Arnie Schlissel
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[Shane Ross] “Well, that doesn’t matter. Just as improbable. Well, MORE so. That unit needs a wall socket.”
This is why you need to talk your producers into flying you business class. So that you’ll have that AC power and the space to let you put all of that travel time to work!
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Bob, can you find out what kind of incense he burned, also, if what kind, if any, offerings were made? White dove or rabbit, perhaps?
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You can use a converter to go from SDI to HDMI. Both Aja and Black Magic Design make them. I’m sure that others do, as well.
With Aja, the power supply is always sold separately.
https://www.aja.com/html/products_converters_HI5.htmlScroll down aways for the proper BMD boxes.
https://www.decklink.com/products/miniconverters/Arnie
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[Terence Curren] “My response last night was to offer any producer a “written” estimate of any amount they chose that they could then take to this guy who has publicly said he will beat it.
So I could give then a complete finish with audio on paper for $10.00, and he would have to do it for $9.00. Or else he is a liar. :-0 “
That’ll teach him! Honestly, seeing now that they really are claiming to offer full services, I don’t see how they can realistically expect to stay in business past their third or fourth rent payment.
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[Mike Cohen] “Look at the difference in packaged meat at Costco vs Safeway – there is a market for both. “
We don’t have Safeway here in NYC, but we do have Costco. And my personal experience is that Costco’s meat department is pretty good, good enough for Marc Bittman’s column in the NY Times to recommend them for some cuts.
But Costco has a different business model. They make most of their profit off of the annual membership fee, not on the markup on the goods they sell, so they can afford to sell meat (or flatscreen TVs) just above the net cost.
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Reading your original post literally, it looks like these guys are only renting rooms, not providing the services. If that’s the case, well, there’s certainly a market based on price. But all of the other arguments above still apply.
“We’ll beat any price” doesn’t suggest to me that they’ve outfitted each suite with reference grade audio & video production monitors. It suggests consumer TVs & computer speakers. It doesn’t suggest large, fast, protected RAID storage, it suggests long daisy chains of firewire & USB drives.
And it definitely doesn’t conjure up a vision of properly proportioned edit, color & mixing suites with recent hardware & software, Aeron chairs, Aurelex sound treatments and ergonomic furniture in a building with 24 hour security in a safe neighborhood. Nope, it suggests cramped rooms with leaking pipes & peeling paint, obsolete or consumer grade gear, folding chairs, “egg-crate” packing foam, doors for desks, no security in a dicey neighborhood.
Sign me up!
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[Samah Bennett] ” OR even… 4K?”
That loud thump you heard was the sound of me hitting the floor when I fell down laughing.
To work with high bandwidth material like uncompressed HD or any compressed or uncompressed version of 2k or 4k you’ll need a high bandwidth connection to a really fast drive array. There’s simply no way to do this on an iMac.
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[Arnljot Bringedal] “I have a panasonic BT-LH170w that I bought second hand today.”
Bring it back. Unless the seller told you about the sound when they sold it to you, you should be able to work something out.
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I’m not sure that this has anything to do with it, but I noticed that your source footage is .dv. What is the frame size of the source?
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If you open up the Batch Monitor, you should be able to kill the job there. When that fails, my next solution for this has always been to restart the Mac. Maybe someone here will have a better solution?
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