[Greg Ball]

Computer locks up, FCP closes, or if FCP is not running the Mac freezes up.

[Greg Ball]

Thanks to all who have replied.

Here’s a dumb question. What’s a DIT? Why are most of you against firestores?

Please keep in mind that I’m the director, I’m not a P2 person. But the crew is asking me how I wish to have this shot

Again we’re doing a 4-camera shoot. So wouldn’t there be a large amount of P2 cards?

What we’re doing is a mock interview set with one moderator and 4-5 Participants in a roundtable discussion. The following day we’re shooting Broll. We’re doing this on the west coast and editing in Miami. We’re hiring a local crew on the west coast I’m bringing back the footage on a drive. So Raid 1 won’t really help me.

Another question. Is the drive in any danger going through airport security?

[Greg Ball]

Sonicfire pro

[Greg Ball]

I think they are using HVX 200’s Most of the shooting will be a combo of hand held and sticks, shooting 5 people having a roundtable discussion. Maybe we’ll but one camera on a jib. My problem is the crew will need to download the footage for me to a hard drive to take back to Florida, but I’m concerned about a firestore going down on the shoot. The crew would need to rent P2 cards and I’d still need the footage.

Are you suggesting I rent 2 64 GB drives per camera? That would get pretty expensive and labor intensive wouldn’t it?

[Greg Ball]

Chris, what kind of file are you using on your WD player? This may solve the trade show problem as the client could bring this unit with the to different shows. This doesn’t solve the multiple uses they have.

Your experience with an AV company sounds familiar. The same thing happened with this AV company. They tried playing my SD DVD on a 50 ” plasma with composite cables, and probably zoomed. Then the client complained about pixelation and type being cut off and jagged.

Component isn’t much better but it’s acceptable. However when the AV company plays test DVDs from Blockbuster and they look and says the problem is MY DVD, the client believes them.

[Greg Ball]

Have you created a Blue ray DVD from FCP an ex1 timeline to toast? If so what settings did you use?

What Blue ray burner did you use?

I can’t expect a main client to instruct each of their sales team to buy a blue ray player. Sometimes they may just leave a DVD with their own client. I’ve already given them WMV files to play off their laptops. This DVD is just to show info about their company. It’s not product specific.

This client is already ticked off by not being able to show good quality at their trade show. They are threatening to use another video company to solve the problem. I don’t think telling them to but additional equipment for each member of their sales force is going to help our relationship.

[Greg Ball]

For one thing I’m sure I haven’t listed all of the uses for their DVD, but the bottom line is there must be a way of creating a good DVD from the EX1. There are many of the cameras out there. You can’t expect a sales person to bring a blue ray DVD payer with them to a client. And how would I make a blueray DVD anyway?

The WD HD player looks interesting, but I don’t think it would be reliable over a two day period to continually play a loop. As a matter of fact will it even play a loop? The unit gets mixed reviews.

The Laptop scenario sounds interesting for the trade show too. But here’s some questions.

1. Reliability – now you ned to trust a client’s laptops. Not all laptops will play a large file.
2. If they were using a laptop, what kind of file would they need? .h264?
3. Can a .h264 loop?

[Greg Ball]

Exactly Michael! That’s what I need to do. Give my client a DVD shot on EX1 that will play wide screen anywhere. For example, trade shows on large screens and for their sales force to take to client meetings.

Also, can the combo of Toast 9 and a blue ray burner create a auto play/looping DVD? How would this work for a trade show otherwise?
Is this worth the investment and a short term solution until FCP/Compressor/DVD SP provide a blueray option?

[Greg Ball]

So Noah, how would I get to a blue ray using FCP, Compressor and DVD SP? I can’t right? How was your EX1 Guidebook created? Will that look like crap on a plasma? Frankly your DVD looks good on my 46″

How would I provide 1080p H.264 via DVI to Plasma? What would they play this off at a large trade show?

Lastly I’m trying to create an H.264 and it’s taking 9 hours though compressor from my ex1 time line. Why would that be?

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Jeremy, I realize that we can do that, but I was looking for some pre-torn images ready to use.