctly, then save those render settings as a
VF render template for easy recall.

Tony Charles wrote:
>>I have no problems with importing or editing video, but I
>>cannot find a
>>suitable solution to EXPORT the finsihed project to a
>>standard VHS
>>videotape. Can I do this with a "firewire card"? Is
there
>>an
>>adapter/cable that will allow a standard VCR connection
>>(RCa type outputs)?
>>I do not have a digital video camera (dv). I do have an
>>ATI all in wonder
>>128 card which has "TV out", but I cannot find the right
>>combination of
>>"file type" and "player" that will play back a saved file
>>"full screen".
>>
>>Is there a media player that will play back ANY of the
>>Video Factory files
>>in full screen, high resolution, NSTC frame rate video?
>>
johnmeyer wrote on 1/17/2001, 11:17 PM
I had a similar problem (you can find my post by searching
for "ghost"). Unfortunately, the support people were not
much help. In the end, I decided that the problem must be
some sort of codec problem, so I uninstalled all video
editing products (including VF), and deleted all my video
codec files (using the Control Panel multimedia applet). I
then used the vcmui.exe (version control manager) function
in Windows to look for DLLs, VXDs, etc. that related to
video or audio that had changed since Win98 SE had changed.
I archived all of these, and then used the Expand function
on the appropriate CAB files on my Windows CD to put all of
the original Win98 versions back in the appropriate places
in the Windows directories. I then re-installed Win98 SE to
take care of any loose ends I might have created. Finally I
re-installed VF. Thus, I got rid of spurios codecs and DLLs
that didn't match the original Win98 install.

The darn thing works just fine now.

John Meyer

Nicholas Lamartina wrote:
>> I've been trying to render an NTSC DV project with
NTSC
>>DV sources files and having a bit of trouble. The video
>>renders fine and completes okay, but I've noticed that
the
>>frames are "ghosting" or "echoing" in the final
rendition.
>>It looks almost like a Gaussian frame blur, but I don't
>>have that enabled. Why is it doing this? Also, when it's
>>rendering my project, the program sometime recompresses
>>frames. And I've checked... I haven't touched the video
in
>>any way. It SHOULD just breeze through with the SmartDV
or
>>FastDV or whatever it's called, but in rather regular
>>intervals, it decides to recompress. How can I stop to
>>program from doing these two things?
>>
>>Thanks for any help,
>>Nick
SonyEPM wrote on 1/18/2001, 8:59 AM
Some of the 3rd party codecs and drivers are very tricky to
remove. We advise that you no intstall these at all, ever,
and stick with the MSDV codec and drivers, which work great
with VideoFactory. These are part of the OS so there's NO
worry about compatibility- VF talks directly to the OS and
there's no layer in between.

The recently released DX8 has a new DV codec that is a big
improvement too. Free from Microsoft.com-


John Meyer wrote:
>>I had a similar problem (you can find my post by
searching
>>for "ghost"). Unfortunately, the support people were not
>>much help. In the end, I decided that the problem must be
>>some sort of codec problem, so I uninstalled all video
>>editing products (including VF), and deleted all my video
>>codec files (using the Control Panel multimedia applet).
I
>>then used the vcmui.exe (version control manager)
function
>>in Windows to look for DLLs, VXDs, etc. that related to
>>video or audio that had changed since Win98 SE had
changed.
>>I archived all of these, and then used the Expand
function
>>on the appropriate CAB files on my Windows CD to put all
of
>>the original Win98 versions back in the appropriate
places
>>in the Windows directories. I then re-installed Win98 SE
to
>>take care of any loose ends I might have created. Finally
I
>>re-installed VF. Thus, I got rid of spurios codecs and
DLLs
>>that didn't match the original Win98 install.
>>
>>The darn thing works just fine now.
>>
>>John Meyer
>>
>>Nicholas Lamartina wrote:
>>>> I've been trying to render an NTSC DV project with
>>NTSC
>>>>DV sources files and having a bit of trouble. The video
>>>>renders fine and completes okay, but I've noticed that
>>the
>>>>frames are "ghosting" or "echoing" in the final
>>rendition.
>>>>It looks almost like a Gaussian frame blur, but I don't
>>>>have that enabled. Why is it doing this? Also, when
it's
>>>>rendering my project, the program sometime recompresses
>>>>frames. And I've checked... I haven't touched the video
>>in
>>>>any way. It SHOULD just breeze through with the SmartDV
>>or
>>>>FastDV or whatever it's called, but in rather regular
>>>>intervals, it decides to recompress. How can I stop to
>>>>program from doing these two things?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for any help,
>>>>Nick