Tim Phillips
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After 12 years on an Avid I switched to Final Cut about three months ago. I had a need for multiclip for the first time just three days ago in a situation just like yours with two cameras and different timecodes. I did some quick reading, found a great tutorial on the Ken Stone website and was multiclipping along in no time. I couldn’t believe how easy and incredibly handy it was.
It was in no way difficult. Or retarded. And by the way, if you know anyone with children that have mental challenges, you’ll realize that using that word in your everyday life to explain things like edit functions makes you look very bad.
Tim
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“One think I wish they’d change is what the screen, says when a user play a disk. I’d like to put in something special of my own. Maybe even actually use a keyboard connected to the deck. Now it gives you only the exact date and time of the recording which could be confusing to a customer.”
Sorry if I’m telling you something that you know, but you can change the name of the screen. I know you can’t get rid of the date/time stamp, but you can change “Title 1” etc to a name of your choosing on each movie.
Tim
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I bought one at Costco a year or so ago and it’s worked perfectly ever since. It not the most beautiful picture you’ll ever see and the built-in menu is drab at best, but for client approval DVDs and quickie burns it has saved me hundreds of hours of unnecessary encoding.
The one I bought was less than $180 and I noticed the other day that were even cheaper now.
I’d buy another one in a heartbeat.
Tim
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As far as Exper.com goes, I trust them fully.
I’d purchased many items from them online over the past couple of years and then realized that their store was about two miles away from my house here in Salt Lake.
I bought a mini from them last year that, like Walter, pretty much does nothing but encode DVDs. It’s not the fastest machine in the world, but it’s a lot faster than tying up my edit system.
I also had a Quad machine on order from them for my new FCP system (I’m still on an Avid right now), but I ended up buying a dual 2.7 so I could still purchase all the items, drives and cards I’d already researched before the quads were announced.
Tim