Jeff Carpenter
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COW Coin
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Go out to your desktop and use the menu to create a smart folder.
It will show shortcuts to whatever you program it for. For example, you could make it contain all files with “penguin” in the name.
Set it to show files created only within the timeframe you were editing. It will contain links to any files that were created during that time.
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It can vary a lot but I just sold a very similar system for just under $1,500.
That was without any software, however. If you’re actually selling the software you’ll get a lot more. If, on the other hand, you’re keeping the discs and not selling the software, you should remove it from the computer if you want to keep using it on your new system.
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Keep your Final Cut projects, music, and graphics on the computer’s internal drive. Keep them all in one place and it will be easy to back just those things up every night.
The external drive should really just be used for video footage from tapes. Firewire and USB drives aren’t the most stable things in the world, and if it should ever crash you’ll be happy that the only stuff you lost is video footage that can be re-captured from the original tapes.
You can combine methods here and continue to back that external drive up, but you won’t have to do it as often. Just back it up once a week or once a month and if you ever have to use it you’ll pobably only have to re-capture a few files from the tapes instead of an entire drive’s worth.
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You are getting a picture for a bit before it quits, though?
What kind of drive are you capturing to? Maybe it can’t keep up?
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There’s no such thing as HD DVCAM. It’s an SD only format.
I suppose it could be possible to record HDV onto a DVCAM tape, however. Is that what you have? If so, what camera recorded it and what are you using to play the footage back now?
Capturing HD as SD is fine if you only want to work with SD, but that’s all you’ll ever have. There’s no way to turn it back into HD footage by converting it. If you want HD we’ll have to figure out how to capture it as HD.
You’ll have to tell us what camera and deck (or camera for playback) you’re using (and how it’s connected to the computer) for us to give any more meaningful help.
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Final Cut projects are not backwards compatible. You can open a project made in one version in a higher version, but not the other way around.
You have 2 choices to save your work:
1) Upgrade your 5 system to version 6 (also known as Final Cut Studio 2).
2) Open the project in version 6 and export an EDL from there. This is a text file that explains where all the edits go. You can open that in version 5 and use it to re-create your project. Not everything will come across perfectly (transitions will be lost) but you’ll likely get something close to what you had. Hopefully the owner of the other Final Cut can help you with this, otherwise just spend some time with the manual and let it guide you.
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The CCD sees light and turns that into digital data. Once it’s done that it has nothing else to do with your video.
Yes, you’re fine. The only thing you have to have is a camera that will play the format that was recorded (either DV or DVCAM in your case).
But as long as it plays the video at all, then what you get over firewire is 100% the same no matter what camera/deck you use.
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Looks good, but you should simplify it all somewhat. I see a main gallery at /Videos.html, which is fine, but then I see (from /Welcome.html) that I’m presented with these pages:
/HWM.html
/DJV.html
/T2N.htmlThere’s nothing wrong with having these split out as their own pages away from the gallery, but I think the links to these pages should be listed on /Videos.html, not /Welcome.html. (Or if you want them to appear on the welcome page, they should take you to the gallery which would contain these videos and descriptions at the bottom.)
When I go to a gallery, I like to think that I’m seeing everything the site has to offer. There might be sub-pages, which is fine, but I’d like to think I can treat the main gallery page as a launching site into everything there is. When I find other videos on other pages it makes me wonder: Are these the same videos I’ve already seen? Are they different ones? Did I miss something else on the site?
Your site isn’t really that confusing, but it just makes me wonder if I’ve seen all the videos when I come across things like that. You current setup certainly works well, but it’s just something to think about.
I think the main goal of a site like this is to eliminate anything that’s confusing to your customer. If Bestbuy.com is a little hard to use, they’ll stick with it and figure it out. If a videographer’s site is hard to use they’ll just move on to the next one on their list. I think we have to try even harder than the big sites to be clear right away because we get less of a chance to impress than they do.
My site is VERY overdue for a re-design, so don’t take too many lessons from it. However, I think it’s still a good example of simplicity. Check it out:
http://www.redfeathervideo.com/wedding.html
I’ve had many, many people tell me that they liked me right away because they were able to easily and quickly find what they needed on my site. That’s sadly not true for a lot of people in our business.
You’ve already got that part down, though. You do have a very good site already, the links across the top make everything very clear. You’re 99% there , but it’s that last 1% that takes the most work! By trimming the same information down to less pages, you can really make your customers feel a lot more at ease. And that counts for a lot.
Along those same lines, there’s no reason to have 3 video formats on there. I’d pick 2 and leave it at that. I don’t think you’ll be leaving anyone out with any combination of 2 you pick. (Going with just flash is probably ok, but having 2 choices to be extra safe isn’t a bad thing.) Having 2 choices instead of 3 means 1 less choice for people which means 1 less distraction away from your message.
Anyway, as it is now your site is very good. I don’t mean that you should rip everything up based on these ideas…it’s just some food for thought as you continue to work on your page in the future.
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I’ve always used this one:
Just pick the closest server and it tests it.
Google can probably give you others…might make sense to try more than one and see if they agree.
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Ok, I’m not saying this MicroNet thing looks good (it really doesn’t look like it’s made with video in mind) but I just wanted to point out that I use an Avid Unity at work every day that runs over gigabit. We have 5 stations hooked up to it and edit DV and DVCPRO HD over the network with no problem.
So I wouldn’t shy away from a gigabit solution but yes, it would be best to get something that was designed specifically for video use which this doesn’t seem to be.