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realplayer to fcp
i have a potential client that wants to have titles put onto about 35 hours of realplayer files they have. each file is about an hour or so long.
the titles will be headers, over black, explaining what is going on in the next hour of video, they are classes recorded here at the university i work at.
they also may want to blur/cut out some parts of the video, they wannt to not run into an issue of having people recognize students in teh class, i guess they were originally shot for a course website, which is locked and only people with a user/pass can view, now they want to go worldwide.
my questions are thus.
do i need to start with the original minidv source.
they dont want to pay for redigitization, so is there any way to easily do this with the current realplayer files, with FCP or even vegas video?
-ben
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p.s.
a. i know starting off with realplayer clips is the suck, but they want to do this as easily and cheaply as possible
b. i belive they are encoded as realplayer 10 or 9, at 385kbps.
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I don’t believe this can be done.
Where are the masters? The files BEFORE they were encoded? Are they not wanting to go back to the orginal company that did this?
Shane
Alokut Productions
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they get encoded real time from the camera somehow i believe……they have an ANYSTREAM system that does the encoding…
offtopic, i hate that machine.
in fact, they may only have realplayer files, and no masters too!!!
gotta love it, lol. i was hoping for some sort of hack or open source solution…i am wondering if HANDBRAKE or ISQUINT, 2 great programs for making ipod videos will work…
-ben
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dang, isquint didnt work!
i told those people realplayer was scary, but did they listen, NOO!
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If you want to shoot and edit the footage, you need to make sure the footage you shoot is editable.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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i agree 100%
this is one of those things, and i agree its a horrible way of doing it, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!
-ben
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[ben] “but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!”
Here’s whacha “gotta do.
Get a DV camcorder ahd shoot the LCD screen while the computer plays the QT file.
Should only take about 40-50 hours of shooting time.
Then capture the footage.
Should only take about 40-50 hours of capture time.
The add the titles.
Should only take about 20-40 hours of edit time.
Then create QT movies of these edits.
Should only take about 80-100 hours of computing time.
They “saved some money” with the original recording technique.
Now you can make a fortune “fixing” it.
Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!
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yeah……if only it were true.
i think they have masters, they just dont want to pay for the digitization of them, cause they alreayd have real files.
its a cluster****
it’ll et figured out. basically they are trying to use files that were perfect for one use, and use them for something completely different, without re-doing the work from scratch.
and of course they need this done in 2 weeks, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If they have masters…
Just tell them that to “re-encode” the Real files into something editable, it would take almost as much time as recapturing from the original tapes. The quality will be MUCH better than recompressing the Real files an extra two times, and they’re really only saving maybe 10% of the cost, but losing perhaps 50% of the quality. Real is not a editable codec, it’s a delivery codec.
If they can argue with you, then they’re just cheap and tell them they get what they’re willing to pay for. If they can’t argue with you, then what they don’t know WILL HELP them.
debe
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I seriously doubt they are going to find anybody to do this the way that they want. Like it was stated earlier… Real is a delivery codec. (Of course I would argue that MPEG-2 is also a delivery codec, and then HDV came out.) I hate to say it, but I think you have them in a good situation, pay for going back to the masters or don’t have the very long clips edited.
Or would it be right to say you are the in-house guy tapped to fix this problem?
(I say this because I used to be that guy at an university college and was always being asked to do ridiculous things when there was no budget.)-Parke
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