Steve Brame
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There is a very simple formula for determining the amount of RAM you need.
1 – Open the manual for your PC or it’s motherboard.
2 – Find the specs of the maximum amount of RAM it will support.
3 – Buy and install that amount of RAM.
Of course there is a step ‘2b’.
Check the balance of your bank account. Adjust ‘Step 3’ to the amount that ‘Step 2b’ will allow.
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However, it looks like you’re on to something here. Innovation like this is what drives the industry/art forward.
Might want to talk to a patent attorney…
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Might want to take a look at this as well…
You’re in a good position to provide feedback to help those with lower powered systems.
Steve Brame
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For what it’s worth, here’s our structure…
We have a ‘Projects’ folder on our system drive. Within that we have individual folders for each project. In those we have separate folders for PPRo and AE.
On our RAID we have folders for each project’s media. Not previews, just media. We’ll sometime break the media into separate folders – ‘Video’, ‘Audio’, ‘Graphics’, etc. This isn’t totally necessary, since the bin structure in PPro and AE is more important than the actual disc folder hierarchy. Previews are on a separate drive – these aren’t archived.
On completion, we simply copy the project’s ‘Project folder’ and it’s ‘Media Folder’ to a removable backup drive. It’s sits there for an appreciable amount of time til we’re fairly certain it wont need to be quickly re-activated. After that we burn the entire project to a Blu-ray data disc, or DVD’s if it’s small enough.
If the project needs re-activation, we simply copy the folders back to their respective locations, and they will open as though they’ve never been gone.
Alternatively, we have opened archived projects straight from their removable archive drive. The programs will ask for the location of the media, but you generally only need to point it to the new location of one or two of the files, and they will find the rest as long as the internal folder structure wasn’t changed.
There may be other methods, but this works for us.
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Yes…but if you are aiming for Dynamic Link, forget it – the versions wont talk to each other.
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The problem being that the VU meter on the deck is showing -30dB, and that setting only affects firewire output, and only seems to attenuate audio that needs attenuation. A -30dB signal wouldn’t need it. At any rate, I gave it a try, and there’s no difference. I have some other tapes that are playing at -6dB or hotter, so I’m pretty sure it isn’t a deck malfunction. I’m beginning to think I read the meters on the camera incorrectly, and they were actually recorded at at low level. Fortunately, I can boost them in edit, and they still sound pretty clean.
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Looks like they don’t have a 64 bit version available, so you definitely will have to transcode. Can’t go wrong with Cineform!
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Windows or Mac?
Just a thought…if Windows, you were using a 32 bit version of the codec with CS3 and CS4. Being that CS5 is a 64-bit program, the 32 bit codec might not be compatible.
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The first thing to try is to rename your ‘.mpg’ to ‘.mpeg’. That will probably do it.
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