[Bob Cole]

Short answer: No. It took a lot of experimenting to get it to fit barely on a DVD-5. I don’t want to proceed until I know what the true target size is.

“fit comfortably” — that’s the point. What is “comfortable” anyway? And is it really true that it is better to fit comfortably?

What is more widely playable:

(1) single-layer DVD-5 crammed up with 15mb free.
(2) DVD-5 with less than 4 GB
(3) dual-layer at a higher data rate (but less than7000kbps)

[Bob Cole]

appreciate the response. I have Retrospect… somewhere.

— Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[Al McPhee] “There is an issue with impedance differences.”

Thanks!

Is the impedance difference issue addressed by Remote Audio’s adapter, model CAMCXY? “Includes DC voltage blocking capacitor.” (I’m told you can see it at https://www.remoteaudio.com/cables.htm but I haven’t been able to get their website to come up.)

— Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[Arniepix] “Graphics
Titles
Lower 3rds
Charts & graphs
Music
Sound effects
Fonts
Plug-ins
Clearances
Releases
Sound mix”

Don’t forget “Source tapes.”

(This from somebody who drove halfway to a shoot with a vehicle full of equipment… except for… the camera.)

— not Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[R. Hewitt] “Definitely NOT! Adobe are fully aware of the impact of moving Macs to an intel platform.”

Are you basing that on your own common sense, or on conversations with/quotations from Adobe?

I thought I’d heard that Apple was planning to make sure their software wouldn’t run on anything but an Intel-Mac. (Wonder how long that will last.) I guess you’re saying that the Intel-Mac will have no problem running Windows XP?

I also wonder whether Adobe saw the Intel-Mac writing on the wall; perhaps PP and Encore, as relatively new Adobe programs, were developed for Intel only, with the idea that there wouldn’t be a need to develop them for the Mac’s PowerPC processor.

[Bob Cole]

Good insights. Thanks. I’m still waiting for somebody with the numbers: how big a part of Adobe’s revenue comes from PP? How many copies of PP vs. FCP have been sold recently? Rather than just lambast the “marketers,” I’d like to get a bit of their perspective.

As far as competition from FCP is concerned, I suspect that Adobe looks at the number of PCs vs. Macs, and the strange antipathy of many people to anything Mac, and says to itself: “Sure — let FCP take all the Mac business, and maybe even persuade a few PC owners to buy Macs. We’ll do just fine… dominating the PC market.”

— Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[Jeffrey Gould] “The woman who works for my client thinks I should just build it into the estimate, but I’m a really honest up front person and wanted to do it the right way.”

As usual, the woman is right. Why did you need to tell them they were buying you equipment? Not only is it an unappealing idea, but it might be a capital expenditure that they’re not allowed to make.

But I’m glad you posted this issue; it is a problem many of us face, and the hot-warm-cold idea is cool.

I’d settle for hot and cold storage. What do the experts here think about good options (and more important, good strategies) for “cold” storage? I use three computers for every project, and backing up a project always takes me far more time and hassle than I’d like. DRW’s comment about cheap IDE drives is interesting, but while the drives are cheap, the housings add expense. I’d really like to be able to pop in a drive or a tape, back up everything associated with a project (everything: scripts, graphics, After Effects projects, media, EDL’s, alternate edits, etc.), AND be able to reload it to the proper computers, drives, and directories automatically. If anybody has this mastered, I’d love to hear about it.

— Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[stylz] “To even suggest that your seemingly well educated guesses at adobe’s marketing plan or lack there of is spot on is probably far off.”

You know, I think you have a point there, but don’t blame us for being curious about the intentions of the corporations whose products affect our investments and livelihood. Whenever I hear a stock market report about Sony, for example, my ears perk up — and recently it struck me that the Sony products that matter most to me weren’t even mentioned by most of the financial analysts.

Why raise the issue when the answer seems to be so elusive? As someone who invested a good deal in the EOLed discreet edit*, I think it is a good idea to know as much as I can about the corporate strategy of a supplier. That’s why I’d like to see a pie chart of how much FCP matters to Apple, PP to Adobe, etc.

[Bob Cole]

Glad to hear it. But what I was looking for was something very simple, like a way to “look at” the contents of the DLT tape, and a way to format it, erase old files, etc.

[Bob Cole]

I didn’t see that thread. Sorry. But thanks for linking to it.

— Bob C