Fred Jodry
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Contact the Composer or Publisher. Odds are he`ll even fax you a regular form. Otherwise, you`ll find the right form physically within 5 feet of the “Thomas Register” or “Dunn and Bradstreet” manuals in your local library. The copyright is arranged when both sides agree in writing. 🙂
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It`s a contest. Why don`t you pretend the Cow Judges are utterly (make that, udderly) a piece of the rest of the public? Either give them something good and a good example, or give them something winningly good, (hint, or just winning), and win. Anything from Pteradactyls slapping their wings together, to the lastest beat will do, as long as it`s the category I just put above. Submission length and content are good questions for self but submitting something a whole hour long sounds much too long. On the other hand, putting in a little story that rips people out of their chairs and sucks them in like the carburettor vacuum of a freshly gone- over Plymouth wouldn`t hurt. Plan if the, your, contest entry has a next use.
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Some things you`ll need for it (engineering digest not complete list):
1. RGB or other mixer, switcher, effects video board.
2. Adjustable delay lines for timing input phases.
3. A synch source to guide all possible cameras plus frame synchronizers for any video inputs that can`t be synchronized.
4. Methods to delay video a few fields or frames to compensate for the delay from the distance of the microphone(s) from the take.
5. Oscilloscopes, ground wire shunts, and other means of troubleshooting and stopping AC ground loops and Radio Stations signals bleed- ins.
6. Audio mixer board with phase polarity and tone controls.
7. Don`t forget to build in, “preview and programming” switching into the mixers. Mixing in empty or black channels is sometimes squelch.
8. An operator who monitors and adjusts the intercom lines.
9. Enough good operators to run things properly from gaffing, to iris adjustment on each camera, and a stage or location manager too.
10. Lighting note, if you are running a studio with colored lights, you make sure the clear lights not “most or all colors” make the neutrally colored regular segments, otherwise your taking colors will look like brown mud or similar distortions, and your lighting electric bill will be, Yeouch! You learned this from ME.
11. If you want to make your production crummy, use a bad electrician, poor batteries, no good battery tester, and a lack of test and monitoring eqt.
12. A pencil notepad of the good and bad luck.
13. Make nice stuff the public wants. Arrange and advertise in advance.3 camera live Switching System
by Jason Chesebrough on Jan 13, 2010 at 2:38:35 pm
I’m looking for some information on how to build a 3-4 camera live switching system that records to DVD.
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Why not try game after game until you get a good one? The number of cameras is largely determined by ambient light. If you shoot a daylight game, not much problem, and a dawn or dusk blue fringed one can look nice. Night time is another story. WVVA(?) came to me needing better blue tubes for their 3 Phillips LDK6A cameras. I told them they were already using good tubes. Time to increase to 6 cameras, hand crank in some higher video amplification, install prime lenses instead of zooms on some of them, and get used to the new routine. Your stadium might have fewer lights than a key one. Put more cameras in the action and use the remaining one very busy in the interviews. Run one continuous through the whole game and let the others run their own recorders. Same for the sound. Edit later. MIDI might help the editing.
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Bob, if the end of the demonstration requires a ticket to NAB 2010 or similar then plenty of us will be skipping that part. Many conventions like NAB are so less useful than they used to be with the result that we often substitute conventions and fairs only 400 miles or less away from home. Expensive hideously dangerous travel only worstens the matter in the same direction. We wish it weren`t so but that`s exactly the way it is. Some of the guys even joke that it makes the rented girlfriends “as far away as television”. In other words, Broadcasters can be just like the people at home. Elbow grease, yours or otherwise, can convince advertisers of the manufacturers to advertise closer to the Cow and also go to these closer conventions and fairs too. Also it improves the long, long task of convincing the Cow readers to build up good habits of their own, such as searching and clicking into the various corners of what`s available instead of assuming the daily flow will automatically take them to the best needed places. Where do you want to go today? Since many manufacturers aren`t willing to admit that their workers could, should, and can build more product for less money they will go the way of the dinosaur. Making kit versions is another possibility. It`s also piteous, in fact more like disgusting, when the second hand sellers are setting the stage of the matter all looking over their shoulders trying to sell things to anyone for the same price. One should realize that it`s more like “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” in the financial sense. While selling for “less than the going price” is a “stigma”, (one of those ten dollar words), it`s also possible for people to buy a new difficult product, use it carefully as far as wear goes, then write their own user`s manual and put it next to the manufacturer`s one then sell the item for more not less than the manufacturer`s new price.
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Dale, the directions above outline 2 directions in streaming.
The first, increasing the formally stated harddrive cache is an improvement if you download and stream as though live. The fact that your video is still freezing in apparently the same places seems to mean that that you`re downloading pop-ups, not as much the matter of managing the cache. (Of course it might not be the best if one sets it to 4598674%6987854((698745690&874598476984ee72847458249047090!9 MB. Who knows what that does on some computers.) For the last couple of weeks I`ve been directing most browser searches through Google.com. It scrubs out most of the unwanted web insects. It`s just what`s been working lately. The second approach is certainly the better one. It`s that you should download the entire file then play the saved file. By the way, if you use your own file player, as a quickie improvement, you might disconnect your internet connection just before playing the file to keep embedded advertisements from “calling home” and ramping upward their interruptions. Here`s the topic where Bruce, W1UJR asks Don, K4KYV how to save and play the file from a “Youtube”. If the case is somewhat different from yours, you`ll have to do some adapting. The program, Vixy.net, covers Mac, Wind., Ipod, and PSP, to mention.K4KYV says converter: AMFONE.NET Forum topic
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How does one “capture” or download the video stream? I’d like to keep a copy of that on my system.Check out this website. https://vixy.net/ Simply paste in the url of
the YouTube video. If and when it works, it will convert it to Flash
Video format on the site, which you can then download and save to yourhard drive. You will need software that converts the .flv file. A
free download is linked to the site.It doesn’t always work 100% for me, and it can take a while to convertand download. Sometimes the video stalls at about 91% complete and Ihave to cancel and start over. It can be a PITA, but I usually can eventually get a complete download. So far I haven’t been able to getit to work on anything but YouTube, but it’s supposed to work also with Google Video, Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video, MySpace and BBC news clips.
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This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s
videos, etc.) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). Itconverts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video
format. Then you can download the converted file.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGIdf0VjQ4
It`s “Radio Hams” by, Pete Smith Specialty for, MGM second half of
30`s. (via Frederic Jodry, DXLD)
Note, Glenn Hauser`s World of Radio as DX Listenning Digest, AMFone.net, and minor rewrites or comments. -
Try adjusting the cache in internet options in your InternetExplorer or Firefox web browser. Both same. Bump the stated harddrive cache from 50MB to 175MB for a compu with 512 MB of memory. Better yet, Google, Glenn Hauser`s World Of Radio, “K4KYV Says Converter” which I rewrote, for more directions.
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KI Pro Christmas Wish List
by Kevin Christopher on Dec 23, 2009 at 11:48:52 pmAll I want for Christmas is More KI Pro’s…
We just completed shooting 2 episodes of a sitcom with multiple KI Pro’s, and I can tell you post is a dream In less than 2 days we turned around the rough while production was being completed. Now to the Wish List.
Web Control of multiple KI Pro’s at once. In fact I want to be able to make global modifications for all the KI Pros in a group. We use time of day from a timecode generator that runs constantly so TC Arm is not an option, So I need Group transport control. I want a full width rackmount version with Power on the back. This could use a standard AC Plug then. I’m sure we will have more wishes as production continues. We will be shooting 2 episodes at a time about every 3 weeks. This is truly the best product of 2009.
We’ll post pictures from the set on our website soon, and episodes start airing at the end of the month.
Now back to editing
Kevin
“My Parents, My Sister & Me”
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I`m glad to see that I`m not the only one saying that the encoder boxes manufacturers should put out more wrapped presents under the tree. Why don`t they make kit versions? By the way Kevin, timecoding or editing (mixing) live feeds over the internet would glitch hopelessly. Feeding timecode (usually simplified but uncompromised) over a satellite tv or auxilliary channel such as 5.8 GHz uplink = 3.7 GHz downlink, or 18 GHz uplink = 14 GHz downlink, would work ok. Mixing or editing would still be unworkable. -Fred -
Answer from the mouth of the cave.
Alright, no answer came from the mouth of the cave by this evenning, I`ll see what I can hum out of mine.
1. You`ll need an editor software. Go to every porch sale, Hamfest (used to be the worst place imaginable to get anything for computers at all except that you could happily cross your fingers on software seagulling), and deemed reasonable store Christmas closeouts and trade some pocket tin for all the fresh bread slices you can paw and pocket on some video editors. Get some Operating Systems too for your computer. After a couple of days searching and seagulling, settle for what you`ve found. Editor names can be, Visual Dub, Cinerella, Gspot, Sony Vegas Nine Platinum Studio, Video Toaster, Matrox Studio (which needs tape hardware to run), Premiere CS4, Rave, lots of editor names with MUX in the middle, Final Cut Pro, and so on.
2. The electric bill part. Take out and put in a padded shoebox, the regular hard drive of your computer which likely has internet use and various audiovideo or CD/DVD players that won`t let it even think about looking at the files on your DVD or let you aim them at an editor. Zero out and format a spot/spare HD, then drop in and adjust a fresh OS and an editor. (Macintosh or IsoLinux owners, run across the street to your PC friend and have him zero out the HD on the bottom- most utility on his Maxtor CD or floppy, then come running back). The Kitchen Sink CD for a Mac can probably also do this. If you have two spot hard drives, install the OS on the first, and the editor suite on the second. The first hard drive will later get an install of a DVD burner program so that you can import and edit all your main procedures on your second hard drive then stop only briefly to transfer the final product to the first HD for sendoff burning. Some of you already have more hard drives or hardware than this but I don`t like to write too many words so I`ll keep the description kindergarten- size while still trying to keep the description good.
3. Make sure you remove all bad cables usually like internet networking cables, 56K modem cable, and your wireless network card for this. Often include all good cables like USB and audio cables so that handshake connections won`t be missing when installing hardware. (Many installs actually require hardware and cables to be installed or removed at given procedure steps compared to running the software). A couple of days ago on a customer`s computer, after the install but before the adjustments, he tossed a plain music CD in the CD drive. The 56K modem which supposedly wasn`t even softwared yet started blinking it`s activity lights. I pulled off the cable right away to prevent the computer from getting unwanted adjustments.
4. Ways of putting in or putting out the data takes from the editor are often described by 4 types of terms, essentially “importing, inputting, exporting, and outputting”; essentially standing for data in and out and compared to, modifying, filtering, or getting it through a bottleneck while it goes in or out. The general terms, compressing and “extracting or decompressing” aren`t always used because that is sometimes not what you are doing. When you import your video you are putting it in both a “folder” and a “console” at the same time because you are usually working it into a routine or “batch” procedure to make repeatable procedures a practicality. The console in Sony Vegas is probably called, DVDA.
5. Formats are almost always MPEG2 video for home played DVDs but the audio format usually used with it, AC3 stinks, both because it is a “lossy compression”(variable bitrate) format, and because it is Dolby automatic gain control. Bass sounds and women`s voices or singing are usually worst hit by what Dolby does although why have anything sound poor? Put in a regular “44.1” for 16 bit home style stereo or “48” for (18 bit?) broadcast sendoff. Obviously don`t make disks that jump between progressive and interleave vertical scan.
The 4 most common or sensibly used formats in editing are, “imported as original”, quicktime, .avi, and, ProRes.
6. Remove embedded copyrights, metadata, protection/ encryption, etc as you import video and audio but, so as you reap, so should you sow. The responsibility is up to you. Insert copyrights, etc, normally not as metadata but as closing titles and similar. The problem of distributors “protecting” the current Artist but giving the Composer the boot is all too common. Do some good.
7. There are hundreds of exchanges amongst the many topics right here on the Cow. Exchanges with words like, “versus” or “beggar” in them are especially quick to help but get reading. Editor programs don`t care much if you are learning filenames or formats to go down the road but keep paper and pencil on hand. Some good file names aren`t file names. . rtm is of course, read the manual. . mux is really a process, multiplex; and .gns is, of course, my own brain file, get a good night`s sleep beforehand.
8. The biggest fault in my editor advice is that it comes without a disclaimer. You`ll need a video editor not a player for your uses.Ah, look what came in the door! A puff from the cave.
“Dear Fred, Just drag the vob into Sony’s Vegas and chop away. It takes “user-friendly” programs like that and not Final Cut. But, yes- the answer is yes, you can drag a DVD formated disc into an edit studio.” -
and snow and hum on the air.