Todd Reid
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Flip4Mac is a GREAT product and I’ve never had any issues once I paid for the pro version.
The quality and file size is top notch, and is some of the best money I’ve spent thru my company.
All my PC-based clients request wmv files, and this is the best way to provide that (IMHO).That is a very clever workaround regarding the roll back to a version that isn’t restricted in its demo capabilities, but come on $100 is nothing.
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if you are looking to do some real, valid and professional video editing…..pay full price for a retail copy!!!!!!
This will allow you huge future discounts on upgrades (and is the only legal way to be able to upgrade).
FCS is very economic for what you are getting.
Buying used software seems a bit shady and you may open yourself up to many more hassles (fraud and upgrade scenarios), than its worth.Todd Reid
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pulled project from attic, and everything was linked up. weird!!!!
luckily I didn’t lose any time.
onward.Todd Reid
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Something I’ve noticed,
if you upgrade (and possibly trash preferences), sometimes that dreaded check box will revert to default. I’ve had that happen, and since I knew I had that setting correct (or so I thought, since it had changed) it took me forever to figure it out (again).Todd Reid
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Hi Jacob-
Its all going to come down to your particular style of editing and what makes you comfortable. Also would depend on your client and how the structure of the movie will be.
Either way you have suggested should work equally as well.For a 30 minute movie, I personally, would keep everything in one timeline.
So if the client wanted to “see how the opening scene came out”, then the next day asked “how was the gunfight scene”, I would export the requested portion out and ftp it to them.
Another strategy would be to create different sequences to keep them separate, and at the end copy/paste everything into a master sequence.
***One caveat with that is that if you have 2 copies of everything (as just described) any revisions, changes or additions would have to be done in 2 places.Good luck
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LaCie’s have always been rock solid for me. Have one from SEVERAL years back, thats still running like a champ.
I’ve had a LaCie go south on me, and I lost 13 hours worth of footage, but they replaced it without any questions, and I recaptured, and was off and running.
EVERY (disc) hard drive you’ve EVER worked on WILL go bad eventually.
Its inherent in their design.I have 2 LaCie raids, 6 LaCie quadra-style (some are older and dont have the 4 in/outs) and 1 firmtek Raid enclosure.
To each their own.
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Just so your clear, if you clone your drive, you can’t easily get one file from it, if you’ve only missed one thing.
These programs will clone the entire harddrive and are designed in case you ever need to get back to the way it was BEFORE you upgraded.This is a VERY wise thing to have, to cover your butt.
I have learned this from DRW (thanks again).However please realize that you would have to do some finagling to get a single file from that clone. I guess you could boot from that external drive, and find the file, copy it somewhere, then reboot back to your newly upgraded drive and then copy it back (thumb drive maybe).
Fortunately I’ve never had to utilize a clone, so I’m not positive about this.
My advise would be to clone your drive, AND backup and media that you may want to use in your new setup. Most of this stuff should be kept on external drives anyway, but in case you have things on your mac hard drive, that you will continue to need, I’d make sure I had that elsewhere (as well as included within your clone)
hope that makes sense. I have heard of some clone programs that WILL allow you to strip off individual files, but I don’t think Carbon Copy will do that, thats what I use.
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not sure if you thought about this, but regardless of your quality problem, you may have copyright issues with what you are planning.
I know the NFL is pretty serious about protecting its copyrights, which anything with Rice catching a football is going to have several NFL logos and such.Is your ONLY purpose to show Jerry and his family and for your own viewing pleasure?
Then your probably ok. Anything more than that, I would tread very lightly, and see if Jerry can help you get permission from the NFL to use those clips.Todd Reid
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I think Shake has that scripting capabilities too.
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is the file extension hidden or visible?
if its hidden, manually add it. Example if it looks like this “segment 1”, change it to “segment 1.mov”
I’ve had data files (AVID codec, quicktimes) that my client couldn’t even drag from dvd to their system, and the only thing I changed that fixed the problem was I added the .mov.
Apple computers don’t tend to need them, but when you introduce a ftp site, I bet somewhere, Bill Gates is touching it, and might get confused if he doesn’t have direction as to what type of file it is.
I’ve also mistakenly typed .com instead of .mov on a similar data file, and the dvd wouldn’t even mount up on their system. Changed it to .mov, re burned and worked like a champ.
Just a thought, as I’ve never heard of any technical differences in the way 1 on 1 vs batch does the exporting.
Todd Reid
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