ImagePro>more Dv-soft AVI format problems

["Michael Plonski" <mplonski[at]home.com>]

In previous messages I indicated that there were problems with reading
Dv-soft AVI compression with Image Pro.  I just bought a new notebook that
has the same problems.  I thought I would summarize my experience on various
machines.


Win 98 Dell 7500 Notebook:  Works with 4.1 & 4.112; doesn't work with 4.5 or
4.5022
Win 2000  Generic Athlon : Works: 4.1 & 4.112,  Doesn't work 4.5 or 4.5022
Win 2000  Dell P-4 : No version works
Win-XP Dell 8100 Notebook: No version works.

On the machines were 4.1 works - if you upgrade to 4.5 you can no longer
read Dv-soft AVI files.  If you upgrade 4.5 to 4.5022 you can write DV-soft
AVI files, but you can't read the files that you write from Image Pro back
into Image Pro.  I checked that Image Pro actually writes Dv-Soft by reading
into Adobe Premier.

This is turning into a major problem for me.  I bought this new notebook so
I could do serious image pro processing at customer sites.  I basically have
to now carry a particular desktop around with on the planes me along with an
older undersized notebook just to be able to use image pro with customer
format files.  It would take me days of CPU time to convert all the files,
which is simply not an option since I want to process them as they are
collected on site. Converting a few seconds of Dv-video into something like
cinepack which all versions of Image pro seem able to read takes several
minutes even on a P-4.  I haven't explored all the other AVI - compression
standards to see what works with Image Pro and is easy to convert.
I use DV-soft compression since I am capturing multi-gigabytes of video on
tape.  Dv-soft is the compression that comes across the firewire interface
(i.e digital video on IEEE 1394).
All the digital video decks and camcorders can be controlled directly by the
computer so you can slice out the few hundred megabytes that you want under
computer control.  I am also trying to stay in the native format of the tape
to avoid distortion from format changes.

I need to know if media cybernetics is going to address this problem.  If
they are not - I need to return this new notebook as it of no use to me.  I
don't think it is a windows XP problem as I have 1 Win 2000 desktop that has
the same problem, while another does not.  I don't think it is a matter of
how the video codecs are loaded on your system, as on the two systems where
image Pro 4.1 works, will stop working when you upgrade to 4.5.

I am open to suggestions - as I now have a brand new notebook that I
probably have to return since it can't run image pro properly.

I have to go find a good packing crate for my desktop now.

Mike Plonski


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