Walter Biscardi
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Been using Vimeo Plus for the past few years for client review videos and they have been very happy. Simple website link, password and they play the video. No knowledge needed whatsoever. Before that we were using FTP links and that was becoming a problem for some to figure out.
Now with the new Vimeo Pro it’s even better because I can set up a Portfolio for each client. So they just need to bookmark one site, one password and they can see all of their own videos. At the same time, each individual video in the portfolio can have its own password so if they want to share that video with someone else to review, they can without giving away the main password to everything else. They are LOVING this.
It does exactly what you ask, it leaves all the videos on that site until you take them down. Pro gives you 50GB of storage at any given time. Even our full half hour shows are only 500MB or smaller at full resolution so you have lots of room for a lot of videos.
And yes, the videos play on iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad. Vimeo automatically encodes the videos to support them. Great for clients who are traveling or who like their iPad over computers.
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There’s a setting in the VO tool to hear the playback. By default this is muted, presumably to prevent feedback from speakers. If you’re wearing headphones, you simply turn this off. I’m not in front of an FCP system, but it’s a simple checkbox I believe.
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You should never migrate pro software using the Migration assistant.
Delete all of your pro applications and do a proper install from the original discs.
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[Brtett Ramsey] “Right now I export as PAL DV 16:9 but when we play out we are getting major interlacing issues.
The material I’m getting is a wide mixture of codecs, and formats.
1080 25p, 1080 50i, 720 x 576 p & i NTSC 720p 29.9fps, plus various versions of flash AVI and .mkv.”with that mix and no proper hardware conversion tools, you’re going to have interlacing issues. You need hardware conversion to move all of that material to one format before the edit if you can. That’s why we run all AJA Kona boards here because all of their conversions are hardware, though even there, converting NTSC to PAL is not something the cards can do.
I’m assuming your over the air signal is still only SD since you’re dropping down to DV, which by the way is one of noisiest and worst codecs you could choose for air, but if you’re stuck in FCP 5 then you’re limited really to DV or Uncompressed for your output.
Really you need a hardware converter outside of FCP to convert all of that footage, particularly the NTSC, into SD PAL before you start editing. Those are very expensive.
Short of that, you’ll need a very good software converter to convert everything to one format. MPEG Streamclip and Compressor are not that software. Telestream Episode Pro is better than those two, not the best, but better.
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AJA still makes the best hardware for my money. We run all AJA Kona boards in our shop.
Right now AJA is still addressing some sluggishness that occurs when editing in an AJA timeline. The workaround for right now is to make sure that your Player is set to Adobe and NOT AJA. Also ensure that your audio preferences in the System Preferences is set to anything OTHER than the AJA Kona. Weird I know, but that’s what you need to do.
AJA is working to address these concerns as quickly as possible, but of course they’re also writing new drivers for FCPX, Avid, Autodesk and others all at the same time. So it’s taking a little longer than I’m sure they want it to, but it will come.
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I thank Steve Jobs for creating the company that allows so many of us to make a living doing what we love to do. 56 is way too young, it’s sad that we do not get to see what would have been for maybe 30 or so more years.
As someone posted tonight on the Twitterverse, we need to find the Steve Jobs of cancer research.
Rest peacefully and thank you.
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[John Grote, Jr.] “What the hell happened to a universal standard? Is it that hard to agree on one simple thing?”
As others have noted, the “standard” is that no one has a standard. Whether it’s your local cable company or national networks, everyone wants their masters delivered their own unique way.
For the most part they started with the PBS Red Book and then branched out from there. Audio in particular is where a lot of these places differ. I wrote about this a few years ago right here on the Cow.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/specs.php
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The two keys for me have been quite simple.
Price yourself fairly for the quality of your work.
Build long term relationships over maximizing the profits for each job.
My rates are lower than most “comparable facilities” but we’re at a price point where we’ve built relationships with clients going on 10 years. So the profit per job might be lower than it could be but over the long haul, the strategy has allowed a steady growth that has enabled us to expand twice.
Moving forward we’re branching into original content production and expanding on our training offerings.
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Flanders Scientific. We run the 2460W, the 1770W and the 1760W in our suites. All excellent Grade 1 reference monitors.
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Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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