[Norman Willis]

Hey Aivis! Thanks! It sounds like good advice.

When I get done I can post in the jobs section, and also check Upwork and Fiverr.

I guess right now I have a lot to learn about how to make my request as specific as possible. It does make sense to review the posted resumes and also check their work, so I can make sure we are getting as good of a personality fit as possible.

Lots to chew on. Thanks!

[Norman Willis]

Todd, thanks for your encouraging post.
Due to a variety of other factors, I went ahead and ordered the camera. I think we are going to try to transition to Resolve, and then use Photoshop and AE to augment. And we can rent AE2020 by the month for whatever we cannot learn to hit with Resolve. And if we cannot transcode with Resolve or Handbrake, there is always VideoProc (which is not too expensive). So we should be able to hit it.
Thanks again.
Happy editing.

Norman B. Willis
Apostle, Nazarene Israel
The original faith of the apostles,
as found in Acts 24 and 28
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Light bulb coming on. Ok, got it! Thanks for that advice.

We took a good look at Resolve, and it seems like the same layout as every other NLE, so it can’t be too hard to learn…?

Thanks again.

Norman B. Willis
Apostle, Nazarene Israel
The original faith of the apostles,
as found in Acts 24 and 28
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Tero Ahlfors, thanks for your warm fuzzy! I appreciate it. Only, budget is an issue. I am just a content creator and alleged “talent”, so I don’t know that much. I have heard there is a big learning curve on Resolve. Is that true? (Or not true?)

I have transcoded (Cineform) before. It was not objectionable. Would you recommend Handbrake and YUV Lossless AVI? Or what would you advise for the target transcode format for easy ingestion into CS6?

I can appreciate that Creative Cloud is far superios, but we’re not really doing super-advanced stuff here, so it would really be nice to stay with CS6 as long as we can. Thanks.

Norman B. Willis
Apostle, Nazarene Israel
The original faith of the apostles,
as found in Acts 24 and 28
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

P.S., these are the specific codecs I am curious about, if they will work in CS6 (or not).
MP4
MPEG2
XF-AVC
XF Codec
MXF

Thanks very much.

Norman B. Willis
Apostle, Nazarene Israel
The original faith of the apostles,
as found in Acts 24 and 28
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

P.S., these are the specific codecs I am curious about, if they will work in CS6 (or not).

MP4
MPEG2
XF-AVC
XF Codec
MXF

Thanks very much.

Norman B. Willis
Apostle, Nazarene Israel
The original faith of the apostles,
as found in Acts 24 and 28
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

George, thanks. I appreciate that. That helps a lot.

I don’t know much about the .avi wrappers in TriCaster or vMix either. I am trying to task those things out, so I can stay focused on my primary task of content creation (not there yet!). What I do know is that I routinely dropped the TriCaster .avi’s into Vegas Pro 14 and edited them without difficulty, so I would imagine they also work just fine in Magix Pro Edit 15.

It occurs to me that I was editing and rendering in Vegas Pro 14 on a fifth gen Core i7 (4820) and a five year old GTX 760 video card, and 8GB of RAM without difficulty, so I will ask him to price something similar. Thanks again for your help.

Norman B. Willis
Apostle, Nazarene Israel
The original faith of the apostles,
as found in Acts 24 and 28
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Ok, I broke out my amp meter. I should have done that to start with, lol. All I need is to make sure I don’t overload my three 15 Amp circuits with the following equipment:

Core i7 mini-tower with 2 big monitors (26″ & 40″)
1 little monitor (10″, for teleprompter)
Core i5 laptop (to drive PowerPoint)
Camcorder or two (Canon HF-S10’s)
20 each CFL lights @ 45W each (900W)

I think it is looking pretty good. The amp meter says the CFL’s are pulling 800W, which is about half the 1500-1800 Watts of one 15 Amp circuit. I am pretty sure I can run the rest of the stuff on the other two circuits. But I will hook everything up, and check the amperage draw. (The big two-wire monitor does have all-plastic casing.)

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Ok, but it’s a case grounding thing, and not an “innards fry themselves if you don’t have a third wire” kind of thing?

I am renting at the moment. Hopefully a house, someday…

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Stephen, you may have answered this already, but I have a 40″ Sony HDTV that has a 2-wire plug. Interestingly, I also have a Samsung HD-260 monitor has a standard 3-prong plug. Does that mean the Samsung needs 3 wire? Or have they just given it a 3-wire plug (when a 2-wire adapter would be fine)?

I know a CPU needs a reference ground. I was surprised to realize that my Sony 40″ HDTV only requires 2-wire.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org