Daniel Weber
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Why use capture now? log and in and out and let the system do the work.
Guess I am an old style editor, but I can never figure out why people just use capture now to bring in footage.
Don’t mean to harp on your situation though.
Do you have the 512 cache on the RAID?
Dan Weber
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Shawn,
Since your in the Central California area, do you know anyone who is heading to WWDC? It might be interesting to hear what is going to happen from someone who will be there.
Dan Weber
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I have read all the posts on this topic. Very interesting and some good points made as well.
One thing that hasn’t been brought up is the exta work that can be brought in with 3 edit systems compared to 1.
Have you figured in the extra costs with having 3 systems to 1 though. Maybe you could get 2 FCP HD suites and put the extra money into decks (not that the cost of a FCP system is the same as the price of a good deck!!!!)
I was on the West coast until 3 years ago and FCP was becoming very popular then. Now I am on the east coast and it has been slower with high end houses accepting FCP over Avid. I just left a job where we had 3 Avids on a Unity and it was a nightmare!!!! The thing never worked properly!!!!!!! And they wanted $13K a year for free phone calls for tech support for a system that never worked right from day one. The VAR finally said that we needed to hire a full time IS guy to run the Unity!!!
That brings up another point not made. What will it cost you to train all your staff to go from Avid to FCP? I made the transition from FCP to Avid very quickly, but I have seen some Avid editors get freaked out by FCP. Though I have to admit that the best AVID editor that I know came and worked on my personal system at home and she freaked out when she saw what FCP could finally do!!!! She went out and bought a Powerbook and FCP just to learn how to use it!!!!
Final point to consider. Will you lose any clients by making the “switch”? If so will you gain more FCP editors to replace those lost.
Dan Weber
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Matt,
Thanks. My vendor is calling in an RMA this afternoon. I hooked the HDLink up to my edit system at my office and it still isn’t working.
Hopefully we can get a replacement ASAP. Of course this happens in the middle of a job with a deadline of this Monday.
Dan Weber
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I have made lots of DVD’s for International use. We make NTSC DVD’s because like Borjis said, most PAL dvd players can play NTSC discs. It is only the NTSC players in the states that can’t do the conversion.
From what I have been told, if the DVD player was made in the past couple of years, it can handle NTSC discs. Just make sure that they are region encoded for all the world regions. This is more important than NTSC/PAL format.
Dan Weber
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Jonathan,
What is Pro Bits? I posted earlier about a problem with having the audio dropping out on my Decklink Pro card. I use a Pioneer receiver.
Could my problem be the “Pro Bits” that you are talking about?
Thanks,
Dan Weber