[Scott Francis]

I charge for my services and NEVER take work that I make my $ on DVD sales. I charge a flat rate for the shoot and also a number of DVD copies the customer (dance studio owner, school music teacher, etc) will receive when the project is completed. This puts the onus on the customer to sell the product. I DO provide a file based version to the customer and if they wish to pass it out that’s fine, but they usually don’t because THEY need to make their & back selling the DVD’s/Blu-rays. So far it has worked OK, but I turn down work that people want me to make all my $ on the sales, I am not a salesperson, I have a audio and video business. No time to track down $ from 20-100 individuals who may or may not want a DVD.

I see some people who do pre-sales of DVD/etc right at the event so they get the customer right at the time. Again, I don’t have time for that in my area.

Wish people understood the time it takes to make a living, but it’s the nature of the beast, YouTube and free video everything and they don’t expect to pay. Often times the sense of “I pay so much for the to participate” make people feel videos and pics should just be provided.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

Thanks!

I am not paying for Mercali when it came free in 14. Is your version of Mercali from Prodad or MVP 14 purchase?

Thanks for your help!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

I would argue the “ease” of copying DVD’s. If someone really wants too, yes, but not as easy as plugging in a flash drive and drag and drop. One has to know what they are doing.
I have seen those expensive USB things as well, I too have been looking for another delivery method.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

If you find something, let us all know.
This is one reason many of us still do DVD’s (and my clients as well). It is the only way to prevent EASY copying.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

That’s what I HAVE to do (and then run it through Adobe Encoder). I also use MXF.

I just find it absolutely RIDICULOUS this is a workflow for a $600 piece of software. And it gets WORSE it seems.

Thanks for the input though!!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

If you mean media you no longer use, you need to delete it from the project media files.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

I did both of those and it did the trick!!

Thank you!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

Yeah, I’m just really getting tired of VP being so buggy and not being able to preview like I need to.

I have two systems (Mac Pro 12 core, 32GB RAM Radeon HD 7980 (3gb) and i7 4970 with 32 GB RAM and GTX 1080 (8GB) both running Win 7 Ultimate off of SSD drives) and both will fail renders more often than not. I usually need to use Mercalli in 14 and now that’s gone (unless I buy it outright) from 15.

I watched rendered video and see bad cuts that I didn’t notice in editing (preview set to best-full and running at full FPS all re-sampling disabled) as it seems playback isn’t REALLY showing everything.

So I just really need editing software that WORKS….. hoping (as is often the case with Vegas) that THIS update is the ONE….not sure if it is in VP15 or not. Will wait for the bugs to be fixed as I look into other NLE’s.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

Still, 16 cores and 32 threads at 4.0Ghz with 64 PCI gen 3 lanes and ECC memory if you wish…all under a grand!

Really interested in this one…

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

There is still one thing that confuses me, though. With 59.94i, you have 59.94 fields per second, yes?

So to render 59.94 to 30p, the rendering agent combines two fields together to make one frame, correct?

De-interlacing is the process of combining those even and odd (upper/lower) fields together to make one solid frame. Your NLE or video player/tv/etc will provide this process.

But are the two different fields that become one frame two different moments in time? In other words, suppose field #1 is recorded exactly at 12 midnight. Is field #2, then, recorded at 12 midnight plus 1/59.94 a second later? Or is the camera “seeing” only 29.97 frames per second and then splitting each one into two fields for storage convenience?

They fields are are being captured at two different moments in time, that is why you can get the jagged look with very fast movement in interlaced video.
Instead of 30 solid frames there are 60 fields combined into 30 frames (or 29.97 & 54.94).

Does that help?

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions