Chris Blair
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The Weather Channel has been heading down this road for a long time. They’ve been trying to “create” stars our of Jin Cantore and “Abrams and Bettis” for a couple years now. Now they’ve got Al Roker on at 6am! Like anybody gets up and tunes in to see Al Roker?
It’s ridiculous. People tune in for one thing…THE WEATHER!
I don’t mind the weather documentaries that much, as long as they still do the area forecast every 8 minutes! But theatrical movies with weather themes? Are you serious?
Remember when CNN Headline News actually did news headline? Now it’s HLN and has 8 hours of Nancy Grace and A.J. Hammer. Remember when CMT had country music videos and shows about country music? (yeah I like country music).
What’s next, ESPN devoting huge blocks of time to something that doesn’t exist like Fantasy Football? Oh wait, they’re already doing that (Sports Illustrated does it too).
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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Phillip’s tutorial says you MUST have the original 30p audio in a separate timeline to make this work. So I think I do have the answer. Stop wasting your time and try to get the 30p original cut. That’s the only way it will work.
His tutorial also says about audio:
As a result this makes the clip longer and slows the audio down which is undesirable where audio is important. At this point you’ve already created a copy of the original clip therefore preserving the original audio which we’ll relink later in Final Cut.
The key phrase is: “where audio is important.” I’m very familiar with Phillip Bloom’s work from his website and blog, and the short film he references has no sycned audio in it. It’s just random street shots (beautifully done) cut to music.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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I don’t really have an answer for you, but I have some questions and assumptions for you:
1. Why would someone want to change from 30P originated footage to 24P?
2. If you speed the video back up the fractional amount needed, considering it’s already been slowed down once, you’re going to start introducing artifacts into the video.
3. Changing video (with synced audio) from one frame rate to the other without adding pull-down or pull-up will certainly either change the speed of the audio or cause it to un-sync with the video.
Maybe I don’t understand the goal here, but I believe changing the framerate of source video that has synced audio will almost certainly cause audio issues, either with pitch or syncing.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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Todd,
Daniel Low could probably better answer your pixel aspect questions. But in terms of Adobe Media Encoder, we’ve found it to be a very quirky piece of software. However, if you’re files are coming out looking correct with the seemingly incorrect settings, I’d send one your output files to a DVD authoring app or one of the station’s you’re dealing with and ask them to test it. It’s likely ok.
I know that there are some encoding apps out there that have global settings for how they treat aspect ration correction and such and perhaps there’s a setting on somewhere that’s causing this. The only other thing that comes to mind is are you sure your source or target file isn’t setup for 16:9? That could produce what you’re seeing.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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I could be wrong but I think a lot of the SAN/LAN solutions out there have the ability to plug directly into their various turnkey boxes without using a switch…so I don’t think that’s anything ground-breaking. I know EditShare, Apace and a couple others have diagrams that show direct connection as one method for cabling an editing environment.
Or at least they did 12-18 months ago!
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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I’ve always said two things about meeting in person. If I could get an interview for a job (that I was qualified for), I could get an offer. And if I can get a face to face meeting with a client (who’s serious about a project), I can get the job.
Unfortunately, I’m not batting a thousand on either of those. But I believe that most of the time the reason people hire us is because they like us. We’re laid back, we’re brutally honest, we don’t blow smoke up people’s nether regions and we truly want to help our clients meet THEIR objectives. Sure we do good quality work, we have high-end equipment, we have experienced people, we have creative ideas. But I believe people want to work with others they like, they trust and they feel comfortable about. They also want to work with people they believe understand their problems and know how to help them solve them.
So I’ll meet face to face every time if given the chance with legitimate potential clients. Heck…we try to take clients out to a lunch or dinner once a year just as a “thanks” for them doing business with us. I believe doing stuff like that helps clients’ feel like we’re not just trying to make a buck off of them. But we truly want to help them succeed.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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Wow…$100! That will almost feed a family of 4 at Red Lobster! Do like Grinner said, except laugh loudly. Not worth your time or effort. Have you seen The Weather Channel’s huge new set lately? I’m not sure what would be a fair amount to ask, but $100 is insulting.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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I agree with Daniel. But you need to remember that the speeds you’re quoted are “best case scenario” type of things. We went from a DSL business line to T1 a couple years ago. We expected to see a huge difference in internet, upload and download speeds. But in reality, the speed and productivity gains were modest at best.
Sure we noticed a difference, but it wasn’t anything earth shattering. Our ftp uploads of TV spots to Vyvx, TV stations and cable systems went from taking about 25-30 minutes per spot, to about 14-17 minutes. Downloading a large file of say 100MB, went from taking 15-20 minutes to 6-8 minutes.
Lots of things affect your speeds, from individual computers’ configurations, how everything is cabled and switched, the quality of the switching equipment, speed of ethernet cards, and especially the number of PCs accessing the entire setup.
But certainly as Daniel points out, it’s a no brainer to switch!
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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That’s great on that cable on Ebay. We’ve looked quite a bit for LCDs with DVI and they’re few and far between at the size we’re looking for. The room it’s going in isn’t very large and some seats at the conference room table are only 4-6 feet away from the monitor…so we don’t want to go over 42″ on size and preferably want to keep it at 37″. We haven’t looked a lot but at that size, we haven’t found any LCD’s that have DVI inputs.
It will mostly be used to play video, with some occasional presentations via PowerPoint and possibly looking at some websites and doing skype etc. So I doubt we’ll be using it much for looking at text intensive pages.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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Ok…a lightbulb went off in my head after re-reading your post Daniel. The graphic card in the PC has VGA and DVI out. A colleague emailed me and said he uses a DVI to HDMI convertor cable he bought on monoprice.com for $35 and it works great. He watches NetFlix movies streamed from his PC on it and said it looks great.
I imagine that would be a much better solution…digital out of the PC direct into the LCD!
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com