[Eric Susch]

I think you can say that you don’t care about the difference between DVD and Bluray discs but to say that there’s NO difference is just ridiculous. BluRay is A LOT better. I call DVDs “blur-o-vision” now.

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I see this question all the time on the COW and honestly, the BEST way to do it is to output your audio track through a crappy speaker, re-record it with a microphone, and sync it back up with the track. Some audio programs have an effect send that can record and sync it back up automatically. I did sound design on a sci-fi film years ago and did all the speaker voices this way. (There was a lot of that in the film. We had five or six old film squak boxes that all sounded different for different parts of the ship.) Put some reverb on the final track to put the speaker “in the room.”

This way is more work than just EQing it but it sounds much better, especially if you can find some interesting sounding speakers. You can try over-driving the speakers to distortion too.

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Been using https://www.tapeonline.com for many years, since before they advertised on the COW. Great service.

Hurry and buy your tape now because some day it will all go the way of vinyl records.

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Try https://www.soundsnap.com/

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Those new JVC cameras look nice. We’ve been using a JVC HD-110 for awhile now and it has a few minor quirks but is mostly quite good. We use it for the “in studio” shots for our show at:

https://letsknit2gether.com/

When we upgrade we’ll definitely go solid state all the way.

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I have experience with Sony AIT data tapes which are similar. I’d recommend you make sure that you are NOT archiving with data compression. It makes the process a LOT longer and compressed video files won’t get any smaller. In fact when I was experimenting a few years ago the data compression actually made some video files a little larger.

Speed is your enemy with tape archiving. I’ve actually abandoned it. It just takes too long with too much manual labor to get the data on and off the tapes. And yea, leaving your data on hard drives is eventually going to be a big problem too. There’s just no good solution at this point.

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I never found a way to hide the red out of sync indicators. You should be able to, just like you can turn the waveforms on and off but I don’t think you can. There have been a few minor updates to FCP since I checked though. There’s a chance the programmers added it to one of the settings menus. Might be worth another look.

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I’m surprised no one’s mentioned one of the simplest options for web approval. Get yourself an account at a video hosting provider like blip.tv or vimeo.com and upload your rough cuts there. You can send the client directly to the page or easily embed the video in a client page on your own site. With blip you can password protect your videos just for the client. Vimeo has higher quality HD encoding if that’s important. You can see some HD examples here:

https://vimeo.com/hd

This is the quick and dirty way but you get a nice embeddable player and it isn’t any more difficult than uploading to an FTP site. It’s very easy for the client. I’ve done it a few times.

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I’ll never forget the day that I was told to cut high school football footage destined for an award dinner, to the triumphant notes of “We Are the Champions” by Queen. Half way through the session I couldn’t stand it anymore. I turned and said, “You know this song is about gay pride, right?”

And then there was silence…

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The McCain campaign also complained about their own videos that were removed from YouTube for copyright violations, even though YouTube was complying with the DMCA which McCain supported. I guess he should have thought of the implications of that law before he voted for it.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/15/mccain_campaign_wants_youtube_dmca_special_treatment/

These two incidents just prove that it isn’t just the younger generation that feels all entitled when it comes to copyright.

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