Fred Jodry
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Obviously the file names or “metadata” next to your video is flagging converters into resizing at the stations. Go there with a good night`s sleep and wait and see what trips things in line, including other people`s programs.
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If you`re having mentionable trouble with the small size of your tablet, adjust the verniers. Even though different people like big or small it will help a lot. Also do according to what I discovered to do on my old Compaq and IBM, put your trackball mouse and tablet in use together. You can also use two keyboards together. Always go gourmet. A computer without good software and hardware is a box. Fred
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Many Operating System, programs, and hardware manufacturers; and aftermarket packagers subscribe to the theme that if you have both new and old codecs and new and old filename types on your computer system, they have competition and your system must be purged. Buy and install a really great “editing suite”, bury the hatchet into Windows Media Player, and use the editing suite not only for editing but for everyday playback. Your problem will be nearly gone. I recommend keeping production and copying computers completely away from the internet as well as keeping playback- style- setup computers shyed and protected away, to a copeable level. When I need a show from another Broadcaster it often comes by mail.
matrox + decklink codec
by andre breitinger on Oct 28, 2009 at 12:15:52 am Dear Friends,
I am having some problem in runing .Avi Dv videos. i have Matrox and Decklink installed on my pc.it seemes that qhen i install the decklink codecs Windows Midia Player stops playing AVI DC videos
Does any one have a clue? cheers
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Emmet, just bolt the IO/HD on top of your battery box. If you have to go to a shoot instead of a suite sometime, all the handles and hardware will already be in the familiar places.
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If I were you I`d spend most of a day at my worktable planning charges type for type. In some types you`ll charge by the hour, on others you`ll charge by the half- day, others you`ll charge by the project. Project and very- custom charges are the hardest to plan because you don`t know how far the over- runs will be. Price somewhat high and give the customer breaks (sooner or) later. In rendering, you`re about to find out how slow your computers are. I don`t dare make up standard charges from a different? area of the country. Try to do whole productions in general instead of just editing in order to maximize profits as well as have the high profit work next to low profit work until you know the difference. Don`t take on oversized duplicating projects. Good Luck. F J
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Well, this one could be all for naught. The source of the strain could be a different one. Maybe AJA doesn`t make enough units. Not enough in the first place and not enough to increase sales. In many industries it`s the slice of ironic wry that sales people can be trying to sell products in numbers that haven`t been made. It`d be a pretty interesting question to write the manufacturer although I could wish the salesman would ask it first (and tell). There`s nothing like the irony of enthusiasm for something in short suppy. Maybe conservation of units not sales is in order. I won`t be buying an LD.
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In many of my TV productions I use my production set ups exactly like film, except for the ease of TV sound production. While some shows are just regular serials, others can be camped on location for interminal (right word?) amounts of time, sometimes as long as a National Geographic expedition. When a piece of equipment breaks or rubbers it`s calibration out of whack we don`t canoe it up the waterfalls to the manufacturer and back nor take an extra airplane trip, we usually fix it ourselves. When a piece of equipment is too old and spare we can give it with it`s circuit diagram with it to a Radio Ham or other enthusiast and their using it often returns to us later as some of the training (self training) of a new employee we otherwise wouldn`t have. It gives us a dose of both unusually old and unusually young new employees who would otherwise be impractical to initiate or even figure out if they have the gumption. And there are volunteers of the same. I don`t resell any equipment in this type of area of the industry at all except that if a plain good trade or sale came along it could just be regular. There is no cornerring reselling business being built here, there is already other businesses, some which make money some which lose money. Money and advertising are rather short and short of what they should be, no matter what we do, it`s just the times. An LD lacks a component encoder. If I buy the unit it`s convert the cabinet and keep going. Hopefully little or no software retyping. Bob, in case you haven`t noticed, a second hand “whole or feature unit” is whatever fraction of the price of a new unit and variable, and a second hand converter is (always) unmentionably different in price from the price of a new one and costs more than getting some second hand main units. Anyway, my only “studio style” camera is presently laid up with no color encoder and it`s time to divert some projects in mind away from black and white.
Exact answer for LALD question is RGBS output out of gamma corrector of camera 75 ohms cables as well as through mixer board with clamping/ comp/ da amplifier (Think, R-Y sort of stuff already done.) as needed towards the encoder box. The audio path probably doesn`t need description other than we only have one mind and two ears. Visual monitoring will be by the usual production and post production display or two, with monitoring off the (1) computer display card as well, and no outside D/A converter. Bumpdown ability from other producers submissions will definitely be limited by budget. No moving film(rates)inputs nor mixing SD composite cameras live into the same mix. They`re hitting their own production table. If firewire, either 400 or whatever pours into a PCIe 16 rail of that “spare” computer. Whew, this is way too much typing for me!Fred Jodry Re: IO LA and IO LD
by Bob Zelin on Oct 7, 2009 at 2:39:59 am -
Good work, both of you guys. Television production equipment without sufficient test and set up equipment is a mud maker box. I remember the bad old days when we had to make up test methods from scratch. One could put an apple on a table and aim a camera at it and try to make it look as much like an apple as possible. Errh! Let`s find an apple that`s extra round for linearity! We, we, added oscilloscopes and drawn test charts as the brain cells started taking extra camping trips with each other over the worry. Later, much later we were partly told, partly realized that the Indian Head pattern we saw (…our competitors use…) was useful for almost any test from the original scene throughout the entire chain all the way to the user`s boob tube providing we make up pickoff places. Now times are modern and you can get Indian Head patterns and wild other kinds “gone Peter Max”. But if times get too modern testing gets forgotten. Those who are too logical forget to think, and those who forget to think forget to do unless a big lucky kick goes in exactly the right direction. I don`t use E-bay at all, no wonder. -Not fond of sending money in the wrong direction. The Cow is one of Santa`s helpers here. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
IO as a standalone signal generator by, Sam Goldstein
on, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:37:14 pm
I asked this in the Kona forum, but it’s really an IO questions…
Is there any way to get an IO (Yes, plain-old IO, not HD, La, Ld, etc.) to perform as a sync generator, without it being connected to a computer, so that I can get my UVW1800 to lock-up with my new Kona LHi?
MacPro 2×2.66Mhz, 8GB Ram, LaCie QUADRA, AJA IO
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Yep, the wrong stuff. That`s why a circuit diagram is needed. (-And a circuit diagram of each model, LA, LD, would be easier).
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Terry, most of the time, the blown area is the audio input transistors, so the recorded audio is already bad. It`s sometimes the transistor or two in the microphone instead of the other end of the cable. Have you checked right channel versus left channel? Another area which is one that could be embarrassing, are you by any chance producing each new work with longer and longer mic cables? This doesn`t work well if there`s an impedance mismatch.