CompuServe Messages

To Sam or any of you other NYC guys: Any interest in doing a 50th wedding anniversary at Tavern on the Green, NYC? Late Oct on a Sunday.. 4 hours aquisition & some editing .. willl need to send her a demo tape.. I have her info if anyone is interested. I sent her a wedding demo tape of mine, she said it was "fantastic" but that she didn't need all that good hard editing kind of stuff (also didn't want to pay my price for 2 camera job…. said she only wants 1 camera – sorry, I always go 2 cameras .. I believe in Murphys Law. (she also wanted to know if I really had to use a light… naturally I told her not to worry and that shooting in total pitch-black darkness would be just fine.. we of course would just strap on the "usual infrared nite-vision lens goggles" for a really fine video… no I didn't really say that). I'm on Long Island and don't really care to trek into the city unless I'm getting paid for it. .. 4 hours becomes 7 hours for me.) Anyway, since this is really an "Initial 4.06 Comments" thread, here's my take: Intial 4.06 software seems solid. Found some problems in the sequencer when I used the edit-to-music feature after it locked the croutons to the "time-base" for the sake of the audio. The automatic feature that tells you how many frames you're off for a proper sequence transition (even a dissolve) kept fighting with the edit-to-music feature. I the human, took care of it. I can live with this. Seems that just the fact that you can play a 2 frame still or clip makes this product a whole different animal than what it was in any previous version and I have yet to find the program time base go off from the music-video split second timing that I have done (even when I play from the middle or end of the project). Really doing some fun stuff with this thing. Newtek, this is very good! Still experimenting with the CG over clips & stills, but so far OK. Slow-mo rexx crouton did not work for me inside the program (only generated 2 frames for a 1/2 slow-mo thing.. however, did work for me when run from a shell.. and it looked good enough that Sony probably lost a sale on an EVO9820. (Hey $5K savings right there). Newtek, this is good! Still have occasional video (not audio) studder (HQ5 only). Only it seems more drive related than sequencer related. Weird part is that I almost only seem to get it when I create multiple clips from what I call the "bulk" make clips panel, say 20 clips at a time. Out of 20 clips perhaps 2-3 have some studder.. usually can be edited out so not a problem. If I record those clips "1 at a time, at the same time, at the same spot on the drive (or so it would seem) " alas, no studder. Hmmmm … still seems like a software issue. Newtek, investigation possibly required here. Lastly, I am able to do things on this Flyer now that would take at least 10 times longer on the TAO editor (or perhaps not even possible) so that finally I feel that this Flyer system is actually starting to put out… so much so that next week will be adding 2 more Microp 9GIGS to the already existing 2 Microp 9GIGS. Gee, that's about 2 hours & 12 mins of HQ5… I hope that someone has tested more than one drive on each leg out there. Hmmmm ..we'll see how it goes. Well Newtek, looking good but we're still putting this thing through the paces. Hope that 4.07 is out before I find something that I don't like. Promise I'll let you know. That's it for now. Mark