Puddy...

WOW WOW WOW...I can't believe you went to all of this trouble for my issue....but thanks alot...here's my update:

After much deliberation with a friend of mine who originally installed the AVID with me, etc...I think your conclusion is spot on...It just seems like AVID woke up and said...all along we've been wrong...and basically said to me..."You've had a nice run"...too bad...

Right now, like I said...I'm getting by by still using my camera (Sony HVR-Z1U), and just choosing Edge Crop...but as I said, after spending $1,300 on the deck, it would be A SHAME not to get to use it....

If you find any more time to help, or any solution...I'll be greatly indebted...ONE OTHER SIDE-NOTE...it also seems since this episode, that the video I'm bringing in from my camera is losing some "color-popping" as we called it in Televsion. By that I mean....on the original video, it looks GREAT...clear, crisp, colors really jump off the screen at you...now, however, it's as if the video has lost some of the wonderful definition, and is almost...(not exactly the description I'm looking for)...but hazey-ish in the slightest bit...average eye may not notice it, but I do...it's like the Blue's aren't as BLUE, the red's aren't as RED, and so on and so forth....are the two related?

Thanks again, and keep me posted...

Hello,

No problem, I think that I don't get out enough anyway. Looks like what your shooting is fun, went to the website.

The deck for me though is great. I use it all the time. You could probably do well to find a way to ingest HDV and output a 4:3 frame, part of a taming process for Avid. I might try that one day, but I've been spending more time with Premiere than Avid recently due to nature of projects (heavy illustrator, photoshop and after effects graphic work). Am looking forward to the Media Composer 3 release though.

I'm not experienced with your camera, but somewhere there should be a menu setting where you can adjust the picture to create different "looks". That may be where things have changed. If blues aren't as blue, red/green aren't as green, perhaps the color saturation in the past has been higher.

Happy shooting.

J.