[Gary Chvatal]

Welcome aboard Ron…seeing you here makes me yearn for my old IBM Intellistation and discreet edit. I still poke my head into the discreet section periodically for nostalgia sake. My how time flies.

But Vegas is a base for a fine system that is relatively easy on the pocketbook. You’re gonna do just fine here…

BTW…I have a question for you about an exception error…although I’ll let you get used to the wallpaper before we give you any work to do…

See ya round the water cooler.

[Gary Chvatal]

Same thing happened to me today….but I’m still running 7.0. Mine hangs at 77% loaded.

I made four short vegs that I was going to combine into a larger project. First the bigger file gave the error. The backup veg hung too. So this morning I tried to open some of the smaller companent veg files. No good. So I tried to open an old project that was stored on the same drive. No good…

I’m beginning to wonder if its some kind of memory problem or a bad drive. I’ve got a computer shop next door so those guys are running some diagnostics on the machine and the drive to see if they see anything obvious.

I did not try to re-install vegas….could try that.

[Gary Chvatal]

Welcome to the Tarheel state!

[Gary Chvatal]

what file format is your source material? I wonder if that could be an issue…

[Gary Chvatal]

[Dan Brockett] “See told you there would be no shortage of takers on this…I have only visited DC, can you actually survive there on 50k?”

Maybe if you have an uncle you could live with 🙂

[Gary Chvatal]

Try to talk her into doing the course without the audince just for the camera. Shoot her. Then add the graphics and video later. That way you can shoot her properly with correct lighting. You could even bring in an audience for the Q&A if need be.

[Gary Chvatal]

I don’t find the job description that daunting. They want a senior producer with production experience. They just listed the experience in very specific terms. I spent about 25 years doing medical communications…and as Mark said it sounds like a normal day at work.

And the American College of Cardiology is not a medical school its a professional organization. Kind of like the Bar Association for Cardiologists. They are probably doing continuing medical education for cardiologists. So if you have the requisite media skills, some medical background and maybe some experience with instructional design (or marketing communications depending on what they are trying to accomplish with the videos) you’d have a shot at the job.

Heck, they’re only asking for 2-5 years of experience. How much advanced knowledge can they expect with a person with five years experience. Its a job in DC so I figure $50K at the low end of experience and $75K for someone with more experience. I’d consider applying for it if I wasn’t invested in my own business and had any interest in being in DC.

[Gary Chvatal]

[robert reed] “They refused and told her she needed to go back to the photographer for prints. She called and was given a pricetag of over $350 for what she could have got at the local drug store for about $40.”

I’ve done a lot of work in the photo business and this has been standard procedure as long as I remember.

Also, my former employer ended up in a legal wrangle with an agency who would not give up raw footage from a TV spot they shot for us. I ran the internal video department and got to see both sides of the dispute. BTW…in that disputer the agency got to keep the footage and the company was not allowed to use it without paying an additional fee.

I’ve also paid freelancers additional fees to have exclusive rights/ownership to all the footage/negatives produced for us.

Thats why this discussion has been so interesting to me. My experience has always been that lacking a contract stating otherwise the footage belongs to the shooter. Ron and Steve’s position on ownership is contrary to my experience so I’m surprised to see it argued so vehemently…

[Gary Chvatal]

[Mike Kujbida] “My machine’s specs were based on John Rofrano’s system who based his on John Cline’s system.
I forgot to mention that the package also included a 24” Dell monitor.

If you don’t mind me asking, how spendy is a system like that? Right now I’m using an off the rack HP but it will be time to upgrade soon.

[Gary Chvatal]

That was a good clue John…I think I found the issue…in the media properties box there was a check box “Maintain Aspect Ratio” that needed to be unchecked. Maybe thats what you were referring to…but at least I found it.

I don’t know how many times I looked in Media Proerties…but I kept going to the Media Tab..this was on the Video Event tab. As soon as I unchecked the box the clip transformed to wide screen.

Now what I don’t understand is why the clip imported as 352×480…first time I’ve seen that…

At least now I can finish the job…thanks for the help guys…