Michael Brown
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We just bought a Marantz PMD-670. Not tiny, but very nice.
Mike Brown
Video/Film Producer
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1. Export each slide as a TIFF file.
FILE > SAVE AS > .tif > EVERY SLIDE
2. If needed, run these through a Photoshop batch process to shrink them into safe title, and slow down screaming colors.
This technique will NOT preserve any PP builds or transitions. If you must keep them, play the presentation through a scan converter out to tape or direct capture.Mike Brown
Video/Film Producer
American Heart Association -
This brings up a very annoying practice on the part of many commercial DVDs. The movie is in widescreen anamorphic, but the “extra” features are often not. This requires me to reset my monitor from 16:9 to 4:3. Once I found the “bonus features” menu was 16:9 but only one choice was anamorphic.
Just a real pain.Mike Brown
Video/Film Producer
American Heart Association -
Baz is correct. There is no standard. However, our tech specs require separate “textless” masters, with discrete tracks on DA88 or DAT with matching timecode. Our audio house usually delivers DA88 with 1: Mix L; 2: Mix R; 3: Music L; 4: Music R; 5: SFX L; 6 SFX R; 7: DIALOGUE 1; 8: VO/DIALOGUE 2.
Translators we’ve used prefer the textless video master to have dialogue on track 1 with music & effects on track 2 (assuming a Beta SP). Many of them do not have DA88s or DAT machines.Mike Brown
Video/Film Producer
American Heart Association -
For your library I would highly recommend On Film Editing, Edward Dmytryk, Focal Press, 1984, if you can find it.
Mike Brown
Video/Film Producer
American Heart Association -
To view anamorphic signals, you will need a monitor capable of switching to 16:9. Simple underscan will not do what you need.
Mike Brown
Video/Film Producer
American Heart Association