Tevya Washburn
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Not sure I’m getting the variable idea yet, but that’s okay I’ll mess with it untill I do. The “include_once” concept seems easy enough though. Thanks so much for this, I think I’m going to get it down and do this site right.
Really, thanks a lot. I appreciate the help a ton.
–the Fiddler
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I guess I didn’t realize that the static parts were just html, but renamed to a php extension. You’re making it sound a lot easier than I thought it would be. Is there a good place you recomend that starts on a pretty basic level? I mean I know html enough (and have FronPage 2003), and a little about other programing languages. But it seems like most of the time when I’ve looked at trying to do this, where part of the page was static and the rest would change from page to page, most of what I’ve found was way over my head. Or maybe it wasn’t, but they were using technical terms and such I wasn’t up to date on.
Really, if I could do this page my way, I’d just have a general template and the only thing that would change between most pages is the main text body and possibly some pictures. In the past I’ve just created the page, then re-saved it for each variation. You’re getting me excited that it won’t be too hard to learn how to do it the right way. But again, any tutorials or websites or whatever that start on a fairly basic level that I can look at to get started? Just haven’t seemed to find the right ones or something.
–the Fiddler
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Alright, so maybe I should just pay the $30 and buy one.
“the 2nd issue of having the menu not in the html – you can use any current scripting language (php, asp, jsp, etc.) or ssi (server side includes – older, but still around) and create templates for headers, menus and footers and then just have all the pages reference those templates instead of putting the code in all the pages themselves – alternately, some javascript/dhtml menu systems will let you put all the settings in an external js lib file that you can reference from each page – just depends on the system…”
Yeah, I know you can do that. In fact I’ve wanted to do a website that way for a long time. However, I’m not much for coding and have never seen a good alternative for setting it all up through coding it yourself. Its just too much of a time commitment for me to learn that stuff. So I’d hoped to do something like what you say where it’s contained in a .js file or the equivalent in flash. This way just the menu could be updated to reflect changes to the site.
I’ll probably just bite the bullet and buy a flash one I saw that makes you customize it through an XML file. Thanks so much for your help and quick reply. I’d just hoped maybe there was an alternative.
–the Fiddler
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Cool, I’ll do that, thanks.
–the Fiddler
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I’ve heard those Lacie bigdisks have heat issues. The raided drives produce too much heat for not having a fan in the case. So I’d be carefull there. Look at some reviews of them on Newegg. As for fastest/best. The very best way to go would probably be a raided one like you’re talking about, but with an SATA II connection to your machine. Next best would be SATA I and/or Firewire 800, last USB 2 &/or Firewire 400. But raided (stripe) sets will always be faster at reading and storing the data than non-raided, or mirror only.
–the Fiddler
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I too am hoping for more direct support of Panasonic’s P2, etc. But they are a competing format to Sony’s own camera’s and formats, so it’s understandable if they don’t “jump all over it.” You might send it as a suggestion to the development team, via their website at http://www.sonymediasoftware.com .
Also, unless I’m just totaly mistaken, pretty much every laptop (by Sony or anyone else) comes with a P2 slot. This, because P2 cards were designed to go in existing PCMCIA slots, which have been the industry standard for laptops for years now.
–the Fiddler
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In both cases are you rendering to and from the same drive? If you’re rendering from one drive to another on the old machine, this could make the difference because the bottleneck may be the drives.
–the Fiddler
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Are they MPEG2? Have you let it sit for a while and see if it pulls out? Mine “hangs” when I select a VOB (MPEG2 packaged for DVD) file, as well. It just takes a little while to pull up the attributes of the mpeg stream, and read through the file to make sure it’s readable. It think it just mostly has to do with the nature of MPEG2. But I’ll let somebody more knowledgable in all the technical aspects explain it better. Assuming I’m right.
–the Fiddler
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Yeah, I think it might be might be more of a shutter-speed issue. Not sure on all that (I’m not really knowledgeable on the camera end of things). But my camera won’t record at any lower framerates, and I didn’t have time to have Vegas convert it.
Thanks for compliments/comments though. Merry Christmas.
–the Fiddler