Mike Calla
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Hope you find sponsors, I genuinely look forward to your posts and podcasts! & very interesting about the NDA! Weird!
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You’ll find the answer here
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First off, thanks Shane, much obliged!
Second…yaaaa, my bad, I know the folder structures aren’t the same, I wrote the post hastily while mobile. Thanks for clarifying it though as not to confuse the issue for future readers. I originally wrote the post in the “Apple OS” forum (I’m a PC user), and after nobody answered I reposted here. I’ll go back there and link here to your answer.
Third, I’m the person who didn’t keep the full card structure:-) I’m the videographer and also the editor. Months into post on full length doc, needed to send files to the host/writer a continent away & thought I’d save a day of rendering by dumping all my native c300 files to a portable hdd, I didn’t even think that he wouldn’t be able to open them in the QuickTime player without issue (cuz you know, they’re only mpeg files from a one of the most widely used broadcast cameras in recent memory hehe )
Lastly, Shane, I love your written blog, but why no more The Edit Bay? Great podcast Shane that’s too few and far between between updates!
Cheers!
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Hi,
I know I’m late to the party, but this might help others.
https://tbivision.com/prices-guides/These pdfs show prices paid per hour for dozens of markets. You need to sign up to download.
As well, start looking at distributors and getting into the MIPs (miptv, mipcom etc),and NATPE etc. no reason to limit your work to one station/network/territory!
Good luck, I’m working on post now for a self produced doc and it is not easy!!
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I haven’t read the replies but check to see if it’s a corrupt file. You can do search to find a few different workflows on how to weed out a bad file.
Secondly and much more importantly, you owe it to your paying clients and to your sanity to have redundancies in place. A second OS/ghost drive that can be plugged in when ever you have a problem is a lifesaver!!
Have a second computer as well, it doesn’t have to be behemoth, just enough to get job done if the need arises. (Mine hides in the shadow as a htpc)
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The hardest part of my business is marketing.
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We had a broadcaster mistakenly use a 1080p .mp4 file destined for the web. I never saw it but the client said they couldn’t tell the difference. I guess once it goes through heaps of compression / decompression and processing it matters less and less now days.
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Yep, that’s correct.
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I’ve found BMD and aja devices that use pcie cards work well. I’m not at my system now but I have a aja Lh?? card outputting HD to a panny pro plasma that I’ve been using for years.
And I still use FireWire for previewing to JVC pro crt.
And Vegas easily handles HD output to a secondary display via your display card as well.
In response to your questions for Thayalan,
“- Do you monitor your color-correction on your PC screen ?
– Do you check for anomalies on your PC screen when chroma-keying or when applying other effects?
– Can you assure your titles are within safe-area ?”Yes to all 3, you can calibrate your main editing screen and then do a full screen preview and Vegas will apply the calibration preset. Vegas has guidelines for framing and title areas
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It could be so many things.
I use dnxhd all the time but recently spent a few hours trying to render a small edit and it kept failing. I had inadvertantly checked 10bit in the dnxhd’s own settings prompt and as you may or may not know, Vegas can’t render 10bit files.