[Erik Pontius]

What was the answer? Do tell…

[Erik Pontius]

Few years ago a project I was working on needed to be farmed out to a translation/subtitling house to be subtitled in a variety of different languages and dumped to Beta SP. If I remember correctly, charges were between 900-1100 dollars per video (depending on the language). This was an approximately 8 min video. Oh, that didn’t include the translation since we supplied the translated versions of the script to them.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Never heard of such a thing. If you find it let us know.
In the meantime, you’ll need to find an intermediate codec like QT animation which is included in the windows version of QT.
SheerVideo codec by Bitjazz is not a free encoding codec (though the reader is) and does a really nice job. There are Mac and PC versions.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

I ran through a 3 day class a few years ago when I was just learning Avid. It cost a bit of money and I had to drive 3 hours away to go to the class. The coursework was the exact same as the self-paced Avid Xpress Pro book you can get from the Avid online store. I was half-way through the book before I took the class, so the first day was a repeat for me.
The advantage I think depends on how you like to learn. If you have a hard time sitting down and concentrating on a book and tutorial, instructor led training might help. You can also ask questions from the instructor to clear things up, often they show a couple of tricks & tips outside of the book.
It was a good experience for me and I learned a little but I’m glad I wasn’t the one paying for it. You get a nice little paper certificate when you are done.
Some of the more advanced classes (effects, color correction) or classes on Media Composer and such may be worth it.
Will it help you get a job? probably not. I think employers look more at what work you’ve done and your past experience more than certification.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Don’t forget that there is a Trapcode forum here as well…might be a good place to ask.

E.

[Erik Pontius]

Correct. You can fix problems with balance (not enough of one, too much of another), but when you have one entire channel missing you can’t make that up. Best you could hope for is B&W, which just uses the luminance.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

I’m assuming that you’ve checked your own cables and path from Deck to capture system against a known good tape?
Did the the folks who provided the footage give you a dub?
Was this footage recorded to a Camera VTR or from cameras to deck? I just wondered since the Color bars are generated internally on the camera.
At the very least the company who recorded it should not charge you for the shoot. This should have been something that was caught and corrected prior to the event.

I just had a camera where the Red CCD went out resulting in a blue/green picture..however the color bars are fine. Luckily I caught this problem and re-scheduled a shoot with other equipment.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Both are working for me.

[Erik Pontius]

I think you are still having DNS problems. I was looking into this when you first posted. You’re correct in that pinging the maltaannon.com results in the ip address for polygon.pl
Doing an NSlookup on maltaannon.com results in the ip address for polygon.pl
If you are doing redirects, you may also need to update your dns server at polygon.pl Your Whois lists two:
NS1.POLYGON.PL
NS2.POLYGON.PL

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

I do this a lot from mov’s created in camtasia. The biggest problem that you’ll run into is that most screen resolutions (frame sizes) are much higher than video. The avid will scale video down to fit in 720×480 and often the text and other small details become unreadable or blurry.
You can avoid some of the mess by creating the screen records with a low screen resolution like 640×480 or only recording a 640×480 portion of the screen (camtasia will allow you to do this). Of I have files that have already been recorded, I take them into After Effects, and drop them into a 720×480 comp, rescaling to fit and/or doing any number of pan & zoom kinds of effects to enlarge portions of the screen. Then export these from AE and import into Avid to cut into the show.

Erik