[Ben Oliver]

thanks!!

[Ben Oliver]

i would love to, but this is what happens when you work for public television!!!! No one makes decisions, or pisses anyone off…which usually leads to bad decisions and wastes of money

-b

[Ben Oliver]

ywah, i wish it was that simple,

the “transcription” house requires a black rectangle around the timecode, and only certain decks do that, so we are renting from a big rental house, instead of using my decks and making me rentals

booooooooo

[Ben Oliver]

is there such a thing as a device, that will read the timecode from the firewire port on teh deck, and will put the timecodeon the screen?

we are not shooting HD, we are minidv 24p.

-b

[Ben Oliver]

a once in a lifetime event? weddings can be great for repeat business…

its funny how no one records and shoots divorces, I think that would be fun, and worth the rental on some good microphones.

[Ben Oliver]

it would be great if i could use flash…however

its for a course website, so, basically, at the university i work for, there is a toolkit where they can upload “any” kind of file, be it a graphic, mp3, etc, as long as it is under 100mb. We get minidv tapes handed to us, and told, make it work on the class website. the students log into there class site, and see a “link” to a file, lets say, gwashington.mov they then click it, and have it stream in safari, lets say, or it downloads to there machine. this isn’t a “designed” website, its really plugin play, i guess?

some of these classes have over 800 students. so, i do my best to make the file as universal as possible. it’s basically a “file download” kind of deal. From what i figure, mpeg’s can play in Windows Media Player, and quicktime, so, i think thats what it is worth doing?

make sense?

[Ben Oliver]

yeah, i have no say in what people can use. these are for posting on a major universities class website, certain restraints, etc, so flash is definaty out f the question.

h264 will work in windows media player?

-b

[Ben Oliver]

so, if you had to choose a format, to encode lots of videos too, that will be posted on websites, which would you go with, h264 or mpeg4?

bare in mind, people using windows explorer, windows, etc, will be viewing them as well as people on macs

[Ben Oliver]

using a macbook air to do video work, is like hiring a flamingo to pull an ox’s load.

[Ben Oliver]

What you might want to do, is invest in a used beta SP deck, shoot all your material in HD, and deliver betasp masters, until you get the money to deliver on HD, or formats and files change, so you can just upload your videos to a server.

-ben