Some of the difficulties with Avid development are old school editors in Hollywood compared to new editors coming out of colleges. There is also the fact that Avid only has some many programers to create new features. Doug

Confessions of an Avid Product Designer

Avid Product Designer and Avid Product Manager Doug Hansel
(audio podcast) Here

For those customers not able to see the download menu button I was able to get vimeo to fix it on their end. You should now be able to get a menu and chose your download.

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After an accident having my Tota blown over in the wind I was never able to figure out what got damaged. I have power in both the sockets but can not make the bulb light up. I was about to look for a used socket but after doing some research I found that you can buy a new socket assembly for $15 with shipping.

I was a little suspicious when an Ebay ad claimed they could sell me a battery charger for my Canon BP970 battery for only $9.40? With Free shipping. However it finally came in after 20 days just like they said. Here is the package.

  
Yes, From the address on the package it came across the Atlantic ocean. But also on E Bay there is a new charger for only $3.66 with free shipping.

How can America complete against this kind of pricing?

I have decided to start using You Tube again for videos in order for my clients to view and share without needing a Vimeo account. The problem has always been artist who make blanket claims knowing they gave out other licensing rights. Here is Smartsounds explanation: Continue reading

This year for the festival I passed out some interesting imformative videos about the cities festival events. You can see all the videos here;
https://vimeo.com/album/3535437

Video To Life Productions is now recording all events with dual recording cards. That means if one card corrupts you event is still recorded on the other card. Three High Definition cameras can dual record for 2 1/2 hours continuous. This can be done again for a later event and to make sure we don’t need to recharge batteries we have enough for 10 of shooting.

All this for your historic edit of your event, moment by precious moment…forever.

In the vast world of printers I settled  on a new printer for specifically DVD printing however I found out this is one of the easiest printer to pull the printhead out and clean if needed. I am told you only need to dab some rubbing alcohol on the print heads to clean them but you can pull them out easy too for more thorough cleaning.
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