Rich Rubasch
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Just read that a standard DVD-R has a max of 10,000 megabits but that is a max.
And with Toast you can burn a fully qualified BluRay disc onto a DVD-R with a standard DVD burner.
Thanks for the kind words on the site. We are pleased to have BBC Sales Company as one of our largest clients. But we deserve it. : )
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
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What frame size are you going to shoot for? This will sort of determine what bitrate you will want to hit. I would doubt that off a standard DVD disc that much over 5 megabits would play well.
As for making a nice looking BluRay disc for those that can play them Toast 10 is a very simple way to make a standard BluRay disc burned onto a standard DVD-
R disc. It’s very easy to do and looks great. Don’t use menus and make the disc a first-play and you will have nearly 100% compatibility.Good luck with the film.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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Here’s why you would use AVI with either DV or PhotoJPEG going to a PC. Windows Media Encoder will NOT read from a standard QT movie, even though the computer can read a QT just fine. BUT, and AVI movie with either DV NTSC or PhotoJPEG can be read and encoded with WME. Not sure exactly why, but just making it an AVI seems to fool WME to accept the format.
That way the file you send can be fully utilized by the person on the PC.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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But wait! Get MPEG Streamclip and find out if your PC guy has Quicktime loaded on their PC. Using MPEG Streamclip export an AVI with the DV NTSC codec and also try one with the PhotoJPEG at 75% quality setting as well. I use these all the time to go to my PC with QT installed.
Works and looks great.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
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How did you get to these “deeper” menus?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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We are facing this issue pretty hard as well. Had a Seagate go down and did a data recovery that cost about $700. Got about 25% of it back.
So now we have backups of our backups. Point of clarification, if you have a backup hard drive and you delete the footage from your computer you now do not have a backup anymore! You only have a single copy of the data (on the “backup” drive). The only way to have a backup is to copy the data to another disc etc. Two copies of data is having a backup!
Honestly I am hoping for a solid state storage solution. Would love to have SD cards in, say, the 1 terabyte range for under $50…a person can dream.
800 gigs on an LTO huh? Hate to adopt a new format only to have a big tech breakthru a month later. Even 100 gig XDCAM discs aren’t close to being large enough.
We have not started charging clients for backing up data…yet.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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We have the same issue. Sometimes you think you have the greens right and the reds look hot. Yellows get funny too. Might just ebay the darn thing and get a consumer plasma. I swear, my cheapo Panasonic home Plasma looks better and locks in color better than that “pro” monitor.
Is there a secret menu somewhere on that darn thing?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
We have our rates posted on our site too, including duplication. Take a look and see if it compares. I have three 7-disc duplicators and three Primera Bravo SE printers.
Have been workhorses for a couple years now.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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We typically do encode out of compressor at 6.5 CBR. I haven’t seen an appreciable increase in quality with VBR. However we do have Bit Vice for those tough encodes that really need VBR at lower bitrates and if they have challenging shots. It seems to hold up better at the lower bitrates but it only encodes the video so you should still create the AC3 out of compressor.
Does that help?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Since most of the time we encode as well as upload we combine them into one category which is encoding and we charge $80/hr for that service. But we also have a 1/4 hour minimum, so it could be as little as $20 to encode to a YouTube format and upload for them to download it. Not exactly gouging the client and it is all wrapped in one category.
Now, if it takes 2 hours to upload a file and I’m not using the file to do anything else….and if it took 15 minutes to prepare the file, in my fair minded thinking I might charge .75 hours to encode and upload, figuring that 40 bucks is probably fair to upload a super large file. Over the course of a project if we are editing multiple videos and we encode and upload numerous versions and revisions plus the final encodes we might have a line item on an invoice of $600 or more just for encoding and uploading. But the total invoice might be $8000 so it is still a small percentage of the whole.
If I cut a 1 minute HD video in an hour (simple cuts) and it takes 2 hours to upload I don’t think it would be reasonable to charge $200 for the edit and $160 (2 hours x $80/hr) for the upload. I wouldn’t do it anyway.
Is the amount he wants to charge a large percentage of the total bill?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com