Mike Cohen
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It doesn’t hurt to bid higher than you expect to get. If you have an idea of what kind of budget the client is prepared to spend, bid slightly higher and offer at the outset to work with the client to find a mutually beneficial price. Assuming you arrive at the price you want, you have given the client an opportunity to show his “negotiation skills.” Doesn’t always work however.
Mike Cohen
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cool piece of software. There is a similar thing if you are doing captions in WMV or Real. Magpie https://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/magpie1.html
Lets you set sync points between a video file and a text file. The resulting XML file can be married to a WMV or Real file so your users can turn on or turn off the captions in their player. WMV captioning only worked in IE last time I checked.
We implemented this in a website we did for the NIH. All government video needs to be accessible.
https://videolectures.nccam.nih.gov/
I think there is such a tool for Flash captioning also. We have not had a need for it yet.Mike
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Do not confuse captioning with subtitles. Both can be turned on and off, but Closed captions are controlled by your TV, encoded on line 21 of the video signal. Subtitles are encoded onto a DVD, turned on and off by the DVD player remote control or via a menu setting.
Tell us which one you want to do.
Mike
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we also lost a Canopus and a ADS analog to DV converter box due to a firewire surge. Get a good name brand firewire PCI card (Belkin for example).
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if you have an iPod that plays video you could make a time code video clip and use that as a timecode stopwatch.
https://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2007/05/02/the-ipod-as-a-timecode-slate/ -
It is a known issue that firewire can blow the ieee-1394 ilink port on any Sony device. It happened on our DV clamshell deck. Sony ilink is unpowered, but firewire is powered. Although most decks have a 4 wire firewire connector, but somehow this happens. Rumor has it the repair is not covered by Sony’s warranty.
Can anyone else confirm this?Mike
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seems to work with the exported wav on track 1. I think this pretty much pushes my computer to the brink of its capabilities. I get about 1 frame per second on the preview monitor, and a few frames per second in each of the 4 camera views in the multicam monitor. It is adequate to make my selections but it may finally be time to put the Pentium 4 out to pasture (no cow pun intended)!
Have a nice weekend.
Mike
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I decided to export a WAV from my source sequence. Then I moved all my audio tracks down one track, and inserted my WAV of the master audio on track one.
However going back to the multicam nested sequence, I still have no audio no matter what I try.
I just noticed that although I renamed my source sequence (originally it was called sequence 01) the multicam sequence still shows the nested sequence as sequence 01. Could it be that once you start a multicam session you cannot alter the source sequence?
I made a new sequence and dragged the source sequence and enabled multi-cam, and now it works fine with the audio intact. So that answers my question.
Hmm, I wonder what would happen if I changed the name of my original multi-cam sequence back to sequence 01?
No luck. I guess I found a limitation of multi-cam editing. Meanwhile I have spent most of a day trying to figure out the problem, I could have cut it the old fashioned way in that time.
Adobe, any ideas?
Mike
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if you want to have the users go to specific points, you might try a Quicktime file. You can set cue points within Quicktime Pro. It’s been a while since we did this, but XML has something to do with it.
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is this playing off a streaming server, off a web page, or playing locally? We have people download windows media all the time and it is random access. Streaming may not be random access, and html servers do progressive download, so like Flash, it has to download completely before you can randomly access it.
Not sure this helps you, but the encoder does not sound like the issue.Mike