[Mike Cohen]

The short black sequence as first play, end action to the main menu worked perfectly to circumvent Power DVD’s weird behavior.
While DVD is gradually falling by the wayside in some parts of the economy, we still move a lot of DVDs.
Thanks

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

Adding a 3 sec black timeline as first play seems easy enough. I have not seen this behavior in Windows Media Player or Mac player which are the two most common. However Windows 8 does not, oddly, include DVD playback, unless Dell or whatever the manufacturer is chooses to bundle it.

Thanks guys

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

is it true you can’t go back from CC to CS6 premiere projects?
With CS6 I can open the project file in a text editor and change the version number in order to open the project in CS 5.5

I am a bit leery about CC with all of the threads about issues

Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

I have always made it standard practice to add black to any section of a sequence with no video but where you want black. Kind of like blacking a tape with 0 IRE video but then doing an insert edit with 7.5.

Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

Thanks for the clarification.
This explains why playback even from a USB 2 G-Drive is pretty good with multiple XDCAM 35mbit streams. The exporting and real-time playback of effects chokes on 2.0. Presumably due to the higher throughput of 3.0 this will be less of an issue (it is less of an issue with single 3.0 non-RAID drives).

I know exporting through AME relies upon the processor, but on our Premiere system with a SAS RAID AME processing is really fast in comparison.

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

Thanks for all the useful information.

Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

So it appears that the USB 3.0 specification is “up to” XYZ mb/s, but in reality it is lower.

However the lower number still seems to be adequate for video throughput which is 35mb/s per stream for XDCAM for example, so 4 streams stacked would require roughly 140mb/sec which is well within the minimum reality throughput.

The speed of an individual drive vs a RAID 0, for example, would be improved also.

So which is higher, the USB data throughput, or the read/write ability of a 7200rpm drive?

[Mike Cohen]

[Tim Jones] ” And, if you’re backing up, I would recommend RAID 0 over RAID 5 for the added speed and capacity (1 disk worth).”

Yes I am looking for speed, not redundancy. I am a bit neurotic about backups and have my media on several offline drives for safe keeping.

Thanks

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

Must have been a really slow news day.
One time in college, during an internship, we covered a speech by the Governor about health care. We were working for a drug company. We then cut a VNR. My job as intern was to dupe BetaSP copies then drive around dropping them off to assignment desks before the 5pm news in the hopes that one or more of these stations were having a slow news day, or perhaps they forgot to send their own reporter to the event. Of course the particular spin on the package was focused on a CEO’s reaction to the Governor. I never did find out if any of the stations aired it. I suspect not.

Funny stuff. I bet these anchors all feel a little used.

[Mike Cohen]

great thread. There is a disconnect between marketing of these full frame and larger cameras vs reality. Sites like Doddle like to post headlines like “filmmaker shoots documentary with XYZ cheap camera” then you read the article and realize that with all the extras it is no longer really a cheap camera. Even the folks shooting with an iPhone use a shoulder rig and external audio.

So in other words, by the time you buy accessories to make a DSLR or cinema camera head work like a broadcast camera, it is basically the same price, though perhaps with better image quality and interchangeable lenses which sub-$10,000 cameras do not always offer.

Good discussion about filters too. Even a simple ND filter present on a wheel in traditional video cameras is absent in the DSLR/Cinema cam world and also oddly absent in the sub-$4,000 video camera world as well.

Mike Cohen