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Does DP8 still offer the option of playing video out via the Firewire ports?

Thanks for checking, DP8 people!!!

I should know in a few hours. Where's that damn UPS guy!!!!!

Video says, yes you can:http://www.motu.com/products/software/dp ...around 05:00

Despite those words being spoken in the MOTU video, I find DP8 can not use .dv files and therefore can not output video via firewire Incidentally, I'm finding video in general to be extremely sluggish in DP8. So much so I'll need to stick with 7.24 for the time being.

I stopped using FW for video a while ago. The drop down menu is gone and that's where the FW option was. I have to look at video in more detail. I haven't tried the video audio track monitoring yet either. Maybe there's a little hidden video pref or control section? Otherwise even HD video is working fine here with many music, SFX, and dialogue tracks active.

Maybe there's a little hidden video pref or control section? Otherwise even HD video is working fine here with many music, SFX, and dialogue tracks active.

hmm… Not for me. Playing files that use video drag down graphics on my entire computer. Maybe there is a setting I'm missing. The manual refers to an "Auto-detect Video Mode" setting(page 278), but I can't find that pref anywhere.

I checked the manual (p273?) and the consolidated window dropdown and pref (right clicking on movie window) do not match what I am getting. I am using a Canopus ADVC-100 which has worked in the past and is working in DP 7.24.

Point 1 release?

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I checked the manual (p273?) and the consolidated window dropdown and pref (right clicking on movie window) do not match what I am getting. I am using a Canopus ADVC-100 which has worked in the past and is working in DP 7.24.

Point 1 release?

Thanks MLC! Canopus ADVC-100 here to. MOTU tech support also could not open a .dv, so for the time being it looks like no FW video out. They could not reproduce my choppy graphics though. Also, when I clear-movie I get a crash every time. Those things seem to be specific to my rig. They're going to try to get back to me. The tech was unfamiliar with Detect-Video Mode referred to as well. ….yep, its a .0 thing. we'll get there.

I can open .dv files in the movie window and they seem to play fine. They do NOT show the FW and other output options.

Oooopsy!

Weird! So .DVs are not gray when you Open Quicktime as they are for me and the guy at MOTU tech support? The output to Firewire setting has been moved to the Movie-track mini-menu.

I'm seeing .dv movies just fine. The only two ways to get to the mini menu AFAIK is to right click on the movie or the drop down from the movie track in the consolidated window? Correct? If so, I don't see the FW option. If there's another way, I'm all eyes...

In the SE, at the top there's a Movie-Track. That's where the mini-menu is that gives me the option to output to FW. …which of course I can't do because I can't open a dang dot dee vee.

Ironically, predictably, if I don't have a movie window open in DP (so it's only visible in the SE's movie-track) my system-wide graphic issue is solved, so if I COULD access .DVs, I'd probably be good to go.

Got it. Yep, there is is alright, and it works...

You might have to open the jpeg in a new window to see it all.

Right. Any idea why you can see DV Quicktimes while others can't? …looks like we have very similar systems MLC.

Other than that I might be hallucinating (in which case this thread might not even exist in the real world) nope. I am using quicktime 7 if that matters. QT X is on the system but I rarely use it.

Maybe I can output a small .dv that works in my system and you can try it for giggles? PM me where to email it.