Mike Cohen
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I think is filed under “something wedding videographers don’t like to talk about.” Thus far, the music industry has either not noticed or not cared about wedding videos. It is a pretty small distribution compared with online file sharing.
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does CS4 continue to save titles within the project file?
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I have read that still frame export goes through Media Encoder – seems like an extra step compared to Ctrl+Shift+M, but new versions of software often move functions around.
You get the same error if you try to open a CS3 project in CS2. However try importing rather than opening. I have gotten this to work from CS3 to CS2, although with errors.
Mike Cohen
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Jeff gives the best advice of all – keep everything in standard locations.
There are some files I use in every project – company logo, time-code burn-in, digital juice media and music. While tempting to always import these from their permanent home on the internal drive, I always copy and paste the files into my project directory before importing.
I try to keep backups of the project file and all non-video assets on a 2nd backup drive – but also keep track of your tapes. If using P2 or SxS media, you should keep backups of your raw footage on hard drive. Drives are cheap enough.
For really important projects, I have begun keeping two copies on two drives from the start. A client will not accept “oh, the drive is corrupt, sorry for the week delay.”
Once a project is done, I use the Project Manager to create a smaller version of the project, and copy this to the backup drive. So a 10 minute project may have 2+hours of raw footage, but the final project at 10 minutes should only have 2gigs of video assets, give or take depending upon complexity of course. You could burn that to DVD for that matter.
When I move to my laptop with an external drive, sometimes the audio needs to re-conform, sometimes not.
Mike
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I would suggest you include some Flash videos showing the virtual sets in action. In a video with some blur added perhaps the backgrounds look better. All sharp and computer graphic looking, out of context, makes them look kind of cheesy, in my opinion.
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I read a while ago that Axio had some aliasing problems with its real time effects – I assume this is old news.
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well, the rule of marketing is, tell us what you are selling and where to find it, including in your post on a forum like this.
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Years ago we were having a meeting and the issue of our e-mail provider came up. Our VP at the time suggested switching to a different host, and our IT guy replied, “I like the web mail software we have. I’m 40 years old, I don’t want to learn anything else.”
We should have fired him on the spot, but that was the first nail in his coffin. So this was an older guy talking like a kid.Just my silly anecdote.
Mike
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“references upon request” has become a cliche, still used on many resumes.
I agree that references are always going to say cheery things.
However an e-mail from a business owner saying “a guy who sometimes works for me is very good, give him a shot” goes farther than “Joe Smith? Yeah he worked here.”
But it is true, meeting a person and having a conversation is the best way to see what someone is made of. Software I can teach, our particular flavor of production I can also teach. But I cannot teach someone how to be mature and professional.Mike
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The best way is to capture the video as DV – you can convert the VOB to another format, but compression artifacts may be added.
Then use Premiere to make FLV or whatever format your website requires.