Mark Maness
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Not exactly….
Still happens sometimes in 6.05, but now, it seems that instead of losing lots of render files, its only a few and parts of render files. It happens on all three system at our facility.
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Wayne Carey
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[jason levy] “So you have had that happen to you? “
Yes… Every now and then it will happen mysteriously. Sometimes, its not even an entire render file, just a part of it.
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[Steve Eisen] “You must be referring to an External Blu Ray burner. There are NO stand alone units that I know of. “
I beg to differ, Steve. LaCie has made one for a long time now that is external. It lists for $449, so finding it for around $400 shouldn’t be tough.
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[Marc Istook] “According to the manual included in the 6.0.3 .zip, the regular version should allow you the checkbox option to switch between desktop display enabled or disabled. Is that not the case anymore — that you have to choose prior to installation if you want NDD or not? “
Look under the Setup Tab in the Kona 3 Control Panel. In the area labeled Video Setup, you’ll see a checkbox to Enable Desktop Display.
Yes… Its a screwed up placement for this checkbox but that’s where it is…
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Wayne Carey
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[Mike Raff] “I understand that some folks are simply copying their project media files to external hard drives, but once you have 10 or 15 TB of footage on the shelf, how do you locate any particular file that you might have a new use for? “
Each backup DVD is for a particular project only. Meaning that if I have an episode of one of our programs, then the backup DVD is for that episode ONLY. You’ll end up with a bunch of DVDs but if you keep them organized, finding media is that tough.
Never ever use hard drives for project backups! Hard drives fail all of the time. I have several door stops of the past few years. All of our projects are backed up to DVD or Blu-Ray.
As for locating footage, all of the footage is with each individual project. If I need footage, I look for a project that contains that footage and and it offline. Memory serves as the footage file.
[Mike Raff] “For years, I backed up Media 100 projects with Mezzo and Retrospect. Mezzo allowed me to restore just the media contained in a specific bin or timeline. If I could identify a particular file that I needed, Retrospect would tell me which exactly AIT or DLT tape to pull out of the cabinet and load into the tape drive, so that it could then restore the specific shot or logo or VO I needed direct to my media drive. “
THis is the best method but most of us don’t have large enough budgets for this OR we just choose to spend money elsewhere. Its a preference thing… If you’re working on documentaries that require lots of footage that cannot be kept in house, tape backups are the only way to go.
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Wayne Carey
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Is all of your original footage on tape or disc (P2 or XDCAM)?
If its on tape, you can empty out the Capture Scratch and Render Files folders then save the rest to DVD or DL-DVD.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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You can always restore your project if you have it set close enough to the time when the renders disappeared.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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It seems like I have read somewhere that 854X480 is the PAL standard for Anamorphic DV and 720×404 is the NTSC standard for Anamorphic video.
Just my two cents…
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Wayne Carey
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[david bogie] “Whew, good thing some of us can read his mind. “
The sad thing is that we’ve been doing this long enough to understand… no matter how media terms are misused.
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Wayne Carey
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It works flawlessly. I do this every week with loss of captioning.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com