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Carl, Thanks for the information. I am happy to say that it turns out the printing element of my Primera was *not* faulty. I had rotated a very large image in ImageFX2 and was attempting to print it. Somehow the simple 90 degree rotation had introduced a streak-like artifact into…
#Primera Problems
Message #216731
I have the original Primera color printer. i am now getting a streak down each color print even after thoroughly cleaning the print head and insides of the printer. According to the manual, this is an indication that I need a print head replacement. Has anyone actually changed the print…
Dean, No PC software came with the Exabyte 8505XL. The tapes are not formatted and do not require formating prior to use. Apparently the drive is able to sense from the tape leader or from some notch code on the tape cassette whether it is compressed or not. According to…
Mark, I am using the 8505XL also to backup and restore Flyer projects. When I insert an Exabyte tape cartridge in the drive, the middle LED comes on orange indicating compression is active. I have read the manual carefully for any method of turning off compression, but so far I…
Jim, Please let me know if Exabyte tell you how to turn off compression on their tape drives. I am convinced that it is not helping to recompress material that is already compressed. I agree that backup up a project twice to ensure no clip losses is not efficient and…
Sam, i am using Flite Gear and the Flyer on an Amiga 4000 so I really can't directly comment on using it with an A2000. However, I see no reason why it should not work. I have spent a few hours using the various modules supplied with Flite Gear. There…
Gary, The Future Video controller is required just as the Personal SFC is required to control serial controlled decks. Tom
#Flite Gear & Hi-8 Decks
Message #119673
This Friday evening I received a beta test version of a module which allows FliteGear to control Hi-8 decks through Future Video controllers and the Lanc connector (Control-L) port. This means that I can now do batch digitizing of my Hi-8 source material in the same way that the SFC…
Brian, I am intrigued by the Sony DVC camcorders, but I don't plan to buy anything until I see the picture quality. That's always the bottom line for me. Tom
Fred, Yes, I found that when I reformatted my Seagate 9 GB HD and check the available time in HQ5 mode, it was about 32 minutes and in SP mode was about 48 minutes just as you have stated. I am now down to about 19 minutes of available time…
Wayne, Thanks very much for the information. I'll check it to this if the problem becomes more serious than having to ocassionally cold boot a second time. I hope your recent Flyer successes are continuing. I think all of us have suffered vicariously with and for you. If I were…
Sharon, That's great news regarding your successful use of two 9 GB Seagate Elite drives in a RAID. I have posted another report of some bugs and workarounds that I have discovered this weekend which you may find useful. Although the Flyer is not bug free, I am finding that…
Flyer Bugs & Workarounds
Message #111556
Folks, Here are a few problems with the Flyer (and some workarounds) that I have picked up through trial and error in working on a project with about 55 video clips all in HQ5 mode that I have been adding sound tracks to. i am using a Toster 4000/Flyer in…
Wayne, It sounds like from your post (#111425) that the second time you started the Flyer you did not first renenter the New Clip panel with the LAlt-RAlt-Tilde sequence, select HQ5 mode, and then hit Continue to exit before attempting to play back your project in which the clips were…
Chuck, I have been following the HQ5 discussion thread with interest. I have a Flyer (softare version 4.03) in an Amiga 4000 with a 40 Mhz WarpEngine accelerator and two 9 GB NewTek certified drives. I have recently been working on a project that is now about 40 minutes of…
Wayne, Thanks for the advice. Where does one purchase a Granite digital active SCSI terminator for the Micropolis? At present, termination on the Micropolis is apparently passive since I terminate the drive by simply plugging in the two resistors provided. I don't know how to turn off the Micropolis drive…
Hank, I was using the flat ribbon connector with a Centronics connector on the end, but when HT Electronics installed my Flyer I asked them to punch out the plate on the back of the A4000 and mount the Centronics connector in the cutout which they did. All my external…
Hank, Basically I never really have had a conflict between the WarpEngine's SCSI and the Flyer's SCSI, although that is what the technician at HT Electronics thought when I described the problem to him. When I first received my A4000 back from HT Electronics with the Flyer card installed, I…
Hank, I am not having any problem using the WarpEngine's SCSI with the Flyer. The solution to the failure to boot problem (i.e. turning on the A4000 simply resulted in a steadily burning LED on the internal IDE drive unless the external Micropolis SCSI drive attached to the WarpEngine's SCSI…
Hank, Sorry for the delay in ansering your questions. I left Saturday night for London and just got back. I have not paid any attention to whether scrolling text in the CG displays shadows or outlines or not, and it is quite possible that they do not. I have also…
Frank, I just returned today (Thursday) from London where I have been since leaving Raleigh last Saturday evening. I have not yet received the full release version of Flite Gear. However, I find the 0.9 version to be quite stable and very very useful. Also at last I received today…
Mark, Yes, I did take off –no allegedly about it. Anyone who thinks traveling to London once a month on business is glamorous should simply do it a few months to learn differently. It is a long boring trip with a week full of meetings and late evening dinners. The…
#Possible Calibration Aid
Message #110706
Fred, I'll do so as soon as I get back. I am afraid I leave for London in less than two hours so I don't have time to check this out right now. I'll get back to you on Thursday when I return from the U.K. Maybe we need to…
#Video drives need space
Message #110705
Mark, I have used reorg repeatedly in both 4.02 and 4.03 with nary a problem. I would also suggest that the fragmentation of your Flyer drive is probably the reason you are seeing the problems playing projects longer than 7-8 minutes that you reported in an earlier message (#110532). At…
#Flyer Sucess Story!
Message #110704
Frank, I am very pleased to see your posting on the Flyer in use under the stress of meeting commercial time lines. I must admit that your experiences with the Flyer mirror mine completely. I am, however, editing my Hi-8 footage shot with a 3-chip Sony VX3 in the HQ5…
Tom, Just wanted to let you and others know that I have had a chance to extensively use the latest edition of Alpha Paint that you sent me with the button in the mode menu that allows the program to work with the full active area of the Wacom ArtZ…
Gary, I have never seen the demo tape on Alpha Paint, but if you are heavily into handling brushes including text brushes and want a program that is intuitive and versatile in rotating, scaling, and positioning brushes and does some truly neat video-on-video feats, then Alpha Paint is the way…
Mike, You and others following this thread may be interested to know that I received a call from the programmer of Alpha Paint today. He tells me that they have solved the problem of Alpha Paint being usable with only a small portion of the Wacom ArtZ tablet and that…
Tom, Thanks for the response. We have, indeed, spoken several times in the last two days on the phone and you have made it clear that InnoVision is doing everything possible to remedy the problems that exist with using the Wacom ArtZ tablet with Alpha Paint. I appreciate your dedication…
Tom, Tonight when I logged on I counted five E-mails from you regarding my problem with the ArtZ tablet being usable on only a small (approximately 2"X3") area of the ArtZ tablet. Some of these replies clearly are agitated and irrate. I also had a message from you on my…
Brad, Actually I have found a good solution. The Wacom ArtZ tablet works with its full active area in DPaint. I find it easy to trace any line art that I want to trace into DPaint IV and then transfer the image from DPaint IV into Alpha Paint to carry…
#APaint/Wacom tablet
Message #96948
Brad, I think Alpha Paint is a very fine program. I am especially impressed with the intuitive ease with which brushes can be resized, rotated, and otherwise manipulated in Alpha Paint and the video-on-video effects are great. Unfortunately, I can only report that no one from Innovision as attempted to…
I have been using MediaPhile video editing products for about three years. At present I have an MP 2.0S controller which I use to control a pair of Sony EV-S7000 source decks and a Panasonic AG-1960 record deck. I also have a Panasonic AG-7750 deck which I would like to…
Daryyl, I purchased a Fargo Preimera printer with the dye sublimation option almost immeditely upon its introduction several months ago. My recollection is I paid approximate $600 for the printer at that time. If you are doing color printing, in my opinion this is a very fine printer. Graphics in…
Gary, i agree. For my video work I never sample higher than 32K. The resulting frequency range is more than adequate for the AFM Hi-Fi recording used on my decks. Gary, what hard drive are you using with Studio 16? I have found the Micropolis 2117 AV drive to work…
Glenn, Thanks for the advice, but that is essentially what I have been doing. Amiga + D is just a non-destructive edit. Choosing Make Permanent then makes it a destructive edit. I agree that for some reason making the deletion i na non-destructive fashion followed by Make Permanent (i.e., a…
Gary, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I realize that you don't have to do destructive edits and that deletions can be done without making the changes permanent. However, most of my videos are about 1.5 hr long, and I use both narration tracks, background music, and occasionally the existing sound…
Gary, I hope you don't mind my jumping into your thread on the Studio 16 software. I hve been using V. 3.0 of the Studio 16 software and an AD516 card to digitize audio for some vacaction videos that I put together for fun using the Toaster 4000. For the…
Michael, Thanks for the help. I have modified my AP setup to conform to the initialization string you have suggested. It was slightly different from what I had. We'll see how it works. Thanks for taking the time to help. Tom
#CIS Connect Problem
Message #165803
I am connecting to CIS using AutoPilot 1.72 and a SupraFAX 14.4 modem. About half the time when I try and connect, the modem dials the number, connects at a link speed of 38000, inputs my i.d. and password, and then immediately disconnects with the mesage "No Carrier". Often this…
Eulogio, I have asked my dealer to try reseating all socketed chips including the cpu chip and to reseat all boards in the A4000. I am away all next week on a business trip. When I return, if he has not been able to repair the computer or find a…
Jim, Thanks again for the advice. I asked that my dealer pull the cards and cpu chip and reinsert them making sure they made a good connection. He agreed to do so earlier to day but I did not hear back from him so resumably this had no effect. This…
Eulogio, The A4000 is at my dealers and has been for the last two weeks while he has tried to find some repair center in the U.S. that will even accept it for repair. Here is what happened. The computer had worked fine for about 11 months. About two weeks…
Jerry, I sympathize with the limitations that ME poses for professional work. I think it is a valuable and useful program for low volume and/or amateur work, but it is clearly unsuited for professional work such as you require. Most of the time I use two masters for my A/B…
Christopher, The controller I am using is the MP 2.0S controller. It uses a Sony RMT-E1S remote IR transmitter that plugs into one of the sockets on the controller. Only One IR transmitter is required for all three decks and only one 2.0S controller is required. I believe this controller…
Jim, Thanks very much for the suggestion. I'll try your suggestion. I don't know whether my dealer has tried reseating the cards and chips or not. He has had the computer for almost two weeks. Today I called him three times just trying to find out if he had ever…
Rocky, Good to chat with you again. I tried to answer Chris' questions on MediaEditor (see my message to Chris). I am still using version 3.9.3 of MediaEditor simply because I have found it to be rock stable and the only new additions in latter versions that I am aware…
Christopher, I use a MediaPhile 2.0 controller purchased about three years ago with MediaEditor. This is an infrared controller that works great with my two EV-S7000 source decks and my Panasonic AG-1960 recording deck since all three operate on different IR command frequencies. This is essential in an A/B roll…
GE, I like the MediaPhile system very much in its present version. Actually I am using version 3.9.3 which is not the latest version but is about 3-4 months old. This version of MediaEditor is very stable and works beautifully with my two Sony EV-S7000's. Newer versions of the program…
Jerry, I am still here on on CIS just about everynight. I still remain a serious user of MediaEditor and find that for me as an amateur it meets my needs quite well. I use it in an A/B roll setup now with two Sony EV-S7000 Hi-8 editing decks which…
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