Rich Rubasch
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You must have Quicktime Pro…Cant you simply do an export and choose AVI, then choose None in the compression settings…that’s it.
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Here’s how this game could work to your advantage. You have your reel, they have their’s. On your reel you have your stuff, on their reel they have some of your stuff. Now they can say that it is their work, but really you designed/edited it. Meanwhile, out on your own you have higher rates and are starting to gain your reputation as a good player in town and they have no reason to bad mouth you or your work. If they have a client that comes in and you worked on their stuff, they might just call you to bail them out of this job and pay you your higher rate.
When I left the company that I worked at for 3 years, they became my biggest client in the first year…hey, they liked my work and paid my rates. Since then they are still in the top ten clients I have.
So don’t get so bent out of shape that stuff is on the reel…just know that it is really your work, be proud of it, and make sure everyone you want to sell to knows that is your work. If you are good at what you do, and you remain an honest, well liked player in your market you will be successful. I would say to them that you encourage them to show their reel to their clients, and then if the client requests a look that you created, they might just call you to design it for them.
Just don’t bite off the hand that fed you, give them some slack, play nice, and in the end, if you are good, you will win.
Playing nice for many years,
Rich Rubasch
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I thought I’d heard that changes could be coming…my niece is anxious to get her hands on my iBook and I’d love to let her have it…just want to be sure.
So, as for 15 or 17 inch, other than size here are my thoughts. The 17 has built in firewire 800, and of course the bigger screen. I have a very nice bag for the 15 inch iBook which I could still use with the 15 inch MacBook Pro. So, other than firewire 800 and the screen real estate, what would I be missing with the 15?
Actually, just priced them and the only other thing I saw is that the 17 comes with the 8X dual layer super drive, but I could get an external firewire for the 15. No significant speed differences.
Now if Apple changes everything next week then all bets are off and my niece waits a little longer or hits ebay.
Rich Rubasch
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WMV is a great video format for PPT since most of them play on PCs anyway and players are loaded on most machines and 640 x 480 can look great and play great in WMV.
But here’s the rub…you WILL NOT get a 640 x 480 clip to look good out of Flip4Mac. It works great on the 320 x 480 stuff (think MPEG-1) but not on the full screen stuff. And remember you will most likely have PPT scale up the clip to fill the screen. I do this all the time so pay attention!
I export an AVI uncompressed file out of FCP and take that via Firewire drive to a PC that has the free WMV encoder. Set it to about 2000mbps and be sure to deinterlace it. Play with the settings a bit, but you will get a fabulous clip that will impress your client.
One last tip…be sure your clips fade in from black and out to black….then, add fades from the outgoing slide to the incoming slide after the clip plays and it will all play very seamlessly during the presentation.
To review, I use Flip4Mac to make quick 320 x 240 WMVs for client approval right off the FCP timeline, but when it comes to full screen WMVs at 640 x 480 I export uncompressed AVIs (yes they are big, but will look great) to a firewire and encode on a PC…deinterlace, 2000mbps or so, multi pass etc and it will look fabulous and play nice on PCs. They will also play using the PPT player app, so users will only need a WMV player on their PC. However, these movies will not play on a Mac.
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If you deinterlace (either delete one field or blend the two together) it will look better on a computer, especially LCD panels, but might look soft on regular TVs. So it’s a tradeoff. Interlacing looks bad on LCD’s and computer monitors because they do not draw fields the same way as CRT TVs.
However if you shoot film or true progressive video, (but you said Beta) you would have a decent result for both computers and TVs.
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Yes….7.2 is also probably too big for some DVD players (bitrate too high). How are you encoding your audio track? AC3? If not definately encode it to AC3 using Compressor.
If your program has a minimum number of scenes with a lot of motion, you would benefit from Variable bitrate encoding which Compressor does VERY poorly. You might consider BitVice or Main Concept encoders if you will do more of these longer encodes.
Otherwise you might be stuck with a low 5.2-5.6 mbps Constant bitrate out of compressor using AC3 for the audio in order to fit it on one disc.
Rich Rubasch
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What are you outputting it for? the Web? A DVD or just archiving purposes? Are you scaling it down to a smaller image size, or maintaining its original size?
More info please…
Rich Rubasch
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Good news for Mac users indeed. Would love to see a competitor to Sorenson Compression Suite that works as well as early version of cleaner without the bugs and a better Mac inspired interface.
Go guys!
Rich Rubasch
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Not sure exactly, but here is a good start to answering your question…
https://www.marklaw.com/trademark-FAQ/faqacq.htm
Rich Rubasch
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You’re such a geek. (That’s a major compliment…read on) I spent years reading your forthright posts on the AVID-L, all very entertaining reads. Glad you lurk here at the COW ’cause I look you up once in a while to see what’s on your mind. Your input to this thread is proof that you are a valuable asset to this place.
So why don’t you dig up a digital photo of yourself and send it to Ron and Kathlyn and make yourself a host of one of your favorite forums.
If I ever read of someone needing an HD scope, I’ll send them this thread link, for sure.
Rich Rubasch
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