[Rich Rubasch]

Well the 8 core machine is going to be the faster of the two, but you’ll need 16 gigs of RAM…2 gigs per core. without it you have a sluggish boat anchor. with it you have a rocket with 8 apps open at a time while you check your email and download files while AE renders and Compressor compresses and DVDSP builds a disc and Toast burns one.

Really.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

I read your crash report thoroughly and on line 4673 it might indicate that the processor was cycling at the time of the crash with a FCP routine.

Dude…that is a whopper of a report.

How about creating a new project and copying only part of the sequence to a new sequence in the new project an see if the timeline crash still occurs.

Hmmm..

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Very useful info. Certainly don’t want to have to add a filter to every shoot. How did the footage behave on the timeline? Any long render issues if you added a color effect and had to render? Certainly DVCProHD is ideal because it is so optimized.

Any other observations are appreciated.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Well, you have Toast on the Mac that can make simple discs. Still no easy way to play discs to test on the Mac. Get a bluRay player and you can test there, but it seems different players don’t like certain discs. I burned a DVD-R as a BluRay with a single menu and single track and a Sony played it but a Samsung and an Insignia did not.

I am going to try burning to an actual BluRay disc to see what happens.

However, another DVD-R that I burned with only a video and no menu would play on various players. Not very consistent.

There is Encore as well, but it comes with a learning curve. and with CS4 it must be on an Intel Mac.

Disc prices are decent and burning is, well burning. Feels a lot like the early days of DVD creation…say, around 2001 or so.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

I agree. We do use Cleaner still for various projects, but definately NOT any MPEG-2 encoding. If you invest in Episode for encoding you will not be disappointed at all. It actually rocks. I am using watch folders all the time now and I have my DG settings tweaked so it is a no brainer. It is one accomplished program.

Cleaner is still fine for certain batches, but I am sure that Episode will slowly be replacing it.

Thanks Craig for the DG presets.

Now, get out your credit card!

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

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BTW, I make a BluRay disc of the ACUM 100th. I will drop it in the mail….it looks superb!

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Welll….in our facility we have three editors/compositors and we have 5 editing.grahics machines. It might take 20 minutes to encode a clip, so I can choose to be running that task in the background while I am uploading clips in the other room. Today I was digitizing 30 minute logged tapes (had 6 of them), I was building a BluRay disk on another machine and I was doing DVCAM to DVCAM clones on two decks. I billed $125 per hour for the uploading time (90% of which I wasn’t even there, which is why I don’t believe my hourly rate is just one amount) and the encoding for the BluRay was actually a background task so I was able to prepare an estimate and discuss an upcoming project with a new client. I also contacted a film transfer house to discuss rates and they want to use us for DVD Duplication.

So, no, I didn;t not bill my normal hourly rate for any of these tasks, but because I was doing three or four tasks at the same time I ended up billing full editing rate card over three or four projects. Not that’s FULL service!

So, no. I don’t and probably never will have just one rate.

But when I am sitting and cutting….it’s gonna be $175 per hour even if you are telling me about your family’s weekend outing!

Our rates are posted on our site, including duplication.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

https://www.tiltmedia.com

[Rich Rubasch]

We are $175 for non-linear editing and charge $80 per hour for encoding or rendering. But we don’t always add a rendering charge and if we render overnight we might only charge a 2 hour fee. We actually don’t pay for utilities in our current space so it is just to pay for wear and tear.

We have a 1/4 hour minimum as well so if it takes me 8 minutes to encode a DVD I don’t charge them a minimum 1/2 hour, or worse a full hour. It comes to $20.

And if we do $9000 worth of editing and post services, you can bet I won’t be charging them for a couple hours of rendering!

Mileage varies.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Since Bob asked. We do this. We ship no charge, and will work to exceed the clients expectations no questions asked, and usually at no extra charge.

When Bob described his experience and the service he received I felt right at home with what he was describing. It’s what we do.

Had to throw this in because I am proud of our reputation in this department.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

We have a horita box that “steals” the timecode from the RS422 connector and turns it into an LTC output that we send to the deck. We loop the RS422 from the Kona breakout box to the Horita then on to the deck.

Load a tape, crash record with external timecode set, hit play on the sequence and BAM everything goes down in sync. No pre-striping necessary.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media