Crazy margins?

I have formatted as newsletter in Pages with .5 in margins on all sides and NO footer or header. In print preview and when I print on my Epson RX700 there is an extra inch of white space on top, bottom and alternating sides!
Also the entire document appears to have been shrunk! Help?

You may have "Show Comments" selected in the View menu. Go to the View menu, select "Hide Comments", and see if the problem is corrected.
(For some reason, this seems to be a common issue. Hopefully Apple will address the usability problems associated with comments in the next major Pages release.)

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Crazy page turn margin - image issue!

Hello everybody!
I am experiencing a really strange - funny issue. (Although it should not be funny since there is a dead-line for this project )
When I add an image to a particular page this page's tap-to-turn-page-margin gets wider.
Now I am trying to identify this potential bug by resizing the image / changing settings on this widget.
Any suggestions? Maybe its something obvious to you and not to me...
Thanks,
fotinos

Maybe, but if the software was consistent then I would not need to compromise. Now l have to find a way to make these pages beautiful again.
Thanks for the interest - really appreciated!

How do i reposition the timeline to the left margin?

I dip into FCP Pro X when I have a new project to edit - in between doing other things. The interface reminds me of the dash on my old Merc A160. It has very few buttons and they have multiple functions, but to change the time on the clock I always have to consult the manual. Less is not always more - something Apple struggle to understand sometimes. If I was using FCP all the time (heaven would be not having several different jobs) I would probably figure it out - but, because there is nothing intuitive about the interface, I have to relearn how to use it every time I come back to it. Just like the buttons on my Merc. I have completed a couple of editing projects in FCP. But I haven't looked at it for some months. In between I have been using Resolve (because a lot of my footage is shot in Log mode - something FCP doesn't handle at all - and I have to use a LUT to make the clips usable in the editing process).
I have a wedding to edit. Three cameras, three audio tracks on the cameras plus the church PA audio and a Roderick recording from a mic work by the groom. I would like to choose an audio track and sync the video to that - but I learned last time that is not possible (or not easy).
I looked at multicam sync clips but I can't see how I can use this to fit my workflow - it requires too many decisions up front and I don't have small clips - I have two 1hr "clips" and some smaller ones from the handheld camera. I don't want to chop up the "master" clip and I can't see how to easily sync everything together in such a way that I can see it all.   Yes I see that I can choose different angles in a different editor, but I don't want to get into that at this stage - I just want to see all my material in a timeline so I can make major edit decisions first. Oh I wish I had not thrown out FCP 10...
So what I want to do this morning is just drop clips into the timeline from the main camera, chop it up and remove the bits of the ceremony that I don't want in the final video and then choose clips from the other cameras to replace the main camera.
So, I drop a clip in the timeline. Its the warmup to the wedding. People are sitting down. The organ is playing. I don't want this in this timelines. So I trim the clip from left to where I want it to start. Great. Except...
... the timeline now starts halfway across the display and I have a blank black box to the left. I cannot, for the life of me, see how to move the start of the clip back to the left margin. Nor can I imagine why anyone at Apple thinks this is a useful thing to do?
In between all of this I have the usual Yosemite instability issues and, for whatever reason, Preview keeps crashing so using the FCP User Guide is more or less impossible.
Any clues?
And don't say use Resolve on Windows instead. I don't need much persuasion, and I hate Windows.

I don't agree with you here. Resolve is much easier to use - I don't have to try and get into the heads of the developers and its is easy to see how my material slots into the editor.
I am still trying to get my head around the way FCP organises the material. Events/Projects? What are they thinking here? How does this fit into a wedding video? I can create meaningful "events" (wedding/photoshoot/reception) etc but why would I?. Is a "project" just a timeline - a "sequence" in normal film editors? Why not call it that then? I cannot figure out what kind of environment Apple were imagining when they came up with this way of organising things? They must have had some kind of job in mind where events and projects make sense. The manual is silent on where the clips actually go - are they organised within events? within projects" or within both? Whatever it is, it might be easier to understand what FCP is doing if Apple explained what this structure means and why they have adopted it. I am left to guess.
What I can't seem to get rid of is the groups (I have no idea what else to call them) which are just a date and under which my clips appear. I don't want this hierarchy but I can't see how to get rid of it...   Clips that should be together, but were filmed on different dates, are in different places - and I cannot see how to group them together without these dates imposing another level of hierarchy, I struggled through the last couple of videos not really understanding where my clips were and ended up with multiple copies all over the place. Right now I don't know if I have all my footage in the library or not - its so hard to construct a meaningful organisation in this crazy interface. I just deleted 8 copies of a lapel mic audio track - I have no idea how I got 8 copies of that into this library. Does FCP just import duplicates without warning? Its so hard to correlate what is in the library with my folder structure on disk...
To my mind, this is one project - a wedding video. And this video will include multiple sequences. But my clips need to be ordered in such a away that makes sense to me - I am not sure how to do that in FCP, but its easy in file manager. The clips were shot in various locations on multiple occasions. But this has nothing to do with the finished product, which will have its own order of things, not necessarily related to the order of shooting. In FCP (or Resolve) I would have the clips in bins and my various sequences which I could then assemble.   Now I guess these are projects? They aren't "projects" at all - at least to in my mind. I don't like having to think about this project (the wedding video) in some weird way which only makes sense to the FCP developers. Maybe they never filmed a wedding!
Thanks for the advice re multicam clips. I came to the same conclusion but there is an awful lot of stuff to synchronise and I am not confident that FCP will do this in one go. But now I have to learn and get familiar with the different editing environment for multicam clips. Oh joy! I am hoping I can add more clips to a multicam clip afterwards - once I sort out how to get my footage into some meaningful structure without all these surplus dates... The clips have been imported so that the file structure creates keywords - which would be ok, perhaps, except for this extra date-related hierarchy which means I have to keep expanding the tabs to see the clips.
As for Synchronised clips, if you read the user guide there is nothing to warn you that this is an audio-only sync. Or which video track you are going to end up with. "For example, if you select two video clips and three audio clips from different sources that were all recorded during the same take, Final Cut Pro automatically analyzes and syncs the clips together into a new clip in the Browser." Perhaps, when they wrote this manual, they were thinking this would create a multicam clip. Or maybe its an old manual - I don't suppose they get updated automatically. Maybe I better go look to see if there is a newer version on Apple's website.
I seem to spend a lot of my time undoing the default settings in FCP. I don't want my footage disappearing into an impenetrable amorphous mass in some hidden library somewhere, so I have to remember to change that default - the wording in the inspector is not very clear and sometimes I find that it is importing the material into its library and creating another copy. I generally only notice when my backup software suddenly starts copying gigabytes of data to tape...
I don't want to see my footage an in iMovie layout with no tracks either. Especially my audio tracks, so I always have to unpack them. I miss the little buttons to turn off different audio tracks - yes I know there is another way to do this, but its not obvious (as with everything else in this software) and means fumbling around in the interface to find how to do it - and its slower if you want to flip between audio tracks to decide which one to use at any given point. Its the same with synchronising clips. You expect to select the clip, right click and get a sync option. But its in a separate menu under Clip. Why? If you want to copy a clip to another library its not under a clip menu - but under the file menu? Why? I think its a terrible mess - and I think that Apple introduced a level of complexity to this interface with little to show for it. I am new to Resolve. It looks complicated with all its colour wheels and stuff, but actually its very intuitive and easy to use. And its very easy to structure clips and sequences without having to spend hours trying to figure out how Apple think you should do things. if you use FCP all the time then fine - you get used to it. But is it truly a better way to work?   I like structure - it helps me to understand my material - but FCP is anti-structure and forces a virtual schema on its users. If you like that, well and good - but it shouldn't be compulsory.
I got my head around using keywords - but I hate it - its just extra work for me and I hate the loss of the direct relationship with my material. Its very hard to see whether I have used all the material or not and how it all fits together. Now I have duplicated stuff everywhere and lots of things missing - but no real organisation. And I have to remember how I keyworded clips to find them - not easy in a big project. And since I have lots of big clips I have to remember not to change the I/O points without first saving the subclip and assigning a keyword. Extra work and easy to stuff up. Its a problem too if you edit a subclass without realising it is just a virtual clip so every instance will be edited. Sometimes thats a good thing, but not always. The issue is that this happens invisibly so you have to be very careful working with these virtual clips. Subclips are safer - you always know whats happening - and that's increasingly difficult when you have lots of subclips which are really the same material but grouped separately.
Its much the same with all Apple's software today - its all written from some other planet. I have had to take out a subscription to Office 365, use Dropbox and oneDrive instead if iCloud and download Resolve to deal with my Blackmagic camera. Its a consumer world at Apple now - and an iMovie view of the world. Apple like to hide half the functionality because they think it makes things look easy. Their manuals are useless and their online Help worse.
And yes, thanks for the Shift-Z. That works, though finding it in the manual is another matter. But why this behaviour in the first place? Is there any reason why you would want your timeline to start halfway across the screen? Why doesn't the clip just snap back to the left as it would in any other editor? Its little quirks like this that make this a very frustrating experience. I am not editing all the time - I am just as likely to be in Dreamweaver, Indesign, Illustrator or Photoshop - or working on business projects. I don't feel I should have to wade through a badly written user guide or ask basic questions in this forum every time I come back to FCP Pro X - that was never the case with the old FCP. Its just like the clock on my car - daylight saving happens here twice every year and the time has to be changed. I always need to refer to the manual. To my mind that is a crap user interface.
FCP Pro X has some nice new features. But its hard to justify this when everything else is so hard to use. Its like connected tracks. Why is that an improvement? I always start with an audio track from my master camera - because its on tape and runs for the whole take - but its impossible (or very difficult) to do this in FCP Pro X. If I have a jumble of clips and its not clear where they fit, I can't assemble them, in sequence on a separate track - I have to connect them, arbitrarily, to an existing track. And then undo that connection later. I have to rethink my workflow every time to try and fit in with FCP Pro X.
In an earlier life I was a software developer. The golden rule of applications in business was that you built your application to suit the workflow of the user. You could streamline it, but not change the sequence unless the business had made a decision to do that already. I wrote quite a few large applications for various areas of the business - I used them to make sure they worked, and I used the existing workflow. A user could come back from holidays and know immediately how to use the app to do their job. A new user could use the app without weeks of training. Its not hard to write intuitive software - but its impossible if you set out to impose a new workflow or method of organisation on a user.
Apple seem to have missed this altogether. FCP will always be a dog, for that reason alone. I have never used Avid or Premiere Pro, but I imagine no-one else has adopted Apple's upside-down way of doing things. That spells lots of training issues for anyone adopting FCP Pro X. And now since you have to work with colour grading apps, like Resolve, users have to work backwards for Apple and forwards for everyone else, in the same project.
After this project I am going to look seriously at Premiere Pro - but only if I decide I can't use Resolve on its own for everything. I have been an Apple diehard for 12 years after being a Windows guru for a decade before that. I am close to giving up on Apple. Having to buy Office was very difficult - but the Apple apps have been dumbed down (Pages) or were never up to the mark (Numbers). I can't use iCloud because it doesn't support half my material so I have Microsoft oneDrive which also goes against the grain. And I am running Yosemite which means crashes at regular intervals and reboots several times a day.
I am an Apple shareholder too. But I beginning to think they have lost the plot. I hope not.

OT: Margin recommendations to make creep less noticeable

I'm working on a booklet that's sized at 3.625" W x 8.75" H. I have no idea how many pages the book will be, but it's been as high as 112 pages before. This book is saddle-stitched, so creep is a problem. However, multiple people will be working on the book, and I have no idea how many pages it will actually be. So I see no way to do incremental adjustments. I was just thinking I'd use a wide-enough margin to be safe throughout the book. Anybody have any recommendations? Would 2-pica be enough? Or too much? (I'd like to use as little margin as possible.) Should I plan to make the inside margin wider than the outside?
I read somewhere that using a bleed on the top or bottom would make creep more noticeable. I don't get that though. Why would it matter if it were on the top?
The book is printed on 60# paper and gets quite thick.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Phyllis

Thanks Peter, I'll make the margin larger. 2p6? Full half-inch?
And you're right that my top bleed would also go off the side (not sure why I'm being dense about that). I actually don't know how to adjust for creep as this hasn't been a real issue on anything I've worked on. I assume you make the inside margins larger at certain intervals (?), but I don't know when. Unfortunately several people will have to work on this project (the others only barely functioning in InDesign), so I doubt I can be too precise about this.
I do have in a request for perfect-binding prices, but they'll probably stick with the cheapest thing they can get. These booklets pretty much only have to survive 3 days. But if it's not crazy expensive, I'm going to try to get them to at least consider perfect binding. That would mostly eliminate the creep problem, wouldn't it? My understanding is that perfect binding means the pages are grouped as several signatures and glued (never so many that creep would be seen). Am I right about that?
Thanks for your input,
Phyllis

When using Live View, site looks great, browser testing goes crazy

I am creating a new website (and I am really unexperienced with Dreamwaver CS5). But when I check my site using "Live View" everything looks great, the way it is supposed to. Then when I go to test it in my browswer (Primary browser is Chrome) it goes crazy: I at first noticed that I had saved one copy as an .asp but then resaved it to .xhtml I did delete the first line of code already that the .asp file created as it kept giving me an error on line 1.
Then I tried to do a spry drop-down menu bar, which I have deleted since I thought I was doing something wrong with that and I should just stick to what I half-way know.
If I were to preview the template page it gives me this error:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 150 at column 76: error parsing attribute name
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
Here is line 150:
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I am not testing this on a server just off of my computer.
I am assuming that the error has something to do with the .asp file I first did and when I resaved it, since I don't know what I would be looking for, is still in there screwing it up.
Here is the code from the template page:
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I had saved one copy as an .asp but then resaved it to .xhtml
I'm assuming this is a static web site. Rename (F2) all your pages with .html or .htm extension.
.xhtml is not a valid extension.
Nancy O.

Document size and margins

Please save my sanity!
I'm trying to create a document that is 3" x 1". It's a name badge. Every time I enter my document size I get the following message:
Specified margin and columns setup does not fit not within the specified page size.
I've tried adjusting my margins to 0 as well as various other amounts but to no avail. Still getting the same message
This is driving me crazy! It seems like it should be such an easy fix but I'm am just completely missing it. I should mention that I'm new to InDesign.
Thanks for any suggestions.
~Carla

After over 6 months of myself and co-workers going through the same error, I may have found a permanent solution. With InDesign open, but without a document open on the screen, go to "file"—"document presets"—"define". From there you can check and change your margins and columns to zero on all presets. Once this is done you should not have any more sizing issues. Let me know if this works for you!
—Jake Crawford

New MacPro..I'm getting crazy because of errors

hey people,
i bought mid last year the new macpro, the lowspec config but with 16GBRam and the D700's instead of the d300's. running 10.9.5
i'm a freelance director and editor, and the decision why i bought the macpro, was the power, portability and the promised stability.
mostly when i do heavier grading in blackmagics davinci resolve (which is handled as a reference on the official macpro website!) i get faulty corrupt lines on the export.
see here:
http://i.imgur.com/qDtQqBc.jpg
you see the corrupt line in the picture?
but now i'm getting these lines also when exporting from premiere pro CC - ProRes 720p. just the editing - no grading, effects. etc. this just cant be possible..and its driving me crazy.
you can see here examples:
http://i.imgur.com/0WL0fOJ.png
http://i.imgur.com/2t0hpGq.png
http://i.imgur.com/CZxIQXN.png
it mostly appeared in davinci when i did heavy grading and the machine became hot. but with premiere now is ridicoulus..as you know as a director/editor i have to deliver on point..but with export results like these it is now always possible...
so i researched the internet for that problem, and many others where facing that too. they said it is especially a problem with the d700's. and only a complete hardware swap (only the gpu's of course) had solve their problems. i went to the apple store, told the guy my problem and also the internet research that only hardware swap will help. so he ordered the ne d700's that the technician can put them in. next day the technician told me this problem cannot be the gpu's as they did their special-hyper-super-hardware tests and there was no problem with the gpu's..so i got my MacPro back without any changes etc.
he told me i should update davinci resolve..but now the problem appears in premiereCC too..
maybe some of you guys know what to do? this machine costs a **** of money, and it should guarantee to run stable...
best
greg

TomWheel-
Discussing the bigger issues:
So far, all we know for sure is that some users seem to have a problem with these specific packages on certain Mac Pro late 2013s (but not on Apple Final Cut Pro-X). Maybe its is just my diagnostics background, but I think this problem smacks of a Hardware problem or a design problem (possibly a graphics chip to display RAM problem) that is particularly vicious at higher temperature operation, such as after graphics-computing for hours.
I also find it very telling that the original design by AMD featured Error-correcting RAM, and that the final design for Apple did not include that. [Did AMD see problems in developing this chip that caused them to use Error-correcting RAM initially? It makes me wonder if the chip-to-RAM margins are cut too close, and that some parts of some chips are not quite fast enough for some RAMs under high-heat conditions.]
It appears from this anecdote, "we won't change your graphics cards because our diagnostic says they're fine" that Apple has produced a better diagnostic, and essentially turned it back to the software Vendors saying "our Hardware works, now what is your problem?"
It is shameful that neither the software vendors nor Apple have SOLVED this problem, but it seems to me that the onus should now be on the software vendors to provide resources and work with Apple and press for a definitive diagnosis and solution on this problem. I think there really is a problem in some of these Macs.
Practical considerations:
I suggest you use something like SMC fan control to boost the base fan speed before setting out on a complex graphics job and see if it does any better.

HD Preset sees cropping or margins on HDready TVs.

Premiere CS3
I am desperate to resolve this apparent simple task. I need to know, why does Premiers presets not fit HDready TV's ?
See the results from three different TV’s further below.
Just what should I make the width and height of a project (and what pixel aspect ratio ?) to have videos played on PAL dvd players fit a HD ready screen ? I need to put stills into the video. What size and pixel aspect ratio should they be made ?
The advice I followed sees margins and cropping. What other settings should I be choosing in Photoshop and then in Premiere and in TMPGenc ?
I am using Pshop CS2 WinXP, I have an LCD monitor. Client has LCD HDready TV PAL. (Native res 1533 x 768px.) the standard dvd video is to also play on friends LCD TVs. (they don’t have blueray players), all are dvd players with scart. People are buying LCD but keeping existing dvd players and thus using scart, picture quality is less than my Wega !
Why don’t the suggested presets from another thread create videos that fit HDready screens ?
I have need of making stills or video fit the screen of HD Ready TV’s (dont we all ?? !!!) and I am following advice that said use either 720x576 or 1280 x 720 or 1920x 1080 and ignore the screens default resolution. The 1920x1080 is the size of full HD TV’s and the 720x576 is not 16:9 ratio so probably intended for non HD Ready TV’s though I tried it anyway, picture quality on HDready was poor and it still saw cropping so it must be the 1280x720 then for the HDready.
To test this out, I created a chart of 1280 x 720pixels Square pixels in photoshop, saving as tiff.
It has a square grid of black lines on a white background (20 squares wide - each is thus 64pixels) and circles at left middle and right. At the sides are 5 pixel increment rulers heading into the chart with 0 at picture edge.
We want our stills or video to fit the HD Ready screen without distortion.
Thus the goal is to get the test image to fit the screen and see all edges as 0.
I went New Project in Premiere and chose the suggested 1280 x 720 size 25fps which exists as a preset.
Imported the tiff into the timeline. Made a video and authored it in TMPGencAuthoringWorks. It saw it as 720x576 and no options existed to make it otherwise. I chose Progressive.
Playing it on DVD players connected to LCD TVs we get anything but a fit to screen ! Why ?
Note they all are using scart, both shops and private TV’s. Would a HDMI enabled dvd player connected via hdmi see a fit with 0 at all four screen edges and perfect grid and circles, and no ghosting on the verticals, and the 1pixel zebra chart visible ?
I also noticed that text created in premiere was of better quality than Photoshops text in the tiffs, which on the Panasonic had jpg type artefacts around it, but not on the Wega CRT. Why ?
Panasonic HD Ready 32inch scart DVD to TV.
Auto     0 on all four sides so picture all in but with Black margins 3inch sides and 2 inch top/bottom.
16:9     0 on all four sides so picture all in but with Black margins 3inch sides and 2 inch top/bottom.
Zoom 1    0 and 0 left and right, 25 top and 20 bott, 4 inch wide black margins at sides.
Zoom 2    0 and 0 left and right, 25 top and 20 bottom so some cropping, circles a little stretched north/south
Zoom 3   0 and 0 left and right, 100 top and 100 bottom so 200 pixels lost in top/bott crop, circles heavily stretched north/south
14:9   0 all four sides with 5inch black side margins and 1inch black top/bott margins, circle heavily stretched north/south
4:3 though not an obvious choice for filling a 16:9 screen, gave 0 all round and 8inch black left/right and 2inch black top/bott.
Best then was Zoom 2 but 40 pixels lost north/south.
All vertical lines had ghosted lines either side, horiz lines ok.
LG (LH2000) 42inch LCD scart dvd to TV.
16:9   0 all four sides with black margins. Circles slightly stretched north/south
Full Wide   0 all fours sides with 3.5inch margins left/right and black margins top/bott.
Zoom   0 at left, right and bott but 20 at top. Black margins at left, right and bott but not at top. Most odd ! Circle stretched north/south
Original   0 all four sides and black margins 3.5 inch sides and 1.5 inch top/bott with Circles slightly stretched north/south.
Again All vertical lines had ghosted lines either side, horiz lines ok.
Samsung 32inch LCD scart dvd to TV.
Margins measured also using the pixel ruler of the chart, though its obvious its been compressed, else e.g. the 1024px margins of 4:3 take up almost all the screen width which they don’t in fact.
16:9   0 all four sides with black margins 202px wide at sides and 197px tall at top/bott. Circles distorted east/west.
Zoom   0 all four sides with black margins 202px wide sides and 90px tall top/bott. Circles distorted north/south
4:3   0 all four sides and black margins 512 pixels wide sides (6.25inches) and 240 pixels tall top/bott (3.25inch)
Autowide    0 all four sides with black margins 202px wide sides and 250px tall (3.25inch) top/bott. Circles distorted east/west.
Again All vertical lines had ghosted lines either side, horiz lines ok.
A second chart featured zebra crossings (alternate black/white lines) vert and horiz orientated of sizes 1,2 3 and 4 pixel line weights. All TVs were able to show the 3 pixel sets, in that the 1 and 2 were blurred and one could see the 3 was alternate black/white, not pin sharp though but somewhat woolly !
Playing the 720x576 Sq Pixel Interlaced chart :-
Sony Wega digital CRT 42inch: (scart dvd to TV):-
Smart   15left, 5 right, 54 top and 58 bottom with circles slight stretch middle east/west and more stretched for the outer ones. No Margins
14:9   20 left 0 right, 60 top and bottom. Black margins at sides of 72px width left and 55px width right. Circles ok.
Zoom   20 left, 14 right, 80 top and 85 bottom, No margins. circle ok middle and some stretch east/west for outer two.
Wide   20 left, 13 right, 15 top and 24 bottom No Margins with all three circles stretched east/west.
4:3    20 left, 0 right, 20 top and 25 bottom. Black margins at sides 128px width. Circles and grid almost perfect. Crazy though to be losing one side of image.
No ghosting of vert lines.
Panasonic LCD 32inch (same as in earlier test above..clients TV)
Auto 0 sides and 30top, 15 bottom, circle distorted east/west. No black margins
16:9   0 sides and 20 top, 15 bottom, circle distorted east/west. No black margins
Zoom 1   0 sides 90 top, 85 bott no black margins, Circle OK
Zoom 2   90 sides and 90 top, 85 bottom. Circle distorted east/west. No black margins
Zoom 3   90 sides and 16 top and bottom. Circle slight distort north/south, quality poor.
14:9   0 sides and 60 top, 55 bottom. Circle ok. Black margins sides (50pixel wide)
4:3   0 sides and 20 top, 15 bott. Circle ok. Black margins sides 120px width (3inch)
16:9 probably best but with cropping top and bott and distorted circles east/west so nothing here of use.
Vert lines ghosted either side
Nothing of any use.
Envirographics

Hi, Thanks for the advice.
How do you wish to show your project on an HDTV?.
Client has dvd player (not bluray capable) via scart and hopefully soon a hdmi lead.
Currently tried 1280 x 720 square pixel images created in photoshop (hence sq pixels) to suit the input preset of PAL 1280 x 720 25fps Square Pixel and going File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder and choosing MPEG2-DVD and PAL Progressive Widescreen High Quality which yields 720 x 576. This seemed suitable for a non HD playing device. It looked good on screen in TMPGencAuthoringWorks. Am I right in saying people buying LCD HDready TV's need to get a new dvd player capable of HD so as to make the most of the image quality of their TV ? Most seem to buy LCD and plumb them into their existing dvd players !
As the dvd player is not capable of bluray output, choosing this seemed logical BUT trying out all screen aspect settings on the Panasonic LCD HDready TV sees the following cropping of our 1280x720 test image with grid and circles, the cropping we got is simply unacceptable. (192 left /right means 192 on each side totalling 384)
On a plus note, quality improved, now seeing horiz black/white lines 1 pixel line weight, vert ones were a little woolly though. 2px test lines were ok. Thats an improvement over only 3 beijg best. Finding the Adobe Media Encoder has seen some benefit !
Auto 55 left /right ( that’s 8.6% lossage) and 25 top and 20 bott (6.25% lossage), Circles OK
16:9 ditto
Zoom 1 55 left /right (8.6%) and 105 top/bott (29% lossage) Circles stretched vert
Zoom 2    192 left /right (30%) and 100 top/bott (27%) Circles ok
Zoom 3   192 left/right (30%) and 168 top/bott (47%) ..a disaster !
14:9   55 left/right with black margins each 96px , 75top and 65 bott (19%) Circles stretched vert.
4:3   55 left/right with black margins each 192, 25top and 20 bott (6.25%) Circles stretched vert.
Auto and 16:9 best but we ned to see 0 on all four sides else we are losing people out of the picture ! ...or should we add black margins to it ! ?
Any answers to the following gratefully received.
What should I choose for PAL dvd video to HDreadyTV. ?
1) Pixel width and height of still (tiff) ?
2) Pixel aspect ratio of still (tiff) ?
3) Preset for input source or custom setting and what to choose ?
4) Adobe Media Encoder output settings:-
     a) MPEG2 or MPEG2-DVD
     b) PAL option ..which one to pick with regards pixel width/height, fps, interlacing or progressive, quality effect on pixels and our desired goal ?
     c) or custom output and what ?
Envirographics.

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Can you help me?
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When I looked at the list of current forms that had to be completed, I noticed something very strange: the icons that began the listing of the documents' names were replaced one by one by Mozilla icons. When I moused over them, they said Firefox HTML. Why?
Starting the day today, I had the same experience. What's more, when I started to retrieve 2012 IRS PDFs from a year ago, the same New Tab tabs appeared and had to be killed, and Mozilla icons replaced whatever icon was there before.
Assuming that the problem arose with Adobe Reader's reading of the PDFs, I contacted Adobe but got no helpful phone number because PDFs are a free service and was directed to use this Forum to get help.
What do I have to do to (a) read and use PDFs in the normal way and (b) remove the Mozilla icon from those that have appeared on icon documents. If Mozilla is the source of the problem, shall I go back to IE8? (In my 80s, I want eventually to replace my old computer but for the time being I must continue using it. It will not take an IE9. Anther possible default browser would be Google Chrome, but I have unfavorable impressions of it because of its intrusiveness, loading my PC with stuff I do not need.
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To start with go back to IE for these forms. When you save them to disk DO NOT DOUBLE CLICK ON THEM until this is fixed. Just open the in the normal way - start Adobe Reader and use Open from the File menu.

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I have a view which shows the data for the margin correctly.
It is a group above report which results in several pages.
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TTDST tables
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I would appreciate any pointers on how to get CS2 Creative Suite to install properly since Adobe Tech Support says such installation help is out of date and recommended this forum.
BTW: I run Videography Lab and am the "seminal author of videography". OCT 1972 American Cinematographer. I have a different take on the meaning of videography than most folks. After 38 years of research and contemplation I believe "Videography means 'I know to write' or conversely 'writing my knowing'" The platform that I've been talking about is the technology tool that enables such communication in "the Age of Videography" [Miller Freeman Publishing - 1996].
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Bob Kiger - [url removed by host]
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Hi Michael--
Upon continued research we found your statement "CS 2 isn't compatible with Windows 7 32-bit no less 64-bit." not quite true. We grant you that, in it's raw state, Windows 7 will not install, activate, register etc. CS2 programs. That's been the Adobe position for quite a while.
Now that we have Windows 7 in hand and can play we found that if you have Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate edition you can acquire for $89.95 and download/install in an hour or so "Windows Virtual PC" and "Windows XP Mode".[Note: This feature is not available on Home editions].
We purchased the platform and once it is installed we had a "Windows XP platform" on our Windows 7 machine. From that point forward the installation of CS2 and many other of our old favorite programs was a snap. We've opened and worked with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign etc. with no problems.
And, by the way, Premiere Pro 2.0 intalled easily on Windows 7. We're testing it now with some sub-1080p projects.
As to the long nagging problem of Adobe Installer not recognizing the downloaded CS2 CAB files during installation, we worked around by just saying OK when the installer asked for the next disc and immediately clicked on the desired disc in a seperate exlorer window which contained all the download files.
So that's the workaround for us. Now we wait to see who wins the race to enchant users with 64 bit editing and imaging suites.
Thanks for all your help.
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab

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Export your Pages 5 files to Pages '09 or Word .docx and trash/archive Pages 5.
Then rate/review Pages 5 in the App Store.
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