Steve Brame
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After being burned over and over again by the “give us a discount on this job because we’ve got many more down the line and you’ll get them too” bug, our stock answer now is, we’ll give you a discount on the 3rd video, how’s that?”.
Still, if you are actually getting a legal contract with them to do the full quoted quantity of videos, and you have a fixed shooting location where the ‘talent’ can just walk in, sit down and deliver, that amount may be OK. I mean, the total winds up being approximately what a firefighter makes in an entire year.
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Seriously…sell something in your home for the $129 that Neoscene costs, and convert to Cineform, and don’t look back. When CS5 came out, AVCHD files seemed to edit sooo much easier. The thing is, they seemed to edit so much easier than they did in CS4. Cineform STILL is a wonderful intermediate codec for the PC.
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MTS files ARE H.264 files.
They will work fine if imported into the Project Panel directly without using the camera manufacturer’s copy utility, except for possibly in one scenario…if you have any long format clips that exceed the 4GB limit and are spanned to multiple MTS files. Premiere’s Media Browser is ‘spanned clip aware’ and will give you one single clip from multiple spanned MTS files. Direct import may not.
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Typically, the purpose of a UPS is two-fold…
Your use of a UPS should be limited to providing adequate time to close down a project and shut down your computer correctly in the event of sudden power loss. You’ll discover that the advertised runtimes for any particular UPS will be significantly shorter when used on an editing system, which typically have greater power draws. They should NOT be used to continue editing after sudden power loss. The runtimes are very fluid, and may actually be MUCH shorter than they are advertised, or can differ from time to time. You may think that you have 15 minutes to continue working in hopes that the power will restore before that time, only to have the runtime be shortened due to any myriad of reasons, and end up with a sudden power loss to the system due to the UPS’s cycle ending.
We have found it safest to use a UPS of higher capacity rather than lower, and we like the ones available with an LCD status display.
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Not sure if you are on a Mac or PC. Windows XP was the last version to allow Autorun from a removable drive, so if you are wanting to simply plug in a USB thumb drive and have something play automatically, you can’t.
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“stay within the ballpark of $1500”
Well, don’t even look at Boxx then. They generally only make monsters. But then again, to be really, really happy with AE, you’ll really need one. The plus with one of these types of PC’s, is that your heating bill will drop. But then again the converse will apply to your cooling bill.
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We have had the same problem occur twice, and re-installing the CS5 Suite was the only thing that we could do to regain dynamic link capability.
Steve Brame
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There are quite a few tutorials here on Creative Cow. I personally have been a subscriber to Lynda for about 3 years, and highly recommend them if you can swing the $$.
Steve Brame
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Depends on what you will be playing the video on to be projected with the beamer, but since you are starting out with PAL DVD specs, I’d keep that, since it’s the highest quality you’ll be able to acheive.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions