Mike Cohen
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appears to be a bad audio file – never the mind!
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I should add that it says “No video decoder available for this stream type.”
Which is not logical, as all content is properly formatted M2v and WAV files.
Mike
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I find that DVD upon playback ends timelines not quite at the end, so now I add a second or two of black when exporting.
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I agree with the others – the biggest problem with long hours is death by driving whilst tired. I have come close to falling asleep at the wheel a few times. All the spicy mints, air conditioning, open windows and AC/DC blasting in the world may work for a few minutes of driving, but if your body needs to sleep, it will not ask for permission.
I have done a few 18, 24, 36, even a 40 hour editing marathon – you reach a limit of concentration.
The best was I was reviewing a video with a client in Chicago. He was not happy, but the video was being shown the next day at 11am. At 7pm he calls and asks if I can re-edit the thing. I told him I did not have the raw footage with me. So I took a taxi to O’Hare, somehow got on a plane back to Connecticut, got to the office at 11:30pm – edited until 3:30am – had to lay off 2 different timelines to two different tapes – while these ran I typed up a rundown for the live event, got 30 minutes of shut-eye (not actual sleep) – got back to the airport at 7am local time, somehow got on a plane, got to Chicago, took a cab into town, and got the tape to the playback machine 30 minutes before it was needed. Then had to work all day!
Be careful and use your head.
Mike
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it’s true, the Firstcom CDs have about 3-4 good tracks out of 10-12 different tunes. I can’t believe that people really need so much soft-core porn sounding music, cheesy news bumper music or kenny g inspired themes. Maybe that is an indication that the composers only have a few hits in them.
I will check it out.
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Having only ever used the freebie of SmartSound which came with Premiere 6.5, I am wondering if people use this program in lieu of a music library?
Is there enough variety within genres if you do a lot of projects?
This new one sounds interesting.Mike
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For hoo-ha’s why don’t you set the bit rate low enough to fit the whole thing on one disc. It may come out horrible, but would be an interesting experiment.
Also, if this is a school or community play, it may still look better than the usual VHS tapes people are accustomed to seeing.I did a DVD last year with over 3 hours on a single layer DVD-R – did not look horrible, although it was mostly talking heads and static slides.
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I’m using 1.5. Sorry.
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is it true that low burn speeds are not required when copying from disk to disc, such as in a disc-to-disc duplicator?
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I recently picked up the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4.0
It has a scroll wheel that not only goes up and down, but also side to side. Very useful for Photoshop.
And two buttons adjacent to the thumb which I have assigned to + and – so I can zoom in and out of the timeline without letting go of the mouse or moving my left hand off my coffee cup!
It has a wire, as I hate remembering to replace batteries.
It also has a rubberized area where your thumb, ring and pinky fingers rest and is very ergonomic.
Now too bad they don’t make foot pedals to toggle between tracks on the timeline! My feet are always tapping anyways, might as well put them to work.
Mike