[Diane Bush]

Michael: Thank you very much for responding. I was shocked when I heard that TW wanted our HD converted to SD and then put on beta.
Last I remembered we are entering 2011 and didn’t know if this was the norm or protocol for a large cable provider. Remember we are PC and not MAC and used to use exclusively Avid Composer but it would hardly play nice with HD, non Avid proprietary special effect software, other plugins or after effects HD. Support was good from Avid as long as your had an available limit on your credit card. I was also tired of continuing to buy work arounds like Automatic Duck and different compressors. As for SpeedEdit 2…it’s just that …a stand alone post editor. However it works well with almost everything as a drag and drop video projects including mt2 into a time line. The greatest feature is that I can stream and scrub “Realtime” 10 HD time lines in separate windows at the same time via our output window. Better yet project it on a 10ft wall for viewers to comment for final cuts.
I/O cards are all Blackmagic cards either Intensity Pro, Extreme 2 or Decklink. Over course our video cards are only Quadros.
I know compressing 40 gbs into a 4.7 gb is challenging to say the least. But there has got to be away to get it to look at least hi res. When we play back from the harddrive it looks ok but on dvd. Not so good. Is there a piece of latest equipment, codec or software/hardware you may suggest. I think that 1080 to 720 then mpeg2 may be to much to fast. Someone told me to give TW a DVD with a many passes as it can hold is the best I can do. We are new to creative cow and you have been outstanding sharing your thoughts with us! Ditto…Creative Cow!
Diane