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+5 for Dells….have them in every suite….two monitor systems on all. Look for the Ultra Sharp models only. Work great.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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Take a deep breath and never, and I said NEVER ever send a job to Compressor ever again. Ever.
From the timeline, mark your in and out and if you hit the End key to get to the end of the timeline, left arrow back one frame so you are parked on the last frame, not on the beginning of the next frame which is nothing and mark your out.
Then simply Export Quicktime Movie and make self contained.
Drag this file to Compressor and all will be well.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
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We do holiday cards to about 100 of our contacts, both client and vendor. Then we have done all kinds of holiday treats to our top 12 or so clients. We sometimes make it a local vendor, like Candinas Chocolate, but this year we went with Chery’s Cookies.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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We use Flip4Mac to create smaller WMVs for emailing. Outside of 3 minutes you are looking at a very compressed file. We keep them around 512 x 288 frame size. You have to keep the final encoded file around 7 megs so it will fit in a 10 meg mailbox.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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I think the easiest way to make a DVD (or encode MPEG-2) from a long VHS is to simply connect the VHS to a DVD Recorder. Set the DVD recorder to a record length that matches the tape and let ‘er rip.
Could not be easier.
Then use MPEG Streamclip to demux the MPEG2 and AC3 files to your drive if you need to author them further.
This is by far the simplest solution.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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We do pretty much what Walter said. Bare 1 TB SATA drives and an external SATA drive box that we copy to. We make a backup of the backup and I keep one set at home and one at the office. We are up to 30 backup SATA drives at this point with 30 additional offsite. It enough to nearly keep me up at night if that data was ever lost.
Strongly considering LTO. Or hoping Santa will bring us a faster larger version of BluRay data discs.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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I have taken a similar but slightly different approach to this since 2003. I have always had a Gigabit switch in my network so I have always done it this way. However not all my systems had a video capture card so I would digitize footage on one machine and use the other for AE and editing, rendering etc while the footage lived on the other machine throughout the project.
I added two employees and two more systems and we each would upload our own projects to our own local RAID drives. We had a RAID, separate projects drive plus the System drive in each computer. Three of the four had Kona cards.
If I needed to cut one of four spots and the footage was on one of the other computers it was never an issue with our network to edit off those drives. There are a few caveats to using this method over gigabit, but currently in our new building I have 6 Mac Pro systems on the network and we constantly share media between drives. No problems editing ProRes (we do not use HQ) and it is seamless.
I believe this way makes the network more efficient than having all the footage on an Ethernet SAN and pounding that device with every computer. Seems the system likes having the footage locally if possible, and then we can connect to that computer if we need to.
With the Blackmagic Videohub we can route from our desk and all our machines and decks live in one room…the edit rooms are as far away a 80 feet and we run long cables from the server room for monitors, keyboards and sound.
This is about as DIY as you can get and it has been rock solid since 2003.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
What bluray burner/reader are you using? Specific brand and model, internal or external, USB or Firewire?
I have a Lacie external hooked up via firewire and it has been flawless.
Mac Pro, Leopard 10.5.8
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Just to jump in here, but if you can build your animations in HD, even 720p, you can make pretty great looking BluRay discs with Toast 10. And since you can but BluRay players for under 100 bucks, there’s no reason not to, unless you have SD footage. You can even fit up to about 34 minutes on a standard DVD-R disc, making it even more of a no-brainer.
Send the video to the projector with an HDMI cable and you are all set.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Unless there is something odd about that ac3 it should work. Try just opening the ac3 in MPEG Streamclip and see if it will play it.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com