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Overwhelmed: what is the best solution?
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[Craig Alan] “Money talks. Any chance some of your work could be sold to benefit the zoo, say split the profits between the general zoo funds and to help build the video “department”. Or perhaps the videos posted on-line could be linked to ticket sales. Or have an admission to a video tour given at the zoo.”
It’s been explored. Believe me, this is a very sensitive topic and way too complicated to try to get into here. Let’s just say that if I didn’t have just about the coolest job in the world, I wouldn’t be hanging around dealing with all this, I’d be curled up in a nice post-production house in the city editing my little heart out.
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[Michael Garber] “A long time ago I used Adobe Encore for making a DVD and a Bluray. I liked it. Barring bugs and weirdness that I don’t know about, I think it’s probably a great alternative to DVDSP.”
I am long time DVDSP user and have converted to Encore.
It was all thanks to BD and nothing else.
I use FCPX and Avid mostly with PPro time to time.
If you are ready to move to PPro, you at least have Encore to try and use as possible replacement for DVDSP.Dont forget to have fun 🙂
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[Eric Santiago] “I am long time DVDSP user and have converted to Encore.”
That is great to hear, thanks!
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As you have a working FCP7 system, make sure you clone your drive before trialling FCPX. Personally, I wouldn’t put FCPX on a working FCP7 system at all but partition or use a totally new boot drive. Others will disagree but they perhaps have time to do a total reinstall when FCP7 starts to play up. I also wouldn’t update the OS on the FCP7 machine past SL and best advice has to always do clean installs for OS not overwriting. Same advice if you are trialling CS6.
A year after FCPX release I am staying on FCP 7 for at least another six months as it works, and it is compatible with the majority of editors who I post for. CS6 seems the most logical progression to me. As you are part of a system that uses tape, FCPX doesn’t look like a good NLE for your application. As has been mentioned, Pr is able to take FCP7 sequences from XML and although third parties have made translation tools for going Xto7 and 7toX, my understanding is that they are less reliable than going 7 to Pr.
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Thanks for the heads-up!
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[Lynette Gilbert] “Thanks for the heads-up!”
Pr6 is pretty cool, and it is an easy transition from FCP. If I were in your shoes, I’d probably be thinking CS6. What’s your i/o card?
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I feel your anxiety. I too work for a non-profit with EdDs who although quite smart are functionally illiterate on computers. My program lives and dies with grant money. We must submit a dollar amount for the grant every year or next year it looks like an unjustified capital increase year-over-year.
Good luck!!
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[Richard Herd] “I feel your anxiety. I too work for a non-profit with EdDs who although quite smart are functionally illiterate on computers. My program lives and dies with grant money. We must submit a dollar amount for the grant every year or next year it looks like an unjustified capital increase year-over-year.
Good luck!!”
Wow, that’s tough. My boss knows nothing about video, so that just adds to all the stress. Thanks, and good luck to you, too!
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Lynette, how much are you all spending on tape stock a year and maintenance on those old machines?
It seems to me that’s how you sell getting an HD cam to them.
‘We save this $ amount of money by getting out of tape.”
I don’t miss buying tape AT ALL.
As far as those folks who are asking for VHS I would just tell them we don’t offer that anymore. It’s not cost effective for us.
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Lynette, I agree with Bill. You should be thinking about how to get away from tape! Invest in a system to digitize your tape library either to dvd, hard drives, or… Your productivity will increase and you will save money on repairing decks.
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