Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Brickley
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote: Better late than never I realise that I neglected to flag this short film to the Backstage list.  We shot it two weeks ago and very quickly edited and loaded it up last week. Apologies for the video quality- we've been

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Ant Miller
Ah, yeah, sorry about that. There is a switch that's flippable, but the paperwork! We're planning on launching our new website later this week, and into that we can embed video on a different distribution net with worldwide access- I'll repost when that's set up. Sorry! a On Mon, Feb 1, 2010

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:57, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote: Better late than never I realise that I neglected to flag this short film to the Backstage list.  We shot it two weeks ago and very quickly edited and loaded it up last week. Apologies for the video quality- we've been having

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Ant Miller
Possibly- the specific file formats we need to encode to to upload to iplayer are pretty standard, but the way we make these films is using a 3rd party editor (he's great by the way). Delivering finished films from his home edit suite to us is proving maddeningly unreliable- a combination of his

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 13:28, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Oh you might also be interested that RDTV ep3 (long edition) was edited using only Kdenlive on Ubuntu - http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2010/01/video-editing-in-linux-a-look-at-pitivi-and-kdenlive.ars

RE: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Ian Forrester
...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Mo McRoberts Sent: 01 February 2010 13:36 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 13:28, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Oh you might also be interested that RDTV

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 1 Feb 2010, at 13:30, Ant Miller wrote: Possibly- the specific file formats we need to encode to to upload to iplayer are pretty standard, but the way we make these films is using a 3rd party editor (he's great by the way). Delivering finished films from his home edit suite to us is

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 1 Feb 2010, at 13:43, Ian Forrester wrote: Hardly ever crashes. For example I left it running on a spare laptop from Wednesday Today encoding RDTV into a number of different formats and there was no problems. Even when editing it was all good, except I couldn't always get sound out due

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 14:29, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote: Actually to have a semi public facing drop zone where we could ingest, analyse and prep files for upload would be a good tool.  Get it working right, and build in the right security, and I know of three or four real world

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Ant Miller
Actually to have a semi public facing drop zone where we could ingest, analyse and prep files for upload would be a good tool. Get it working right, and build in the right security, and I know of three or four real world production applications straight off- could even integrate well to DMI. If

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Rupert Watson
You can do that with Isilon's WebDAV interface (Kodak Easyshare for example) and with SyncIQ and Aspera it could be replicated around the BBC's storage clusters with no human interaction. The tools to buy, not build, a DMI exist already. Sent from my dog On 1 Feb 2010, at 14:37, Ant Miller

RE: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Christopher Woods
Possibly- the specific file formats we need to encode to to upload to iplayer are pretty standard, but the way we make these films is using a 3rd party editor (he's great by the way). Delivering finished films from his home edit suite to us is proving maddeningly unreliable- a combination of

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 1 Feb 2010, at 15:14, Christopher Woods wrote: But seriously, how old is the Mac? I noticed some older Macs at my old Uni had problems with a couple of my USB sticks, although they were USB2.0 and everything-else-compatible. Just seemingly refused to work. On the basis of no information

RE: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Christopher Woods
On the basis of no information at all, I'm guessing that the USB drives in question might have been formatted NTFS, or something. Fingers crossed their editor guy's using NTFS-3G :) (which, for those who use it, just got a premium commercial counterpart release with some nice fixes as Tuxera

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Butterworth
NTFS has been around since ... 1993, it would have to be a very, very old Mac, surely not to have NTFS support? You can mount NTFS formatted hard drives onto Macs. On 1 February 2010 15:41, Stephen Jolly st...@jollys.org wrote: On 1 Feb 2010, at 15:14, Christopher Woods wrote: But

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 16:01, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: NTFS has been around since ... 1993, it would have to be a very, very old Mac, surely not to have NTFS support?  You can mount NTFS formatted hard drives onto Macs. 10.4 added read-only support for NTFS;

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Ant Miller
NTFS but mac ain't that old. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tvwrote: NTFS has been around since ... 1993, it would have to be a very, very old Mac, surely not to have NTFS support? You can mount NTFS formatted hard drives onto Macs. On 1 February 2010

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 1 Feb 2010, at 16:01, Brian Butterworth wrote: NTFS has been around since ... 1993, it would have to be a very, very old Mac, surely not to have NTFS support? You can mount NTFS formatted hard drives onto Macs. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=663637 S - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 1 Feb 2010, at 15:14, Christopher Woods wrote: just epic fails to read some DVDs, and it can't burn DVD+DLs either. That will probably be because it is a DVD-R drive - during the DVDR format wars Apple was on the DVD-R team so didn't support DVD+R till drives came with both.

RE: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Christopher Woods
just epic fails to read some DVDs, and it can't burn DVD+DLs either. That will probably be because it is a DVD-R drive - during the DVDR format wars Apple was on the DVD-R team so didn't support DVD+R till drives came with both. Urgh, really? I completely forgot about that, I wasn't on

Re: [backstage] BBC RD Move- Video

2010-02-01 Thread Matt Jones
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: just epic fails to read some DVDs, and it can't burn DVD+DLs either. That will probably be because it is a DVD-R drive - during the DVDR format wars Apple was on the DVD-R team so didn't support DVD+R till