[Lynette Gilbert]

Thanks, but I’ve worked with FCP for 10 years, so I understand the various ways to trim. I’ve never had an issue before, and it doesn’t matter HOW I trim, I have the same problem. I was just hoping had an insight.

[Lynette Gilbert]

Ah, sorry. Here are my settings:

[Lynette Gilbert]

Hmm. Could be simple user error. I usually create a new folder called “Converted Files” and save it right to there, then import the folder, but I’m not certainly not above stupid mistakes.

Lynette

[Lynette Gilbert]

I’ll give it a shot.

Thanks!

[Lynette Gilbert]

Yes.

[Lynette Gilbert]

::snort:: You just made my day.

From what everyone is saying, it looks like PP6 might be the way to go in the future. Since I’m thinking of getting it for my home setup, we’ll see how it goes on the editing front before I try to worry about if it will work with my configuration at the zoo.

Thanks!

[Lynette Gilbert]

[Alan Lacey] “Whereabouts in the World are you Lynette?”

Thanks for the offer, but I’m in the US.

Lynette

[Lynette Gilbert]

The thing that worries me about archiving digitally is that remember, I have decades of archives that I work with. Well, I recently was handed a bunch of CDs from the 1990s and told, “we can’t get these to work – can you?” Well, my computer wouldn’t even recognize the discs; IT was able to open them, but they said the files were mpegs stored in a DAT file. IT says they have no way to open them. I haven’t tried yet, but I don’t have much hope. These files are now completely useless. And I’m sure that in 1997, they were created with cutting-edge technology.

Are the current formats that we use always going to be available? Or is someone like Apple going to say, “Quicktime is dead!” and stop releasing new versions?

So I do think that tape still has its place, and I’m WAY more comfortable having a tape backup for my digital files. Yes, I’d LOVE for everything I have to be located on a hard drive somewhere, but I also feel much more comfortable knowing that I also have a physical copy. If a tape breaks, it can be spliced back together. If a QT file breaks, it’s gone.

Case in point – IT had me transfer all of my files from my hard drive to the Apple server a few months ago because they wanted to be able to back everything up. And then I found that I couldn’t open anything that was over 3GB (I have a lot of files over 3GB). IT kept telling me it was fine, the files weren’t corrupt, just not accessible for some reason (I’m not sure they ever figured out what the problem was). Well, I obviously need them to be accessible! It took them a WEEK to figure out how to copy my files from the server to a portable drive. Let me tell you, that was one of the most stressful weeks of my professional life. Luckily, since everything we do is on tape, if I would have had to reconstruct everything that I thought was lost, I could have, though it would have taken me a good month to do so.

So yeah, tapeless archival makes me twitchy.

[Lynette Gilbert]

[Richard Herd] “I feel your anxiety. I too work for a non-profit with EdDs who although quite smart are functionally illiterate on computers. My program lives and dies with grant money. We must submit a dollar amount for the grant every year or next year it looks like an unjustified capital increase year-over-year.

Good luck!!”

Wow, that’s tough. My boss knows nothing about video, so that just adds to all the stress. Thanks, and good luck to you, too!

[Lynette Gilbert]

Thanks for the heads-up!