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 proving maddeningly unreliable- a combination of his home > internet connection, a Mac that refuses to even see some removable drives and > a DVD Rom burner we are deeply suspicious of means that roughly half the > films fail at some stage of the workflow. In this instance an H.264 copy > (far lower quality) was readable off a memory stick whereas the far nicer, > and bigger, DV Pal 25 .mov file was U/S. > > Given the time I would love to set up a nice smooth workflow to pipe these > things from him to me, or in fact from any contributor to me, but it's well > outside my technical comfort zone, and there's always something else pressing > on my time.
Sounds like a great R&D project - perhaps an automated tool to analyse (and upload?) video produced by third parties? :-) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
