Ed Dooley
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We had in-house servers for years, but my IT guy moved to France, so I looked around for hosts that could serve video. I got burned by one host that said they had the bandwidth, but didn’t, and another in the UK that went out of business within a couple months of me signing on. So I looked much more carefully the next time! 1&1 seemed to have a good reputation, and they serve our videos without a hiccup. I’m suprised that they can say 250gigs for $7.50 a month. I think they must assume that no one will really use that much
so it’s a marketing tool. Same with 2,500 e-mail accounts, etc.
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Or if it’s one or just a few clips, you can simply duplicate the clip and put it on another track for more volume. BTW, all the suggestions above, and this one, have been
given a bunch of times. If you do a search of the posts first you won’t have to ask.
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Thanks Tom,
I think the accumulated feedback is probably the best feature, that I don’t have using my own site. As for cost for a small company, hosting companies have drastcally changed storage and transfer volume. My provider 1&1, a pretty large provider, gives me (for $.50 less a month than the $7.95 you mentioned), 250 gigs of storage (that’s a bit more than 5 gigs), 2,500 gigs per month of transfer, 25 FTP accounts, 2,500 e-mail accounts (which I don’t use), 200 sub domains, etc. etc. That’s enough to run a fairly large company, all for $7.49 per month, and they serve my video very nicely too.
Ed[Tom Meegan] “xprove has the built in ability to manage access and accumulate feedback from many collaborators. The comments are attached to the file, so each person can see the feedback that has already been left right next to the video. You may have clients that do not have to run things through several divisions for approval, but I do, and xprove is perfect. Through access management, you can carefully guide a video through several work groups who all need to give approval separately.
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box.net allows for a huge amount of storage for not much money. Those of us who have sites we are paying for as a small business, not part of a larger company, may find that $7.95/month for 5 Gb of on line storage is pretty amazing. They also have some nice functionality built into their service, and are adding more all the time.” -
I’ve been doing a lot of editing overseas in the last few years. Not so much because I need to deliver while abroad, but because it’s a good use of time while in a hotel.
Although I’m about to buy a MBP (I’ve been holding out for a quad core, but can’t wait anymore), I use a 17″PB, with a 2 drive FW800 RAID 0, an IOLA, and a 10.4″ LCD NTSC/PAL, XVGA, DVI, composite, s-video, and component monitor. It’s runs on battery and power adapter, is 16:9 and 4:3, and weighs 4 pounds. I use it as a field monitor, then hook it up as a VGA 2nd monitor while editing, then as a video monitor to review my rough edits. They’re expensive when you have all those options (I think I paid $2,000 for it). It’s a Marshall https://www.lcdracks.com/ They also make a 12″ and 15″ (and bigger) that run off 12v, but aren’t really designed as field monitors. They’re less than $1,000 USD and can be adapted for the field. They don’t have component or DVI, but they have composite, s-video, and VGA. Mine has twice the brightness as the bigger cheaper ones too.
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Tom and Wayne,
Not criticizing your opinions, but curious,
why would you use those services? Is it only for someone
without their own sites in your opinion, or is there a reason why someone
with a site would want to spend more money for those services?
In my case, my company’s web site serves video very well, and sending an e-mail
to a client with the address and password is all it takes for
them to review a video that’s embedded right into a web page.
So they get the branding experience of our company while
viewing the approval video, no monthly fee, no maximum
storage allowance.
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Select the video and audio together and hit Apple L. It’s in the manual.
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We sometimes put a video with TC on our web site. It also takes a bit of time, but they can
see it that day rather than wait for FedEx the next day (and it saves delivery $$$). We export by reference to save time, then (depending on the client) we compress a 480×360 WMV or .mov.
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But not in Compressor (v2 at least). The only CBR setting is 1 pass (they don’t even
name it CBR, just 1 Pass). All other options are VBR (including 1 and 2 pass).
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You can use Compressor. In the Preset Folders, use the folder, Advanced Format Conversion.
As Rich said, it ain’t gonna look pretty.
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nattress.com Graeme Nattress, who haunts (er, I mean frequents)
the COW has a standards conversion set that works great through FCP.
Compressor does it too. Did you try Googling it or looking at the tools you already have? There are a lot of sites that point you to these (as does the FCP manual) and other solutions.
Ed