[Michael O’connor]

Dear Chad,

Cheap NiMH China Batteries. Get the 1000 mah and you’ll have a 12 amp propac. Bring the D Cells to Batteries Plus and have them re-cell the pack. Mine comes off the charger hot at 15V+. Runs my Panasonic AJ-SPX800p camera just fine; P2 camera… no moving parts. Went up on South Mountain the other day to shoot a live plate for a green screen for a financial show… I put the camera into save mode (turns off the video display) and I turned off the light on the battery/time code display. 3+ hours and it still had a good charge.

Any questions call or write.

Best regards,

Michael O’Connor

(602) 618-5327

bluescarecrow2000@gmail.com

[Michael O’connor]

Dear Greg,

The P2 media (mxf files) are computer friendly. Up to a few months ago I was editing with a 15 year old computer and Adobe Premiere Pro worked just fine. Then I purchased a HP Z820 and that worked even better, until about a week ago and this timing thing cropped up. Adobe fixed it last October, but now it has cropped up again.

I’ll start a whole new project and bring in a movie as a test and it still plays slow.

Just looking for a solution so I can get back to work.

Thanks!

Mike

[Michael O’connor]

Don’t want to jump ship. Just need to figure out why it’s doing what it’s doing and solve the puzzle. It was a simple fix when Adobe remoted-in and fixed it last October.

Thanks!

Mike

[Michael O’connor]

Thanks all for writing.

The object of staying with CS6 instead of CC is the MRC Monthly Recurring Charge. I’m retired. My career in the Motion Picture Industry lasted almost 2 decades before I was Blackballed out of it by Gabe Videla of Special Effects Unlimited. Now I’ve got Medicare and the IRS in my back pocket, so I get less than $700 a month.

I don’t really have a big budget for software and equipment. My last computer (purchased in 2004) was an Intel Server 4 core, 3.2 Ghz 8 GB Ram with an NVIDIA Quadro 2000 and a CardDeluxe Audio Card. I purchased the Z820 recently, because it had a legacy PCI slot that my CardDeluxe would fit into. It had the E5 12 core CPU and I hope to add the additional CPU for a total of 24 cores; and yes I will bump the ram to 16 GB.

There are other factors besides a super computer. I own 3 Panasonic AJ-SPX800p Camcorders, Sennheiser Short Shotgun Mic, a Boom Pole, Shure SM-57, Azden Wireless Mic setup, Sound Devices Digital Audio Recorder and a few Gels leftover from a shoot 10 years ago, cables adapters and oh yes my beloved Slate..

If I run to the store every time there is an upgrade, I wouldn’t have any time for clients; it would be a weekly excursion. I’d have to research what would work with what. That in itself would be a full time job and, in the end, I wouldn’t have any money left for me. There’d be major purchases, major shipping costs, major learning curves.

There’s big guys and little guys… I’m a little guy. I’m not Andrew Kramer.

I do straight forward editing, maybe a “Jumpback” here and there as a lead in, but I try and keep it simple. Too much fancy stuff and the attention is drawn away from the story.

Anyway enough rambling.

I started a whole new project, Imported the video into the source monitor and it plays slow. Didn’t even make a sequence.

Thanks!

Mike

[Michael O’connor]

Dear Jan,

I just checked the FTP Site from my brothers computer and it looks like it took.

I’ll know more when I get home.

Thank you for doing this. If I can ever return the favor, just let me know.

Warmest regards,
Michael O’Connor
Blue Scarecrow Entertainment
Family Broadcasting Network

[Michael O’connor]

Dear Jan,

No can do?

Mike

[Michael O’connor]

Good to know.

Thanks Paul!!!

[Michael O’connor]

Dear Jan,

I can’t thank you enough.

I’ll give you two links.

Here is Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/

Dropbox is free. Once loaded, you can “Share” and put in my email address… bluescarecrow2000@gmail.com … and then I’ll get a link and then I can download the files.

If you don’t want to start a Dropbox account, then go to the FTP site. It’s password protected, but you won’t have to start an account.

Here is an FTP site: ftp://1100kfnx.com

User: kfnxguest15
Pswd: Gg1527399

The links that I have tried, and I think I’ve tried every one, install to a default location of C:\Adobe. I even went so far as to rename Adobe to Dobe and I made an empty folder named Adobe so I could see all the files that the program installed. The downloaded files were exactly the same size as the ones already residing within Encore. I spent 10 hours trying to rectify this without success… very frustrating.

Thank you so much for your help!

Mike

[Michael O’connor]

Yes… I went through the link thing and it doesn’t work.

Does anyone have the unzipped files? Could you put them in dropbox?

Thanks!