[Rich Rubasch]

One thing I think I would amend to Mark’s great post is that we always put in some kind of hard floor around the edit desk. In our small edit bays we currently have vinyl tile on concrete. No dust, no static, easy rolling in the chairs. I prefer rolling around on the tile and finding a good pattern in a tight weave can be difficult or expensive.

Other than that I would also add that you must have dimmers on all lights. Backlighting the computer monitors is good on th eyes…just a very low wattage soft light behind the monitors. Ikea has many options here.

As for our walls, we found a great gray paing by Ralph Lauren called Studio Gray (Home Depot) and it is a great paint.

Good luck,

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

Caution on putting two widescreens next to each other. The distance you will have to move the mouse to get across all that horizontal resolution is quite a slide. Otherwise you have to increase the mouse speed and it gets harder to control. Also there is more head swinging left to right. That’s why I went with the 17/21 combo. I used a setup with two 23″ widescreens and recently that same facility pulled one of them and put in a 17″ 4:3.

just my 2

[Rich Rubasch]

Our combination is the Ultrasharp Dells….we have the 17″ 4:3 on the left and the 21″ widescreen on the right. This is an ideal layout for us. Left side has bins, pallettes etc and the right side has timeline, source record etc. These monitors are very sharp, have a wide range of inputs, great color and adjustments. We can tune them so both match perfectly. It is not so wide that it makes navigation a pain. The height of the 17″ 4:3 and the 21″ widescreen is exactly the same so top and bottom of the outer bezel matches perfectly….and the price is right. I also prefer black bezels and I don’t like the lack of inputs on the Apples, along with their prices.

Take a look at the Dells.

Heck, even Bob Zelin likes ’em.

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

’bout time.

Cool.

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[Rich Rubasch]

Here is a terrific resource for all these frame rate questions…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p

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[Rich Rubasch]

I recall that when we would shoot 24 fps 35mm film we would always get back clips that had the three frames then a fourth frame with a dupe frame. I thought that was 3:2, not 2:2:2:4. The translation would be 3 frames then 2 same-frames, i.e. 3:2.

Hmmm….more research.

Anyone else?

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[Rich Rubasch]

One issue you might come upon is that once a PDF is put on a disc and sent out it has a date stamp. If you ever update that file the person with the disc has an old version. I almost always recommend putting a web link on the disc that leads them to the PDF’s and other content. This way the most recent version is always a click away. It is also a way to have the DVD user provide their email so when updates become available they are notified.

Adding a Web Link oonto a DVD on a Mac in DVDSP you use DVD@ccess. You can author the disc on the Mac this way, then take your VideoTS buld to a PC and use Sonics eDVD to make the link available to PC users. This way everyone will have accesss to the most current files. The only caveat is that you must have an internet connection to get the files.

Does this help?

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

Hold the press! If the Sony Playstation3 can play back H264 and VC-1, and it can play back regular DVD’s them why in the world couldnt you just burn an h264 to a DVD-ROM disk? I assume there is a way to format the disc so the Playstation can read it. All it has to do is be able to read the disc directory and see it has a file that it supports.

I am reading all the time that the only way to author a Blu-Ray disc is Scenarist, but 99% of the time we only want to play a single clip. Most of us don’t want the complete authoring spec of the Blu-Ray format. There must be a way that a Playstation 3 can playback a disc that has media on it that it recognizes.

I might be off here but it has to be simpler than this. How ’bout someone with a Playstation 3 burns an H264 HD clip to a DVD ROM and stick it in the drive. Or if you are on a PC encode a WMV VC-1 HD clip and try that.

I’ll bet the Playstation reads it and plays it too.

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

What is the Sequence setting in FCP? What is the Motion setting? Do they match? You should try to match exactly the Motion setting before rendering to the Sequence setting in FCP.

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[Rich Rubasch]

One more thing…I have a MacBook Pro with the Flip4Mac Studio and Powerpoint. I cannot import a WMV into a PPT slide. All greyed out. So either there is a special PPT plug in for WMV’s to work or it just won’t be compatible.

Rich Rubasach
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