Chuck Reti
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As noted quite frequently here on this topic, the free download version of Flip4Mac allows only 30 sec of WMV export. For more than that you have to purchase WMV Studio ($49) or above.
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[David Neidert] “seems time intensive”
Yes. it is and will be.
Here’s a link to one of the discussion of this in the COW AE forum:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/914221The linked Adobe PDF and COW AE tutorial on the subject are quite helpful.
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If you’re looking to save a little space, you could keep the text content of messages that are in one of your locally saved mailboxes, but remove the attachments if they’re no longer needed. Select message(s) that have attachment icons, go to menu>Message>Remove Attachments.
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There’s always After Effects:
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When you hit the Import File button, a navigation window opens with two entry fields at bottom. The top line allows manual entry of a file name, or will fill in when a file in the window is clicked. The bottom field should say “Files of Type.” This is a pulldown menu, which will show what kinds of files are importable. I’m pretty sure the only thing you can import in the text editor is a plain text (.txt) file. For example someone could pre-compose a list of names for credits or a disclaimer or other copy. Once imported you would then apply formatting and styles in Calligraphy.
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[John Huff] “It is my understanding that my choices are digi-beta, which is unaffordable, or beta-sp, a deck that can be found used for around $1000. So that was my reasoning.”
Following up on Shane’s comments, any broadcaster to whom you are delivering content won’t care a bit what you can or can’t afford, but that you deliver what meets their requirements. Independent edit houses typically will just rent equipment as needed. An early step in your process should be knowing, not guessing, what your output will need to be. And, the choices today go way beyond BetaSP or DigiBeta.
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I had to send some shots from my little Canon powershot camera for publication. They also wanted 300dpi. The camera makes its pictures at 180dpi, and in this case were 2272×1704 pixels. Opened shots in Photoshop and used Image Size to convert dpi to 300. Obviously, it couldn’t make the pictures any better, but the saved JPEGs say that they’re 300dpi. The pictures got printed with no questions asked, and looked just fine at the small size they appeared at in the magazine. If they had wanted them for a cover, that would have been a much different story. There are PS plugins that can uprez with very high quality interpolation, if that need arises.
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If you don’t need the layers as separate elements, export as .PNG and see what happens (should work OK).
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So it’s a MacPro (Intel), not a PowerMac (G4/G5).
Many applications and their support files want or need to be on the boot drive (varies per app), as should be all system-related files (Library, prefs etc).The other drives can be used for files generated by those apps. I for one would use one of them (the fastest/largest) exclusively for video media, and the others for different documents and files. While your User directory is set up on the boot drive, you can put things on the other drives. I have my Documents, Music, Pictures folders and files on a second internal, but have aliases to them in the User directory. Seems to not cause any problems. Of course you can save any file wherever you want.
Did you just copy applications over from an older system, or were they done as fresh installs? This could affect performance to some degree. I don’t see any reason why you’d consider partitioning.
If you’re using tons of fonts, I’d suggest a font management app of some sort, so that they’re not all active all the time.
This could contribute to some lag. Have you ever tried creating a new user, and seeing if things run any quicker under a different login?
If it were my system, I’d use an external for Time Machine, just so I could grab it and go if the computer or the local environment experienced some catastrophe. -
Yes. The only place those drives are “invisible” is on the desktop, or in the “Desktop” folder. All drives also appear in Finder window sidebars as well (unless you choose to “Remove from Sidebar” when you right-click respective icon in a sidebar..