Re: CAS seminar video download available

Hey Marti,

The videos I downloaded are in sync! I don't know what they are
talking about. Sounds like a local system problem they are having.
Thanks again for taking the time to provide a FREE industry service
that hopefully will be followed by future meetings of this nature. We
need to have more discussions like this about many other issues in our
industry.

Technology is changing so quickly and some are getting left behind.
There has never been a time where industry standards were more
important than now! The fact that people from around the world are
able to view such a meeting and comment on it via the internet is truly
awesome. We all owe you for making that happen. Please don't be
dissuaded to do this again by comments made by a few ungrateful people
trying to be cute with their sardonic posts. They are obviously not
the ones we need to be discussing these issues with. See you back at
the DUC.

Eric Lalicata
Burbank, CA

dr.sound wrote:
> Richard,
> I really resent what you had to say about the CAS seminar video!
> FIRST off I was the one who transfered the original DVCAM tape master
> that
> was OVER 50 GIGS into MPEG4 which brought it down to 1.2 gigs!!!
> The reason that MPEG 4 was chosen is because we originally were going
> to
> have Google host it and they requested MPEG 4. Therefor I went ahead
> and made it to their specs.
> Second, I had to trim 30 seconds out of it for time. It is OVER 2 and a
> half hours long!!!
> Third, as for sync I really resent your comment (rather inauspicious
> for the CAS).
> The CAS Webmaster spent nearly 2 weeks getting yanked around by Google
> and they finally decided NOT to host it so the CAS Webmaster had to put
> it up on his OWN site!
> If indeed it is out of sync I personally will do my best to correct any
> technical problems. All I know is when I encoded it it WAS IN SYNC!!!
> Right now I'm currently Mixing a Feature with 2 others following that
> will keep me busy till August 15 working every day. After that I will
> see if there is anything that can be fixed. You see Richard that the
> CAS is a non profit orginization and the CAS Board puts in a great deal
> of effort to increase the awareness of things that effect the
> Production and Post Sound Community. We put in a great deal of hours
> and effort and when I read a posting like yours it makes me think twice
> about the effort involved. A simple "Thanks" would have made my day, Oh
> well!
> By the way Richard are you a CAS Member?
>
> Marti D. Humphrey C.A.S.
>
> Richard Crowley wrote:
> > jfeeley wrote ...
> > > Yow. The two files are 600MB and 570MB. I can grab them, no
> > > problem. But how long are they? Anyone else viewed them yet?
> >
> > I am part way through the first one. It is a bit over an hour long
> > IIRC. (The file is at the office where I have broadband).
> >
> > The sound is out of sync with the picture.
> > (Rather inauspicious for the CAS :-)
> >
> > Of course, they are just talking-heads, so it detracts nothing
> > from the great content. And it is just an artifact of the MPEG4
> > compression, etc.
> >
> > For those who have never made it to the NAB face-to-face
> > meetings, it is great to see some of the major r.a.p.s players
> > in action.

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