Debe
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There are two companies in my market that recieved “cease and desist” letters from Disney’s lawyers for having productions they legitimately created for Disney on their websites, and those are just the ones I know about.
Ya gotta ask.
Most folks are flattered. Some are not. They will be the ones that try to crawl up your tailpipe and wreak havok.
debe
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Repairing permissions is done in Disk Utility, which is usually located in [main hard drive]>Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility. Select the boot drive in the left column, and hit the “repair permissions” button at the bottom of the screen. Get coffee. It’ll take a few minutes.
debe
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Oops, sorry, I thing I grabbed the wrong link.
There should be drivers in that general area for you, though….
debe
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Andy-
I asked my live guy…
Not knowing all the details, he said this:
“It depends on the bug…a lower end switcher with only “Key on/key off” capability might have issues with transparency. A T-Bar switcher like a Screen Pro 1604 will give you added flexibility and better options.
I don’t know if that’s enough to go on to help you make a decision. What will be the source of the bug(s)?
debe
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Uggg…
I don’t envy your situation, Ben!
Good luck with the slippin & slidin’!
debe
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You did say things from tape stayed in sync, yes?
How long is it? Can you put it on tape from FCP, capture it back in and then make your Realplayer file?
That would be another workaround to try if Walter’s idea doesn’t work for you, but it’ll probably take much more time.
I know you said it must be Real, and for the time being, obviously, you need to do that. However, you and the school are aware that Real is a “dead” format that is no longer being developed, and if it is still being supported, that is not long for this world, either?
Eventually, it might be that the school might have to choose between Real and uprading the computers. It might happen that there will be no Real Player available that will work on the new OS, whether that be Leopard, or Vista or later. In order to move forward and keep current, you may have to leave Real behind.
With Leopard on the horizon, and Vista seemingly imminemt, at least according to Microsoft, it might be time to figure out which direction to go for the “next generation”.
Not that this helps you now, though! However, thinking ahead might save everyone the headache of having to convert all your Real files in a hurry because everything needs to upgrade, and we all know that once the decision is made, it usually doesn’t get “unmade”. Of course, you or someone at the school might be already on top of this!
debe
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It doesn’t matter whose fault it is. It could be argued (even if unreasonably so) that you didn’t tell them what you needed and by when, or you didn’t inform them in a reasonable manner as to how much time you needed to get from final approval to duplication to delivery to FedEx. One could say that you didn’t manage your client’s expectations well enough. Whether that’s true or not won’t matter when the AE tells the story. You’ll still be the one who blew the deadline. Never undersetimate the power of the one who really screwed up to go above and beyond the call of duty to cover their own butt and leave yours hanging out to dry.
Technically, Vyvx is “sending it electronically”. The closest Vyvx virtual teleport facility to Omaha is in Kansas City.
There’s a customer care 800 number for Vyvx here:
Call them and tell them your issue.
https://www.wiltelenterprise.com/vyvx/customer/index.htm
You can try to make an un-tested FTP delivery solution work, and run the risk having an even more disappoined client, or you can choose to use a proven method of transmission.
And no, I do not work for Vyvx. I have no affiliation and no relationship with them. In the last century I worked for a company that was associated with them, and that’s why I know about them, but I no longer have any connection. Even then, it was a totally different department.
The internet isn’t quite ready for what you’re wanting to do, even if you can force it to, and the places your 18 tapes need to go probably aren’t, either.
debe
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Try finding places in Omaha and in Norfolk that do Vyvx transmission. Google if necessary.
Even if you can get the quality you need to upload and download in a reasonable amount of time through your FTP, it’s going to make you look really bad. These are not the deliverables you promised, and now you’re asking the client to jump through hoops to accomodate either your technical problem or screw up. What happened to cause this doesn’t matter. You missed your deadline. The onus is on you to make it right.
I’d say look into a plane ticket if you’re trying to save you reputation if there’s not a Vyvx facility near enough. You can do counter-to-counter on some airline flights…at least you used to be able to. If you can’t do counter-to-counter, or you personally can’t take the time, find someone to act as courier for you. Toss ’em an additional $100, plus reasonable expenses, payable after confirmation the delivery.
How you react to a problem sometimes tells the client more about you in a single day than years of perfect service ever could. Don’t lose an opportunity to be the hero here. Just make sure you don’t TELL them you’re being a hero. Let them figure it out.
debe
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Kennon-
Maybe you should rethink your business model.
It’s incredibly difficult and currently cost-prohibitive to copy protect a DVD.
Why not make your money off of your talent, what you do that’s different and special for them for their special day, instead of your DVD burner?
Charge reasonably for the shooting, editing, audio sweeteining, whatever it is you do to create the content of the DVD. That is what is unique and marketable about you. Like you say, any yahoo in a white dress can figure out how to burn a copy of a DVD. That’s fine. You’re not selling them a DVD. You’re selling them something they don’t have, your talent.
Make copies that are reasonably-priced, and you might find that it’s easier for them to pay you for the copies than to burn them themselves. That’s the gravy, not the meal.
debe