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| | | |  | Live IP Camera Solution?by Jeff Tocci 10 months agoHi everyone, I'm trying to figure out the best way to transmit a live, IP-based camera to my community television station. Basically, I want to put a camera in the center of our town that we can use a | Re: Live IP Camera Solution?
by Erik Freid 10 months ago
Here is one: $500 720P the 1080 Version is $650 http: www.y-cam.com y-cam-bullet-hd Erik Freid MediaSilo, Inc 207 South Street Third Floor Boston, MA 02111 t. 617.423.6200, m. 617.306.8632, f. 617.507
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| | | | | 23.98fps to PAL DigitBeta, matching TCby Vishesh Mankal 1 year agoHi, I have a project shot and edited at 23.98 fps. The project will need to be shown on TV and the client needs a DIGIBETA PAL (25fps) for the same. My question is this, how do I ensure that the Timec | Re: 23.98fps to PAL DigitBeta, matching TC
by Erik Freid 1 year ago
it will never match 100% while you may start at hour 1 for a long TRT project it will slowly drift out as the 1 frame sec difference accumulates. you should not worry it is fine and expected, just mak
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| | | |  | 1080: i vs p - and framerates - what to use??by stu aull 1 year agoDamn, this seems basic but have jumped from 25yrs of Beta SD into RED and now trying to come up to speed with format recording options. Beyond what a specific client may request for framerates and for | | | | |
| | | | | Any good Live HTML5 encoding programs?by Andrew Johnson 1 year agoHi, First post here. So I am looking for a live HTML5 audio video (or just audio) encoder software. We are looking for something along the lines of Quicktime Broadcaster, Flash Media Live Encoder, or | Re: Any good Live HTML5 encoding programs?
by Erik Freid 1 year ago
HTML5 is a web language framework not a video codec. It is up to the player on your site and what codecs it can handle and still be HTML5 compliant which is nebulous target and can basically be almost
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| | | |  | Using ProRes 422 for Archivingby Mark Walczak 1 year agoHi everyone, I'm looking to save some hard drive space on my server and am interested in archiving all of my personal projects in ProRes 422. They're all currently uncompressed AVIs, and typically hav | Re: Using ProRes 422 for Archiving
by Erik Freid 1 year ago
Archive should always be the best file type you can provide, quality tends to go up not down, so for best reuse a virgin minimally transcoded file is best. Storage especially via tape drive is getting
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| | | | | codec for pay-per-view .mov??by Ben Ged Low 1 year agoI want to prep a number of my own films to be hosted on a website as pay-per-view options. I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to prep a Quicktime (in whatever format) so as it will disintegrat | Re: codec for pay-per-view .mov??
by Erik Freid 1 year ago
Dynamic link. A URL created on the fly (example at the at point of purchase) linking to content you wish to sell. Since it is a one time link it can be made to expire, also it will not be searchable v
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| | | |  | mac shared storageby Paul Provost 1 year agowe have always used direct attached storage (which we build ourselves - sas raids, esata raids, usual stuff), but are building a system where likely a shared storage solution will be needed. nothing m | Re: mac shared storage
by Erik Freid 1 year ago
Hi Bob, Having worked with San Solutions at the last Broadcast facility I worked at, I can give them a big thumbs up. If you need mission critical (Ie ready to air), zero down time and bulletproof, th
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| | | |  | Sending HUGE files aroundby George Mauro 1 year agoHi all, A question about using freelance shooters and sending their footage to my office to edit in FCP7. In the very near future we are going to need to have HD footage sent via FTP, i'm guessing, fr | Re: Sending HUGE files around
by Erik Freid 1 year ago
Hi George, See this cross post form the digital delivery group. http: forums.creativecow.net readpost 312 11 Basically for files over 4-6GB to have regular transfer success you will have to go UDP (Ap
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| | | |  | 4 camera live feed for peanuts?by Olly Lawer 2 years agoHi, I'm shooting a documentary at the moment. All the money for the shoot is coming from sponsorship, which isn't much at the moment. The owners of the franchise (it's a franchise of a national beauty | Re: 4 camera live feed for peanuts?
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
I also doubt your location will have the bandwidth to stream up HD @ 25 mbit. Your choice of quality has to be based on your locations dedicated upload bandwidth for this event. Erik Freid MediaSilo,
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| | | |  | Tricaster exportby Jeff Heck 2 years agoHi all. I did a search of the forum but found nothing. Here's my issue. I have a client who lost an employee due to a car accident, he's out for some time. They have about six hours of footage that wa | Re: Tricaster export
by Craig Seeman 2 years ago
Don't confuse wrappers with codecs. It's such a fundamental issue that I think it should be a 101 of editing. I have no problem editing DV.avi in FCP7 for example yet there are many .mov that won't wo
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| | | |  | Sharing Video Files With Clientsby Peter Wiley 2 years agoI'd really like to know how people are sharing video files with clients. I have doing some work for a large company whose network IT arrangements apparently won't allow it's employees to see vimeo or +1 | Re: Sharing Video Files With Clients
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Focus Mediashare was powered by MediaSilo, Once VITEC bought Focus Enhancements they discontinued the service and all existing clients migrated to MediaSilo. Check us out we will be releasing a new ve
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| | | | | Avidby Chris Tomberlin 2 years agoDoes anyone here know or think that AVID's general move to a more open architecture will extend to SANs There are some relatively inexpensive, flexible san configurations that currently won't work wit | Re: Avid
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Hi Chris, Look at Editshare & Facilis both work with Avid, and have for a long time. Also commandsoft Fibrejet as Avid friendly SAN admin. As far a as having a Unity or ISIS management on a third part
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| | | |  | Broadcast Tipsby Ian Webb 2 years agoHello all. I recently got a job as a finishing editor for a local Cooking Show in Sacramento, CA. It's my responsibility to make sure the entire video is broadcast safe...this is very new to me. I kno | Re: Broadcast Tips
by Dave LaRonde 2 years ago
Got a Vectorscope and Waveform Monitor Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | |  | Adding a Copyright to the Metadataby Dan Mott 2 years agoHello everyone! I was wondering if I could get some advice. The company I work for wants to add a copyright to the metadata of all final exported videos. We currently have Final Cut Server which we us | Re: Adding a Copyright to the Metadata
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Compressor can do it manually in the inspector under "additional information" tab next to "A V attributes", it even has import option. But you may have to write a script or automation if you want it t
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| | | |  | FCPX and SANby Gregorio Paolini 2 years agoBob, assuming that Final Cut Pro X is a mess; but hoping - I don't know if it will be an illusion - that it can be upgraded in the next months ( ) for professionals can you confirm that it is impossib | Re: FCPX and SAN
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Hi Bob, I know this is a little OT for this forum but I would love your take on discontinuing FCSvr, in a SAN environment, or any file based workflow you need to track assets. Nothing on the market ca
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| | | | | Artbox dies twiceby John McVey 2 years agoThat's all Final Cut Server was - a Proximity Artbox ported to the Mac with the use of Compressor for transcoding. The PostgreSQL database archtecture, the Java UI, the XML schema for updating metadat | Re: Artbox dies twice
by John McVey 2 years ago
Look, Artbox is still cranking away at many TV stations, over six years after it was installed with zero updates since then. Final Cut Server is Artbox, so I don't see any reason why it could not repl
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| | | |  | FCSrv custom thumbnailsby Benjamin Nowicki 2 years agoI've been haunting the forums for some time now and I come across conflicting information. I'm currently working for a non-profit (The Art Directors Guild) setting up an archive. We're looking to impl | Re: FCSrv custom thumbnails
by Andrew Richards 2 years ago
Benjamin, That's my post from Xsanity you're referencing. You've got a couple options, and I'm sorry if this may sound harsh. There are very few FCSvr gurus out there, and far fewer who can pull off w
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| | | | | SD, HD, Title Safe and Center Cut Questionby Ben Murphy 2 years agoHello All, Quick question. Normally, we shoot and edit in HD for all of our broadcast work. Most of the stations that we provide masters to take HD, so all is good there. For the ones that require SD, | | | | |
| | | | | Best way to archive my P2 HD footageby Konrad De Lange 2 years agoHi, I need some help to find a cost effective solution to backup my P2 HD footage. We are a small operation with only two edit suites running FCP 6 on 8 core macs with OSX 10.6.2. I have been looking | Re: Best way to archive my P2 HD footage
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Check out Cache-A http: cache-a.com While there is some upfront Capital cost, the LTO-5 tapes themselves are huge bang for your Terabyte ( $70 per 1.5 TB cassette, and will get cheaper fast). LTO is s
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| | | | | Restarting Hung edit proxy renderby Cory Christman 2 years agoHello, We have FCS running on a mac mini server. I also have a cluster set up with two Mac Pros (4 core & 8 Core) that is set to process all the proxies. Over the weekend we started it ingesting a pro | Re: Restarting Hung edit proxy render
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Hi Cory, Do you have your system set up for rendering as a QMaster cluster Erik Erik Freid MediaSilo, Inc 207 South Street Third Floor Boston, MA 02111 t. 617.423.6200, m. 617.306.8632, f. 617.507.857
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| | | | | HD Playback Solutionby Richard Kuenneke 2 years agoI need to playback high definition files on my HDTV without access to the Internet or a computer. Any suggestions for a piece of hardware that could do that So far the best solution I can find is a Pl | Re: HD Playback Solution
by Jason Brown 2 years ago
Careful using the apple tv setting, its encoding to a non-square pixel aspect ratio (960x720 I believe). Not all devices pick up on that metadata...always best to use square pixels when converting for
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| | | | | obtaining uncompressed HD 1080 clipsby Alan Johnson 2 years agoHi I work with a company that develops RAID hardware and I am looking for a source for uncompressed HD )1080P, 2K etc). The requirement for HD uncompressed is to stress the RAID system and demonstrate | Re: obtaining uncompressed HD 1080 clips
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
You will have a hard time finding them online to download for two main reasons. First you are looking at files that are between 10-15GB per minute (175-250 Megabyte sec) so are huge and not easy to do
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| | | |  | Ideas for a serverby Emanuel Ach 2 years agoHi, I usually end up with 1-2 full harddrives of DV lectures to edit. I would like to put those 2 hardrives on a server and edit them with FCP using a local network. And at this point ideally would be | Re: Ideas for a server
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
FCSVR can help you manage your materials but what you are looking for is a SAN network environment to allow file sharing (and project sharing if you need). I suggest you repost this in the SAN forum h
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| | | | | e-commerce web front end for FCSvrby Erik Freid 2 years agoWe just came up with a great FCSvr workflow for you guys to see, it still needs a little polishing but past beta test. http: blog.mediasilo.com news ecommerce-solution-for-final-cut-server-asset-libra | | | | |
| | | | | Service: MediaSIloby Erik Freid 2 years agoBoston Massachusetts, United States Post Production Web Business Services MediaSIlo Post Production Web Video Broadcasting Transcription Services MediaSilo is | | | | |
| | | | | Archiving Codecby Dan Mott 2 years agoHello, Our New Media Team just implemented a Final Cut Server on a SAN with 28TB of storage space available. Prior to the server, we were transcoding video to Apple Pro Res 422 at 1920x1080. These res | mass_surfer@yahoo.com
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Hi Dan, Archiving can be a tricky thing. you really need to come up with what you want for an archive, how long you expect to maintain and keep your material, do you need disaster recovery second copi
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| | | |  | LTO-4 and Power Mac G5by Martin Sautter 2 years agoHi everybody, First I hope this is the right forum for my question. My boss asked me to bring up a solution for buying and connecting a LTO-4 drive to a Power Mac G5. I googled the last 5 hours to get | Re: LTO-4 and Power Mac G5
by Tom Bucknall 2 years ago
David, a hard drive's shelf is at best 3 years, provided you spin it up once a year to ensure it's still working. An LTO's shelf life is 30 years, slightly more useful for archiving media.
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| | | |  | Bad news day for Apple users?by Eric Jurgenson 2 years agoHardMac is publishing the rumor today that Apple will likely be discontinuing their server products (including XSAN, FCS. and eventually OSX Server). Combined with SJ on medical leave and Apple's leve | Re: Bad news day for Apple users?
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
I always hoped Apple would spin off a Pro Apps division into its own company like they did with Filemaker. It makes sense from a financial and support point of view and keeps the Apple brand loyalty.
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| | | | | FCSvr developersby Christopher Lowden 2 years agoHello I am looking for a list of 3rd party FCSvr solutions, particularly for a web front end solution. Does anyone know if such a list exists Many thanks | Re: FCSvr developers
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Once again sorry for pimping on the board, but MediaSilo has a great integration with FCS (ask around). I do know that there is at least two other similar service offerings from Media Beacon and remot
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| | | | | encoding speedby jeff goldbloom 2 years agoi am changing an avi video to an flv video using ffmpeg, but i want the encoding process to sort of "ride along with" the video itself. In other words, i want the encoding process to take as long as t | Re: encoding speed
by Erik Freid 2 years ago
Real time encoding (or even faster than real time) is possible with enough horsepower and memory. Most use a render farm of some kind to achieve this performance. It is not a limitation of the softwar
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