[Joe Mole]

Thanks for the info Bob.

By the time this setup would become shared storage it would have 8 drives. Right now it is being used soley at one workstation. The assumption I’m making is that once I setup the raid I could add drives to the existing raid, for example expanding the Raid 10 with 4 drives to having 8 drives and ultimately into the 16 drives which the NA333tb allows. The reason for this is I don’t have the additional cash in the proposed budget to buy 8 drives.

[Joe Mole]

With all due respect, it sounds to me like you’re a Newbie to business. There is no room for conversation in this matter. Your first mistake was giving them anything. Unless you made some sort of mistake you haven’t mentioned you made a clean transaction with them and then gave them more when they complained.

It doesn’t matter if they are lawyers, the best they can do is sue you in a small claims court for ~$5k which they would lose in. For all those talking about getting a “bad reputation” it’s BS. Good business brings good clients. These are bad clients. Let them bad mouth you all they want. They are a small fish in a big pond.

Give them a simple offering of what they want with the prices of what it costs WITH NO DISCOUNTS. And let them choose. Leave no room for talking or negotiating. Keep your emotions out of it and ignore theirs. Do not respond to their questions ect. Just keep referring them to the original contract for any issues they raise and then offer to solve their problem with your other package at full cost.

Also ignore what other people are saying about bringing a lawyer ect. into it. That will just unnecessarily escalate things. Just simply refer them to the existing contract and your current prices. Ignore anything else they have to say and be firm and short. Don’t escalate it by bringing a lawyer into it when you don’t need one. If everything you’ve said is true then you’re fine.

Don’t be bullied into doing free work.

[Joe Mole]

Nah, I find the transcribing a very helpful portion of going through the footage to shape the story, narrative arc, ect… though my fingers do get tired. Maybe I’ll outsource it after doing a few more…

I just found Inq Scribe https://www.inqscribe.com/ and that’s definitely been helpful.

[Joe Mole]

Hey Kevin,

Thanks. So transcribing should go like this:

1. Manual transcription. ( I understand I can use the auto transcription as a possible starting point, but mine is no good)

2. Link text transcription and use Prelude/PPro transcription

3. Correct any timing/text errors.

For me transcription is very important and I’d much rather edit from a text based script than searching video.

[Joe Mole]

You may need to download the speech analysis library. Try this: https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2010/12/download-speech-analysis-libraries-for-premiere-pro-cs4-or-cs5.html

[Joe Mole]

I’m looking for a low cost expandable option… is that possible? I’ll check out what you suggested.

[Joe Mole]

Thanks for the info, that was definitely helpful. The video will be going to video advertising but not broadcasting.

I have audition and initially used that to level and normalize my audio. I’ll have to look into the plugin you mentioned.

[Joe Mole]

Ironically I haven’t found a solution to this yet. Thanks for the workaround, I’ll see how it works out for me.

[Joe Mole]

I’m assuming there’s a general standard.. .I’ve just sent an email to the advertising department who will be doing the broadcast asking them what the peak dB should be…

[Joe Mole]

Ok thanks. The light isn’t a big deal. Through some work arounds I have the light appearing to do what I’d like.