David Shirey
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I do like that feature added in 9, but if you just want to mute entire clips you don’t even need a volume envelope, you can just grab the gain at the top of the audio track for that clip and drag it to the bottom, right?
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I also have the i7 920 at home which is a 4 core multithreaded to 8 and you can view the cpu usage bit hitting ctrl+alt+esc in Win7 and go to the Performance tab. At work I use an AMD Phenom II x6 which is six cores.
I feel like Jeff was right about rendering being dependent on the codec, because when I’m rendering mpeg2 or AVC it’s using all cores, but if it’s just doing the audio to AC3 it seems like it either doesn’t need or can’t make use of all cores just for that.
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I agree with Scott about split screen sort of ruining the overall feel of the performance, but I can say that I’ve seen other videographers do a horizontal split screen with a wide shot of the stage on the bottom and the closer panning on the top. Not quite 50/50 but maybe 35 on the bottom and 65 top? Maybe not the most elegant idea but it does shoehorn both images on screen at once if that’s what’s needed.
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Just to follow up, after going out and buying a 16gb thumb drive, I finally heard back from the replicators that the specific error it was getting is “not known to cause playability issues.” So, I told them to just go ahead and copy it with the “error” and as long as the discs play back perfectly in every player I’ve tried it on like the master does, then I think I’ll be okay. In the future I’m definitely using the thumb drive to try and avoid this problem. Either that or find a replicator with an older version of Eclipse that doesn’t care about errors that no one will ever notice 😛
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That’s interesting to know. I’ve never touched that setting because everyone I know uses optical digital to output. Glad you found it!
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Is it possible the PS3 at the theater has an older Firmware? If so, and if they can’t connect it to the internet to update, you can offer to bring in the latest firmware on a usb drive. Alternatively you could offer to bring in your ps3 for that one showing.
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Thanks for the reply. It’s never happened before but in the research I’ve done there’s obviously a preference for DLT, which we don’t have access to. USB is a good idea though. Obviously there’s a 4gb file size limit on FAT32 formatted drives but I assume you can just format a flash drive for NTFS since replicators are running Eclipse on PC’s right?
What worries me is the company I’m working with keeps telling me the problem would show up in the disc image when it’s authored, not the actual media I’m using. According to them it’s something in the authoring and not the delivery medium, but it’s certainly one more thing I can try differently for the next version I send.
I’m still definitely interested to know if this error is the kind of thing that’s just gone undetected in the past and could be replicated onto the discs without it really affecting playback.
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I can’t help but agree with this. I’ve used Vegas since 4.0 and while I do love the interface, Premiere is hardly the glitchy mess it once was. A FCP editor here has decided to have me build him a PC for home and he’s switching to Premiere. With a little effort I could easily convert our entire office to PC, but then is it really worth it for me to be the only one using Vegas? I hope Sony really invests in version 10.
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Well I think you’re right about Vegas being a mean woman, but I’d describe it as more of a tease. It tempts you with its ability to play mixed formats in a single timeline, but when you actually get going it really doesn’t perform well enough to be useful. I primarily deal with mxf’s from a Sony EX1, and I’ve had a much easier time integrating those 7D mov’s after converting them with Cineform. You can try the demo out for free, and the files take up a lot more space than the originals, but the time and frustration you save will probably be worth it.
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Nowadays you can build your own i7 930, 6gb, 2 1TB 7200rpm drives and decent video card for about $700 if cost is a factor. If you’re doing 2+ hour HD programs you may want a little more ram. Cost for CPU’s gives diminishing returns but if the money is in the budget then nothing will speed up rendering time like a faster CPU.
Brand-wise I’ve personally done a lot of builds with Gigabyte motherboards and Western Digital hard drives. Using Asus optical drives and Verbatim media I’ve never had a bad disc.