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Friends:  Nate Pereau | | | | | | Menu Graphic Size in DVD Architectby Chris Blair 5 months agoWe don't make a ton of DVDs with menus but when we do we use DVD Architect, which I like...except for it's generally poor job of rendering menu graphics. We create our menus in Photoshop using the lay+1  | Re: Menu Graphic Size in DVD Architect
by John Rofrano 5 months ago
Chris Blair " We've tried 720x480 (most projects are widescreen so with 1.2 to 1 aspect); we've tried 854x480 square pixels, 864x486 square pixel, 848x480 square and even 853x480 square pixel on the
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| | | | | VelocityXNG standalone without Nexioby Chris Blair 10 months agoLong time Velocity user here (still use 2 VelocityQ's on an almost daily basis). We've pulled our hair out trying to transition to other NLE for HD editing. Have Premiere CS5.5 (despise it); Vegas 10  | Re: VelocityXNG standalone without Nexio
by Tom Cantonwine 9 months ago
Thanks for the review Chris. This sounds very intriguing. I am a long time Velocity HD user and have been considering jumping ship to Avid or Premiere primarily to have support for the latest camera c
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| | | | | Blog: PROAIM Shoulder Rig Kit-201 – Reviewby Chris Blair 1 year agoWe recently added a Panasonic AF-100 camera along with several lenses to our shooting gear and after testing our CPM Film Tools rig with it, it became obvious we were going to need a heavier-duty rig | | | | |
| | | | | Decklink HD Extreme and Premiere CS 5.5by Chris Blair 1 year agoPosted a few days ago but didn't get any responses so thought I'd try again. We're struggling with 1080i and 720p video playback out to our HD monitor using Premiere CS 5.5, latest Decklink drivers wi | | | | |
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| | | | | Blog: Canon 60D: Second Lookby Chris Blair 2 years agoBy Chris Blair I just completed our first broadcast project using the Canon 60D and I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the results. Using the camera is really no different than using any new pie | Re: Canon 60D: Second Look
by Chris Blair 1 year ago
As an aside, we're using the Panasonic AF100 for most projects now and it's a much better overall solution for shooting video with sound. It's ergomomics, while not perfect, are are also much better t
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| | | | | Weird Blackmagic audio issueby Chris Blair 1 year agoI'm using CS 5.5 with Decklink HD Extreme on a Windows 7, i7 980 6 core CPU, 12GB Ram, etc. etc. The system is built to specs for Blackmagic hardware and Premiere CS 5.5 software. The problem is that | | | | |
| | | | | Broadcast Fujinon lens conundrumby Chris Blair 1 year agoI've searched online for hours for a solution to my problem and have come up empty. I have a nice Fujinon 20x SD lens that we've adapted for use on an AG AF-100 (by way of a B4 to micro 4 3 adapter). | | | | |
| | | | | Blog: Canon 60D: Final Thoughtsby Chris Blair 1 year agoWe’ve been using the Canon 60D for 10 months now and I’ve already posted twice about our experiences with the camera. We’ve used it for TV commercials, marketing videos and short-for | | | | |
| | | | | iPad teleprompter apps and hardwareby Chris Blair 1 year agoWe're considering getting a hardware app combination and using an iPad as a teleprompter. Problem is, I can't find hardly any reliable reviews about the apps. Most of the reviews from the App Store ar | Re: iPad teleprompter apps and hardware
by Mike Cohen 1 year ago
I just picked up a unit from lcd4video.com - the price was right - for the frequency of needing a prompter it is a lot more cost effective than hiring a prompter and operator for $500+ per shoot, espe
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| | | | | Blog: Canon 60D DSLR: First Impressionsby Chris Blair 2 years agoBy Chris Blair I’ve read with great interest and some skepticism all the hype surrounding digital single lens reflex cameras, commonly called either HDSLRs or DSLRs. I’ve also watched quit | Re: Canon 60D DSLR: First Impressions
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
Zaki, The only way to monitor audio is to use a small mixer or pre-amp. We use the ART USB Dual Pre. It has 2 XLR inputs (with left right control), stereo out on 1 4" jacks, stereo headphone out on 1
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| | | | | Blog: Ecwid: A great E-commerce solutionby Chris Blair 2 years ago I recently created a client website that needed an easy to use e-commerce solution for selling books, CDs and digital downloads of documents and audio files. On the client’s old website, she wa | | | | |
| | | | | Long format editingby Eric Harris 2 years agoWe are attempting to edit a 90 minute program on Velocity HD. There is room on the discs but the system is becoming very sluggish. I seem to remember somewhere a comment about a database limit. The ed | Re: Long format editing
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
Sorry for the late post...it was a script file made by John David Hutton (not Hamilton) and that's exactly what we use. You ust open up "notebook," the simple windows text editor and paste the text be
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| | | |  | Compression and Flash Encodingby Todd Terry 2 years agoHi gang... Please forgive the question if this is not the appropriate forum.... I'm trying to create better looking .flv files for clients who occasionally need those as well. I've also asked in the A | Re: Compression and Flash Encoding
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
To add a little to this discussion. Are you playing the two encoded files back on the same computer using the same media player Media players (even the same version) on different computers can make vi
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| | | |  | QT playback in Dps Velocity 8.2by Agustin Trujillo 6 years agoHello: I'm new to the Dps and come from Mac to PC. I''m having problems handling any kinds of Quicktimes and sometimes even mpgs. It also imported incomplete files from my P - drive Skiping parts in t | Re: QT playback in Dps Velocity 8.2
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
You need to run the DPS hardware test first to make sure you don't have a hardware issue. You can find it in Windows Control Panel. If you go to the last tab (I think), you'll see a hardware test. Run
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| | | |  | compression yields artifactsby dorit grunberger 2 years agoHi all The setting: I have a 1hr, 20 minute SD project ending on DVD. MacPro, 8 core, 12GB RAM, OSX 10.5.8 and FCP Studio 3. The project is divided into 6 chapters and all the footage is shot in a stu | Re: compression yields artifacts
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
By conforming I mean choosing a format, frame rate, aspect ration and interlacing method that matches on all the footage. As Jeff pointed out, Final Cut is only so-so at taking different types of foot
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| | | |  | Velocity 10 & Quicktime MOVby KPAX Production 2 years agoHey All... We're still chugging along on VelocityQ v10. Did Harris ever release a patch following the initial 1.3.8 release in December of 08 One of the bugs was it's inability to play nice with quick | Re: Velocity 10 & Quicktime MOV
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
To my knowledge there are no official patches available. There was talk on the yahoo DPSedits forum of a patch that was released to a beta group....but I never heard anything official even about that
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| | | |  | Delivering vid for a museumby Chris Bové 2 years agoCreating a video to play in a museum. Digital projector in a small theater. The video will live on a flashed-based "box" (Technovision DV75) rather than on a DVD or Blu-Ray (which I am used to). Does | Re: Delivering vid for a museum
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
Just to add to what Erik wrote, when we deliver video for playback on a device like this, we typically visit the site, load the video and inspect playback to make sure what we're providing is going to
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| | | |  | Downconvertingby Mike Hennelly 2 years agoHi, I need help in getting a better DVD from my Velocity HD. Here's what I have: - Timeline in 1920x1080 59.94i. - I created an Lta file. - Put that on the timeline and used the DVD altitude default s | Re: Downconverting
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
A couple of questions. Are you certain Adobe Encore isn't recompressing your content We used to use Encore and it was extremely picky about the MPEG2 files you gave it. If they didn't use a certain fi
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| | | |  | SD to HD market proofingby Jonathan Lawrence 2 years agoDue to interest in various markets I am re-cutting something shot on BetaCam SP 13 years ago. With technology where it is today I have run tests in up converting the original 640x480 4:3 to HD 1920x10 | Re: SD to HD market proofing
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
I thought you were talking about commercial delivery. With the additional clarification...I can give you one other option. We used to shoot stuff on BetaSP then send it to a post house somewhere in Ca
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| | | |  | converting video_ts to work with FCPby george sloan 2 years agoLooking for constructive advice. I have no choice but to convert several clips from VIDEO_TS using MPEG Streamclip for editing on a FCP 1080i Timeline. The source material for the VIDEO_TS is from DVC | Re: converting video_ts to work with FCP
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
Jason, Yes it is. We had an intern who worked with us that's now at WFIE. I can't remember his last name. First name was A.J...A great kid. He one you know Chris Blair Magnetic Image, Inc. Evansville,
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| | | |  | DV Codec for the AVS Video Converterby Bob Amato 2 years agoI don t know if this is the right forum ... This may sound as a newbie question, but here goes ... I need a DV Codec for the AVS Video Converter. I ve planned to use the Panasonic DV Codec 2.64. But t | Re: DV Codec for the AVS Video Converter
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
There's a difference between them but it's not huge. Microsoft's DV codec is generally considered pretty poor. But there are many others, from Panasonic's to Canopus that are all considered good codec
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| | | |  | Digital delivery - Vimeo problemsby Sharon Kaufman 2 years agoI hope I'm posting this in the right place: I'm editing on a PC, Avid MC 5.0.3. Have completed 5 short HD videos (2 to 6 minutes each) for client that look perfect in Avid, and perfect when I export t | Re: Digital delivery - Vimeo problems
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
I think the upgrade from DSL has more to do with your success than the OS switch...although a Mac Pro will certainly give you snappy peformance from the computer side of things. Vimeo is hopeless on D
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| | | | | Requesting Footage...by Anthony Bottini 2 years agoHi Everyone, Sorry for the somewhat elemental question but for the projects I normally take on for my small business, they typically only require me to use footage that I shoot. I now have a client th | Re: Thanks David
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
I used to do documentary work and we used Library of Congress photos in many of them. The research and duplication costs can surprise you. 17-18 years ago it used to average costing about $50-$75 per
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| | | | | Adobe Media Encoder CS5 Watch Foldersby Doug Sprowls 2 years agoI'm not sure if this is the right place for this, I couldn't find an Adobe Media Encoder forum, but here we go: Basically, we have a dedicated computer set up with Adobe Media Encoder, and we set up s | Re: Adobe Media Encoder CS5 Watch Folders
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
A longs hot here, but all the encoding apps I've used that make use of watch folders require UNC paths to be specified in the setup...so you can't browse for your folder and use that naming convention
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| | | | | VOB file to MPEG Streamline PROBLEMSby cassie ross 2 years agoI'm working with an iMAC Mac OSX 10.4.11 and MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 My family shot some footage on a Sony camera that uses mini DVD's After getting the footage on the imac, i began to compress the file | Re: VOB file to MPEG Streamline PROBLEMS
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
I think you're misunderstanding how the chapter files work. You could have 40 chapter points with thumbnails and only 1 .vob file with all the clips in it. Or...you could have 40 chapter points and th
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| | | | | Decklink Extreme HD driver conflictby Chris Blair 2 years agoWe have an older Decklink Extreme HD card in an HP xw6200 PC with quad-core processor, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 4600 graphics with 1GB memory, and plenty of hard-drive storage. It runs decently with Premie | | | | |
| | | | | adding metadataby Kevin Carlson 2 years agoI think this applies to this forum. I'm wondering when would be the best time to input metadata for digital delivery, and which application any of you use to do it. We are a large ministry, and have X | Re: adding metadata
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
Most mid to high end encoding apps offer this option, and probably the best time to inject metadata is when you're outputting your final encode for delivery...although there could certainly be advanta
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| | | |  | Sharemaxby Andrew Ryann 2 years agoHey. Anyone using the Sharemax Ethernet based video storage system from Promax Any other thoughts on Ethernet-based editing or experience with other providers of such Thanks, Andrew | Re: Sharemax
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
Probably 90% of our projects are SD; we only load "good" takes for projects, and we have a really good backup workflow. We backup to a 4TB LaCie network drive every night, then once every 30 or 60 day
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| | | | | Cayman Graphicsby David Beck 2 years agoWhen I try to go to Cayman graphics from velocity it crashes the program. I can open it up on my desktop but not in velocity. Gives me a dps.exe error and shuts down. Is there a solution to this I hav | Re: Cayman Graphics
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
With Inscriber, if you hit "save as" and save your titles as .icg or .tga file it eliminates the crashing. You have to then collect the files into your gallery since it doesn't automatically place the
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| | | | | Signs of the Apocalypseby Chris Blair 2 years agoIn the last 6-12 months we've experienced some things that we believe are signs of a coming Apocalypse. 1. At major corporations, people are being transferred from previous careers in IT, Human Resour | Re: The Silver Lining
by Chris Blair 2 years ago
Wow...I didn't realize my rant would create such a stir! I will say that as a company we're going on our 15th year in business, so we're not new to any of this and have seen our share of change in tha
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| | | |  | Genlock Timing Errorby Justin Geoghegan 3 years agoI've hooked up a Sony VHS deck (SLV-R1000) via the S-video input in Velocity. I have a 23 year old VHS tape that I'm trying to capture. Anytime the tape comes to a spot where someone stopped and start | Re: Genlock Timing Error
by Chris Blair 3 years ago
There's probably nothing you can change on the deck that will help. If you have a continuous external video signal you can feed to another input and select that as your genlock, you MIGHT be able to q
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| | | | | NAS Server Instead of FTP?by John Couture 3 years agoIs anyone using a NAS server with remote access to share (and password protect) files to share video files with clients We're trying to shift away from using free FTP and someone recommended we go thi | Re: NAS Server Instead of FTP?
by Chris Blair 3 years ago
We explored this a while back. For us, it was MUCH easier to just use the FTP storage available on our web host and use it instead. No setting up of the NAS server (we were going to use our Apace vSto
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| | | |  | Video in Powerpointby Dan Mott 3 years agoHi guys! I need some help. I have been asked to deliver a video in wmv format to my boss for her PC PowerPoint presentation. I have tried to convert the file several times, trying different things but | Re: Video in Powerpoint
by Chris Blair 3 years ago
That makes sense it it's 150%. So no...that is the correct setting. Chris Blair Magnetic Image, Inc. Evansville, IN www.videomi.com Read our blog www.videomi.com blog
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| | | |  | Somebody explain this to meby Nick Griffin 3 years agoI understand how social media works and how valuable it can be in business, career, etc. I'm especially sure that this is useful to people in big companies who need to foster network relationships to | Re: Somebody explain this to me
by Chris Blair 3 years ago
Scott Sherrif: 1. It is free. Of course, you get what you pay for, but since it is a free way to promote your business, why not use it. Lots of great posts about this subject (enjoyed Mike's conversat
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