Morten

Thanks for all the replies. To Saul: I'm using a PC and I'm cutting with DV. I'm not sure whether it's single or double field. How can I tell and what's the difference? I'll check out the web page you posted. Thanks again. Morten

Hi all, I have an editing question: I've finished editing my film on Avid Xpress and would like to transfer it to DVD. After a lot of trials and failing I've come to the conclusion that exporting the sequence as file either doesn't work or the quality is unacceptable. So it seems the best alternative is cutting it back to tape and capturing it back onto my computer (using the DVD burning program Roxio, which is the only one I have at the moment). But the problem with this is that the files are still quite large and there is a drop in quality. It takes about 7gb for 30 mins, although the program does compress it to about half the size when you burn it to DVD, but I know you can compress feature length films with little drop in quality and the size is only about 700mb So the question is does anybody know a better way of doing it? Regards, Morten

Dear Larry, I found this one guy on ebay who's located in Hong Kong. He is rated as a "Power seller" so I just crossed my fingers and hoped he'd send me the light meter, and he did and as the page said it was brand new. I figured it was worth a shot since it was half the price. He even sent me the meter before I had paid him all the money. I don't know which one's better out of Sekonic and Minolta. I just got the impression that sekonic was slightly better when I read reviews and product info, but I'm thinking it's just the same as with the whole Nikon VS Canon thing. It's a matter of preferance. Regards, Morten

Hi, I've checked a bit around the net and I came to the conclusion that the Sekonic L608 Cine super zoom master would be a good buy so I bought a new one off eBay. I just recently received it, but so far I've been very happy with it and it coverst all my needs. It was also half the price that I would have to pay in Australia. You can check it out on www.sekonic.com I've talked to more experienced DOP's that also rates it highly. Cheers, Morten