Steve Radley
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We use these HDTV Extreme DVI cables to 2 suites, both with a 20″ and 23″ monitor. One cable for each monitor and each card. One suite is about 90 feet away and the other is about 130 feet. They also have a dual-link solution.
https://www.gefen.com/kvm/cables/fiberextreme.jsp#hdtvextremeSteve Radley
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[AlexHuber69] “If that producer worked for me, I would seriously re-evalutate his judgment. And probably his employment.”
He delivered what his client was asking. It was shot well and had great production values, but I never put it on my reel, even though I didn’t have much of a reel at the time. It is amazing that bad taste is as subjective as good.
Steve Radley
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I edited a PSA about 12 years ago or so that had a line of people handing a gun to each other, pointing it at their head and pulling the trigger. We saw each person do this and hand it to the next. The last person to get it was a 7 year old boy. He held it to his head as we cut to black with the sfx of it going off.
There are many ways to edit to make an impact. Sometimes not seeing but implying is more powerful. People’s imaginations run wild.Steve Radley
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Mighty Mouse. I find that as long as my wrists are supported, either by a gel pad or the desk, it doesn’t matter what I use.
Steve Radley
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Orlando, FL
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If you have the luxury of learning both, take advantage of it. Knowing both makes you the most marketable. However, I would stick to just learning the edit programs first before you get into the rest of the programs in the suites. It’s tough to stay fresh on both, unless you are constantly using them. Take into consideration if you have a staff position, or freelance. Call any potentional clients in your area and do a survey of who has what. That may be where your answer lies.
Steve Radley
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Thanks for your indulgence in this highly scientific experiment. TIFFs rule! I sure wish there was one format that had much faster results.
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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[Chris Poisson] “Think I’ll make a couple of identical sequences with pict, tiff and jpeg and put a timer on the renders.”
Let us know what the results were. I just did 2 jobs with stills I animated. I use tiffs, at 72 dpi, sized to around 1500 x 1200 pixels or so. It does take a long time to render on a G5 Dual 2.7 with 8 GB of RAM.
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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For decent quality and not too enormous file sizes, use DVCPRO50PAL which is about equivelant to Digibeta quality. DVCPRO25PAL is close to Beta SP and a little smaller file size. You are doing the right thing by testing file size vs. quality. Keep in mind if your are delivering on DVD, it gets encoded again, so going the DV route will be lesser quality than the others.
Steve Radley
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In that workflow on jobs that big, it makes perfect sense to find the best way to digitize across timecode breaks and hold the time of day code.
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