[Rich Rubasch]

One clarification….in Wisconsin EVEN if they have an EIN but they are an LLC we have to issue a 1099 at the end of the year. Only Corporations are exempt from receiving 1099s in Wisconsin.

Check your state laws…isn’t business ownership fun?

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.

[Rich Rubasch]

I’m guessing the laptop doesn’t have the exact same codecs loaded in the system. See if there are any suspect codecs on the laptop or desktop that might interfere. Also the Kona card on the desktop might be causing it.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Screenflow on the Mac is the best…it absolutely rocks. And it’s a Telestream product and they get it.

SnapZ has been around for a while and I like it but Screenflow is the modern version of that somewhat tired app.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Hey Sam, Mac or PC? On a Mac you could just encode to H264 HD clips ( I would use 720P 1280 x 720 frame size) and drop them all into a Keynote presentation and feed the projector right off the laptop. Will look spectacular.

And if, by chance, your SD material is anamorphic widescreen SD, it will upconvert quite nicely with a KONA 3 card. Pretty good actually.

Forget a BluRay disc…clunksvile. Everything right off a Mac laptop straight to the projector.

Now if you want to hand out some DVDs after the show, then make some SD DVDs of the original, but don’t project it that way!

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Further, if you sign a contract with a client and their contract says you have to be insured for $1 mil and you hire a freelancer who only has $200,000 insurance and that freelancer causes lots of damage your insurance coverage might not kick in, since that freelancer is not on your policy, and his $200,000 won’t cover the damages so you could be sunk. Depends on how the clients insurance lawyers go after it. You would have to have added a line in the original contract that you are going to hire a freelancer who only has $200,000 of insurance, or get your insurance company to write their name into your policy (not a good option).

Remember that freelancers are not you employees and insurance companies under your coverage will NOT cover them. Lastly, remember that insurance is for worst case scenarios. It is protection, and you must decide how much risk you will take on a production set or bringing freelancers into your offices.

And get the contracts straight. Be sure that you meet the requirements, and your freelancers do too, to be sure a claim won’t trickle down to get you.

Talk to your agent like Steve did.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

We can open 6.0.3 projects on a 6.05 or 6.04 system without a warning, save them in the 6.05 format and open them again in 6.0.3 with no issues.

This is one thing that Apple fixed and few noticed.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

We have this issue on one G5 dual 2.7, but it does not stop the processing. We leave the message up and let ‘er rip. Just can’t figure out why it started.

We have a similar system and we checked settings between the two but no luck so far.

Just wanted to chime in that it doesn’t affect our compressing, just displays an annoying message.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Good call. 4000kbps is WAY high for most PC playback reliability. We stick to no more than 1700kbps and a 640 x 480 frame size is a more standard size for computer playback. Also deinterlace the fields so the decompressor doesn’t have to worry about that.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Unless things have changed, Squeeze is not a great MPEG2 encoder. Compressor probably a little better for t his sort of thing. But with a 15-18mbps video stream, Squeeze can’t be that bad.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Use CBR 15mbps or 18mbps with pcm audio and encode to MPEG-2 program stream. We have created these our of compressor and they look great. You MUST use CBR and your audio should not be AC3 but PCM.

These will be efficient files and again, look great.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media