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“BTW, as I tell everyone I know in the business, read the Cow daily so you will know what you need to know before it happens to you. Invariably, someone here will encounter an issue before it strikes me — thus, I usually know its coming and know the fix before it actually happens. ”

Amen, so many people only start looking once they have a problem.

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Where did those quicktime originate from. Quicktime is often just a warper.

It sound like you don’t have the proper codec installed.

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Is this the Russell Lasson that I was PA with on the Home Teachers.

Send me an email
zakbaker@bigZmedia.com

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“You’re going to need an extra firewire card to “spread out” the bandwith.”

Wirecast recommends a separate firewire bus for each camera so you will need a separate card for each camera.

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What application? You never said be specific please.

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in soundtrack set your noise print of the background noise you want to reduce (you probably wont be able to completely remove it) you can then reduce the sound of that noise. It is in the manual, do a search in the PDF version.

One other note depending on what the background noise is it may not reduce very well.

Also do a search on the Sound track forum I am sure that this have been covered there several times.

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HDV takes up just about the same space as DV douse so down-converting will not do much for you.

Sense you are very low I sagest getting a new hard drive, drives are cheep and you want to keep 10-20% free on your hard drive anyway.

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How long is your video? If it is of a decent length then you may never be able to get it small enough to email to a client.

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Zvi some how I get the impression that you feel that we are telling you that you will not make it if you start a business, or that you cant do it. NOBODY here has said that all we want to do is give a little advice so as to help you NOT to fail. We would hate to see you jump head first into the business pool while chained to a rock, all that we have said is to point out rocks that wee see potentially chained to you that you may not have noticed.

You have said that you will succeed, and while that is a good attitude to have, the hard reality is that there is a chance that you might not succeeded as you think you might. Having a I cant loose attitude often makes one look vary cocky, and nobody likes a someone who is vary cocky.

Starting any business is a risk, but because there is risk involved, the reward is that much sweeter. Your original post gave the impression that you were walking into the pool without knowing that you had a rock chained to your leg. When we sagested renting to didn’t say in your initial response that the closest rental place was so far away, you just seemed to blow off the idea.

Again all we want to do is to help you NOT to fail, so please don’t take what I have said or what others have said to mean that you cant, because I believe that you can. All the things that we have shared are things what we believe can help you succeed.

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Nobody here ever said you cant run a business, we just want to point out some of the hard things that we see that you might run into.

Again I personally sagest that you might want to consider keeping a regular job at the same time as starting your business. It gives you some regular income and benefits while you establish yourself in the video business.

My father has been doing this for over ten years with his consulting business. Its not that he cant make good money if he went full time with his consulting, but loosing a supplemented retirement plan and medical benefits from his regular job and having to provide them for himself would take way to big of a bite out of his take home pay, thus making it less then his current full time job.

Once you have a bit more experience with the camera (you said you wanted more), with running a business and have some established clients you can then go full time.