[Rich Rubasch]

Holy demanding request, Batman! What platform is their in office editing system? A PC I suppose? Why don’t you transfer everything from SVHS to Mini-DV at your local dub house. Then go out and buy the guy a cheap DV camcorder that he can hook up via firewire to his computer. Then he can upload at his place and you can upload at your place.

With 40 hours of footage, there is no better digital format than to have them on timecoded DV tapes.

I would have suggested MPEG-2 but most likely he cannot edit with that.

Personally this sounds like a pretty unreasonable request and I would look at how the footage would be used in the future etc and then determine the best way to get him the footage.

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

From what I found ME stands for Metal Evaporated and is a much lesser quality tape than MP which is Metal Particle. Also there is a good chance the ME tapes might cause a head clog.

Sounds like they are chepaer too, right, and you wanted to know if they were just as good?

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[Rich Rubasch]

Hmmm…I am wondering if some of your compression questions about Flash 8 encoder would be better answered on the Flash forum…There might be a few more experts over there.

As for the clips from archive.org do not require deinterlacing you can certainly experiment with different settings on short clips to test. This is a big part of encoding…feeding an encoder a certain type of clip and bracketing your settings, much like photography, until you get the best overall output.

I think we all wish encoding was a more precise process, and that the presets always worked, but it just ain’t so!

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[Rich Rubasch]

The IP address in the manual is the IP address of the router. It should ping the router and eventually load a page with several settings. Did you try it with Internet Explorer? I have found that only Explorer works for me.

So you are not going to a web site, rather you are logging into the router to make changes to the settings.

It usually takes a while to log into the router with the IP address…and don’t add any www or http before it, just type in the number.

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

Anything by these two vendors will suffice…

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[Rich Rubasch]

the IP address I gave was for example only….the actual address of the router is in the manual…somewhere!

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[Rich Rubasch]

The cable/dsl router has its own address. The only way to access its flash memory where the setting live is to open a browser (like I said Internet Explorer is best, but firefox might work) and type in the IP address of the router (it is in the book that came with the router, and it is on the disc that came with the router). Most of the install discs for routers are PC only, but there might be a text file you can open with Word and see the contents, which may contain the IP address of the router.

You type this address (string of numbers like 192.168.1.1) into the address bar of the browser. It will try to find the router on the network and if it finds it a web page looking thing comes up and has a bunch of fields for making setting changes…most of these are outlined in the book that came with the router, but the biggie and perhaps the only one you need to worry about is the one that asks for the service provider’s address, like charterinternet.com, or roadrunner.net etc.

Punch that in hit OK and it updates the flash memory in the router. Then you should be good to go.

BTW, you want to have as direct a connection to the router as you can from the computer….like a direct ethernet cable to one of the routers ethernet ports…don’t go through a hub or switch.

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

However for about $10 a year you can get it to sync with your regular mail app and that adds up to less than a dollar a month. Free is free, but $10 is not quite a scam…nor are they being unfair.

Basically it offsets the fact that if you use your own email app to check your Yahoo account you won’t get a chance to see all those lovely pop up ads!

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[Rich Rubasch]

I usually have a second machine doing the encoding, but I charge $80 per hour to set up the encode, which may include a few short passes as tests. Then I charge about $50 for the other computer to churn out the encode.

So you are not too far off.

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[Rich Rubasch]

On a linksys router I have to go into diagnostics via Internet Explorer and type in the IP of the router…then I have to put in my service provider in the DNS field. After I hit ok, it works fine. I run the modem into the router and the router (once configured to my internet provider, in my case charterinternet.com) feeds one of the ports on the hub. I then plug in the rest of my computers into the hub and all is well.

It might be that you have to flash the router so that it knows who your service provider is (which the modem is connected to) before it will reliably work.

Rich Rubasch
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