Mike Cohen
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Social Networking = a buzz word. Buzz words such as “green”, “energy independence” and “change” are fairly vague and only time will tell if their is some use.
I agree with Ron that focused networking sites like this one are useful. Whether intended to be “social” or not, I have a few COW friends who I have never actually met face to face – social indeed.
Let’s not forget that people have been communicating on message boards since the early days of the internet, long before some guy on Madison Ave came up with the phrase Social Networking. The BBS circa 1985, Compuserve and the once popular Usenet were precursors to today’s choices.
There are other media production specific boards that get people of like minds communicating.
Then there are the “popular” ones – however these are popular because they are broad.
Facebook – I admit to checking my account 1-2 times a day – it has been good for contacting old mates from school and there is a Creative COW appreciation group – not to mention some fellow COWs – to me this site does have some promise
MySpace – too broad – good if you are a rock band or a stalker
LinkedIn – I only use this when I get a new link – only thing is, I find that I am linked to people who I already know – not very useful – yet.
Craigslist – this site has been quite useful – I have hired numerous freelancers off their classifieds, and a recent full time hire. Truth be told, I have gotten some freelance weddings there also. There are some creepy areas of the site, as there are in your local paper for that matter.
In summary, I like walks on the beach, candle light dinners and…oh wait, wrong web site.
Mike Cohen
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need more info – format, purpose, price range, what format do you shoot, is this for digitizing, mastering or playback?
Be specific and you will get specific answers.Mike
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Many moons ago when we were a younger company, we won a couple of Cine Golden Eagle awards, and then we got to judge the awards for years after. Some real crap was submitted.
Now it is our reputation and work that gets us more work.
For what it’s worth, I still have my “Most Improved Player” trophy from the track team in high school. You think I should display that in my office? 5:11 for a mile isn’t bad for a skinny kid from the suburbs!
Mike
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we have had a few CS3 projects which make you want to tear your hair out. Lucky for me most of my hair is not within reach!
Usually there was something about the project which made it unstable. For example, one recent project had about 30 supers, all made from one original title. That seemed to make Premiere crash at the blink of your eye.
Other times there has been an image file or video that for whatever reason Premiere just did not like. The bigger your project file gets, the less stable the project MAY become – people have reported breaking projects into smaller pieces to improve stability.
Have you tried using ctrl+alt+del, performance, to see how much resources Premiere is using. If it is maxing out during routine editing, report back here.
CS4 we have crashed a few times, usually doing something routine like Saving a project. As long as we don’t save our work it seems pretty stable LOL!!
Asking “should I stop using Premiere” in a Premiere forum is not likely to answer your question. But we will help you figure out why you are having such trouble.
Mike
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Know your audience. It is the norm for the following situations to exist:
1. Corporate computers may not have Quicktime, the latest Flash player or even the ability to play any video.
2. Websites with video may be blocked by firewalls or severely bandwidth limited.
3. E-mail attachment limits often are only a few megabytes.Mike Cohen
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Aside from people who cut features, I would say there are few “editors” who only edit. There are a lot more jobs like what most of us on this forum do than dedicated editing jobs. Thus you need to know how to do a little of everything. Especially nowadays that software and computers are so affordable – it is the skills that pay the bills.
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50 mbit seems like a high number for bit rate even for MPEG-2. Not sure you can get 4:2:2 out of Premiere unless you are using a capture card.
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projecting any SD content on a movie theater screen is going to be a problem. This is why my local theater still uses 35mm slides, although PPT might help assuming you are feeding the projector with VGA.
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I have been on airplanes and rental car shuttles with my camera and have had numerous conversations with media folks at churches who need advice and guidance (not the kind of guidance you can get in a church) they need the church of video knowledge. There might be an opportunity to take the skills and know-how of doing church video and consulting with other churches wanting to step up their production.
Nice interviews.
Mike Cohen
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are you saying that you are exporting a 16:9 movie from a 4:3 project? That could cause problems