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Ah. Gotcha. -dean
Wow! Hope this pans out as compatible. I'd guess that these drives should be no different than a standard harddrive. But I don't know if the Amiga bus is friendly to Flyer file format/clip transfer. Let's hope that's an option. Affordable large-Gig harddrives open up lots of possibilities. I think…
> It does! It really, really does! I bang my head in amazement! Wow! (Chuck! You could have told us!) Thanks Gary, dean
Ditto on that. -dean
The current Flyer software is a good start, but if it's ever going to reach its full potential, NewTek will have to be open to a major rethink of the interface. It's OK now, it could be great. The lower half of the screen should not only allow you to…
Short screen……what short screen? Bewildered what you're refering to. (or for the english fanatics among us. I'm bewildered by not understanding that to which you are refering.) i.e. Hunh? My tilde brings up the same full-screen screen as the New Clip button. -dean
Yep…Not everyone would use it, but many would. I see this not for archiving per se, but for shifting whole projects on and off the system. Work on project A, can't do any more for now (waiting for material due in next week)…so shift that project out and shift in…
YES…this way we don't have to search for unused clips. Many of us will only keep one project on the system at a time and need to shift projects in and out to go from one project to another. Having to spend time figuring out which clips have not been…
Product engineers are a strange folk. -dean
Gee, I've been using it to open VTF at Proj/Files with no problems. I must have a magic Amiga. Is there a subtle problem that I should avoid by not using CustomStart. -dean
I'll put that on my list. -dean
There's one somewhere in one of the Amiga areas or in Broadcast professionals. I've seen it, though I don't know how accurate the colors. Search of keyword Colorbar. -dean
Hmmmm…My 040-25MHz takes about 4 sec/field…wonder why the diff? Will try your FlyerProc procedure and let you know. The guy who wrote the macro is probably amazed at all the fuss over getting it to execute. Thanks, dean
I don't have a way to do side by side comparisons so I'll accept your observations RE sharpness. (Too bad.) Since it's all internal processing I very much doubt there's anything that would improve it. I suppose the field is being decompressed as it is read from disk and recompressed…
Right, there's a 50% chance that either the first or last frame of the selected clip segment will be the frame you want to edit on. It will be either the first frame of the ColorFrame or the second. So only half the time when the end frame is the…
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Actually when I have gotten SlowMo and Reverse to work, they have looked wonderful. Probably depends on the nature of the original clip. As I think about it, with /2-SloMo you are visually dropping from the equivalent of 60 fields/sec to 30 fields/sec (15 frames/sec) since there is no interpolation…
I can't get it to work consistantly, actually very seldom. 1 out of 10 times. EXACTLY what do you enter and how (click or type) for each requestor? The following typing into the requestors fails: FLYERA0:SOURCECLIP FLYERA0:DESTINATION 05:28 15:08 /2 Double clicking the source and destination fails. Using FLYERA: per…
Well the clip name can be changed in the clip Control screen. ——- NewTek, I want to make clear that there are two issues here. (1st) Adding the simple function to easily trade another image for the crouton image in the Clip window, and (2nd) adding a function which you…
Sounds like there are tape types or tape formatting options that are automatically compression free. Is there tape backup software (perhaps for the PC) that comes with the drive and which might offer formatting options for the tapes? Let us know if this is the solution. I haven't decided on…
Sorry. Haven't tried it myself. But I saw someone say that they had done it themselves. Hope someone else will jump in here. It is supposed to work. Maybe it's the point in your proceedure at which you activate the CFX crouton. Are there any options? -dean
I'll second your suggestions for preliminary audio features. A 3-band EQ would be pretty minimal. -dean
RE FlyerProc Bad news & good news The macro is flakey, but there are somethings to make it work. Shell operation seems more dependable. The following is not extensively tested yet, but: whether running it from shell or within Flyer you must type the drives names in capitals (ie FLYERA0:)…
#121571-
#LW 4 -> flyerclip work?
Message #121835
PMFJI, but in the FlyerProc macro you must use all caps in the drive name (FLYERA0:), perhaps LW requires this as well. -dean
#121584-
#Initial 4.06 Comments
Message #121834
Awwww, shucks. But how about a QUICK replacement of the existing crouton image for a clip. Seems like that would be extrodinarily simple. -dean
You're welcome…happy to have a good idea occasionally. They still need to Ready-Go requester of course. One problem with the in-house editors at NewTek is that they get familiar with the system. NewTek needs fresh blood (unfamiliar with how it 'should' work) to give them ongoing feedback during the development…
>>the system does all its busy work (prepairing to play), then instead of playing, it goes into pause at the instant where play would begin.>> Absolutely Chuck. Michael–as a workaround–how about adding a countdown sequence to play at the head of each new sequence to let you know when to…
Chuck, a quick note RE threads. Having just returned from vacation I am reminded that if someone logs on less than daily, they may or may not see the message that started a thread–especially once that message has scrolled off the system. And many times the topic of a thread…
D-7 Make-Clip Names
Message #111517
Well…I don't understand why. I'd like to know your thinking about that. The current operation seems to confuse the issue of text entry. If you don't press Enter then you have a field of data displayed that the computer will ignore but that looks as if it will be used.…
Flyer samples
Message #102965
Gary (and interested others considering the Flyer), Thx, I Rx sample tape back from you and the output of the Flyer (& those few effects) looks just fine. I have to do one more check before I say my final reaction (comparing 3rd and 4th generation tape quality of the…
"You can enter minutes:seconds:frames numerically over the current displayed numbers and then hit return" Jack. I wish I had my Flyer now to get up to speed first hand on these topics. The above sounds fine; can you enter -02 or +04 to bump the setting? I guess what you…
Aki, pmfji– If you can use the arrow keys to jog, do they auto-repeat? Does this provide an arrow-key based shuttle (either slow or normal speed)? regards, dean
Fred, the adaptor Aki mentions is by DigiPrint, Inc. Richmond VA (804)560-1769 (as of Jan '94). They make analog joystick and mouse adaptors to go between the IBM-compatible item and the Amiga port. They recommend certain brands of joysticks/mice that work best with their adaptors. Both adaptors were between $10…
Hank, pmfji–Fred's last message made me wonder: when the in-(out-)point is selected in the control panel, can you then use the L/R arrow keys to bump/move those points or is it mouse-only control? In the VT software I've found the mouse control of selections to be far too sensitive to…
"I'm not too sure what you mean by "one plays the edit in-point during the scrub,"… I'm likely more a novice than you claim to be yourself. Mayhaps I misunderstand "scrub". I haven't recieved my Flyer yet and I picked up the term from reading a couple of messages here.…
Hank, Glad to hear it RE deletes. Another thought, when scrubbing, have 2 keypresses that lock the duration of the clip to be played; one plays the edit in-point during the scrub, the other plays the edit out-point during the scrub. dean
Henry, PMFJI – I only recently started gathering threads here, so these may be old ideas. I recently purchased the "VT Flyer Videotape" demo of the Flyer interface. I seem to remember that there is no delete-crouton confirmation request. Fumble finger me still likes to have the option to confirm…
flyer sample
Message #102093
Gary, This week (W-Th) you'll be getting my S-VHS tape with about 3 minutes of test footage at the head. This tape also has some old location footage left on it. In addition to the test shots please sample your choice of the location footage to the Flyer. There are…
Megaview help
Message #40699
Trying to use Megaview to see image files during Dload, but with the appropriate DL switch for Megaview set I see nothing. Using VLTjr for comm on A4000 ADOS 3.0. Appreciate any info. (When engage WRITE() by doing copy of image file to test function, Amiga locks up with timer…
Phil, noticed old msg RE 2nd IDE. Did you get that worked out?
SaxonScript/PixelScript
Message #137330
Want to buy SaxonScript/PixelScript for use with ProWrite 3.3.
SaxonScript/PixelScript
Message #137327
Need to locate copy of SaxonScript postscript interpreter to accept output from ProWrite 3.3.
SaxonScript/PixelScript
Message #40275
need to locate copy of Saxonscript or other Postscript interpreter to accept output from ProWrite 3.3.
SaxonScript
Message #40104
Search on IXEMUL? What a thought, why didn't I thing of that. Ah well, the mind goes… round & round? Take care, ddr
Aha! I said. Thanks. Wish Amigaff section had a better search routine. I thought I tried all the possibilities. Thanks, ddr
Hmmm. Pipe to a printer? I'll have to dig into my manuals. Thanks for the idea. ddr
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