[Bob Cole]

Right. Have done that. What I am still looking for is the Holy Grail: import audio file, get transcript.

[Bob Cole]

Here’s the report: In order for Dragon to transcribe your interviewees, you’ll need to get them to record a short script from Dragon. I suppose that would be possible, but I don’t know whether the people we interview would want to do that.

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[Michael Slowe] “is there anyway you can set the target codec and it will stay fixed until you change it?”

I second the question. Very annoying to have to reset the target codec; it seems as if there must be a way to make it stick.

Is there any way to communicate this to the software writers?

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

Very clever Mark. I went ahead and updated, and will report soon.

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[Michael Slowe] “why did you upgrade your Catalyst Browse?”

Just dumb, I guess. The software told me to do it, and I did it. It was a bad idea, because it was already working for me, and one should never change what’s working when on deadline. Now that I know where the Transcode button is, it’s fine.

People who use Time Machine faithfully look pretty smart.

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

Thanks! I was lucky, compared to you! I should know better than to upgrade software when I’m on deadline.

I really appreciate your fast response. I had already done a work-around for the transcode, but it’s great to know for future reference, and always great to know that the COW is such a great resource.

Wouldn’t it be nice if software writers included a good ol’ “readme.txt” when an upgrade moves things around?

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

Thanks. If I may, another question(s):

I have already started editing, organizing the material into bins and timelines. Does Resolve offer a path for me to create proxies in mid-stream?

I have actually tried to create proxies, and I’ve seen Alexis’s tutorials, but I don’t think that Resolve is using the proxies.

Thanks.

I’m now using Sony Catalyst Browse to create ProRes Proxy files but will happily use a better path.

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

Thanks Richard. Great thought.

How exactly are you doing that? And, how can you verify that the program is using proxy files?

I tried following the instructions in Ripple Training’s tutorial, using two techniques:

1. Playback/Proxy Mode/Half Resolution
2. Control-click on file in Media Pool, Generate Optimized Media

I think this has resulted in some improvement, but I still get the spinning beach ball when I’m quickly throwing frame adjustments into the timeline and playing back rapidly (the kind of editing that you have to do to get rid of the “um’s” and “uh’s”).

I can see in the playback window that the material is much lower-resolution. But I’m not sure that it is using the proxy files. Am I missing something here?

Thanks very much, again. I like Resolve – don’t want to go back to FCP7 or PPro.

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

That creates a timeline, one at a time – I would like the whole set of timelines, folders, etc. Is that even possible?

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[pascal tettero] “if there is no watermark in it or a name then it’s no copyright”

Sorry, this seems like nonsense and I have to stand up for Stan and others who’ve been stolen from.

To take your analysis to its logical next step: If I post a video on YouTube, with my name and copyright info in the credits and in the sidebar information; and someone copies the video, but edits out the credits, then he has violated my copyright. But then, if a second person copies the copied video, he has not violated my copyright?

That’s not how the law works with stolen goods; they go back to the original owner, no matter how many times they’ve been resold.

Here’s my usual disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. (Are you?)

Bob C