Michael Sacci
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[walter biscardi] “In some areas I agree with you.”
In some areas I agree with himself also. 🙂 But I have been known to argue with myself.
Thanks for the contact, I will be sure to look them up next time I need something.
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Hey my son is going to UVic.
Retail sales – talking to them is scary or maddening, which ever way you look at it. That is why seeing Mac back in Best Buy worries me.
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Walter, I’m just too cheap to go the VAR route. 🙂 But I know I pay for it at times w/ time and fustration, but I make sure it is mostly time spent up front with research. I wish Nashville had a real VAR in town but they don’t, I do order stuff computers from ProMax as much as possible but I build everything myself. Where I save is ordering internal HDs for Mwave, external drives and ram from OWC, all this adds up to cost savings but I also realize that I take on more responsibility in problem solving since it is not a closed, one vender system. (I didn’t mean to make it seem like I was questioning the professionalism of VARs but I think it came across that way. They are professional, especially ProMax)
So another way of looking at whether or not to go with a VAR is what type of person are you, if you like more security and want the ease of calling one person/place for help then the VAR is well worth the money. If you are like me in that money saved is more important (at least at the time of purchase 🙂 ) than the risk then it makes sense to build your own. Neither way is wrong in itself.
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Max,
Just to up date you, I downloaded MactheRipper and ripped the DVD and it still will not play on my Macs, of course the burned disc even before ripping plays fine on a settop player. These DLTs just have a weird copy protection on them, and it seems like nobody has seen this before.
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Build my own systems, nobody in the area that knows Macs better than me at the Apple or 3rd party stores. Having some “professional” build a system that are 2500 miles away just don’t make sense to me.
But I do a lot of reach before I buy/build and most of the time I buy the right stuff. My advice, make sure you think in terms of the completed system and build with what formats you will be editing with. The main issue is making sure you have the right hard drive system.
The good thing about Apple is there are not a lot of choices other than where to buy.
But a plug for the real professional systems builders, if you are putting in a mission critical system that down time (or the lack of) is of the most important than they are worth their weight in gold. But you pay for this in several ways, normally I’m looking to get the most power for the money and live on the edge. 🙂
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I’m Mac only seems this is for windows.
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that kind of defeats the idea of making safety backups, if I go stuff like that I take on a lot of responsibility.
But I did try to rip a Video TS folder I made from the tape and it will allow me to demux the video but not the audio.
Also the 2054 from what I gather is what DLTs should be, so there is no reason to convert them to something that is DVD-R compatible since I don’t need DVD-Rs, but I can make them but once again the vts’ audio is the only thing that is screwed up.
if I sound like I’m arguing with you, I don’t mean to, this is helping me go through the process and I appreciate it. it is just frustrating and weird, I wish I could here one person that has seen this audio issue besides me.
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or are you talking about
1084 CGMS: Content copyrighted, May never be copied, DVD Video Protection System (CSS)
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Is this what you are talking about?
Source storage mode: 1 (2054 bytes)
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I have been going back and forth with Larry at DVDAE, he has been helpful, takes forever to troubleshoot DLT issues.
I just wanted to see if anyone has heard of assets actually being scrambled on the DLT and not just flagged (which is normally what is done on a DLT) and in this case it is just the VTS’s audio all the video is fine.