Chris Sebes
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DVDSP doesn’t know how to create a Blu-ray disc. It sees it because that drive will likely also burn DVDs. So it sees it as an option.
Fortunately, I haven’t needed to create very elaborate Blu-ray discs, so Roxio Toast 11 along with its $29 Blu-ray plug-in has worked nicely for me.
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Make sure the End task of the video it’s crashing from is properly designated to do something. You may also want to try to delete and reimport the two potentially-offending videos into the authoring environment or re-encode them.
But I do agree with Jeff. That’s A LOT of video to cram into that DVD. And you’re not even using the full capacity of the disc. The quality will suffer, but I don’t see why it would crash the player.
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What do helicopter pilots and aerial camera ops call them?
With some of these terms you could possibly apply old-school terminology, like…Dolly (in or out) – moving the camera towards or away from a point
Truck (left or right) – side-to-side movement of the camera
Ped (up or down) – move the camera only straight up or downBut some of the other terms will come along. Why not start coining them?
Straight down from above – God’s eye
Rising while moving forward – I like your idea of “Take-off”Chris Sebes
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I’m also still using DVD Studio Pro on a 5,1 Mac Pro running Sierra. I never got into Adobe’s DVD authoring solution. I did use it once for a Blu-ray I needed to burn, but that was about it. I took to DVDSP because we used its predecessor, DVD Maestro on a Spruce. It was a natural transition and I’ve been with it ever since. It’s worked well since, but more often I’m having problems any time a file directory box needs to pop up to save, designate a folder location, or import files. It will freeze the program and I’ll need to force shutdown DVDSP.
I’d love to hear suggestions for other options, especially for Blu-ray.
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For any of the online services like Vimeo, I usually follow their guidelines. If the file isn’t going to be multiple GBs in size when rendered, I’ll even upload a ProRes 422 .mov file to them. Commercials tend to only be a few hundred MBs, so they’ll often go up in a higher quality than h.264.
And I don’t use the “Export to Vimeo” or “Export to YouTube” setting in FCP or Compressor. I’ll export the video, then log into my account and upload using the website. Because I can begin setting the basic, privacy, and other settings while it’s uploading, I prefer doing it this way.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have an application auto-launch on the Mac. Last year, I was working on an app that ran off a thumb drive. Windows allowed for autorun to work if it had previously turned on in Windows by the user. The Mac didn’t have anything like that. This is all part of the security settings that are set to not run executables by default. I think the best I could do was have the window with the app open, suggesting that the user click on it to get things going. You’ll have to explain this to your client again. It’s out of your control.
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You could also set up an in-house server. We do this for our clients.
Using Filezilla, we have the server client set up with write-only access to allow them to upload files. This way the files are already on our servers and don’t have to be downloaded from another site. The downside is that your client has to know how to transfer via FTP.
I do like the idea of using Dropbox or the like, but you’ll end up paying for more storage space, which if it’s in the budget, is fine. But with an in-house system like Filezilla running your transfers, you’re already using a server you already have and with open-source software. Plus you don’t have to wait for it to download on your side. With a server in your own building, it’s a matter of just dragging the file across the network to your edit station. Much faster.
I’d love to hear what solution you go with.
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If budget is very tight and you’re currently editing with USB3 drives, I’d go with the adapter. Buying a shiny new RAID system is wonderful, but expensive. Something like that Pegasus 2 starts at $1400. The USB3 speeds are very fast and a huge step up from the USB2 speeds. You should easily notice the difference.
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Do you have another computer available? If so, try and network to the problem drive/computer and copy the file locally to the second computer. If you can use a Windows machine, this may ignore the error that the Mac is throwing up. At least this way you can try and make a backup of the file. Then make another copy elsewhere and see if that clears things up. Good luck!
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At our studio, I’m currently using a Drobo D5, which is populated with five 4TB drives along with a 256GB solid state drive that is used for file swapping commonly used files (taken care of by the Drobo.) In it’s current configuration, I have about 14TB of storage. The unaccounted-for storage is being used as redundancy in case one of the drives fails. I don’t do a whole lot of 4K editing, but when I do, it seems to handle it with no problem connected via Thunderbolt to my Mac Pro spittoon. Good luck!
Chris Sebes
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https://www.MediaMixStudios.com