Re: What color should the L.E.D. terminator be?

Hello Greg:

I received and looked at your sequence. For starters, there are no gaps in the video, however there are two problems and one concern:

a) The concern: You are using DVD chapter markers to mark in/out points on clips. This is OK for DVD authoring, however if you had to batch-redigitize the clips, multiple passes on the tape would be required (i.e. clip coalescing would not work).
b) There's a number of places where you are doing a transition to null video. Because this is on the 2nd video track, and there is video on the first, when previewing it will appear to produce the desired effect, however there are two better ways to do it (and without crashing the timeline): 1) You could do a key-framed opacity change on the clip on the 2nd track -- or even better: 2) You could do the transition properly -- i.e. using only one video track with the transition between the two clips -- the added advantage to this one is that you wouldn't have to render -- the transition would be real-time.

{Quick note before the grand finale}: Your livetype stuff seems fine to me.

c) After the first 29 seconds (i.e. the clip entitled Cross Com Opening), the rest of the clips don't use the same codec as the sequence -- i.e. you changed easy setups in the middle of a sequence, without creating a new sequence. This might be enough to crash the render by itself -- ending about 29 seconds into the video...



Lance Gropper
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