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[Shane Ross] “OK David, mind if I make this a Stock Answer? Because it is ALWAYS asked, and is the EASIEST way to do this”

Even better I would love all the stock answers to be permanently on the cow, that whey when anyone asks we can all just past the URL for it in a replay.

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[Shane Ross] “Do not use iDVD…that is more consumer oriented. “

AMEN I would never give a DVD to ANY paying customer that looks like the one there 10yr old kid or nephew just made.

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[Paul Corey] “I could hire experience editors to work with and for me. Some one that does not want to be the owner and just work and get a paycheck and I get to learn how to craft a story and anything else I need to know.”

It is a little more complicated then just giving them a paycheck.

Fist how are you going to ensure that you can bring in the money to give them the paycheck. Plus you will need money to cover all the other expenses. You will need commercial office space, employees will most likely not want to go going to your home everyday for work. Along with rent money there are alot of other costs of having employees.

You will have to provide insurance, and 401K to the employees as well as other possible benefits. If you don’t provide it they will go work for someone who douse. Plus you will have to pay them well, otherwise again they will just look elsewhere.

I had a boss once that never understood why employees would not stick around more then a year. He would hire people fresh out of school and pay them peanuts. As soon as they had a bit of work experience they were gone, because they could get payed more elsewhere and could actually get benefits from other employers.

I have made a decision to keep my production business SMALL,I do not want employees. Sure I will hire additional people for the day if needed, but the agreement ends at the end of the day. Once you add employees you must play the BOSS. Any problems they have come to you. You will spend much more time playing boss then you will learning video production.

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quicksilver8907, you just asked the same question last week and were given plenty of great advice.

Making another post in hopes of getting a different answer, because you may not have liked the ones you were given, is not a good Idea.

You are just going to have to face it that you will not find what you want for what you can spend.

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[quicksilver8907] “I would prefer a somewhat larger camera, something like the pd170 or a little smaller, but I dont really like the consumer size so much, although it might be all I can afford. My budget is around $1000”

Well you are not going to find anything that size, for $1000. especially with XLR mic inputs.

Nobody says that you must own one. Lets face it you are not going to be using it all the time, so why not rent one when you need it.

And because you just graduated from high school, I am honestly going to say focus on school. You can also always use the school cameras.

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[Don Greening] “FCP 4.5 is PowerPC only. Having said that, however, it may be possible to run it on an Intel machine using Rosetta.”

No you cannot run it under rosetta. For an intel machine you MUST have FCP 5.1

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What is the RPM speed of the drives?

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[Old Man In The Garden] “RAID 0+1 to a RAID 5 without destroying data”

you cannot create a raid without destroying the data that is on the drives. Cant be done.

[Old Man In The Garden] “It’s a RAID 0+1 now with 4 500g HDs and a partition for System and a partition for Storage.”

You want the system drive to be a completely different drive them your media drive. Not just a separate partition, but a completely different drive.

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[travisl] “no, the guy handed me the already shot dv tape. i’m lost at this point, why wont it play right in my camera??? or even capture into FCP?? “

You are going to have to find out how it was shot to be able to capture it correctly.

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Just make disk images of them, and store the images on a hard drive, much easier man.