If the sleep mode is not built into the external hard drive itself, then right click on your XP desktop, click on Properties, click on the Screen Saver tab, click on the Power button at the bottom of that dialog, set Turn off hard disks to Never and see if that helps. You might want to also set the Power Schemes to Always On.

Here is the link to the AVCHD to P2 converter. This one should work with your Sony camera.

If you are only going to lightly use the deck the UVW-1800 should be fine. They are pretty durable. If you expect to use the deck for many hours per day recording and playing back, then I would go with the PVW-2800, they are pretty much indestructible. I used a single 2800 for eight years and the only thing it ever required was one drum replacement

You can install IeSpell which integrates with the forum software. You can download it here . It may not work with Firefox however. Give it a shot.

And if Larry doesn't, I will.

Try here .

You should really go to the Liquid forum for these issues. It is here . However, you can download the DX10 patch here . Any further help, please ask on the Liquid forum. I moderate there.

Congrats on #3,

Sorry guys, but it seems kind of foolish to try and force MC to work with TDK Pro. As much as I like TDK Pro in Liquid, the Marquee tool in MC is far superior once you learn to use it. It is a true 3D title tool with the abiility to animate your titles. I can't see any reason to mess with TDK Pro. There is also a simple title tool in MC for down

I did some experimenting earlier this week and found that indeed it is the fact that the inlay resolution was defaulting to green/yellow. When switched to green/green the downscaling looks fine. So, this is a non-issue except to make sure that the viewers are set for high resolution (green/green) playback. It seems to want to default back to green/yellow