[Rich Rubasch]

this is a worst case scenario really because moving water is the toughest for MPEG-2….everything is moving all over the frame. I even see this pulsing on our Charter HD feed on similar shots.

BitVice is an option you could try….download a demo? Otherwise try a VBR and the only other thing I can think of is did you go to the frame controls box and turn them on? Not sure if that would do it but worth a try since you are downconverting HD to SD.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

Hey Jeremy. But we have found that FCP does a pretty bad job of any kind of scaling…That’s why I wanted to use the card with a simple inerface…

Aja, are you out there?

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

Beat me to it. Exactly the solution. You’ll get ‘her going.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

Exactly, Petteri. We are backing up lots and lots of footage and project files to very sensitive and sometimes fickle devices and think all is well. Drives last 5 years and that is it. Sure some last longer, but it becomes a gamble. BluRay is very slow and has limited storage capacity for what most of us need.

These small cheap USB drives like the Western Digital Passport are being bought by camera guys who back up their P2 and XDCAM folders to them and they put them on a shelf. Some guys even think that just because they are so small that it is solid state media inside there and not a small 2.5″ drive. Three years from now that footage might not be relevant, but if it is and that drive doesn’t boot up, it’s gone!

If you had a DVCPRoHD tape of that footage and a deck, I’ll bet you’d be just fine.

I think at the next NAB the question that will be asked the most is “Where the hell are you putting all your media?”

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

We backup to bare 500GB-1TB SATA drives. I have about 25 of these. Recently I lost a 500GB drive #3. It had projecst from 2007-2008….about 30 of them. The drive just clicked. It was still in warranty too.

I sent it to Seagate i365 for recovery. After 3 weeks of major head replacement etc, they are only able to recover about 100 GB of the 500 on the drive. Naturally smaller files have a better chance of recovery. They are one of the best in the business but hard drives are fickle machines when they go bad.

After we lost the drive I got duplicate drives for all the backups we had and copied them all to their own backup. I have one set in storage and one at the office. Right now that is about $3000 worth of drives.

Now I know that if I lose a 1TB drive I’m not getting much back. I think we are all going to have this issue as our backups get nearer and nearer to the 5 year warranty mark. I will get a new drive for the one that went bad but will probably lose a pile of project data.

I am considering a BluRay option to save all files except the huge media files and DVD builds etc as a more reliable longer term storage. We used to backup project files on DVD as well as Hard drive with all media. Stopped doing the DVD thing about 3 years ago. Too bad. They are rock solid. Now it might be BluRay…(so slow).

Right now, after our recent drive debacle, I am less and less trusting of the mechanical hard drive. And Since 1992 I have only experienced a bad drive two other times, from Avids to Media 100 to IMix Cube, including system drives. This one hurt.

Oh, and the 100 GB I might get back? Cost me $1400. In this case drives aren’t cheap!

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

Primera Bravo’s here. We have three of them so with 20 disc loads we can be cranking out 60 at a time. Goes pretty good, but up to 500 it can take a while and the biggest pain is changing ink mid stream. Wish that was an easier workflow.

But the prints look great and they have been nice little workhorses.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

On our Web directory of our hosting company server we just add a new folder to the root directory and add whatever files the client needs to see. They can be anything except Flash (which needs additional code to create the player).

If we want them to see a simple text directory of the files we put there we send them a link in an email to the directory. If we want them to view a video we send a link to the file….they look like this:

https://www.tiltmedia.com/YOURFILES

This shows them a simple text directory of the files we put there for them.

https://www.tiltmedia.com/YOURFILES/coolmovie.wmv

This link will immediately display the video and start playing after buffering.

Now this does not provide any feedback except an email back to us but it has been working pretty well for some time.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

Got it. That’s also a good tip.

Rich

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

Thanks Rich.

Rich

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator

[Rich Rubasch]

Hey, just drag the effect you want as Default over to the project window and when you right click it you can choose to make it your default.

It doesn’t work from the timeline or the source window!

Rich

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator