[Chris Simpson]

Taiyo-yuden are about 3 times the price than ordinary DVD-R but saying that media is so cheap, what would it be in$, say 35cents compared 10cents per disc, clients don’t realise they are really paying for my time, and my service, rather than the thing, finished product, that the extra cost for reliability that it will play on any player is worth and the lack of complaints. If only I could do and say the same for the UK postal service!

[Chris Simpson]

Bitter experience has pushed me up to Taiyo-yuden 16x DVD-R. No quality control problems for last year and a half, say about 500-750 satisfied customers.

Yes I was looking at 1 to 3 duplicator I notice microboard duplicators use NEC drives, I’ve been advised elsewhere to go for Pioneer drives, saw a similar Edgedupe 1 to 3, with them. There’s some cross pollenation between brands, who makes NEC drives, Pioneer, Sony? Or is it the other way around?

[Chris Simpson]

Well I’ve copied 4 or 5 video clips from the capture scratch to another drive, reconnected media, and I’m back in business, working fine. cheers!

[Chris Simpson]

Do you think as a temporary measure, for the current project, I could move some of the video clips from the drive 4 capture scratch to drive 2 & 3, reconnect media (if necessary). As it’s going to be a long 3 or 4 days editing 5 secs at a time? Adding commentary is going to necessitate outputting a QT file and copying the audio back to the original sequence for rendering out for dvd.

[Chris Simpson]

Thanks for taking an interest Zane.

I have 4 internal Seagate SATA hard drives (I think they spin at 7200rpm), 1 250 Gb (boot drive), 1 500Gb and 2 x 750Gb. All the drives are just drives not set up as any kind of RAID, as I can never figure which kind of RAID type I might need or how to set it up, even assuming that’s the issue.

The clicking ticking doesn’t sound a drive failing, just the drive being accessed, not sure if thats struggling to access some many files on or creating virtual extra memory on the drive.

The 750 Gb drive I’m working from has 160Gb free, the project will be creating a double dvd of about 3 hours, so there’s 150Gb of video, I’ll be hopefully turning out a dozen or so multiclips.

I was wondering if I should move the project file to another drive, while the program file resides on the boot drive, I once had Adobe Premiere Pro, and read that the optimal way to organize that was in that way.

[Chris Simpson]

Well I know, once the bullet is bitten, and you capture the lot, rather than more like the shots you’re actually going to need, then editing in multicam or just stacking them in the timeline, is easy, and is not the issue. I’ve not used Multi cam as I’ve had 4 by 3 DV cameras well as 16 by 9 (my preference) that I usually capture in, and I read somewhere in multicam everything has to be the same format.

No the point was I’ve just finished capturing footage from 5 cameras, from latest shoot, and it weighs in at a 100Gb. I probably will use about 20Gb, I don’t want to delete it all 20Gb I’m using when I’m finished, but if its all part of longer clips, I’ll have to find a way to keep the best bits, as I want to recut portions into future promos & showreels, title sequences.

[Chris Simpson]

Thanks Jeremy

They are consumer sony mini dv and HDV cams.

I think I probably knew the answer at the outset of my post.

It’s a wish…

[Chris Simpson]

Surely that’s impossible, to get all the cameras time exact to the frame?

And how would you automate the spacing of the clips in the timeline?

Just clarify I’m talking of say capturing 10secs chunks, each minute, out of say 10mins footage, from 6 cameras shooting the same event from 6 different points of view.

What makes me wonder if this is actually possible is that each clip appears in the project file with the start and end time quoted on the clip from its respective tape. I could sit with a piece of paper working out where each clip on video track should be relative to each other but thats probably not much quicker than working it out matching points of intersecting shots visually. Obviously I’d have to visually synce the first clip of each track with another track but if I did that only once, I’d save shed loads of hard drive, rather than cueing up 6 or 7 10min chunks of video.