[Mark Thompson]

sounds interesting, looking forward to the trip report already 🙂

just a few things you didn’t mention:

Health – Injections for typhoid, cholera, yellow-fever and of course Malaria. You may have to start these treatments before you even know if you have the contract.
A Carnet for your equipment.
Power may be available – but what voltage etc. do you need plug converters?

Visa fees? perhaps if you are filming you may need a special type of visa?

[Mark Thompson]

for me the best place to get AE is a Creative Cloud subscription direct from Adobe. Last year they had a very good promotion for your first year’s subscription – if you are already a customer for one of their products.

They are a bit controversial though, there’s quite a debate between those who want to rent and those who want to buy.

[Mark Thompson]

MXF is a very good archive format. Not only do you want to archive your “essence” but a lot of information associated with it (e.g. where? when? who? what? …). The primary audience for MXF is the professional broadcast community but it seems to have been picked up by the library of congress and even the military!
What you get from Vegas is the starting point, you will probably need another program to flesh out all the details.

[Mark Thompson]

Hi, did the black restore effect not work for you?

It is quite powerful, I think it will easily turn your whole video black 🙁 However if you use it carefully it will restore some black, perhaps enough to get it thru their qa test.

[Mark Thompson]

Hi, probably not much help but this is a handy url to see what DMDS requirements are: https://promo.dmds.com/uploads
Note their caveat that you need to contact DMDS for the very latest information.
They reference a YouTube video in there that tells you what to do with FCP, sounds like the community needs an SVP video.

As to black levels they seem to be saying your video has blacks that are showing up as grays. SVP has a Black Restore effect but I’ve found that to be difficult to use and get good results

[Mark Thompson]

it looks much nicer now

[Mark Thompson]

John,

thanks for that – it was none.

I should have spotted that, I’m trying the options now.

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
I would do things slightly differently if I were burning it. However I still can’t see why it doesn’t work with what you’re doing. Did you get an independent check? i.e. play on another player.

I would create the project using the button to “Match Media Video Settings” (I don’t think you have). Then “Render As” pick a Blu-Ray template, say one matching the project settings and it will pick an avc output. Then tools burn Blu-ray.

see if that helps.
mark

[Mark Thompson]

Mike,
thanks for the offer; I will just get permission from the source.

I’ve probably figured it out though. I got a friend to send me a clip from an iPhone5 and it works just fine. I have the same version of QuickTime as you and G=Spot also does not propose a solution but Vegas and QT can play it just fine.
I think the other file is corrupt and/or truncated

thanks
mark

[Mark Thompson]

Mie,
thanks very much for that. I think I need an AVC1 Codec.

Either that or my footage is corrupt 🙁

mark