This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Brad, TAPCIS is shareware and you can download it by going to TAPCIS. I think it is in library 1, but I'm not 100% sure. Leave a message, someone there will tell you where it is. WINCIM must be online somewhere. They use to sell it, but I've been getting…
Hank, ALT-A. Yep, found it right after I wrote the message. This morning I actually pressed the help button and noticed that it along with other keyboard controls are there. I need a day just to play around with these new features. No rest for the wicked. BTW, next spring…
Hank, re: The short record screen thing. I'll give that a try tomorrow, but I don't think I've seen that happen. I know I have opened up the record panel in the project/switcher screen area and then have gone into the files/project area just to get a larger screen. Don't…
Hank, In a few days, NewTek will get to see this first hand. I was making a tape to send to Chuck. I had checked off the HQ5 in the setup screen, but when I started the Flyer, never thought to select HQ5 in the record panel. I then started…
Barry, I keep reading where people have accessed CIS via an Internet connection. There seems to be some concern about entering your password, since at that level it is more open. Another term I have just come across is "firewall". Any idea what that means? I think it has something…
Chris, Will Alpha Paint let you pull or capture a frame of video? Or maybe I should ask, how do you get single frames of video into Alpha Paint? Since when I use Toaster Paint to cut out a brush, I seem to degrade the signal, how would I go…
#REORIG for AUDIO
Message #122138
Chuck, Just thought I'd let you know that the audio reoriganzation works just fine. You got it fixed in 4.06. Also have had no problems doing video reorig. Let me know when you get my tape. Mailed it first class on Sunday. I leave for New Orleans on Thursday, so…
Gary, I've got it. I just need to read it through more than once to check out the commands. The Arexx onces dealing with speed and reverse, gave me a bit of a problem, but I got it to work. I am now at the point of trying to turn…
Chuck, It IS there. Select ALL. Do an ALT-A and the audio on only the video clips turns off. Do is again and they all turn on. Just what I needed. I can see a need for something that will adjust all of the volumns in the same way. I…
Chuck, >>>>CustomStart is not working yet, but will eventually let you set some preferences for Flyer, such as booting into the Project/Files view instead of Switcher.>>>> That's a feature I'm going to be looking forward to. Thanks. Fred
Chuck, In another message I just sent to you, this problem went away by itself. Have no idea where it came from, but things seem to be working fine. At least that function is working fine. Anything new on the SEAGATE firmware situation? Fred
Barry, I will call you when we get in or sometime on the weekend. Right after I got your message, I got a fax from David at Composite Studio tellling me that the upgrade is finished. It is suppose to ship today. I'll let you know when it arrives. You…
ALT-A
Message #122082
Chuck, I answered my own question when I re-read you "readme" file. ALT-A was the audio switch that I was looking for. That problem that I reported yesterday about reorig. showing the same time available between both drives, just went away today. Fred
#Globel Command
Message #122040
Chuck, Did I read somewhere that there is now a way of giving a globel command? I am changing the soundtrack on a video to another language. So, I am now using the English track as a guide. I left the sound turned on, on all of the clips. The…
#Color Adjustments
Message #122018
Chuck, Noticed in the program menu two new programs. 1. Custom Start 4.05 2. Drive Speed What do these do? I just finished recording color bars in the Flyer and playing them back. The red bar looks more orange than red. I autohued and calibrated and the red still does…
Hank, Found the readme file and printed it out on my PC. It is 14 pages on my printer. My question was that when I tried to follow the example it did not work. I am at the office now and will try the suggestion that I got from Dean.…
#Reorig in 4.06
Message #121961
Chuck, Sent a tape off to you today. While I was making it, I discovered that the Reorig. of video files is acting kinda funny. I haven't tried to use it yet, but when I wanted to see how much room I had left on one of my drives, I…
Barry, I'll try and call you on Monday. Fred
Tim, I really perfer DOS over Windows when given the choice and I've never been able to make CIS's programs run as easy as TAPCIS. I do find them to work better when I am interactive online. Fred
Barry, I discovered TAPCIS a long time ago. I don't remember exactly when, but it was sometime back in the 80's. Up until then, I would log onto CIS with a program like ProCom Plus. Give commands to "go to" the different forums and read messages. Before I had ProCom,…
Mark, I almost bought ImageFX. It was a about a month ago, when I couldn't get Composite Studio to do anything without crashing and I was very frustrated. I called ImageFX and asked them if the program would do the same thing that Composite Studio would. They told me their…
Russ, During the Spring and Fall, I'm hardly in the office. Even though we keep cutting back on conferences, more keep appearing. If it isn't a conference, it is a meeting I'm attending or a family trip. This last weekend, we (my wife, our two son's, their wifes and children)…
#FLYERPROC ARexx function
Message #121801
Chuck, I had a little more time today to use 4.06, this weekend will be the real test. However, I was trying to use the BACKWARD feature and it would not work. I'm not sure where the SHELL commands are to be typed, so I tried using the ARexx feature.…
TPaint Contrast adjustme
Message #121730
Steve, Here is what I was trying to do. I'm using a program called Composite Studio. It can quickly create framestores from other framestores and brushes that have nice effects. Things that would take me a lot longer to accomplish. The original material was recorded on video tape and was…
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#Toaster Paint
Message #121729
Chris, I've got Alpha Paint. Have not yet learned how to use it. Maybe I will before the end of the year. Fred
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AVID speed to copy file
Message #121728
Greg, I'm not sure about the defragging on the AVID drive. I do know that before I made this test, I removed everything from all of the partitions via the delete command. Then I recorded a clip until it stopped, thus filling up a partition. I then did a regular…
#Stuttering
Message #121720
Chuck, Got back Monday night from an out of town trip to see family. Monday night came down with the flue and was out of commission till Wednesday. First thing Wednesday morning, still groggy, I download 4.06 and installed it. I have not had a chance to try any of…
Thanks Hank, Read my last message to Chuck about this. Today an even longer scroll worked without a problem. Spliting up scrolls would be fine if you could put two in a row and make them work. Fred
Hank, I understand about the speed up. We've talked about this before. My reason for asking was to find out if someone using the WE for Lightwave actually added more memory and found that it gave him an improvement. I think after I get back from the conference in September,…
Chuck, Thanks again for your responce. I didn't mean for my remarks to sound as harsh as they look when I read them. I guess it is just Flyer frustration. Fred
Thanks Chuck, I guess I didn't think my question through before asking it. What you and Russ say does make sence. I just wish there was a way around it. I should have the AVID up and running by the end of the week. I am going to see how…
Chuck, That was this morning and yesterday. This afternoon, I loaded a file into CG that was 5 times the size of the ones I had problems. Guess what. It saved with all proper functions the first time. Finicky is a mild discription. However, when playing any of the key…
Toaster Paint
Message #119760
Has anybody had problems with TPaint lately? Today, for some unknown reason, features like laying down a brush or filling in a color have gone crazy. Fred
Brad, I've been thinking about getting a Warp Engine. Did you buy additional memory for it? I have a 4000 with 18megs. I was planning on buying the WE to make the system render faster and in some cases help it with scenes that required more memory to render at…
Brad, Just remembered. About 30 years ago and the Worlds Fair in Canada, I signed up for a trip to the moon. So far, I've never been offered tickets. Maybe someday we'll get past the moon. A maned craft that is. Fred
Sam, Just found my bill for the system. Flyer $3495 Seagate drive $4495 each 540 MB SCSI $369 CD ROM $349 Flight Recorder (tower for drives) $349 Installation $150 Then I got $500 back from NewTek, so that brought the price down to $2995. My first hard drives were the…
Gary, Good idea, never thought of that. Fred
Russ, Good to hear from you. I guess we are both keeping busy. I just thought that coping a file should be faster than creating it. An audio file takes just a few seconds to copy. I realize that it is nowhere the size of the video, but it still…
#Scroll Function
Message #119697
Chuck, I know that there are problems with the scroll function, so I'm not sure if this is a know problem. I just finished creating five scrolls. I don't know how many lines, but the font used was Doughboy at 35 points. The speed was set to number 2 and…
Mark, I stand corrected. The "c" and "v" is useful. I didn't realize that it sayed in memory beyond one clip. The first time I heard of the function was the other day and at first I didn't see it's advantages. Last night I had to reset the starts and…
#Time to Copy Clip
Message #119678
Chuck, I keep meaning to ask this. In future upgrades, will it alway take the same amount of time to copy a video clip as it does now? IOW, if I have a 5 minute video clip on Flyer Drive A and I want to copy it to Flyer Drive…
Mark, Someone's going to make a fortune writing a book with all these helpful hints. That is if there is anybody new who is going to buy a Flyer. We are kind of like those first astronauts who just flew around the earth a few times and then came back.…
#The Time Code thing
Message #119664
Sam, I just read page 17 of the NewTek manual on copying and pasting time code enties. Maybe I'm missing something, but where is this useful? I thought you were talking about re-writing the time code for one clip onto another. The only advantage I can see is if you…
Sam, The prices are at my office, but her goes from memory. This is for the AVID on the Power Mac AVID – MEDIA SUITE PRO Includes 4 boards and software. $7995.00 Power Mac approx price 4000.00 SCSI hard drives 9BB $3,000 each 9000.00 20" monitor 2000.00 14" monitor 800.00…
Mark, Here is one I used the other day. Split edits give me problems, so I made an audio clip of the video clip that I would have extended the audio on. Then I just turned off the audio on the video clip. Placed the audio clip right after the…
#Alpha Channel on TPaint
Message #119614
Jerry, What is the Alpha page or channel in TPaint? From what I have seen of the term, must have something to do with layering video on video. Is that correct? Fred
Jerry, >>>Yep. And that means the window of opportunity is closing with it. Avid and FAST are being particularly aggressive in spreading their offerings to all segments of the video market.>>> Are your referring to NewTeks opportunity to sell additional units or are thinking that prices of other system are…
I'll mail you something this weekend. BTW, we are going to be in New Orleans between September 16 and 21st, recording a conference. Give me your number and maybe we can get together. Fred
Is it Barry or James? As far as I know, the sound from the xfects will not play back through the Flyer board. They come out of the Amiga sound outputs. Run these outputs and the Flyer audio outs into a mixer and then from the mixer to your recorder.…
Chuck, My wife is the Scotch drinker. I'll ask her. 🙂 I know my last message to you was from out of the blue, but is product development planning to make those feature part of the system? I must edit 50 or 60 video a year, and this is vital…
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