Steve Kownacki
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I can’t recall if MPEG streamclip or vlc can do this, but PlaybackPro certainly does.
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Space. The final frontier…
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I agree with you Bob.
My favorite line from that presentation was “I can fit 15 of these recorders into the same rack space as a DigiBeta. And it’s 4K.”
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Yes (ugh) to PPT or, I would think, windows photo viewer could create this. Does it need to be a DVD or can it just play out directly from the computer? And you can license PPT by the month too, just like Adobe products.
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What type of camera are you using? Something with decent audio/XLR? My first choice would be to LAV each student and feed the H4n’s and send the adult’s audio to the camera. Editing would be clean with separated audio tracks. With only 3 students, all audio can go to the H4n’s.
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Youtube and music is a crazy thing. Yep, I’ve seen our stuff monitized by others – and it’s gotten remedied as you stated. It’s worse when a client calls and their video is monitized, or worse, taken down for infringement. This is why I license 1 music library to reduce my admin. An email to my rep and usually within an hour, clients’ vids are back up and the video whitelisted from my music vendor. This has happened nearly a dozen times over the years.
We’re experiencing other infractions with using youtube for webcasting. For background music and such we use our library, but during a recent event, client decides to play a video with pop songs in it. The stream continued, but afterward on the recorded video, we got the warning of copyrighted material. There’s an automatic function to let youtube replace the music which worked for all but 2 songs. Those 2 songs however, restricted playback in 5 or so non-US countries. No biggie for the client. But this is kind of amazing technology.
Using youtube’s editing tools, I cut out the beginning of the recorded stream. Music issue gone.
Just 1 more thing to add additional admin time to our days.
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Love the comment about offering 60% of the price. In 27 years of doing video it is only the sales guys like this that try that crap. I just give them a strange look and politely ask what they would like me to remove from the list of services to meet such a budget. And remind them they won’t be happy with the challenges a reduced budget may incur.
I know you asked them who will edit, but they still need a viewable file – only because clients need a lot of help and they don’t know what they need, and they’re used to immediate gratification of shooting on their phones and watching immediately. The “other guys” may have shot with consumer-ish cameras or provided a usable file or he could just be lying to get something for free. And while they may edit in-house… had a guy last week that edits in-house with Premier. Sent him Sony BPAV folders, says he can’t read them. Turns out this time he’s not at the studio but editing at home with Corel Video-something-or-other. Gad. 14 test files later I got him separate audio and video files that worked. Oh yeah, 2 cameras, 90-minute shoot. Of course this was a favor in the first place.
I think the simple and inexpensive idea would be to let Encoder convert the c100 files to low-res MP4s for review; low man-hours to do and you send online. Send him a few seconds of the other 2 cams just so he has an idea of their framing. You can try to charge him for this, but it would be computer time not labor per se, and inexpensive. The $150 should cover it, reminding him that the reason he can’t see it is because you used pro gear; it’s a new level than what he may be used to.
Having a good conversation about workflow is in order. He either doesn’t know how complex video can be, or he DOES know and he’s being cheap and seeing how far you’ll go to meet his demands. You need to be competitive price-wise, but if he trusts what you are doing, price is not a concern. Nearly all of my shooting now includes budget for offload time, conversion and uploading low-res to vimeo or wipster so it’s “easy” for them. And long-form shoots go to something that records ProRes to make this low-labor work depending on the turn time; don’t necessarily want to tie up an edit system for encodes that could be done in the background.
Love these salesy presenters that want to charge thousands of dollars for their presentations but put no value on their vendors. With a little digging, I have found that many participants have been comped the event (they didn’t actually pay to attend) or at a reduced fee. If they de-value their own event, I cannot be paid less because of it.
Hope this helps.
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Read this thread on the cow to see the images that don’t appear in the email.
I thought you can edit messages, but can’t find that either right now.
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I did a little testing this morning. Macbook Pro OS 10.11.6 El Capitan, DataVideo SE-1200 switcher, cheap HDMI monitor.
The resolutions options are are available on the external monitor as soon as you plug in the cable (your KiPro in this case). Actually, plugging in the HDMI, gave me ONLY video resolutions, and doing the option+scaled gives you non-video resolutions.
The resolution settings are displayed on that 2nd monitor, but if there is a mismatch, you wont’ see an image or maybe a distorted image, and you may not be able to mouse to the resolution you desire. The case for SwitchRezX is that it is on your main computer screen and you can switch resolutions until you get one that works.
(while using SwitchResX)I have come out of both the HDMI and with a thunderbolt-to-hdmi cable with success.
Quitting SwitchResX and going back to Apple Display settings, all 3 monitors show up, display correctly and they are now mirrored from the desktop, but it held the video output resolutions on the 2 outputs. Unclicking mirroring, the display settings panels now jump to their respective monitors. This is OK since the resolutions held. Had they defaulted, you’d be back to the (possible) inability to see the see the settings box.
OpenOffice Presentation (I don’t have PPT on this MAC): Both outputs can be connected and you can choose which output to use. Choosing ALL sent output to only 1 output and a 4×3 presentation was right-justified in a 16×9 frame. I’m having a brain fart and can’t seem to figure out how to make a 16×9 presentation in OpenOffice, don’t know how that might look when choosing ALL. Choosing either external output worked fine.
Playback Pro: Can only output to a single external monitor, so both outputs can’t physically be connected simultaneously.
Hope this makes sense.
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A friend turned me onto SwitchResX from https://www.madrau.com/ Provides independent screen res control. Only $15. While I have not gone into a KiPro, I have gone into other switchers that have limited input resolutions.
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