Christian Friis
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Hi Mark,
Never heard of LTO drives ???? But I want one now ????
Just out of curiosity… how ‘waterproof’ are they? Ive had so many HDs burn, and – as mentioned – also a CF card. Have lost a little of my faith in the electronic gods… I guess if you keep the tapes at the right temperature and humidity, ‘breakdowns’ must be ultra, mega rare…
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Hey Winston and Mark,
Great to hear from you both – and interesting to hear your takes on workflow (including ‘longterm backup’).
I’ve come across Larry Jordan many times over the years. I think now is the time to invest some hours in getting the basic workflow optimised. I think you’ve totally right, Winston, in saying that its ‘personal’. You have to find (and create) your own preferred ‘system’.
When it comes to SSD backups handed to clients… The first thing I think is: SSD drives break too! I haven’t had a SSD drive fail, but the worst thing I’ve tried is having a CF card fail. We had to do the whole production over (not all of it, because we found out there was a error in the proces, but we lost material that we had to re produce – it was possible to have a recover facility sort it out, but it would actually have been more expensive than having an extra production day…!). And come to think of it, DLT drives are not 100% safe either (the linear aspect of it, fools me sometimes :-))… So I guess a mirrored SSD would be the best (yet expensive) solution. Or maybe one SSD and a ‘cloud safe’. Either way 2 different locations is preferred – personally I wouldn’t leave with the client. Unless this (+ according terms, herunder finance!) was agreed upon to begin with.
Thanks again for your input. I’ll start the Larry Jordan ‘workflow and editing’ course – before my infant wakes up from her nap ☺
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Hey Joe,
Thanks very much, that did the trick. Looking forward to watching the video – thanks a lot again!
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Woops! Abort! Free Coremelt package does the trick: https://coremelt.com/products/coremeltfree.html
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Solved! The issue was that the 2 cameras had the same name (as they were same brand and model). So I changed the camera name + the angle name. Dont know which of the 2 info points did it.
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sorry for not checking previous posts. i had a hard time even figuring out the english words for the issue… :-O
anyway, thanks a lot! this makes sense, and finally i’m rid of these nasty “lines”…!
cheers!
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Thank you very much for your input – much appreciated! We settled for a WP base + Woo Commerce. Physical DVDs and the option of downloads – restricted to 1 download per bought video. If people have problems downloading, they can contact us, and we provide a new download link. File is 1.2 GB, I don’t think piracy will be a big issue. I have a paid Vimeo account – had overlooked that option, which actually looks pretty good! Thanks again!
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Hey Mark, thanks a lot for your post. If I understand you correctly, you suggest that I – instead of letting customers download the actual MP4 file – keep the MP4 file on my own server, and grant customers access with a unique password?
I totally with you on your other points. My products is not in a high risk zone of being heavily copied…! I just asked, as I found it to be silly if I’d overlooked an obvious solution…
Thanks again!
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Quick (late) update: Compressor repair did the trick, or rather it must have, as I’m now back to normal encoding pace… Thank you very much!
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Hello again,
Thank you all very much for your posts.
I’m not sure whether my OSX has changed since the last time. But I do know, that I’ve cleaned up my Mac (format, reinstall) entirely due to “disk permission issues”. And everything runs smoothly – Except for this compressor issue. Also I have plenty of storage.
I’ve been using compressor for the past 6 years (I think!). I was very happy for the first few years. Then a client came along with footage made in the woods – lots of slow pans, tilts and zooming… That’s a killer! Compressor did a very bad job here.
I also use BitVice, and currently use this for the project I’m working on at the moment – The 5 minute clip was encoded before I even returned to my desk with my freshly brewed coffee! (almost at least)…
I’d never heard of “Compressor Repair” before – Have downloaded and run it now. I’ll post again, when I know if it did the trick. Right now BitVice is keeping my processor busy!
Cheers,
Christian.