Tga export woes

Hello-- I posted this on the quicktime forum, but no one has replied.. I thought perhaps someone here might be of help?
Hi everyone...
I am working on a project dealing with targa sequences.. I've been doing this for months. I open an image sequence, and then I export it out as DVCPRO50 progressive 16:9, best quality... 720x480.........
Suddenly today, out of no where.. anytime I try to export anything in quicktime I get "failed export process terminated unexpectedly (10)"
I tried this with previous tga sequences I successfully converted before. I tried converting to different formats like MP4.. I get the same error no matter what I do.
I have rebooted, flashed pram.. flashed nvram... repaired premissions... nothing has changed.. I don't get it, and I am sooooo annoyed.
if anyone can help, I will love you for ever.
-patrick

Do you have FCP? if so import them there using a 1 frame duration for still images, then drag and drop them in order in a sequence to export as a QT movie.
Jerry

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Hello,
I am having problems exporting and re-importing with a different application id in the online environment.
I am getting:
ORA-20001: Errore GET_BLOCK. ORA-20001: Errore GET_STMT. ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small.
According to previous messages this error should be linked with character set but I exported and imported the file with Character set UTF-8 on the same machine, from the same client as DOS files.
When I ran the export script on my test box from SQLPlus, it went in without problems whatsoever, while I keep receiving the same error if I perform the import operation from HTMLDB import application page (on my box).
So, just to make a test, I imported the application script as a normal script and I received a different error altogether:
Error: ORA-20000: Unable to get the block of code: ORA-20000: Unable to get statement: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
ORA-12899: value too large for column "FLOWS_010500"."WWV_FLOW_SW_STATEMENTS"."TEXT" (actual: 412, maximum: 256)
This leads me to ask for some improvement in the user interface, like:
1) create an optional region where dbms_output messages can be read from.
2) spawn dbms_application_info lines in the export script so that a user can check what was the last operation performed.
3) support the "PROMPT" sqlplus command in some way inside the SQL command processor when executing scripts.
Additional question:
Is it possible to have a copy of the same application, that is working on top of the same schema, while having a different "skin", that is a different UI template?
This is what I was trying to test, but I was stopped by the import problem.
Thanks and bye,
Flavio

Flavio,
You will need to set the character set portion of your NLS_LANG environment variable to match the character set of the exported file. Note that this has to be set prior to connecting via SQL*Plus.
The format of the NLS_LANG environment variable is language_territory.characterset. There is no locale-specific information in an application export file, so it is irrelevant what the language and territory settings are, as long as they are valid. But the characterset value is all important.
For example, if I exported an application from HTML DB and the file character set is "Unicode UTF-8", I would want to set my NLS_LANG environment variable to something like american_america.al32utf8. Likewise, if my file character set is "Western European ISO-8859-1", I would want to set my NLS_LANG environment variable to something like american_america.we8iso8859p1.
The character set portion of NLS_LANG must match your exported file character set, regardless of the character set of the database you are importing into.
Joel

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hi...i've roundtripped STP & FCP with no problems (mostly)...a problem has arisen with an audio only project...AIFF files (from old recordings from the 30's)...they clean up pretty well and sound good in application...exported files sound like the originals...i've bounced to realtime, flattened, ect...
i'm unable to export File->Export->Compressor, Tracks and Mix as they are all greyed out...further, the "Save as..." drop down window has no render button...
i'm fortunate in that there is no deadline and i revisit these files and manuals from time to time trying to figure out what's going on...
anybody out there who knows what's going on before i try reinstall as a last resort...?
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Hold off the disks; you can't export with compressor
from an aiff file, you have to use a multi-track for
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What you can do is take you're finished audio and add
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muZAK
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That was the first thing I did but copying the text to note pad and stripping all styles got me right back where I started. The strange thing is the encoding can be fine in some chapters and displayed wrong in others. whether it's a single file separated by first levels or multiple files in a book file.
I've been told it's the reader's fault but that means ADE (and subsequent readers that use ADE would all see the bad encoding. In another forum I was told to add:
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One will provide less encoding hassles. Anyway my only solution so far is manually editing the code to the html codes. Find and replace.
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I'm exporting my first anamorphic project.
Would someone be willing to walk me through the correct sequence and export settings?
I'm trying to export to Quicktime Conversion, h.264, size 480x270. I have tried several sets of sequence settings, but they all come out horizontally stretched in export no matter what I do. It's quite possible I didn't set up the sequence settings properly also.
The more I read about this, the bigger a headache I get - I know it will be necessary to go through this in more detail, which I will do next - but I need to get this file exported and would be grateful if someone would help me cut through the maze for now.
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Hallo liebe Adobler und Adobemacher,
ich muss jetzt gerade mal meinen Frust loswerden. Vorsichtig ausgedrückt:
Kotze seit Tagen mal mehr, mal weniger auf CS4 ab - und heute abend ist das Maß voll!!!!!
Habe den Megastress heute gehabt, möchte zum Abschluss ein leckeres Mpeg-1 aus Premiere exportieren,
was in der Version 2 nur ein paar Klicks war.
Naja, Media Encoder. Nun ja. Nachdem ich meine Einstellungen für Video und Audio gemacht habe, stelle ich fest,
dass das Mpeg-1 Multiplexing zwar einzustellen ist, aber bei der Übergabe sich verdammt noch mal immer wieder
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dafür ist mit einem lustigen Trick verbunden.
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ein Mega-Fragezeichen wächst.
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Programm, dass nicht so Zicken macht. Renderzeit wieder 1:37 h.
Beim Durchsehen sind mir etliche Fehler in den Einzelbilder aufgefallen, als ob bei verschiedenen Skalierungen von Footages AntialiazingFehler
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nicht mehr vorhanden, oder Rechtsklick auf den Dokumentenrahmen=Bildgröße etc.?????
Mag sein, dass man alles irgendwie einstellen kann - aber dann bin ich mal gespannt wo sich die Knöpfe verstecken
Gruß,
frustrierter LS

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Im sure this is a CODEC issue
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