Zane Barker
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[George Mizzell] “i have been trying anyway i could think of to get an HD DVD captured from my new XH A1 to play on anything.”
Umm…. You can’t capture a HD DVD from a camera. You can capture Video into files on the computer and then make a HD DVD, but you CANT capture to or from a HD DVD.
[George Mizzell] “All HD DVDs work great on my MacBook Pro and MacPro but nothing else – no pc or standard home DVD player.”
That is because a PC’s and standard home DVD players cannot play HD DVD’s[George Mizzell] “I have now burned about 10 DVDs trying all kinds of setups that i thought would get me all the way back to basic SD setup and I have had no success.”
You didn’t say what settings you have changed, but if you are talking about changing a HD DVD project in DVD SP into a SD DVD project, you CANT. You must start over and create a new project.
It really sounds like you do not understand HD DVD’s and especially how DVD SP creates HD DVD’s.
First off ABSOLUTELY NO HD DVD will play in a standard home DVD player, you will need a HD DVD player for that.
Second and probably more important DVD SP cannot yet create a 100% compatible HD DVD. The HD DVD abilities in DVD SP were added before the HD DVD format was completely standardized. Yes some Toshiba HD DVD players will play them, but they are far from compatible with all HD DVD players, and completely incompatible with anything else.
The only reason they will play on a mac is because apple has made the DVD player software on the mac able to play the HD DVD’s made in DVD SP. You cant even play a real HD DVD on a mac because no macs have HD DVD drives.
Also keep in mind that your computer cannot burn onto a full HD DVD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD) you can only burn onto regular DVD’s (4.7 signal layer or 8.5 double layer). So while you can burn a HD DVD what you are really burning is HD video to a regular DVD.
You should really learn more about what you are trying to do, before you jump in like you have.
to get your video to a regular SD DVD, ether pull your movie file into compressor or send it to compressor from FCP and then choose the DVD preset that matches closest to your video length and use that to create your DVD SP ready files for a SD DVD. Then create a new SD DVD project in DVD SP and bring in your files.
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You would need to use disk utility to partition the drive. In disk utility select the drive and then select partition and set your partition sizes.
Just remember you cant partition a drive that you are booted from, and that partitioning the drive will erase EVERYTHING that is on the drive.
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Well I seriously doubt that you will be able to get anything back. You say your project file was also on that drive. That is why it is always important to keep your project file on a completely separate drive then your media. That way if the media drive goes out you can recapture.
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[Rick Wise] “Traditionally, Directors and Shooters make quite a bit more than editors, though editors can end up working more days and hence actually earn more total money.”
True but this is just a wedding video so there really no director, and the camera person is usually just getting the events as they happen.
One thing that should be considered, is where is the money to pay for equipment coming from. Is the camera operator supplying the camera and the editor supplying the edit suite, or will those things be supplied by both people.
I would say to be fair all the money goes into a business account, and each person is then paid a set hourly wage for what they do. Keep in mind there is more to be done then just shot and edit. Somebody has to go out and bring work in.
You could also do a hourly rate for just the shooting and editing, and then just do a overall percentage of what is charged that goes to the person that brought in the client. Say 10% o of what the client payed goes to the person who brought them in, and the rest of the money is used to pay each hourly.
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Make sure the ram is paired properly in the computer.
https://manuals.info.apple.com/en/MacPro_MemoryDIMM_DIY.pdf
If after paring properly you still have problems, try removing a set of ram and seeing if the issue continues, it is possible you have some bad ram.
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Nice link, it was immediately bookmarked. A lot of people post asking about price, that link should be the first thing they are given.
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Aaron, I understand why you are upset, you feel that we are ignoring your question. The fact is that we saw bigger issues then pricing that should be addressed.
Business is all about image!!! Your website is the often the face of that image. For someone who is trying to sell a creative product your website screams to people that you have no creative bone or mussel in your body. Most people will take a quick look at your website and immediately dismiss you as a creative professional, before even looking at your sample video, and long before they would wonder what your prices are. It would be well worth it to spend a little money on a web template to use for the site.
As for the video issues on the website. As media professionals here on the Cow we have the ability to play far more types of video, then the average person. As video professionals we often go out of our way to make sure we can watch all types of web video. So when the professionals cannot play the video on your site it means that a large portion on the average computer users will also not be able to play the video, because they don’t go to the lengths we do to ensure that we can watch it all.
Again it is not that we don’t want to help you with your questions, it is just that we saw bigger issues then pricing. You need to be able to keep people interested long enough that they want to know what your pricing is. The first thing they see is the website, the send thing they see is your demo reel. They see both of these things before even looking into what you charge. That is why I focused on the website and then the demo reel.
If you get both of those things looking really good then you can actually charge more for what you do because the customer then believes that you are worth more Right now your website tells people that you are not worth paying to do any creative work at all. Get the website looking really good and top that off with an impressive demo reel and you can charge whatever you want.
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[Aaron Cadieux] “If you’re using Firefox, or a MAC, then you probably won’t see the videos.”
[Aaron Cadieux] “I actually just got confirmation from two different windows Firefox users that the videos are playing fine.”
So the story changes! It is still vary possible that you are using a less then universal codec in those wmv files. Like I said NEVER had an issue with wmv files before yours, all others work perfect.
As for the commercials, I personally say leave off the 2 car ones at the beginning, or at least one of then, they are vary cookie cutter, you want to be showing people the types of commercials that not just anybody could make.
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I NEVER said Premiere was bad. It is the Windows part I hated.
[Aaron Cadieux] “he beauty is that you can match MAC-created media in quality, and you’re still compatable with the rest of the world (the vast majority).”
Like I said yours is the ONLY wmv that I have ever had an issue with.
[Aaron Cadieux] “If you’re using Firefox, or a MAC, then you probably won’t see the videos.”
The fact that you say that Firefox users on windows cant play them ether should tell you something. It is not a Mac thing that is causing your videos not to play. It MUST be the videos themselves.
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[Aaron Cadieux] “most video professionals still run MACs.”
Still, Still, that is NOT something that is going to change, if anything it should say “unfortunately some video professionals still run Windows”
But that aside, I have NEVER had a problem viewing wmv files on my Mac using Flip4Mac, you must be using some really oddball codec in those wmv’s.
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