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Video tips and troubleshooting for the professional post production community. The is blog of Video Post Production Consultant and Studio Editor Kirk Demorest who has worked for years in post production at Disney and Universal Studios. Whether it's troubl

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Yeah, this is something that comes up once in a while with us. Producers or editors send us a hard drive to which we are to transfer their master videotapes as Quicktime movies. But when we ship...

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We transferred some footage recently from Hi-8. Actually, I’m guessing the “master” was actually a sub-master from another Hi-8… or worse… (please don’t say it) a...

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Macrovision is a piracy protection system that darkens the video image if it is copied from a standard DVD player. First off, this is NOT a subversive message to coax anyone to break the law....

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These days it’s easy to get your films shown to millions thanks to YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Atom Films, and all the other social networking sites out there. But if you want a distributor and...

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Following is an actual email thread from one of our contacts who is mac-based. Dear Kirk at BetaSPtoDVDcom, Does final cut pro or final cut studio output to flash format for the web? I have a client...

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Flicker

The light was dancing, so I couldnt be sure but I thought I saw a spirit with her.
They were dancing under a pale moon beam and around them snap dragons flickered.
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Here’s something we encounter all the time, a major client with an insane deadline sends us a precious file of their motion picture to be laid off to BetaSP or Digibeta for use in a critical film...

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I don’t know what it is about the universe, but somehow, we have been getting a lot of questions about Mini-DVDs these days. Perhaps the camcorders that made them have died and there is a desperation...

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There are so many codecs for digital movies out there that is becomes really confusing when you are trying to make a small file to place on Youtube, an ftp site or to email to everyone in your...

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HDCAM SR leaves Pamela Anderson’s sex tape in the dust. Just like the great format wars, Beta vs. VHS and Blu-Ray vs.  HD DVD, another video format has finally pushed its last pixel. Yes, the popular...

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Okay, so you spend three months onlining and color correcting your film. It looks stunning and projects like a Technicolor masterpiece.  Excited to show your friends and reach a wider audience, you...

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