It's a new one on me too, so I could be wrong, but my guess would be that the symbol on the option/alt key is reminiscent of a cross-section of a bathtub. At

Re: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Apparently, this all changed in Snow Leopard. Now the application that creates a file is not bound to open that file. George See this thread and article links:

Frame Rate Conversion Q
A friend emailed this question to me so I figured I'd see if anyone here had an answer: We are capturing DVCPro HD tape that was shot on Varicam. It is coming

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
I do this all the time (P2, XDCam). I import the footage and put it in the timeline. Then I apply the "Timecode Reader" filter and export MPEG2 using

Send to Compressor issues
Hey everyone. One of the new features of FCP7 is supposed to allow you to take a sequence and "send to" Compressor, then jump back into FCP and continue

Re: Was: Exporting Quicktime Movies
I can?t let slide. I give up: why the bathtub key? All the best, Tom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Snow Leopard Changes Application Bindings
I thought this info should be top-level posted, so I then managed to cross post it. Embarrassing. Second try. This was posted in an earlier thread by Martin

Re: Was: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Ah! Thanks. All the best, Tom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
Thanks everyone who responded. It worked out great. ProxyMill looks pretty cool, too. Curt -- Curt Bailey curt@... ... [Non-text portions

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
Another way, if you're in a hurry, is Export a QT via compressor and use the TC generator Filter in Compressor. Not as versatile as the Reader and Generator in

Window-burn in tapeless environment
Hi, I'm new to the tapeless environment, so my question is what's the best? quickest? most efficient? way of getting 60 minutes of interview to the producer so

Re: Was: Exporting Quicktime Movies
... BINGO! ;-)))) You win a free upgrade to 10.6.1! Which by the way (for anyone interested) is your ticket to having Motion 4 run for longer than 10 minutes

Re: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Hopefully there will be some kind of utility developed providing a graphical interface to all this so it is easy to understand and modify all in one place...

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
www.imagineproducts.com - PROXYMILL This will make QT proxies with burned in timecode into any format you want...in the background, whenever you load a

Re: Send to Compressor issues
Not so far. James ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]