Al Bergstein
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I don’t think there is any time limit that I can see. they seem to have very long segments on it. But I’ve not had to put anything over 30 minutes on it.
It’s unlikely to be faster, as the bottleneck is usually with the internet pipe, not the access to it. Your connection from your desk to the ISP is likely very fast, and the servers at Vimeo and YouTube are optimized for video throughput, so likely even faster. The bottleneck is that slow outbound and inbound pipe. My mid day speeds are much faster since changing from DSL (1.5Mbps) to Cablemodem (5 Mbps). But I’m in the sticks. You might find faster DSL in a city. My speeds at peak evening hours are no different. Too much shared traffic on cablemodem.
I really like Vimeo because it allows the ability to keep the URL I tell the client to use. That’s a huge benefit with multiple edits, like I did today, for example, getting to the final.
Alf
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I guess I was both lucky to not have paid my $99renewal in May, and a sap for having not got it extended to next June. I found that Vimeo has been much more useful for those client reviews, as I can reload newer versions over the top of the older versions without changing url’s. Apple’s mobileme has always been slow and slower for my needs. Or did i misunderstand your thoughts Wayne?
Alf
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By the way, here is a link to a short video I shot last year with an Azden SMX-10, Stereo $60 mic mounted on my T2i’s hot shoe. While not the best, it was, like you, a run and gun day, totally a free shoot, that also was raining for part of the day. The Azden worked fine, I didn’t care if it was shorted out by rain, which it wasn’t. I still use it occasionally, family shoots, non critical work. Nothing fancy. But the mic is off the camera, and yes, I agree that to plug in a wired lav would also be a way to solve this problem.
https://www.vimeo.com/16861433
I bet a lot of camera stores carry it. It requires a battery, has a low cut filter, power on switch (saves battery life), has a foam wind screen and actually can pick up someone standing in front of the camera, as you can see in the video. This is a great mic that cost Azden $1 to build at most, and actually delivers good cheap sound. My experiences are that it’s nominally better than the T2i built in mic (noticeably better), quite a bit less better than a AT897, which I also own. Can plug into the mic jack on your H4N to get a mic you can get off the unit, since the H4N is a nightmare to handhold. Buy a table top tripod (scissors jack style) for the Zoom.
Pair this cheap shotgun with a couple of cheap Radio Shack wired lavs and you are good to go.
Never hand hold the zoom. The built in mics on the Zoom are only useful for recording acoustic music or narrations when there is no other alternative. I”ve to a few great recordings on it, but usually I mic outbound of it. If you are recording live sound, back the Zoom up away from the talent or you’ll only pick up the loudest voices. It does better with ambient sound from a bit farther away than you think.
Alf
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Superb response. You win the response of the year award, and it’s only June (G).
Alf
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Brittany, I can’t be sure that the lav you have is stereo or not, usually i think they are mono, though a few are built as stereo.
As to the Zoom, I have one, and the XLRs can support Phantom, but you should be plugged into an outlet to do that, unless you have a short recording session or you have a box of batteries.
Alf
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Well, if I read you right, you are plugging essentially a mono lav mic into a stereo port. So right, you’ll only get one channel. It’s ok. You can cut and paste it into the other at post time.
The lav won’t work I don’t believe plugged into input one. I don’t think it has the power to drive it to that kind of port.
If you have the right cables for the AT to plug the reciever in (i.e. the right xlr or unbalanced, then yes. I have the larger dual reciever product from them (can’t remember the part number), but it has rather unique smaller xlr cables that plug into it, but they come out to standard XLR cables. So it should go right in. But I go to a field mixer first, then split to both the Zoom I have and out to feed the camera.
Good luck. Practice with it first!!! (G)
Alf
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Thanks you guys. That clears it up. I’ll leave it alone then. I’ve also found info that states that it might be useful to switch to 32 bit for rendering purposes, then back for normal editing. Is that also something you would agree with?
Alf
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Good point Steve. I did just that a month ago.probably should have this time.
Alf
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Thank you John. I’ll try some of these suggestions tomorrow, and post this video for you to see and enjoy when the client is satisfied. So far, it’s been my best work to date with multicam, and by and large Vegas is doing quite well.
Alf
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Ole, like the crashes I’m experiencing, it is often hard to know what to say about ‘random’ crashes. I spent time recreating the exact workflow that caused the crash. I think that you should work on getting something reproduceable, or close to it, so we can better understand where to start. Vegas is a huge program, with a massive amount of variables, so eliminating any and all are great.
Something to think about. Did *anything* change on the machine around that time? Go back to Windows and see if you can find any “restore points” that may have been created by the OS while you loaded a new program, driver, whatever. It could be that you have started working with some new workflow, like I did, that created it. For example, as I tried working with multicamera workflows, I’ve experienced more crashes. I have my hunches why, but it’s too time consuming right now to try and sort it all out. I will do some experiments when I don’t have a million other things to deal with. One thought leads me towards trying the same problem with transcoded footage. Anyway, look at your workflow and see if anything shows up. Try and recreate the crash right after it happens. It could be different things crashing you, but they all look like just a crash.
Good luck..
Alf