Bob Flood
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Hi Again
i just tried opening and saving without doing anything. and it changes the levels, increasing them by 2 to 4 dB.
I could understand if this was a stereo file and i was saving it to mono, but its mono to mono
i do not get it
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
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JG
Yeah it sounds like nesting, something that is supposed to work a certain way, but in fact doens not (i always do a hard export of my nest before editing it in)
I find these “features” that dont work to be the most frustrating. and i also think its a direct reflection of why the programs are so cheap.
oh well, back to cutting demos and webclips
thanx again
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
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flavio
its available at the belle-nuit websiter as freeware. it only works with avid. (a lot of stuff at belle nuit is menat for avid)
i have found quite a few apps out there that help move all kinds of files around in all kinds of ways. Mac explorer, file buddy, file sync, etc
I use a web search engine called dogpile (www.dogpile.com) it tends to be a little more focused than google. i would recommend using it to search for “mac file utilities” or “mac file management”
dont forget versiontracker either
hope this helps
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
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jg
thanx!
where can i find out more about the workings of soundtrack pro? i actually have found the user manual to be erroneous and unreliable. If this whole round trip thing is only good in a limitied way, i would like to know those limits
for example, i had mediamangled the job to free up hard drive space, and i wound up with all these “render.mov” files, that are basically some kind of reference movie. (I think thats what the error messages i get about “unable to play movie without flatten756354769.aif” are referring to)
so now i have a bunc of “render.mov”s with numbers ie render.mov-1, render.mov-2 etc
i am not sure if the mangler did that, or if its normal. so it would be nice to know where those render files are kept and so on, so i do not get burned in the futureas for now, i am just gonna archive the job, and if i need to i will re redit those .stap files back into my sequences.
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
JG…dood…my man!
“Export to Soundtrack” which then created aif files, which are still on line
see, if i open the .stap file through soundtrack, it opens correctly, and all the sound is there.
its only the .stap file in FCP thats empty.
one more thing: if i try to “open in editor” on the .stap file in my FCP sequence, i get an error message “file error: unkown file”
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
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duuuh
thanx jeremy (it seems you are always helpin me out. snaps!)
i have been re organizing our dept and writing scripts for that past few days, and it seems my mind has erased some FCP stuff to make room for others
thanx again
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
chip
we are in the same boat. so far have sent 2 spots to DG, and in both cases we had to send a D1 or Digibeta tape to a local post house who is qualified to upload.
if you contact them, they will give you help. we received a compete spec sheet for MPEG2, Audio, and Video both SD and HD.
compressor 2 does not make the right streams, ie they want program and it makes transport.
they actaully have specs and or presets for Squeeze, MainConcept (Mac or PC) and Cleaner 6. so i think those are preferred
Be advised that they have to certify you prior to your real upload. we had to compress 3 differnt spots or 30 sec clips (varying the content between the three clips) and get it approved before we were go!
hope this helps!
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
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FWIW
I was but a young pup assistant editor (circa 1978) and a freind of mine was invited to the wedding of a very wealthy family. were talking very! big name, big trust funds etc.
besides the wedding being drop dead awesome (catered to the max, huge orchestra, and so on)
there was a two camera 35mm film crew there, helmed by some hot at the time commercial director, shootiung the whole thing.fast forward approx 2 weeks when i am working on a commercial with a producer who was saying that when they were at the film editors office, someone was cutting a wedding video shot for some “really rich kids”. found out that this was the wedding my freind went to. the producer could not stop talking about this movie becasue apparently the first shot of the movie was the bride stepping into her panties!
ya know, too much money CAN be a bad thing.
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Floh
thanx! i was not sure about format conversion, as it has been a few summers since i ran M100
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Thanx Dave
yes YUV was shorthand for Y, R-Y, B-Y
thanx again
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.