Ok, i'm ready to tackle this flicker problem once and for all...

ok, so when it comes to dealing with old analogue video, i always have a problem of glitchy flickery video.... it only happens when there is actual movement introduced while recording to tape (to quarantine the problem, i bought a brand new tape for my old as dirt 8mm cam, and set it on a tripod, recorded some stuff, then captured it.... smooth as silk. then i picked up the camera and kinda stomped around while recording, imported it, glitchy and flickery, but only on each step. i set up the cam to capture live footage and no tape at all, shook the camera while capturing for effect, and smooth as silk. now, i have tried these tests with 8mm cam circa 1998, VHS-C cam circa 2001, regular VHS over shoulder super old cam circa i have no idea, and all the test results turn out the same in all 3 different cameras. i even tried interfacing the cams through a vcr, and still the same problem. i even bought an external stabilizer (the ones that sell for like 15 bucks a pop on ebay), and no help.
(pssst, heres a clip of what i'm talking about.... if you notice it does it at the beginning, but not at the end... there was only movement (foot tapping or something) at the beginning, but then no more movement from the camera holder at the end)
so i'll explain my set-up. i have my analogue sources going through a hauppauge TV tuner via an rca-to-s-video converter do-dad from the rca out on the cam, and using Roxio Capture to capture the footage. the computer is quad-core 3ghz, 8gb ram, win7 x64, 3 internal 1tb HDD all at 7200 rpm set to harm's suggestion for a 3 HDD set-up, Adobe Production Premium CS5. i only do dv-avi with THIS particular workflow, so with THIS workflow we're just talking SD footage... the computer i have is more than a work horse for just SD.
what i want to know is.... if i were to go and spring for a Grass Valley Canopus ADVC, can anyone on here testify if using FireWire, and going through PrPro for capture instead of that roxio garbage, if it would come out being how i see the footage on tv? cause on the tv off the camera it is smooth as silk. but after it is digitized, it looks all glitchy depending on the circumstance. i thougt maybe it was the tape.... but ALL tapes? with 3 different cameras? were talking probably about 50 tapes i have dealt with.... all with this problem... the ONLY constant in all this has been the hauppauge TV Tuner card, and the Roxio BS software....
any wise counsel? cause i'm fed up with this problem!

What I'd like to know though is, has anyone here experience video like the clip above, before using a FireWire device, then used a FireWire device and noticed it cleared it up? I'm jut curious if the capture is the problem... Or if it's something else.
(eta: cleaned up punctuation)

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[nForce] Lets solve this 1394 problem once and for all.

Hi guys,
For the past 3months I have been trying to connect my Panasonic GS150 to my comuter in order to use Avid dvxpress pro. I have the problem of when I connect the camera to the computer, nothing happens. I also have this problem with my Ipod, however testing various different devices with the computer produces a strange outcome. Various different cameras work, xp pops up witha found new hardware device (like it should). Its very strange.
I started to think it was my system. I changed my onboard firewire to a pci card, same solution. So then, i reinstalled windows, same outcome. So i bought a new motherboard nforce2 platinum and to my total amazment, same problem. If was after i had totally failed in finding the solution that i started to look elsewhere on the net for anyone who knows the answer. It seems to be a VIA firewire chipset problem. Every post of people who had similiar problems where looking for the answer but NOONE has solved it, ive come across about 1000 posts with no reply's. Its a problem that thousands have but not many people ever use ther're firewire ports so they dont they've got the problem.
I really dont know what the problem is anymore, is it windows, is it certain 1394 devices, or is it the Via chipset. I havent a clue, so if anyone wants to attempt to solve this problem once and forall they will be the hero of about 3000 potential customers...
Anyone?
Jon.

Yes thats correct. Regardless of the hardware, and various 1394 devices are recognised. I've bought a 4pin to 4pin cable which i will test with different devices to see if they are consistent with a 6pin to 4pin cable, it may be a power issue. Not sure what chip on pci card, heres the info from website.
- Three external 6-pin FireWire ports
- Interoperable with existing, as well as older, 1394 consumer electronics and peripheral products
- Complies with OHCI requirements
- Compliant with IEEE 1394a-2000 standard
- Isochronous transfer support (guaranteed bandwidth) for DV video data transfer from Camcorder to PC
- Provides three fully compliant cable ports, each supporting 400Mbits/sec, 200Mbits/sec and 100Mbits/sec traffic
- Plug and Play & Hot-Swappable for all ports
- Power overload and protection failure on each port
- PCI bus master with PCI 2.2 Bus specification

I will give $100 to the person who can solve this problem once and for all.

I'm not even kidding, dude. We can do PayPay, I'll mail you a check, whatever you want. That is how frustrating this is, that is how badly I want it fixed, and that is how much overtime I've worked lately thanks to being shorthanded at my place of biz-nass. I'm an hombre of my word, so if you actually come up with a solution that works, the cheddar will be yours. Okay let's hit it.
It's the skipping thing. First 10-12 seconds of a song - every song - will play fine, then iTunes skips, stutters, and basically does the god **** hokey pokey and shakes it all about. It happens most notably with songs that I double-click to play, but I'm pretty much noticing it on any song now after a transition is made. I've been using iTunes for ages and this didn't happen until the upgrade to 7.3. I have poured over these forums for nearly a week, tried every solution offered (even offered one of my own that actually worked for maybe four days before the whole thing started up again) and NOTHING. To save us all some time, here's what I've tried:
- Downgrading. I'll admit I didn't do this correctly at first. I didn't remove everything according to the support guidelines, but I went down to version 6.05 and that did nothing to quell the skipping. I upgraded back up to 7.3 because hey, why not, and attempted the remaining trial fixes. I have since removed both iTunes and Quicktime, step my step according the the guidelines, and not only have I downgraded to my current running version of 7.2, I put both of the programs on my F drive (as opposed to the default C drive), my gigantic bonus internal drive where I typically keep nothing but my giganto music library. I thought putting the app on the same drive as the music might fix things. I thought wrong. Dead wrong. Dead diddly dum iddly wrong.
- Quicktime settings. My settings for Quicktime have always been in safe mode with the output size at 16 bits. So when I saw this "fix" I just rolled my eyes. I used to have that dealio back in the dizzle when iTunes would just get all static-y and skip when I'd open other programs or even just minimize it, so that fix worked for that, but it's nothing compared to this. In simpler terms, that fix is like Superman, and this skipping? The kryptonite. Actually that's probably not a great metaphor, but we've got a ways to go and this is going to get mucho boring if I don't throw some chuckles out there. Ready for fix three? Giddy up!
- Turn off cross-fade? It's never been on. I never really got the appeal of that, and also I think it resulted in some minor skipping back in the d. I also attempted similar fixes like turning off the equalizer, messing with the volume, closing last.fm, REMOVING an old album art retrieval program from back before iTunes got its **** together with album art, ANYTHING that might interfere with playback was turned off, removed, b-slapped, and sent crying home to its moms. Nada.
- Recreating my library. This was the fix I offered someone else, because it actually did the trick for a few days. After an entire night spent reimporting 73 gigs worth of music, it played fine, but I did lose a ton of album art, playcounts, etc, so you can imagine how ****** I was when this wound up not being a permanent fix. I was beyond ******. I was livid. But I was taught in the dojos of my youth to channel my anger into productivity, and instead of sculpting a lovely bonsai tree, I set out to fix this pup once and for all.
- That darn anti-virus! This was the final fix I tried, even though I wasn't using any of the culprit programs listed in the forums as causes of the skipping, and even those offering this as a solution confessed it was pretty hit or miss. But having tried everything else, having resorted to playing my music on MediaMonkey of all things, I figured I'd give it a shot. I used (reason for the past-tense forthcoming) AVG Anti-Virus, Lavasoft AdAware and something called Spyware Doctor that I think just came bundled with XP. I removed all of them. I had just done a virus scan recently to see if that's what was causing this, so I figured I'd be okay until I could redownload them after this fix wound up not working. And it didn't work, so there's that.
There may be a couple of fixes I've tried that I'm forgetting now, since I'm delirious after spending practically every night for the past week trying to fix this problem, while my girlf, Heather, sits and laughs at me while watching Clark and Michael on her MacBook. In fact, she's laughing at the $100 offer as I type this, but I assure you, if you offer a solution that works, the money is as good as yours. If you come up with a workable solution, I'll have to test and make sure it isn't temporary like the recreating my library thing, but I won't leave you hanging once I'm satisfied that it's fixed for good. I know it's unorthodox, perhaps illegal in some states, but I'm desperate here, peeps. The ball is in your court, and I beg you not to give up the rock.
Gateway E-2000 Windows XP

I think the problem lays with Last.fm. I had the same exact problem as you. In your processes screen, end the task "lastfmhelper.exe" Last.fm still scrobbles. The tracks don't skip, although I notice there is still a bit of a lag in the first part of the song - but if you can deal with that, no skipping. I think you will have to end that task everytime you boot up your computer, or uninstall last.fm completely until they fix it; it is a bug in their software, as opposed to iTunes.

Someone please settle this problem once and for all! (Duplicate Tracks)

I had an iPod about two years ago and ended up getting a different mp3 player. I now have a new 5G iPod and am having the same issue I had 2 years ago for the short time I had my old iPod. Duplicate tracks showing up in my iPod's library. I searched through these forums and found a lot of people having these problems, but none of the suggestions I read in the other threads seemed to do anything.
This seems to be an underlying problem for a lot of people and I don't understand why Apple would make their players this ********. I've had several other mp3 players in the last 2 years and you put in an artists' name and all the songs appear together under one name and are simply organized by Album, genre, year, etc... but, I loaded all my songs onto the iPod and even though tracks all contain the same artist name I get multiple listings for the same artist.
For instance, if I have several albums all of their filenames contain the artists' name, followed by a dash and then the name of the song. The artist name in the iTunes tag all match exactly as well. So why in the **** do names show up multiple times? I had this problem two years ago and it was never resolved, and I checked all over the boards and just couldn't come to a solution. I'll tell you one thing though, I can't believe it's this hard to get all of one artist under one listing on the player. Kinda dumb.
Please forgive me if this topic has been discussed to death. I just couldn't get anything useful out of any previous topics I looked at.

Alright I just checked my tracks and settings and what not and added some more music now I get a bunch of extra multiple listings. This is so ********. lol! Here is a screenshot of my iPod that I just took. Now this is just dumb because there aren't many ways that you can mess up the spelling in the name 2Pac. It's a 2, a capital P, a lowercase a, and c.
http://home.comcast.net/~johnnybukkake/iPod_Screenshot.jpg
The first listing gives me almost all his albums just fine. Then for the second listing I get another one of his full albums. And for the last three listings I get a single song in each of them. I mean really, Apple... How does a flaw this stupid rear it's ugly head into so many people's players?!

Let's put this to rest once and for all... IT or I.T?

wowitsdave wrote:Mark D. wrote:
slow day ?Lol - Guilty.
But seriously, I run a blog about IT career development and I'm trying to standardize the way I use it- with or without periods. Haha.If I was a betting man.. I would put my life savings on IT ending up as a landslide winner.

I couldn't find any answer on the Google, so...
Which way is Information Technology abbreviated?
Is it IT or I.T.?
Answer on Survey Monkey, then put your justification here in this thread.
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

Please settle this discrepancy once and for all re: maximum ram.

My old iMac SE DV graphite was purchased and delivered in January, 2000. The original order catalog (which I kept) claimed that it was "expandable to 512mb", as were all the 400mhz G3 slot-loading DV models in various 'flavors' including my Graphite Special Edition model. Also, both / all versions had the ATIRage 128 accelerator with 8mb SDRAM.
The only differences I can discern are that my Graphite has more ram (128mb) and had a slightly bigger hard drive (13GB on the graphite vs 10GB for the 'fruit').
Note: I have since replaced the hard drive with a 20GB since the original died within the first 2 years.
On this disussion site and other places (including MacWorld articles) I've seen conflicting statements as regards the MAXIMUM RAM my graphite should/could have. Some say 1GB (2x512) and some say 512 (2x256).
Can anyone once and for all, settle this question for me so that I can make an intelligent purchase?
(and thank you for the info re: PC100 as the way to go, not PC133)
Thanks & Peace to all.

At the time of its release Apple certified it for 512 MBs probably because larger DIMMs weren't available. In fact you can expand it to a max of 1 GB (two 512 MB DIMMs.) You will need 2 - PC100 3.3V 168-pin SDRAMs.
I can recommend DataMem as a reliable source for fairly priced RAM for Macs. The item you want is here.

Even I cant believe this is happening again! i'm once again asking for help with my account. Since im very sick I ask that u look into my account and read the hell verizon has put me through and assist ending the hell once and for all even if that means

Even I cant believe this is happening again! i'm once again asking for help with my account. Since im very sick I ask that u look into my account and read the hell verizon has put me through and assist ending the hell once and for all even if that means ending my contract, i just want the hell over. I went into my bill tonight and the mess was still there I paid $110. that's what I owe

I guess I spoke too soon! I really can't believe this nightmare is not over yet! My account is still wrong. The credit that I was due totaled $63.00 I am looking at a message on my phone saying that $21.01 was credited which makes my balance $219.72. I received a text the following day that says, I processed your credit of $30.00 and your new balance $216.73 how is that possible? None of the late fees were credited and the amount due for my monthly charges are wrong. Before any changes were made to my data plan back in Nov. My monthly charges were $140.00, I needed my hot spot back and i was told that the hot spot will increase my bill $10 for each phone that totals $20. The customer rep that change my data plan at that time also gave me a credit of $20 to compensate for the increase until I had time to talk with customer service about the mix-up with my Hot spot. I originally had the hot spot, but the rep that change my plan almost a year prior told me nothing was changing except I was getting more for less money. I explained to that rep that I need my hot spot 4 times a year...and I don't want my plan to have any changes. To verify what I'm telling u check my account and see that I called from Albany New York wanting to know where my hot spot was and I was told I didn't have the hot spot on my account since the last data change! I lost money once again due to the verizon rep's. so my current data plan the rep promised would increase $20 which makes my monthly charges that were $140 prior to the change $160 after the hot spot was returned to my account. Then I was given a $12 credit per month for 12 months because of so many mistakes made to my account so with that $12 credit my monthly charges should $148 + surcharges + taxes and that's not what I see. I do know this much right now my account is in such a shambles I can hardly see the light at the end if there is an end! I need real help!
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Current CC subscription turns into trial mode every other month... How to fix this once and for all?

Current my current always promptly paid CC subscription regularly turns into Trial mode. This means I can use Apps in trial mode (how nice...), ask me to get a paid subscription, and at the same time happily charges my credit card. This happens every other months. Then I have to discuss this with their agents, which usually takes days to weeks, because they don't know what's going on. How on earth can this be fixed one and for all?!
Thanks,
Hinnerk

Hinnerk do you have a case number from your previous contact with our support team that I can reference?
If you have a valid membership then please see Sign in, activation, or connection errors | CC, CS6, CS5.5 - http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-issues.html for information on how to resolve connection errors.

SORT THIS OUT ONCE AND FOR ALL BT!

BT,
I'VE HAD YOUR SERVICE FOR 3 YEARS, HAD THE SAME PROBLEM ON AND OFF FOR ALL THIS TIME. AT MY PREVIOUS ADDRESS INTERNET KEPT DROPPING, HAD NEW HUB, PROMISED RESOLUTIONS ETC. I THOUGHT MOVING TO A NEW PROPERTY I WOULDN'T ENCOUNTER THE SAME PROBLEMS. WELL, HEY-HO SINCE MOVING INTO NEW PROPERTY THE PROBLEMS WITH YOUR COMPANY HAVE FOLLOWED ME HERE. I HAVE HAD SO MANY ISSUES WITH BB, VISION AND THE LANDLINE I'M AT MY WITS' END. MY INTERNET KEEPS DROPPING, ENGINEER HAS BEEN OUT TO WORK AT THE EXCHANGE & WAS PROMISED I'D HAVE NO MORE ISSUES. 2 DAYS AFTER IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY FIXED IT STARTED DROPPING AGAIN. AFTER 6/7 PHONE CALLS HAVE BEEN TOLD ENGINEER NEEDS TO COME OUT AGAIN AND I MAY NEED A NEW ROUTER. I AM SERIOUSLY ILL DUE TO YOUR COMPANY AND INCOMPETENCE. AM TIRED OF SPEAKING TO INDIA, PHONE CALLS NEVER RETURNED WHEN I EXPECT THEM. WAS TOLD MY INTERNET SPEED WOULD BE INCREASED, LIE THAT HASN'T HAPPENED. THIS IS APPALLING. COMPLAINTS NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED. DO ALL YOUR CUSTOMERS EXPERIENCE 2ND CLASS SERVICE FROM YOU??? SORT IT OUT, SORT IT OUT HEAD OFFICE GETTING CALL MONDAY. SICK N TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED WITH SO-CALLED SERVICE. RUBBISH.

Anger I would say with the CAPS on. I am sure you have already been though this, but as part of the trouble shooting process all the ground work has to be covered.
Before covering below, how do you connect your computer(s) by ethernet cable or wireless? If wireless check to ensure that it is not the wireless that is dropping as most people mistake this for the broadband service dropping, if you are using wireless I would suggest using the ethernet cable for 48 hours to see if dropping, if connection stays working after using ethernet cable then wireless at fault. If already using ethernet cable please follow below.
1: How many telephone sockets in use?
2: For all the sockets in use is there a microfilter plugged in first?
3: Do you know where your master socket is, if not check all sockets to see if it looks like the one in the picture.
4: If it looks like the one in the picture, then unscrew both the screws and gently remove the faceplate you will see another socket inside.
5: Using one microfilter plug that in first and only the router and telephone no other devices for 48 hours, leave router on.
6: Within this period use the speedtester.bt.com three times a day, one morning, one afternoon and one in the evening, this will map out sync speed and ip speed..
7: Also when speed test has been completed log in to the router to check the connection time, as it could be dropping.
8: Post what you have completed with the trouble shooting and the speed test results one from the start and one from the end.
If after all this and the service is still dropping I would call and explain what you have completed for trouble shooting and request to have it escalated as a repeat issue, also request to speak to a manager.
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Xbox 360 to iMac, lets finish this once and for all!

Hello Everyone!
New to the forum here and I joint to get a finalised answer to a question I've heard people bickering about for ages! (hopefully the answer will come from someone who has done it/tryed it, not just someone who is going to create a theory of what would work!)
So I want to use my iMac as a screen for my Xbox 360, because, well, it would be awesome!
I have so far heard too many different things, for example, if I have a new 27" iMac (which i do) that its possibly just a single wire, mini DisplayPort to HDMI.
Another thing i have read said, it can only be a single mini DisplayPort to HDMI as long as i have 8GB of Ram.
Another has said I need to get a complete video converter to run through my mini DisplayPort that would cost around 150 pounds.
I'm a student and cant really afford to be wrong other wise I would guinea pig this myself, so what im asking for here is someone to lay the smack down. Which is it, if any?!
Does anyone even know if it has been successfully done yet!? And if it has, to how much success, does it have high lag? Because the guys at AppleCare Support were pretty sure it has been, but they were not allowed to recommend me anything because there is no official Apple fix for it. . . . Hence the reason why i was directed here. . .
Thanks in advance!

The answer is behind Door #3. It is a very expensive proposition.
The two way mini-DisplayPort on the 27" iMac will only accept DisplayPort signaling. So you need a device that has DisplayPort video output, such as a new MacBook Pro which can be attached to the iMac with a simple m-DP to m-DP cable. If you have a device with a DisplayPort video port you can attach it to the iMac with a DisplayPort to m-DP cable. But if the device has any other video output, then you need a video converter to convert the signal to DisplayPort. And most of these converters can only supply 720p to the iMac. One very expensive one can do 1080p.
You can get the converters from Kanex and Atlona.
http://www.kanexlive.com/products/kanexXD.html
http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-HDMI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-and-Scaler.html
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Once and for all, how does one stop losing music on IPOD TOUCH? WHAT settings do you people use to stop losing music? Does anybody have any help with this? Does any body have any help at all? APPLE offers no help!!!!!!!!!

I constantly loss my music!!!!!!!!!!!!! I constantly loss my music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need help to stop this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First of all, is the music only disappearing from your iPod, or from your iTunes Library as well?
From your other thread, I gather you swap between Manually Managing and Syncing. This is a bad idea, it will lead to confusion on your part about what should be on the iPod. You'll make a choice that iTunes later overrides - because you've told it to. Choose one method or the other, not both.
Peresonally, I recommend using the iTunes Sync process. Using Sync will not prevent you from deciding what's on your iPod. You will still have a free and full choice in that. The Sync process will however, make it far easier for you to put everything back onto your iPod in the event that you need to Restore your iPod, or when you replace this iPod with a newer one.
Back to your issue though. Is the music, missing from your iPod, still in your Library?

Settle this once and for all...

In every interview that I conduct, i ask a standard question: what is teh difference between a java bean and a class...
and the answers i get are minor variations of the sentence:
beans are classes with private members and get/set methods defined for these "properties"...
is that all the difference...?

JavaBeans is actually a Java Standard.
There are rules defined about how a JavaBean should appear in terms of its API and what interfaces it must implement.
Essentially any class can be considered a JavaBean as long as it conforms to the JavaBeans Specification.
Amongst other things a class must have the following properties
- It must implement the java.io.Serializable interface
- It must have a default, no argument constructor
- Properties of the class should conform to the JavaBeans Properties Naming Conventions. This addresses the standard accessor method naming which produces get/set/is.
- The Property Naming Conventions are actually a set of patterns that have to be applied to method signatures where no other information about the bean is available (ie no extra classes are available to provide extra information about the bean, a way of deviating from the default naming conventions in a standard manner).
I would suggest you go to the java.sun.com site and follow the JavaBeans Trail.

Mail, I have recently been receiving inappropriate mail which I have put to junk and deleted but they keep on coming sometimes 3 or 4 a day, how can I get rid of these once and for all. I am a lady of advancing years and do not want this.

I have recently started to receive inappropriate mail. Although I have never opened it I can tell that it is of a pornographic nature. As well as this I constantly receive mail offering me P**** enlargement drugs. Since I am a lady of advanced years I want neither of theses !!! Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this unwanted stuff. I receive at least 4 of them everyday and am quite frankly fed up putting them into junk and deleting them, but still they keep coming. Can anyone help please.

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...how do I go about finding my email account via the web...
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...and what should I do when I get into it?
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iCloud: Manage junk mail
iCloud: Read email
iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses

Very frequently when I click on a link, this message comes up: Connection was re-set. Then I can use Try again button. Annoying and time-waster. How to resolve this once and for all? In simple English only, please - I'm not a techie. Thanks.

See question above. Think that says it.

Maybe these will help:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17677533#17677533
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18324129#18324129
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18203126#18203126

Everytime I open Firefox I get a page from Video Download Helper. How do I get rid of this page once and for all?

Since two days, everytime I open firefox an extra tab opens up from Download Helper.
I close it everytime, but it's getting annoying.
I've tried the Extra - Options screen, I've tried the Help with Firefox screen , I can't seem to find a solution.
Please help me get rid of it before I might toss my screen out the window in a few days...

Did you check for problems with the file prefs.js in the Firefox Profile Folder and rename or delete the file?
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*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

Ok, i'm ready to tackle this flicker problem once and for all...

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