Howdy, I just upgrade to 10.4.10 and now my Canopus ADVC 100 (older model) is not outputting to my TV. Anyone else experiencing similar problems? I've checked the Canopus download site and there are no downloads for this model. Thanks! Judith Gruber-Stitzer film composer Montreal

Have you tested it with videos you know worked before? I found that if the video wasn¹t in the exact DV format (720x480) Apple DV or DV/DVCPRO it wouldn¹t play. I talked this over with the Canopus rep. He said the codec is very specific and if you change anything, it won¹t work. I¹m finding this whole Canopus discussion very helpful, especially from the Firewire latency point of view, and the narrow and quite specific range in which the Canopus box works. By the way, I didn¹t mean to offend anyone with the semi-pro comment. In fact when I spoke to the Canopus tech about not being able to get Sorenson or MJPEG-A encoded videos up on the NTSC Monitor with the ADVC110, and bitched about how my Aurora card would support almost any codec and even project your desktop on an NTSC monitor, he said this box was really designed as a low cost solution for consumer equipment (VHS decks, camcorders, etc). He didn¹t say semi-pro, he said home, and I interpreted that answer as semi-pro. I agree that if you can make it work in a pro environment, then for you it is the pro solution that works. I had hoped for a little more flexibility but for the price, I can¹t complain. My original card that became a paper weight when Apple went to PCI-X buses, the Aurora Igniter was $1,500, the FuseX that became obsolete with OS X 10.4.10 was $550, and the Canopus was a quite reasonable $209.00. The one thing I can¹t seem to get past is that with DV, the data rate is considerably higher than H264, Sorenson, MJPEG, etc. That means if I¹m doing a big score with lots of Vis, I have to eliminate the video for the later (bigger)stages of the production, or go to a small Sorrenson window, or start freezing a lot of tracks. That was not an issue with the (may it RIP) Aurora card. Oh well. Best, James

James Ryan <jeryan@optonline.net> wrote: >By the way, I didn?t mean to offend anyone with the semi-pro comment. In >fact when I spoke to the Canopus tech about not being able to get Sorenson >or MJPEG-A encoded videos up on the NTSC Monitor with the ADVC110, and >bitched about how my Aurora card would support almost any codec and even >project your desktop on an NTSC monitor, he said this box was really >designed as a low cost solution for consumer equipment (VHS decks, >camcorders, etc). He didn?t say semi-pro, he said home, and I interpreted >that answer as semi-pro. I agree that if you can make it work in a pro >environment, then for you it is the pro solution that works. "Semi-Pro" isn't a social value judgement. Rather, it's simply a designation given to various gear (and services) that aren't deemed to require/give the highest demands. "Home" is even lower than this. Saying that a low end video convertor is "semi pro" or "home" can hardly be offensive. Most studios/composers certainly don't need anything high end in the video department. It would be like being offended that somebody called a talkback microphone "semi-pro". Er, you'd be a complete idiot if you wasted a high end microphone for talkback. Unless you just had extras laying around doing nothing anyway. f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat>