Ken Summerall
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[Brad Keppler] “I’ve tried the H.264 thing after reading it was the way to go. I ended up getting the file size I wanted (it was under 50 megs), but the video came up looking pretty horrible. I use a lot of text to supplement the tutorial, and it was nearly unreadable.”
Brad,
I too have been less than impressed with Compressor’s encoding to h.264. I have switched to using Elgatos Turbo.264 encoder. It is a truly amazing little piece of USB hardware. You plug it in, install a little comtroller, drop in your QT file from FCP, select a preset and let it go. It is much faster than Compressor and has better quality.
You would probably use one of the two iPod presets.
I know, you hate it when someone tells you to go buy something to solve you r issues. I do too, but this little gadget costs about $80 and it is worth much more than that in saved time and headaches. Most of my stuff is DVCProHD and it renders it at about 24-25 frames per second, DV comes in at about 40 fps. Another great thing is that it doesn’t really matter what you plug it into. I get about the same speed on my 2 year old MBP as I do with a 9 month old MacPro.
K
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[Matt Myers] “before I do I wanted to know if anyone knows if FCP (any version) is going to be compatible with this deck and this footage”
Well, I have used that deck to capture DV footage into FCP 5.1.4 and 6.0 with no problems. Now, as far as “any version” goes “NO” that deck and that footage will not be compatible with any version of FCP.
K
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[Brad Neal] “If it’s the same as the 500 (and I think it is), at a head room of -20dB, the first bar is -20dB, the second -12dB, and the last one is 0dB.”
To expand on what Neal said…
From Barry Green’s book, “The first bar denotes – 20dB, and the second denotes- 12dB. Each dot corresponds to 2 dB of signal strength. Absolute peak is at 0dB and should be avoided…The graph will show a red mark at its rightmost edgewhenever the audio “peaks.””
K
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Todd,
I have dealt with a company called Arts and Entertainment Insurance. They are a broker for Fireman’s Fund, which I understand is the only insurer that offers these types of policies. These guys offer several packages. Personally I was renting gear to travel internationally, they had a complete policy to cover my rental gear, liability, car rental, everything but simple travel insurance. This is a father/son operation and they gave me great service.
K
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John,
I totally understand your frustration and you have not been ugly about this at all. I’m sure that your are really more angry about it than you are showing. FWIW, just to fuel the fire, the Lectro guy that I spoke to was the guy that developed the receiver and he thought that it would work with everything but a Sony. Seems like the ball got dropped all around. The nice thing here is that Jan has made some folks aware of this, and I’d be almost willing to bet that if there is a fix, they will make it happen.
I really hope so because my next camera is likely to be a full sized P2 and I would love to be able to have two channels in the slot so that I can use my Lectro units in the field.
K
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[John Cummings] “I’m sure other Panasonic owners would like to know the deal before they drop a lot of cash on dual channel receivers.”
John,
The Lectrosonic guys showed me an adapter for cameras that only had one channel in the unislot. It is a piece that installs at the top, between the very top piece with the controls and the body. It had a small connector at a 90 degree angle, out of that connector you connected a cable that had either a lemo or mini-xlr on one end and xlr on the other. It was a little goofy looking and I am almost positive that it was a prototype, but it might be worth a call to Lectrosonics.
K
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[moody glasgow] “FOR THE WHOLE WEST COAST!!!! “
Here’s a quote from the actual non-com:
“This Addendum shall cover the Independent Contractor’s activities in every part of the Territory in which the Independent Contractor may conduct business during the term of the Agreement as set forth above. “Territory” shall mean the states of North Carolina, New York, Vermont, Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, California, Massachusetts and Michigan in the United State of America.”
And another thing that Adam hasn’t told you is that they wanted him to make his personal equipment available for the $8/hr.
INSANE!
K
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Mike,
The OP is a friend and I know for a fact that the day rate that they have offered wouldn’t put a tank of gas in a Yugo.
I read this Non-compete this afternoon and had a good laugh. I hope that others read this because this is the second time that I have heard of companies doing something similar. I really hope that this isn’t something that is starting to catch on.
K
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[Tim Kolb] “The software to do all that comes in one box from Adobe, so how can it take more than one person to do it? Wouldn’t there be two boxes?
🙂
Welcome to the ever-heralded “democratization” of our industry.
“Tim, you hit the nail on the head with this one. To someone totally ignorant of production it all looks so easy. My job description looks something like this and I have discovered that it was a result of someone that didn’t really know what they needed so that just threw it all in. It has been up to me to educate them as to what they need from me and what we need to hire out. Oft times we have to educate our employers or clients, not just get ticked off because they are ignorant.
Ken
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Dean,
It’s out there now and I don’t think that there is much you can do about it. I certainly wouldn’t lose any sleep over it, but if it does come up you can spin it to your favor by saying that you are new, trying to learn how to do the best job that you can for your university. You saw an area that you felt would benefit from some wise counsel and you took the initiative to seek it. It’s professional development. You didn’t slam anyone and you were very professional about it. You also didn’t say where you worked so you weren’t doing any damage to your employers image.
Bottom line, you really shouldn’t worry about it.
Ken