[Martin Curtis]

I had a look in the usual places (like library/application support/ ) but I couldn’t even find MPEG Streamclip prefs let alone anything else. I guess he likes to play his cards close to his chest.

It’s not scriptable either.

[Martin Curtis]

[Rick Holland] “It’s interesting just how many posters / moderators here on CC repeatedly avoid helping with a solution to the main question and seem to relish in being able to share their wit and personal opinions. “

Some of us have been bitten by those sharks. Putting a poem in an obscure newsletter on our obscure website cost my movie club ~$5000. Not my finest moment.

[Martin Curtis]

Open up the next VOB file in the list. And then the next and the next etc until you find the right one(s). Chris is right – the file you have is simply an image of the DVD menu.

Post a screenshot of the file list if you like (the VOB file list, not the image of the DVD menu).

[Martin Curtis]

Personally I can never tell the difference between 2 hour and 4 hour recording on a single layer DVD.

[Martin Curtis]

Thanks for that, Casper. Your lighting supply warehouse, Daystar Distributing, sure has some great deals.

[Martin Curtis]

Thanks for that, John. Looks good. I think the Zylight’s price excludes it from contention for me (or, should I say, my boss).

[Martin Curtis]

YouTube videos can be made “private“.
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If you would like to limit the exposure of one of your videos, you can set it to be a “Private” video. If your video is set to “Private” only you and (up to fifty other users who you invite to view the video) will be able to see it. The video will not appear on your channel, in Groups, search results, playlists etc..

People do need a YouTube account to watch it though.

Alternatively, you can set them to “unlisted“.
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An unlisted video is a different type of private video. Unlisted means that only people who know the link to the video can view it (such as friends or family to whom you send the link). An unlisted video will not appear in any of YouTube’s public spaces (such as search results, your channel, or the Browse page). An unlisted video is different to a private video in these ways:

* you don’t need a YouTube account to watch the video (you can see an unlisted video if someone sends you the video’s link)
* there’s no 25 person sharing limit

[Martin Curtis]

My (limited) experience is that live presentations are quite padded, either intentionally (because someone has X amount of time to fill) or unintentionally (with ummms, ahhhs or badly prepared material). A live audience will tolerate this because they can look around, zone in and out etc. Sometimes people are there because they have to be. At many presentations, it’s what happens after that’s important – meeting and greeting, schmoozing and lunching. Someone watching a padded presentation on DVD will simply switch it off. It has to be focussed and on message; every word must be chosen for the information it will convey. This does vary with the motivation of the person watching the material.

One way we keep people watching is to have a nice location, cutaways, pics, videos, dot points. The ultimate (for us) is to hire an actor to present the thing because gawdnose, most doctors have trouble stringing a sentence together that anyone else not in the club can understand.

[Martin Curtis]

You’ve allowed 2.5 days for shooting. Is the guy going to talk to the camera for 5 hours on each day?

Also, is there a need to shoot in HD? It’s going down to SD and if it’s just a talking head then I’m not sure if you’ll see a difference in quality shooting in SD.

Finally, if it was me, I’d find a way to just capture straight to a computer or even DVD, as well as having tape. That will cut down on capture time.

[nick griffin] “Has this concept been drawn up by a client with no TV or video experience whatsoever or someone who’s ego is so large that they assume just looking at them for NINE HOURS would be tolerable for any audience not already secured by handcuffs and leg-irons?”
What he said…

Talking for 10 hours? That could be delivered on audio tape. This is the kind of thing I talk people out of all the time (hey, I’m government…). Lord of the Rings didn’t go that long.

[Martin Curtis]

[Mark Suszko] “What I have at the office are stand-alone DVD recorders from Panasonic; they work like the DVD equivalent of a VCR.”
Those things are the duck’s nuts. Since encoding can take so long, for a quickie preview disc it’s easier to just play it out in real-time, set it to autoplay with no menu and you’re good to go.

My Pannys even have DV input so I can drop a tape onto a DVD, give it to the client and tell them to come back to me with an EDL (I work for the guvmint so I get to tell people what to do). When they come back, throw in the tape, set IO points and batch capture just what is needed.