[Steve Brame]

Slightly off topic, but still relevent…

For the past 10 years or so I’ve backed up files to DVD or Blu-ray using Nero Burning ROM. NBR will take a large backup set and automatically span it over multiple discs. As it finishes writing one disc of a set, it asks for the next one to be inserted. A few months ago it suddenly stopped being able to recognize that I had inserted the next disc. I replaced the burner with a brand new one, but nothing.Uninstalled and re-installed everything up to the OS(Win7). Nero Support has been working on it for months, to no avail. They have finally given up. Something has changed on my machine that is causing the error, and no one can determine what it is.

Point being, things change over time, and something has probably crept in to your machine, or perhaps needed in your machine, that is causing the issue. Maybe a burner driver update, maybe a burner firmware update, a WinXP update, who knows?

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[Steve Brame]

All this has just reminded me that I have a duplicating tower sitting here that needs to be sold.

But yes, back when we were ‘mass-producing'(500-1000 discs) DVD’s for clients, we soon discovered that certain brands, and yes, definitely the DVD-R vs DVD+R battle could affect playback. We actually constructed a waiver that if the client opted for duplication over replication we could not guarantee playback on all devices.

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[Steve Brame]

It helps to narrow down where the problem is coming from, you or him.

First question – Can your client still play previous DVD’s from you? If so, then the most assuredly coming from your end. If not, then it’s more than likely something going on with his machine.

If you determine the problem is yours, have you recently changed DVD brands? Did these particular DVD’s come from a different batch?

When you say that you client cannot play them, is he also getting the “Windows Media Player needs some other decoder” error?

Has he tried an alternate player, like VLC?

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[Steve Brame]

YouTube re-compresses every uploaded video – even those encoded at the YouTube presets, so sending up the highest quality you can makes sense.

I have also read that the Adobe Media Encoder YouTube presets closely mimic the YouTube compression schemes, so that logically there shouldn’t be much difference in the quality of the re-compressed video, however, many report a different experience.

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[Steve Brame]

I guess my question is now irrelevant since in AE2015 they’ve eliminated ‘Color Key”.

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[Steve Brame]

I haven’t been brave enough to switch to 2015 yet, so I’m not sure if you can even save a LUT from it. My first inclination would be to create your LUT in Speedgrade and save it as a .look to be imported into Premiere as a preset.

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[Steve Brame]

I was just watching this video when your post came across. It might be helpful.

https://youtu.be/S87NTJVcYKU

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[Steve Brame]

Lots of video reviews online about them, although most are a few years old. Most seem to feel that they are well worth what you pay for them.

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[Steve Brame]

If your camera starts anew at 0000.mts when you insert a new card, a project can wind up having several files named ‘0000.mts’, ‘0001.mts’, and so on. What could possibly go wrong?

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[Steve Brame]

Sorry, apparently YouTube links to start a video at a specific point aren’t supported. Jump to the 9 minute mark.

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