Jeff Bonano
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Hi Philippe,
If you have a project file, maybe some of us could play around with the settings to see what’s causing the problem.
-Jeff
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Gentlemen,
I don’t normally do this, but…
…I think we’ve beat the dead horse enough on the matter and the point has been made. Which the solution to the problem is evident for other readers who might do a search for the answers to a similar issue. Before it becomes a battle royal I think we can just move on to the next post and help solve another issue. Yes? Last thing we need is for mad cow disease to start spreading! The head rancher (with his trusted Lassie) might have to start walking around with a .22 and put down a few cows or something!
Shall we, *ehm*, “Moooooooove along now?”
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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[Herb Sevush] Lawyers cost money and so far you have done nothing wrong. In this case I would keep telling the truth and save the legal fees. Since you’re not going to lie, then you have no cause to ask for more money. If they fire you, then that’s a good case for not working for them.
If you decide against a lawyer, or even if you do get one, document everything! Conversations, actions, the whole deal. This includes what you’ve also done right or wrong. I can’t tell you how many times, I kept records of the most unimportant conversation that when I needed to refer to it months later, I had more leverage in the “meeting” than the person sitting on the other side of the table did.
If you have quick reference to documented facts regardless if you where the only witness, you will be more prepared should an unknown force try to bite you in the butt.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Do you have QuickTime installed on your computer? It’s probably looking for it and it’s not there. Try going to apples website and download the latest version of quicktime.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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The end product is pretty much the same. The quality may very but if you need it in a certain format you can do that with any of the programs. In an example with quality, I recently had to render an HD footage to a small yet high quality .avi file. AME end results just couldn’t get it right and it would look great but then choppy or have a frizzled look. So when I finally was desperate I did a dynamic link of the Premier project through After Effects and had it render out the file in the same darned codec and format and it came out fine…go figure eh?
Anyway, Glad I could help.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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No problem Yo,
That’s why we’re members of the cow!
I’ll look at the site when I get a second, thanks!Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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First of all…DON’T LIE! You have to take care of #1…you! By telling a fib, you have just put your professional reputation in hot water later on down the road. You know why Tiger Woods is having a harder time with his career right now? It’s because he couldn’t just come out and tell the truth from the get go.
Yeah, it was an oops to talk to the reporter, but it was a bigger no-no for your employer to put you in an illegal situation. Do you think the entire Enron staff knew what was going on? No, and some of the honest team members had a hard time finding a job after that was on their resume.
Politics can be a sticky game that you either have to play well, or don’t play at all. By agreeing to the lie, you agree to play the game.
You and your bosses could try and pull the ad, re-shoot a new one, and pay you for it additionally. While it may cost them up front, it could save them and you from legal fines. And yes, you guys could end up paying heavy fines…them, for sure. You, possibly. Or you might just be out of a job.
Next, before you speak to any more press or go any further, legal advisement would be a good idea. Depending on your state, you might be liable for certain things or not. Ask them because they can sit down with you and get all the details and help figure out a plan.
All I have to say is shame on your bosses for taking that risk (provided they new they where taking that risk) and putting you in a nasty situation. Because even if you get out free from the politics, they may feel that you abandoned them if you refuse to follow through with the lie. To me that is just as bad on their part, but then again they may understand and have no hard feelings…..
…But that’s just my two cents, and since I’m not a lawyer I could be totally wrong. Other cow members might have something else to say that I forgot or didn’t look at right, but what we say here might only be good for you in the sense of developing questions for your lawyer to properly answer.
Good Luck!
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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I would prefer to have a list of client comments on how good their experience has been and how well I treated them, rather than having a BBB membership banner on my website or business brochure that I have to pay for.
If a client is upset, I think I’ll get more mileage out of resolving their situation and getting word of mouth out that I’m worth hiring even if something needs to get fixed.
And besides, as a consumer, I never notice if they are BBB members or not until they do me wrong. By then I’ve probably already paid for their services and have decided if I want to come back to do business with them or not in the future.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Hi Marc,
Yes AME does come with Premier Pro CS4. The good thing about AME is that it is integrated with Premier very well and can handle many of your encoding projects with little effort for anyone not ready to mess with the fine tuning of the settings and codecs. The only problem is that sooner or later you’ll find that some renders aren’t very stable and could look pretty bad. But then again, same quality goes for any program if you don’t know the right settings.
Sorenson Squeeze is a great 3rd party program that is very powerful when it comes to compression on certain things. For example, Let’s say you just rendered a video for a client in High quality. Your client turns around and says they now want a youtube version, ipod version, flash version, and if possible a few other versions.
You could open up Premier and Render each one (which AME can que different renders at a time), or open squeeze, drop in the video you made, then drop in all the other options and press “squeeze” and it renders everything with, in my opinion, good quality. and like other programs, you can fine tune the settings and codecs in Squeeze too.
Me personally, I also have quick time pro do some of my compressions too so I look at it all as just one more tool added to your arsenal. Some people will swear by Squeeze while others prefer only to use AME.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Let’s see…
…You should be able to access the Roxio Media Import through the video editor Roxio has. When you attach it though it may not recognize the camera if it is not connected via fire-wire. Not sure about the new windows movie maker, but I believe it’s similar. Look for the option to capture from a device. Have your camcorder hooked up and follow the instructions.
You basically will be playing the camcorder in real time as the program saves the video in a format it can work with. From there, you just drop and drag your video in the time line and add some transitions if you want. If possible have it save the video files to a separate hard drive because video will eat up a lot of your HDD processing time.
Again, I’m not sure if Movie Maker has issues with USB connection but if it does, then you might have to look for the software that came with your camera to see if it has a program to capture to your computer. I can’t recall, but I don’t think that camera has a Fire-wire port or not, you’ll know more about that than I would.
I hope this helps, good luck!
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano