Ghosting, Interlacing, Flicking or whatever you want to call it in Encore 2.0....frustrating

At our TV Facility we have three Avid Adrenalines connected to a Unity system. We produced a variety of projects at different lengths for various clients.
Two of the Avid workstations have Encore 2.0 and one has Encore 1.5. Once we finish a project we export a QT Ref and import into Encore 1.5 and transcodes it beautifully...no flicker or ghosting in the motion portion of the video. If we imported the SAME QT ref file into Encore 2.0...flicker, ghosting, and all sorts of interlacing problems.
What we can't understand is why this is occuring in 2.0 and not 1.5. I see in the forum is that a number of folks have been having the same problem with 2.0. And there hasn't been a good answer...except to re-render in another format. Are there any answers to how to overcome this without increasing our render time transcoding the file into two of three formats just to get it to a compliant MPEG-2 file?
Our current work around is to degrade our compability by 2/3's by using Encore 1.5 on one workstation.
There has to be a simple answer to this 2.0 issue. Any ideas?

Encore is probably going from 720x486 to 720x480 by cropping three lines each at the top and the bottom of the frame. This is a very bad idea because it effectively reverses the field dominance of the video (the odd lines become the even lines, and vice versa). The correct method is to always crop by an even number of lines, such as two at the top and four at the bottom.
I had a similar problem in the past with 720x486 footage and Premiere Pro's MPEG-2 export, but it has since been fixed. I think it was fixed in the upgrade from 1.5 to 2.0. Odd that they fixed it in Premiere and broke it in Encore at the same time.
A workaround would be to set the transcode settings manually rather than using Encore's "Automatic" setting. In your manual setting, set the field order opposite the field order of the 720x486 Quicktime movie. For instance, if your Quicktime is lower field first, set the transcode setting to upper field first to correct for the cropping problem. This would eliminate the need to do the video mixdown. You would need to set your bitrate manually though, as you lose the benefit of Encore calculating the correct bitrate for you.

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Sir,
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Hi,
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Firstly, I read your initial reaction to Richard's reply to your post, and I honestly can't see where your problem lies! Many, many members have been greeted with the same "Car" post and many other members have used similar comments as a playful "Dig" (me among them) to coax more information from members.
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If you'd read the stickies at the top of the forum then you wouldn't have made your first post, as it added no useful information (it lacked any detail) to the thread starter's question, it was in fact pointless! It was also not clear whether you posted to give information or receive it!
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will toast 7 do any better job burning than disk utility?
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The instructions for both iPhone and iPad for Exchange is here:
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Well, my experiences revealed that the iPhone and the iPad will sync flawlessly with Google Calendar and the iMac, without any problems, BUT as long as you use Exchange AND Push to update the calendars (CalDAV doesn't support Push, and you need Push so the iPad sync works).
Let me repeat that: IF and ONLY IF you have BOTH Exchange protocol configured and PUSH enabled iPad and iPhone will sync flawlessly. But many people (me included) dont want to use push because a) it has a battery hit b) they don't need instant updates c) it consumes cellular data when you're not on Wifi, and if you don't have an unlimited plan that's not good.
So, if you TURN OFF PUSH with Exchange sync, the iPad will stop syncing properly. Curiously, the iPhone will continue syncing properly.
What I discovered is that, on the iPad, doesn't matter if you use CalDAV or Exchange, the moment you turn OFF push notifications it won't sync manually anymore. And by that I mean that with push off the iPad will not refresh calendar data when you open the calendar app (as it should since push is off and manual fetch is selected).
To sum it up, I discovred that with push OFF in both the iPad and the iPhone (either with Exchange or CalDAV):
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- The iphone will be updated by both google calendar and the iMac and events created in the iPad;
- The iPad will NOT be updated when you open the calendar app, so it won't see any changes made either on the iPhone, iPad or Google Calendar, but when you create new events in the iPad you will see the data icon spinning so it will send that event to the other 3, but it will not recieve anything.
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tt2,
So if I understand you correctly ... I can't move or sync content that was imported via my own CD's that is now on my iPhone back over to my computer?
Not with iTunes as your only tool, no.
The ONLY way I can proceed is with an iPhone backup and then restore that iPhone backup to my computer rather than my iPhone? I assume this will trigger yet another "used activation"?
No you need a third party tool that will copy your other non-iTunes purchased media and photos not in the cameral roll across to your computer. (Some are listed, you can search the web for others).
When you have recovered all the media you want you can then backup the iPhone to the computer (this backup ONLY includes application data and settings, and the cameral roll. After you have backed up this data to the computer you can then immediately restore the recently made backup to the iPhone. The data in the backup will obviously be copied back but all media must have been added to the library or it will be removed from the device.
Your lost computer will count as an "activation" as will the new one. Apple devices don't add to the count. You can reset all your activations (including those you can't physically access) every 12 months should the need arise.
Am I the only one that thinks this is the most crazy and bizarre process of simply moving a music file from one of my devices to another of my devices? Especially ones that were imported from CDs.
You still have the CDs? You can import them again. You sold, gave away, threw away the originals? Technically you no longer have the right to listen to the tracks you ripped. Is it inconvenient? Sure. One might argue that the very reason Apple & iTunes were able to drive the move to digital music to start with is that their system was designed to prevent the casual use of their devices as a means for "the kids" to simply "gift" their music libraries to each other without the tediously time-wasting efforts that the previous generation had to go through with home-taping. This no doubt helped get the content owners on board. Of course memory sticks and portable hard drives now make it trivially easy to copy content from one computer to another and indeed to simply backup your own content against a disaster but most people don't do either. Likewise they don't read instructions or terms and conditions until they are inconvenienced, and then complain. You and I might both wish iTunes made it easier, but it doesn't. And this isn't the place to complain about it. Use iTunes Feedback. You want help, it has been offered. Please read and inwardly digest it all properly this time. It does explain what you need to do to recover your data and safeguard it for the future.
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First of all, I'm not any kind of techie person, I just have gone through this horrible experience of not being able to get into the itunes store at all after downloading the last 2 updates (7.4.2.4 and 7.4.3.1). Once I downgraded to 7.3.2.6 I was back in the itunes store downloading whatever I wanted. But, it was not all fun & games - the library file wouldn't work with the older version of itunes, and I lost all my playlists and had to reimport all my music. The second time I downgraded I did figure out how to save the playlists, but I still haven't figured out how to restore the itunes library file. If anyone has ideas about that feel free to post here.
I consider this a last resort if you really need to get into the store. Hopefully you have already tried other suggestions in other forums. If you do decide to try this, you should read everything first to see what you're getting into. Also, if you just bought a new ipod, it probably won't work with the older version. You should keep calling the apple support phone #.
The process isn't that much harder than installing an new version, although you need to uninstall 7.4.x first. *If you decide to try this I highly suggest you do a backup to disk first just in case.* Uninstalling itunes doesn't delete any of your music files, but it never hurts to have a backup. Go to File>Backup to disc.
By the way, this is assuming you're on Windows XP.
First get ready:
1. Go to File>Export Library. Save this file somewhere in your My Documents Folder, not the iTunes folder.
2. Export each playlist you have individually by right clicking on the playlist and selecting Export songlist. Save these text files in the same folder as #1.
3. Now, download the version of iTunes you want from oldapps.com/itunes.htm. I used 7.3.2 and it worked fine.
4. While that's downloading start uninstalling iTunes under Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs. Remove Apple Mobile Device Support, Apple Software Update, iTunes and QuickTime. Don't restart until all 4 are removed. (Optional, also run CCleaner - click the 'issues' button. This gets rid of a lot of little files that don't get removed in this process, but it's a little intimidating if you're not a techie person.)
5. Now restart. After you're back up, click on the iTunes setup file you just downloaded. After it installs, when you open iTunes the first time, you'll probably see this error: "The file 'iTunes Library.itl' cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes." When you click ok the box closes & iTunes doesn't open.
Go into your iTunes folder (usually in your My Music folder) and remove this file - it will show up as iTunes Library.itl or maybe just iTunes Library. You could just delete it because you already have a backup from step #1. The other file, also called iTunes Library, is an .xml file that you can delete if you want.
6. Open iTunes - it will look totally blank w/ no files. Don't panic! Go to File>Import and try to import the library you made way back in step #1. I'm sorry to say it might not work. If it doesn't, the next thing to try is to import an older version of the library file, which will be in the "Previous iTunes Libraries" folder inside the iTunes folder. This also didn't work for me. So....
7. If you couldn't get the library file to open, you need to add your music back in. I just went to File>Add Folder to Library and added my My Music folder. You could also try doing it from backup discs but that takes a long time; in either case, if you have a lot of music this will take awhile. Just let iTunes do it's thing.
8. Now you can go to File>Import and select the playlists you created in step #1. This did work for me when I went from 7.4.3.1 back to 7.3.2.6.
You should be good to go! I hope this helps some people. If you have any questions you can post them, but I can't promise that I will have answers.
meeshala

Hi - it sounds like you still need to move the library file, which is in step 5 of my original post; this is assuming you exported your library before you went back to 7.3 - if you didn't do that, don't delete anything yet - just try moving the itunes library.itl file onto your desktop:
"5. Now restart. After you're back up, click on the iTunes setup file you just downloaded. After it installs, when you open iTunes the first time, you'll probably see this error: "The file 'iTunes Library.itl' cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes." When you click ok the box closes & iTunes doesn't open.
"Go into your iTunes folder (usually in your My Music folder) and remove this file - it will show up as iTunes Library.itl or maybe just iTunes Library. You could just delete it because you already have a backup from step #1. The other file, also called iTunes Library, is an .xml file that you can delete if you want (actually, just leave the .xml file where it is).
"6. Open iTunes - it will look totally blank w/ no files. Don't panic! Go to File>Import and try to import the library you made way back in step #1."
Since I wrote that I've gone back and forth a couple of times, and importing the backup library file should work. If for some reason you didn't export your library, you can try importing the iTunes Music Library.xml file in your iTunes folder. It takes a really long time but this does also work.
If you were having the same 11333 error that I was, I was finally able to get into the iTunes store with 7.4.3 after installing certificate revocations lists as described on this page: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306628
I think that's helped a lot of people - have you tried that? Of course, to do that you would have to reinstall the newer version to try it.
Please post again if you are still having problems with the library, but I think you should be ok!

There are purchased items on the iPhone "asingh's iPhone" that have not been transferred to your iTunes library. You should transfer these items to your iTunes library before updating this iPhone. Are you sure you want to continue?

When I am trying to upgrade my iphone to IOS7.0.2 by connecting my my iphone and macbook, it shows "There are purchased items on the iPhone “asingh’s iPhone” that have not been transferred to your iTunes library. You should transfer these items to your iTunes library before updating this iPhone. Are you sure you want to continue? ". I hit the same issue and lost a lot of apps from my iphone. Can someone help on how to resolve this issue? I can automatically upgrade my software on the iphone but how shall I resolve any future updates of "Apps"?

I appreciate the answer, but what you describe is not entirely accurate. First, to even see view, you have to enable the menu by clicking on the icon in the upper left. View allows you to show the sidebar.
Second, you will NOT see your devise listed in sidebar or anywhere else. Instead, you have to click on "devise" from the sidebar menu, wait a minute, and then it will finally show up under "devise." Or maybe it just takes a minute to show up whatever you do.
Third, right clicking on your devise will take you to a menu with "transfer my files" on it, but then iTunes will refuse to make the transfer. Instead, it will tell you that <your apps> on your <devise> could not be transferred to iTunes "because you are not authorized for it on your computer." Apple unhelpfully suggests going to store> authorize this computer. There is a "store" menu item on the sidebar, but it has no "authorize this computer" sub-menu. Instead, go to the horizontal menu at the upper left, and THERE you will find "store" and the "authorize this computer" sub-menu. Now you can transfer your files, to who knows where.
My iPhone 5 is my first Apple devise. So far my experience has been, to do A, which must be done right now, you must first do B. To do B you must first do C, which is unexplained save in answers in user forums. To do C you must first do D, which, after several hours of research and puzzle solving, can eventually be done.

So You Want to Change Squirrelmail's Default Color Scheme...

I needed to do this, because I'm migrating users to Dovecot over time. In the event they connect to the old webmail site I want it to be obvious, so I changed the background color.
This requires vi or some other plain text editor. Proceed at your own risk.
The file you need to edit is:
/usr/share/squirrelmail/themes/default_theme.php
1) First, make a backup copy.
here's the file, in the event you ignore suggestion #1
<?php
* January 2, 2000
* Theme Name: 'Default Theme'
* This is the default theme that comes standard with SquirrelMail.
* Most of the colors were taken from mail.yahoo.com's theme on their
* site.
* To create a new theme, just copy this file, and edit the colors.
* Be sure to rename the file and keep the original, just in case.
* @author Luke Ehresman
* @copyright © 2000-2007 The SquirrelMail Project Team
* @license <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php">http://opensource.org/lic enses/gpl-license.php</a> GNU Public License
* @version $Id: default_theme.php 12127 2007-01-13 20:07:24Z kink $
* @package squirrelmail
* @subpackage themes
global $color;
$color[0] = '#dcdcdc'; // (light gray) TitleBar
$color[1] = '#800000'; // (red)
$color[2] = '#cc0000'; // (light red) Warning/Error Messages
$color[3] = '#a0b8c8'; // (green-blue) Left Bar Background
$color[4] = '#ffffff'; // (white) Normal Background
$color[5] = '#ffffcc'; // (light yellow) Table Headers
$color[6] = '#000000'; // (black) Text on left bar
$color[7] = '#0000cc'; // (blue) Links
$color[8] = '#000000'; // (black) Normal text
$color[9] = '#ababab'; // (mid-gray) Darker version of #0
$color[10] = '#666666'; // (dark gray) Darker version of #9
$color[11] = '#770000'; // (dark red) Special Folders color
$color[12] = '#ededed'; // (light gray) Alternate color for message list
$color[13] = '#800000'; // (dark red) Color for quoted text -- > 1 quote
$color[14] = '#ff0000'; // (red) Color for quoted text -- >> 2 or more
$color[15] = '#002266'; // (dark blue) Unselectable folders
$color[16] = '#ff9933'; // (orange) Highlight color
?>
2) Change the hex code for the color to the color you want. For example, to change the background from white to a green-blue, replace;
$color[4] = '#ffffff'; // (white) Normal Background
with
$color[4] = '#a0b8c8'; // (green-blue) Normal Background
Here's a list of hexadecimal color codes:
http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorsafe.html
3) Save the file. If you are logged into webmail, reload the page to see the change.
Message was edited by: flatrack

Here's another trick. Say you want to have each user have a specific theme, something other than default. The user specific settings for Squirrelmail are in /var/db/squirrelmail/data. Each user has a file called username.pref, where username = their actual short username. For the user msmith, it would be msmith.pref. For existing users, you can edit the file and add/modify whatever preferences you want. Set up your Squirrelmail like you want it site wide, and look at your pref file for an example. At my site, I want everyone to have the plain blue theme, and to turn off the alternating colors in the message list. Here are the preferences to do that:
altindexcolors=0
chosentheme=../themes/plain_bluetheme.php
I added those two lines to each users pref file, when they log in next they will have the plain blue theme. They can change it in the "Options" if they wish, but day one they get the plain blue theme.
For new users that you create through Workgroup Manager, there is a file in that directory called default_pref. That file is a template Workgroup Manager uses when creating a new user in Squirrelmail, so just add the prefs you want in that file, and each new user gets those preferences automatically when they are created.
There is a plugin that dose something similar called forced_prefs available at the Squirrelmail site, but if you force those prefs, users will not be able to change them if they want. It's also not real simple to use, at least for me. Documentation is pretty sparse as well.

Ghosting, Interlacing, Flicking or whatever you want to call it in Encore 2.0....frustrating

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