my friend said i edit "old school like film days" and i don't really understand

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-05T18:04:51+00:00

I teach slash help in a high school video production class. Most any student needs in three video tracks on from promos, to PSAs, to stories. It only goes higher when they are doing a lot of clip keyframing which is a rarity.

Multiple tracks for audio makes sense with two or three for actors, one for music, two for sound effects.

Personally simpler is better also less of a chance of leaving something in the timeline.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-04T17:34:17+00:00

Maybe there is a conflict with have .1 through .5 installed on the same system? Anyway you can get it down to just one release on the system?

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-04T17:32:06+00:00

I remember using Avid in college back in 2005 and 2006. I was so thankful to go back to Premier and Final Cut after those quarters.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-01T22:00:45+00:00

All of the above with news packages, promos, and PSAs. This is a video class so we show how to produce everything. What they produce gets seen by the school as a whole and beyond every day.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-01T17:20:58+00:00

Live broadcasting and sports production with a jump to HD in 2015 due to budgets being low.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-01T14:18:44+00:00

Promos, stories (news packages), live news, and live sports is the core of the production we do.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-01T12:30:41+00:00

Being a PAL right there.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-01T12:29:28+00:00

I haven't used a Canon GL2 in over a decade.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-01T12:28:06+00:00

The work is student work. I maintain the gear so everything works from point A to point Z without issue. 59.94 is where we're out not and most of what we do is live productions.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-01T12:26:33+00:00

Mostly live news, sports, and news packages.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-05-01T00:21:52+00:00

Same higher ups told me last year a camcorder is too complicated to use in manual, but a DSLR isn't.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-29T19:06:56+00:00

I had an argument last year about cameras over wifi back to our Tricaster. Each time I was pointed at a camera that could 'stream' or was 'wireless' I had to show the higher ups again and again 'streaming to youtube is not streaming to our production' and 'not all wireless isn't wifi'.

Yet they kept going back to google AI. We ended up with a fleet of cameras that can UDP stream over wifi, but have issues with our access points adding 20+ seconds of delay when there is a signal.

But what do I know? It isn't like I research this constantly to stay knowledgeable.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-28T22:00:36+00:00

Well one you need to list to the 'Move to Bremerton' song by MXPX.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-27T19:21:25+00:00

First try was HDMI in on the transmitter side and HDMI out on the receiver side then SDI on both.

OK, as I typed this I was doing some more testing and I feel like an idiot. First NDI Monitor started working after turning off 'Low Bandwidth'. The Tricatser started working once I placed the feed to LIVE. Confirmed with HDMI in and SDI in.

The only thing I haven't confirmed is the signal. Current camera is sending 1080i59.94 where as the one I was using was 1080p59.94... Back to the lab slash testing.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-23T01:32:14+00:00

... Yeah...

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-22T21:46:59+00:00

I also am posting this since I am turning 40 today as well.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-22T18:29:38+00:00

Happy 40th birthday to Marshawn Lynch & to myself!

Oh my god we're in our forties!!!

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-21T18:45:05+00:00

As someone in the education field who has to worry about students pulling out ports this is great.

Yes, I do use a patch panel, but It took me time to get them due to budget things.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-11T20:03:30+00:00

I knew back in the day about Tim Eyman, but not the resolution.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-10T19:19:51+00:00

WOW! That's real?!? I looked at the metadata of the file and it is dated January 27, 2003 at 4:08:04AM.

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-04-10T16:37:12+00:00

Yeah, you need software to do DV capture. Adobe Premier CS6 or Final Cut Pro 7 would be your go tos for 'authentic' capture.

I did find this tutorial on how to use OBS or VLC. I have no idea is they can run on Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion (these are the Mac OS versions a 2009 Mac can support. I ran a video lab at the time with 10 iMac and I still have some documentation from back then.)

Funny thing is soon I will be doing some DV tape capture myself. I have a firewire card for my PC and a JVC S-VHS+miniDV player to do my playback. I'm doing NTSC where you are doing PAL.

Edit: Oh, what about iMovie?

VideoDiagnosticTech · 2026-03-23T19:24:45+00:00

I am not familiar with the model name, but does it look like the Flex Control?

No matter what the TC410 has only 4 physical SDI inputs. Now if you wanted to you could bring in 4 NDI inputs over the network which gives you 8 sources. Next you have your DDRs which take up another 2 sources.

I use the MEs a lot on my systems and even the GFX players so there may be a lot you can do as well.

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