[Andrew Rendell]

AFAIK you have to make a quicktime or mp4 of just that section*, so either mark in and out points on the sequence and export a quicktime of the section in H.264, or if you have a complete video file use Mpeg Streamclip, marking an in/out point to export a new quicktime or mp4 of the section. I usually upload to vimeo or youtube and then put a link to it on FB.

* TBF, I don’t do it very often, usually something family related when I do, so someone else might know a different/better way.

[Andrew Rendell]

There’s not much that I know of. Although the composing will be out of copyright, good performances are an expensive thing to arrange and record and the price for it is understandably quite high.

https://www.audionetwork.com has some classical music on regular production music terms (a one time fee depending on the purpose), but not a great deal and I don’t see that piece there. They used to handle the Borradaile collection (I don’t know if that’s still the case, there is mention of it on parts of their web site but the search isn’t currently working), it might be worth a phone call to their office in your region.

I also recall there being a classical series on Bruton, which I believe is handled by Universal Music (unippm) these days. That might be worth a search.

If it really, really has to be that piece and you can’t find it for use anywhere, it might be possible to get someone to arrange it for you from the sheet music for a flat fee using a mix of real and synthesized/sampled instruments, but my guess is that it would be quite a lot of work and therefore expect a substantial fee.

You could also ask in the Audio Professionals forum.

[Andrew Rendell]

I would think that hiring a Sony J30 with firewire would be the simplest way to hook up.

Almost all Digibeta decks play back Beta SP tapes and a single wire SDI cable to a breakout box is less prone to errors/mistakes than analogue wiring, so I’d be inclined to go that way rather than hunting around for an older Beta SP deck.

[Andrew Rendell]

Over here in Europe video noise is also defined subjectively, specs are that it shouldn’t be excessive but excessive is not rigorously defined. We do have specs for acceptable technical standards for cameras though, all the broadcasters over here demand that you comply with this – https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r118.pdf

[Andrew Rendell]

Aaah, you can’t buy too much gear out of passion (as long as you can make the payments). I’ve wasted money on cars and motorbikes but I’ve never regretted buying a guitar or a microphone 😉

[Andrew Rendell]

Hi

OK, I’ll start.

My initial response is: Oh, interesting. I’ll have a look at that when it comes out.

TBH, it really appeals to the enthusiast side of my interest in sound, I have, for example, a Zoom H2n which I’ve been playing with for a variety of things (the appeal being the variety of microphone settings), not to mention a whole bunch of different mics.

But to be brutally honest, it doesn’t really fix a problem that I have in my professional life, i.e., the work that earns me a living (mainly docs and factual telly).

I wish you success (sorry if this doesn’t sound too encouraging).

[Andrew Rendell]

At the moment cards copied to 2 external drives kept on separate shelves, plus a copy on my working drive.

It’s quite expensive and drives will probably last 5 to 8 years, depending on use.

I’ve been wondering about LTO tape for a while, the hardware is pricey but the tapes aren’t too bad and should last 20 or 30 years, assuming you can still get the drives to play them back (and you can always re-archive to whatever the current format of choice is in a few years if it looks like that one is being lost).

It would be a couple of grand to get into LTO-5 at the moment though (based on having a PC dedicated to it – plugging an external LTO drive into one of my existing macs doesn’t seem to be very much cheaper at the moment, at least at UK prices and availability), even more for LTO-6, which is why I’ve been prevaricating…

[Andrew Rendell]

I don’t know what is dumbfounding about the case.

It WAS a news event fifty years ago, on the day it happened and during the next few days.

It isn’t a news event now, now it’s a historical event, so the news reporting aspect of fair use no longer applies.

[Andrew Rendell]

I’ve still got my early Aja IO box – it accepts analogue video + xlr audio and connects to the computer by firewire.

BTW, does anyone know (remember) how fussy the DVR-10 is with regard to reference signal?

[Andrew Rendell]

60i means 60 fields per second interlaced, not 60 frames per second

I’m not aware of anyone using 60 frames per second interlaced, which would be 120i, so perhaps it would be worth clarifying that.