[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Kevin,

I thought I touched on a couple of your questions…but I think you’re asking the oppisite way.

Yes you could create your own DVD, exports for the web, etc. with FCE/P, DVDSP, and Compressor. You would need Flip for Mac or someother software to create wmv files (the HD version for HD size)
If you are just taking the completed video files, dropping it into FC, then exporting for web, that should be ‘fairly’ straightforward. Although some people have issues with Compressor and figuring out how to use it.

IF I understand you’re question correctly, you’re trying to take on more of the post on your own? You might want to slowly work your way in. Probably starting off with the end-then working your way back. So you could start off with exporting to the web first and work your way back to feeling confortable with editing on FC. Of course, this all depends on how confortable you feel on learning new software.

Hope this helps,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Jeremy,

The explanation of the M100 boards was to clear up some confussion he mentioned in his post.
The option of exporting a DV file from Media 100 is certainly a valid solution and possibliy one that hadn’t been thought of before. I also mentioned that redigitizing (via EDL) would probably be simpler and faster.

So my post actually did address possible solutions to his problem as well as give some additional info.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Media 100 started OME their boards from AJA when Boris bought them.
So, with version 11 and a NEW Media 100 AJA board, one could use the same board to capture with Media 100 AND with FCP -as long as you downloaded the correct FCP AJA drivers.

But, this still doesn’t solve you challege, because the Media 100 uses a different codec than FCP will do in realtime. Same the other way, so no matter which way you captured-you’d need to import the files in-then wait for the files to transcode to their working codec. Then you’d need to do the same on exporting to the other system, but the rendering for these files is usually close to realtime. Making redigitizing almost faster and easier. For you the simplest way would be to digitize with M100, cut, master-then export a QuickTime DV file that your clients could use with FCP.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Great link. Following the directions should clear up any issue-I’ve followed the same procedures with great success.

A side note, you shouldn’t need to reinstall all of FC Studio, just Compressor-it’s on the DVDSP disk.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

It sounds like there are timecode breaks on your tape-meaning that the recording was stopped and started again and there’s a slight gap between the stop and start.
Or you’ve re-recorded over the tape with different timecode numbers.
Neither is good for digitizing.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

It sounds like you’re a little off from charging clients for all of your services…
Clients will pay for what they believe is valuable services/labor at a productive rate. You don’t sound like you are at the capacity to charge for services that you are not that comfortable with. Whether a clients is sitting behind an editor or not, the editor should be able to move the ‘edit’ along at a productive rate. Not with a lot of downtime, trying to figure out how to render, edit, author, compress, etc. Once you feel comfortable with having a client sit behind you and tell you what to do -and you keeping up with the tasks-then you’ll be ready to charge whatever you want.
The short answer to your posts; yes editors will charge for anytime the edit bay is being used for the project. From digitizing to authoring a DVD, as long as the computer or edit bay is being used to work on the project-an editor can charge. Of course this will vary wildly from market to market.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

[videovideo] “1. if they have an older version of imovie or dvd studio pro will they be able to use the mpegs I created in dvd studio pro 4 to burn additional dvds?
“
Yes, mpeg can be read by any version of DVDSP, but I don’t think the early versions of iDVD worked with mpeg.

[videovideo] “2. if they burn straight from the dvd itself in a duplicator– how much quality loss will they experience?
“
Duplicator???-not sure what you’re asking? To duplicate any DVD, it would need to read from an authored DVD

[videovideo] “3. what is the highest resolution self contained quicktime I can provide to them if I do not have blackmagic? and is this standard when a project is finished to give them a qt?
“

DV NTSC preset is going to be the best-since that’s what original.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

You don’t need to worry about the compatibility as long as you have a DVI to VGA cable.
I haven’t heard many complaints about the Apple Cinema?? I do remember people commenting that the Cinema’s price was a little high, but that was before Apple lowered them to $899.
Personally, I prefer the Cinemas over the Dells. We have a graphic dept., photo dept., and video- and we’ve all switched over to Apple Cinemas over any over monitor.
But really, for video, you’ll be happy with either.
As a side note, Dell is getting out of the monitor making business.

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

interesting…?

Can you set a default so every DVD is finalized this way (go to first chapter)-without choosing it in the finalization process?

It might seem trival, but we have 10+ Pioneer recorders-over 4 edit suites, 2 studios, and a duplication area, so even the smallest change get multipled by a factor of 10.

Thanks again Walt.

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Walt,

try to give me a little credit…as a forum leader I would try to abide by the same rules that I would like all poster’s to do. I’m not interested in generic info on DVD recorders, nor to I need help in figuring out how to set one up. My specific question only is mentioned in one post -in regards to the units that I’m trying to replace- so that doesn’t help.
If you know of a thread that deals specifically with DVD recorder first play function, please let me know.

As to my original post; I’m looking for a DVD recorder that DOES NOT default to the menu when played for the first time.
So, as it pertains to you-I believe your Panasonic recorder does go to a menu, then the user would need to push play before the video will play. I spoke with Panasonic tech support over a year ago, to ask if one could change this feature-no you can’t. Panasonic also said that this is the way that ALL of their DVD recorders work. Ipso-facto – I don’t want to buy a Panasonic DVD recorder since it doesn’t have the functionality I need. But the Pioneers do, BUT they don’t make any lower end models-Hence I’m full circle (back to my original post) does anyone has a recorder that doesn’t go to the menu?

I hope this clears up why my original post was not something that could have been found in searching previous posts.

Thanks,