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Clip Notes cross platform?
Hi,
I’m working in a cross platform company with creatives on macs and account managers on windows, I’ve started using clip notes to submit video and animation work for review purposes during projects. The problem is I don’t seem to be able to output in a format that both the mac and pc users can view… WMV is fine for windows but doesn’t work for mac even with flip 4 mac installed. And I’ve had no luck with Movs on either so far.
Does anyone have any tried and tested set-ups that are similar,
I’m also having to stream the movie from one of our servers as our internal mail attachment limit is set to 4 mb.
Does anyone know of any restrictions and platform concerns with a clip notes PDF or the embeded or streamed media?
Might seem a bit lazy, but I haven’t gone through particularly stringent testing process, as there are so many variables that I thought I’d ask first.
Thanks
This has also been posted in the after effects forum
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I use clip notes all the time. I embed it into the PDF and post it on my FTP server if its too big for an email. I use the MOV preset in Medium Quality – looks great. I work on an XP CS3 Prod Prem and am sending it to clients on both win and mac OS. No Probs.
The win people need to have QT installed, it’s free and everyone should have the latest version installed on any computer mac or PC.
– Jon 😉How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Thanks,
I guess I’ll have to look in to what’s installed on which machines etc.
Out of interest, do you know if there is a way of outputting a clip notes pdf without having to re-render the video?
for example if i have rendered my video and uploaded it for streaming, then at a later time I want to re-create the PDF or amend the clip notes data in the pdf (eg the stream url etc) without having to re-render the video?
can’t just un-check the video render box as I get a media I/O error.
Thanks again
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I know you can keep the same clip on a server and then the PDF will keep linking to that one, but as far as spitting out notes in the PDF without rendering I don’t know about that? You’ll have to run a test in tricking the PDF by naming it exactly the same. With the notes you’ll have to render out something so it have an idea of TC placement (maybe black video?). Run some tests.
– Jon 😉How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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What I have noticed is this . . .
I primarily edit and deliver from a PC, but have clients who usually view Clip Notes on a Mac.
Every time we’ve had a problem with them opening the Clip Notes(QT) on their Mac was when they opened it with Viewer, rather than opening Acrobat Reader and then opening the Clip Notes PDF. I tested it on our in house Mac and this was the case . . . opening in Viewer failed . . . open in Acrobat Reader . . . success.
That way you can deliver to both platforms. Unfortunately in a mixed-platform environment . . . you have to educate your “client” on how to properly do the Clip Notes things. Either all PC users will have to have QT installed on their machines, or you will have to output twice if they insist.
Bart Conover
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Thanks Jon,
I think you’re right that black video seems the only way to go, I guess I’ll start doing this.
Thanks
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Thanks for the info Bart, I’ll bare this in mind,
I’m now outputing as quicktime, but when I open the pdf on xp and vista I get the problem that the PDF displays the video but the QT container doesn’t draw the QT gui with the controller/ scrubbing bar/volume bar etc. so you have to make an educated guess about where to click in a black void in order to control playback. hardly ideal.
at the moment this is not too bad as the review process is internal, but I would’nt like to send anything out of the building in this way.
Do you get this problem?
Thanks
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I have not experienced that particular problem. I’ll experiment today and see what I come up with.
Bart Conover
ASLAN Productions
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