[Tony Mueller]

Thanks Bob,
I have talked to Bernard at Tiger Technology and have some evaluation licenses. Unfortunately, I have too much going on right now to set up a test system.

My plan was of course to use a spare server and a gigabit switch then connect two of my systems just to test connectivity and see if the system worked as designed… preserving the database structure and all. I would have considered it a success if I could capture footage on one system and edit it on the other… one stream at a time would have made me happy with that setup. Just a proof of concept test.

I’ve read your feelings on cobbled-together systems, but this would have only been a test. As for the other systems, I haven’t been as lucky with my information requests, receiving no manuals or brochures explaining how the products deal with Avid sharing. Just the fact that I have downloaded and read… and understood the manuals for MetaLan puts them up front. Plus I could do about 8TB with MetaLan for about 15K as a custom built system.

Tony Mueller
Senior Editor
STL TV

[Tony Mueller]

Thanks Jeff, I did a little searching myself and found the company that makes RocketDVD… Digital Media Applications dmapp.com

It looks like Rocket DVD is pretty close to what I’m looking for. I just don’t know if it will take files or if it has to capture the video as part of the process.

I also found that Squeeze will burn the encoded mpeg2 files to a video DVD, but it does not work in conjunction with a watch folder, and it may not be compatible with all DVD players, because it doesn’t seem to write the long lead-out you need on short projects.

Tony Mueller
Senior Editor
STL TV

[Tony Mueller]

If I remember correctly, when I updated from xpress pro 4 to 5.2 I received an email with a code number and a link to download the correct version of the dongle updater. I did this on the avid website. If they did a mail-in thing, they would have received a card with the upgrade code and possibly a cd or floppy with the dongle updater program. once you have that stuff the process reminded me of flashing the BIOS on a motherboard… scary, but satisfying at the same time.
good luck

[Tony Mueller]

Thanks Richard. That’s a good point about batch capture. I saved up for a while to get my Avid, so I can do the same for Final Cut. It just hurts so much to wait

[Tony Mueller]

Thanks, I’ll check it out

[Tony Mueller]

Hi there,
I’m the guy who’s guilty of posting that demo reel… I made those strokes based on this tutorial:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/velez_dean/glowing_stroke/index.html