Joesvideo
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Want some better advise on HD, Blueray and the like? LET-EM BE!
How many folks do you know have HD or Blueray home entertainment systems? Maybe 1 in 900 if that. I’ve been shooting Weddings on Mini-Dv since the format was introduced and to this day, I haven’t had one bride ask me whether I shoot in HD. About 90% of them don’t even know what HD is let alone owning a system to play it on.
Facts: the avearge Tv in this country is 7 years old. The amount of folks with surround sound systems is about 60% and the average amount of DvD player owners with models without progressive scan and 2 to 3 years of age is 55%. Sure, Hd is great and all that but why fork out the bucks on new equipment where it can only be delivered to corporate industries or commercial TV. Last time I checked, I haven’t had a corporate exec or TV Production manager call me for a job in over 25 years. I myself will opt to wait another 5 years before I even think about HDTV. By that time, this new fangled technology will have all the bugs removed and the prices will drop by 70%. Man, Imagine that new 7,000.00 HDV Camcorder you just wasted your money on now will go on ebay in the next 2 years for 1200.00. Isn’t technology amazing? But of course you’ll get the right to bragg in your ads that you shoot in HDV. Kinda like a speeder on the road who can’t wait to catch the next red light on a lane with 26 traffic signals. Get the picture? -
Now Remember. You can do this to any software writing program on the market. Comes in handy when your titling your DvD discs and want to put a copyright
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I was one of the lucky ones who opted to wait through pro, pro1.5 to get 2.0. Reason? simple. Adobe screwed alot of multible camera project users like Weddings, Dance Recitals, Play, Theater event folks like myself….etc. where you set up 2 to 4 cameras to shoot an event. You can’t edit them very well in Pro, Pro 1.5. You could in the old 6.5 because it had A/B roll editing capabilities. It was simple. You brought in your 1st 2 cameras on A and B, sync them up, edit them with short or long dissolves in the transition line, finish and render them out to AVI Movie. Clear the timeline and bring in your next 2 cameras and do the same, bring in your two editied AVI’s, sync them up and edit for final production. You can’t do this in pro or pro 1.5. But……In the new 2.0, you can edit all 4 on one timeline. Adobe listened and developed multicamera editing. Pro and pro 1.5 is strictly single camera editing. You can edit 2 or more cams together but it’s so much work. Kind of like planning a trip from Baltimore to Tampa and going through Chicago to get there. For us Multible camera event Videographers, this was stupid and useless for Adobe to mimick editing software programs like Final Cut pro and (Hard to Understand) Avid…..Absolutley Usless! Glad I waited.
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I got Elements 2.0 along with pro because it allows me to capture mpeg 2’s off a DvD thats already in the burner. I then render it to avi and save. I close out of elements and open pro. Import the avi from elements and start editing. Really is a big time saver.
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Hold down the Alt key while pressing 0169 on the numbers pad. The Copyright symbol will come up everytime in the same font your already using. For example: if your using Adobe title maker, type in the titles you normally need for your intros and at the end, hold the alt key while typing 0169 on the numbers pad and wa-la. It magically appears.
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There’s no reason to even go with XP-PRO. The only difference between Home and Pro are internet security options. Other than that…the’re the same. Log on to http://www.videoguys.com and download the Windows XP Tweaks. This is where you make Windows become extrememly stable for video editing. Be sure to back-up your system because some tweaks involve register entry and modifications. I have two editing machines with Home and one that came with Pro and the Home works just as well. Besides, you shouldn’t even consider having an editing machine hooked to the internet at all. Want to surf the net and get your e-mails to? Get a cheapo e-machine. Your video editing machines should stay off line because of virus infections, spyware…etc. Then you have to run anti-virus and spyware software and that my friend does nothing but take up preciuos resources. Your machine should also be stipped of all office working software, help options, and other crap you will not use in Video Editing. Again, use that cheapo e-machine for Word, publisher, power-point…etc. Have fun.