Eric Hansen
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Yes, kudos to Chris Duffy and everyone else at Small Tree. You guys have helped me in numerous ways. From hours on the phone and iChat with Chris, to mile long email chains with Steve. the level of knowledge is second to none.
without you guys, i wouldn’t be able to tell clients that yes, you CAN do video editing over ethernet.
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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thanks bob, as always
hey chris
i’ve never used these adapters before, but decided to because of Bob’s suggestion. we’re using these in a purely hardware sense: https://bit.ly/5qX3Ee
i think you’re doing something completely different. i have edit systems with Kona cards with RS422 control. i also have target decks and a Blackmagic Videohub in between. the Kona RS422 is controlling the deck’s RS422 through the Videohub router. the ethernet is just acting as a cable with 8 internal strands. there’s no software or drivers or anything. these adapters are just using ethernet cable (not any IP protocol) to run the connection with an RS422 adapter on each end.
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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i use AutoCat for cataloging the archives. it makes Finder aliases, so you can search in Finder/Spotlight and not have to use a separate cataloging program to read the database.
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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hey tyler
for my clients, i suggest one of 2 systems. either sets of bare hard drives that are rotated addressing Jordan’s concern about them sitting around, or LTO4.
if you’re putting a lot to archive, say 20TB+ a year, then i would suggest a tape-based system such as LTO4. tapes can be had for $40/800GB tape. the expense is the LTO deck. i recommend having 2 because if one deck goes down, you lose access to all of your archive. this is one reason i like archiving to multiple sets of hard drives because if one hard drive becomes inaccessible, you don’t lose access to all of your archive. i used to have a SDLT deck and it always went down at the worst times.
for hard drives, i suggest you have 3 complete sets that are rotated and checked for integrity every 6 months. keep 2 sets in house and one set in controlled storage.
i can give a much more complete answer, but i’ve answered this question a few times on the Cow in a few different forums. search my posts to get more info.
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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after getting some emails offline from other COW members, i’m updating this post
in order to get a video into the iTunes store, Apple told me that i have to go through a traditional DVD distributor that also does iTunes. since this is what Noah had said, i’m not surprised. they gave me a list of some distributors and included in that list was Tunecore, which i’ve used before for music. using Tunecore might be the easiest for most of the producers on this forum. they have an FAQ regarding videos here: https://www.tunecore.com/faq#Video
here’s the list of distributors that Apple sent me. i’m sure there are many more in addition to these 5:
New Video
newvideo.comKOCH Entertainment Distribution
kochent.comCinetic Rights Management
cineticmedia.comTunecore
tunecore.comIODA
iodalliance.comi have also used VAS Entertainment, which specializes in Action Sports, vasentertainment.com
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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hey noah
contact me offline: avplumber at mac dot com and i can give you specific details
in general, i just contacted Apple directly and got the ball rolling. Apple worked with us to create a “storefront” for the specific titles we were looking to sell online. yes there are some contracts to go through, but really it wasnt much different than getting a DVD replicated, and actually much easier than dealing with a DVD distributor. technically the toughest part was dealing with the fact that they wanted 24p and all our movies at the time were 60i. i couldn’t tell you if our experience was different than others however.
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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hey Noah
i don’t think its much different. doesn’t Apple take a percentage of App sales?
here’s the link for the iTunes Store page for TGR – i used to do color correcting, audio mixing and post there, among other things: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewRoom?fcId=292009317&id=37
it wasnt difficult to get them in the store in the technical sense, but the biggest difficulty was the music licensing. it was really easy to license music for 10,000 or so DVDs, but as soon as we started asking for downloads or video on demand to be added to the contract, the licensing costs went through the roof. also, their video prices are not as flexible as app prices. but i think they are getting better about it.
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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hey eric
i couldnt agree with you more.
before posting this question, i looked around at a few other threads that talked about the death of discs and that everything will be downloaded in 4-5 years. i agree that DVD is still king and i think it has a lot of life left in it. i’ve rented a few BDs and i’ve been very disappointed with the menus and design compared to the very mature state of DVD authoring. where my clients are coming from is this weird in-between place in regards to HD. making a DVD is automatic, but when they start talking about HD, BD is not an automatic. in my small town, i only know one other person with a BD player that isnt a PS3. i think its a chicken or the egg thing. i think this Christmas will decide the future of Blu-Ray. but my clients are currently scared off by the lack of players – that they won’t sell the minimum replication run. i used to work at an action sports production company that, even though everything has been produced in HD for over 4 years now, have not release a BD because they think they won’t sell the minimum run.
i think the main hinderance right now to downloading is there’s no common format. iTunes Extras could be a future glimpse of this common format since its based on free protocols like H.264, HTML and Java.
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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i agree with Jordan. HDV has a way of thinking theres a TC break when there might not visibly be one. this could be due to the tape physically stretching. you can’t dub to another HDV tape, because this “gap” will be transferred over. your only option is to either capture without TC, and that usually means capturing though a capture card and not firewire, or dumping to another format like HDCAM. you won’t have the original TC anymore either way.
another problem is how you have your camera hooked up to the storage. if you can, connect the storage and the camera to their own firewire ports on your computer. ideally, ports on 2 different busses (one port is on the computer, one port on a firewire card). you could be saturating the firewire buss trying to move a significant amount of data in 2 directions at once. DV could usually do this, but HDV is way more prone to problems even though its the same bitrate as DV.
btw, the missing seven seconds is because of pre-roll. the system needs pre-roll before capturing the next clip. if theres a time code break, FCP cant start the capture again after the break until it finds a sufficient amount of pre-roll
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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other forum members can speak to the Seagate issue too. but yes, it stems from the “fiasco” you refer to. the big issue is that discs with their faulty firmware had troubles in RAID systems. the drives did not work well in RAIDs because they would have slightly different spin up times, latency issues, etc. things that are incredibly small and don’t matter as single drives, but are a huge issue in RAID systems.
the problem is that this issue has cropped up in drives that don’t have the firmware that Seagate deems faulty. so you can’t exercise the warranty because Seagate won’t recognize that you have an issue. others on this forum have now sworn off Seagate completely. we all understand hard drive manufacturing issues, but Seagate’s customer service during the whole ordeal left a bad taste. i have one previous installation where we used Seagate drives and we are very slowly replacing them. problem is, no one makes a 1.5TB drive that isnt a reduced power “green” drive. its difficult to take an installation of 1.5TB drives and replace them with 1TB drives when the client and his staff have become accustomed to the size of the RAID volume. the drives are fine used as single drives though.
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