Ron Shook
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Mike,
[Mike Kujbida] “Ron, while fairly new to this forum, is no lightweight when it comes to NLEs.”
I’m just a poor orphaned editor who’s determined to not make any more major mistakes in my declining years. Fat Chance!(g) I don’t think that we’ve ever met, have we? Something to be corrected in the future. Your generous teaching and advice here is most appreciated.
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Allen,
[Allen Zagel] “I know the developers. They’re in China believe it or not.”
You should get a job with them translating the Chinglish. (g) I am half serious here.
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Allen,
[Allen Zagel] “I’ve used Moyea Flash Video MX Pro ever since it came out. I know the developers. They’re in China believe it or not. The program works just great. I’d be lost without it for many uses.”
So just what is it? A reverse engineered version of the On2 Flix Flash 8 codec? Does it appear to have equal quality and can it be used in most instances where the Flix codec can be used?
I’m a little unclear as to exactly what this software is. Does it do 2 pass encoding like Flix Pro?
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Oops,
The link to the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Film-Language-Daniel-Arijon/dp/187950507X
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Carl,
[Carl Kadie] “Vegas, with it’s combination of productivity and power, has been critical for him to realize his filmmaking ambitions.”
Commend Ben for me. He and his friend sometimes exhibit a remarkably mature ironic comic sensibility.
He’s got a great software tool to work with. Encourage him to further develop his intellectual tools to go along with his creativity.
My suggestion for that development would be the best 20 bucks you ever spent. Get him “The Grammar of the Film Language” by Daniel Arijon. It is just as the title suggests, the best and most detailed exposition of classic narrative filmic production techniques that I’ve ever seen. It’ll be quite a slog for a 13 year old, but as he starts to understand that film/TV like writing or speaking has a visual language that actual has some good and sometimes complex rules, he’s liable to start devouring it. It’s allright and sometimes necessary to break the rules for a certain effect, but it’s much more likely to be successful and not just good or bad happenstance if you know that you’re breaking them and why.
This book has some shorter chapters on other forms of film making like documentary, spots, and promotion, but it is first, foremost and in far greatest bulk about narrative film making (telling usually a fictional story), techniques that you learn that are often applicable to other endeavors as well.
So, how do I see the last several parts of the slugco opus?
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Rick,
[Rick Wise] “I use FlixPro 8 and am thoroughly pissed off at On2 for their one-computer policy. On2, which charges about $250 per license, will not let you install their Flash converter on two of your computers. I’m going to try Moyea and if it works as well as Flix Pro, use it on my laptop.”
By all means give us a report on this Moyea. I’m very curious.
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Eli,
[Eli Hollander] “Here is a link to uncompressed motion test:”
Thanks so much for tryin’, but now I get the same white screen as Mick and I do with Richard’s stuff with QT telling me I have to download something but not telling me what. I am developing an intense hatred for QT. Windows would at least tell me the component that I need in most cases.
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Mike,
[Mick Haensler] “QT is prompting me to download some 3rd party software. Would you know what that would be? Otherwise I all I get is audio and a white screen.”
Same with me. Doncha just love it?
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Eli,
[Eli Hollander] “The link is:”
Dang. Do Macs open these stuffit files without paying for a program, because my PC won’t. It’s very frustrating to spend the time of a long download and then not be able to open the file. Compression programs like stuffit or winzip can’t make much difference to the size of video file so why use ’em?
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Dean,
[Dean Sensui] “All our footage is archived on mirrored RAIDs consisting of Hitachi’s enterprise-level drives. Not much more expensive than their standard SATA drives but more reliable.”
This is certainly a lot quicker than any optical archiving, pretty darned fool proof with the mirroring, and quite inexpensive. I like it in the sense that it should be pretty rock solid for 2-3 years, giving you a window to wait for the free fall in solid state pricing to catch up with everything else. I’d guess that solid state is where it’s all heading, dontcha think?
What does anyone think is the best solution for databasing all this source material so that when we migrate from hard drives or optical to solid state for archiving, we can find what we need? We can count on the technology to develop astronomically, but what can we supplement our memories with, i.e., databases?
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