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Thinking of getting a backup editing system that can double as a new laptop. Ive heard of cooling issues with i7 laptops burning out motherboards. Anyone with experience with this?

Couple of other tips that used to work for me apart from the tape: 1.Take you cam out of the AC early in the day so it gets "warmed up" to the humidity and heat before you take it up. 2. Dont sit next to the door if people keep it open during the ride to altitude. Keeping the camera warm will help prevent fogging when you freefall into warmer temps around 6 grand. What you are trying to do keep warm is the air between the cam and the wide angle. If it gets cold, from AC all night or cool air from an open ac door, its like taking a cold beer out of the fridge...it condenses in your warm hand. Let us know if these tips work!

And if you ever get a field audit from the IRS the DZO better be ready to pony up all that unreported income plus penalties plus interest. If you have a sign you should be reporting tip income. And yes the DZO is responsible if the staff cant or wont pay. Been there ...done that

The DVDs are burningnwith music. Just not the YouTube upload

I've been posting tandem vids to YouTube with the same music for a few weeks now. All of a sudden my vids are uploading without music. It is supposedly royalty free music. Is this a rendering problem or YouTube removing copyrighted music?

I would buy 4 go pros and two chris warnock double gloves, funjump.com Land, show spec or give glove to editor and jump the other. By a nice HD monitor and the images look pretty nice. Go Pros sometimes act up and its nice to have backups. Three equal one sony camera so cost shouldnt be an issue. This investment to me will yield the greatest revenue results. Shoot every jump.

Ive always been paranoid of a card turning up missing or stepped on or stolen by a jumper watching a spec. (ive caught one guy trying to remove it claiming he was trying to find his friend's footage)The TM might blame the editor or the catcher who handles the cards and still wants to get paid for lost vids, etc. Just a scenerio Im trying to avoid. We've had missing cards before and it quickly turned into a "you had it ...wait he had it" scene. Maybe by making an immediate copy maybe we can avoid that situation. At the end of the day the TM's used to have to sift through 3 cards or so to archive. Some for specs...some for paid vids. This might relieve some of the work flow. This Nexto Di Extreme was pricey...$299 i think and again we're in the concept phase of it now. Might throw it against a wall after a week who knows. We're not slated to open for another two weeks.

If you're like me, the TM's turn every load and shoot every load specs. In the past we've switced cards every time for us to edit or show. But...decided it was dicey to have $1000 worth of videos floating around so I bought a Nexto Di Extreme 500 gb speed reader. Instead of switching and keeping track of cards, I'll transfer the files at the field either by direct usb or in the card slot. Takes about 30 seconds to transfer. This way we have a back up of videos, they can watch at a PC through the hard drive, and the editor can import. First year trying this so who knows!

Maybe I'm being Utopian but my goal was to utilize personnel who normally check in students to handle editing. If I can get them away from a timeline it might save them some time and . I will check with CW and check on my GP settings. Man, I thought I was doing pretty well with a render and burn time of five minutes compared to the quad core dell! Otherwise...do you think I could speed things up by tinkering with the bios or should I just leave the factory settings alone? Is 8gb ddr3 enough?

Our instructors turn back to back and shoot video and stills on every load. I was going to use a card reader to dump footage at the field so they didnt have to switch cards cards all the time and piece of mind of having a back up. My thought was the catcher keeps it in his pocket, TM lands, zips footage to the drive, gives it back to the catcher to show or edit. Any thoughts? Are there any tablets out there capable of this?

Finally pieced this together: Intel i7 970 ASUS x58 Sabertooth 8gb of corsair ddr3 64 gb Crucial SSD 2 TB internal western digi NVIDIA GTX 460 graphics card 2 dvd burners 650 Watts power supply windows 7 Did I miss anything? Ran just over $1600 including shop labor to build. Im a novice so I paid the local pro shop to build it. 5.5 minute from render to disc burn a six minute video using gopro and a new Corel free trial. Tinkering around with some free software trials to find the easiest software solution for untrained office personnel to edit. Trying to stay away from timeline manipulation. Haven't found anything as easy as our industry's own RealXstream or Peregrine. Audio manipulation seems to be the toughest one to streamline. Both of the mentioned services let you label a clip as interview or not and music levels are automatically adjusted. If anyone else has other suggestions for easy workload editing please share! We're looking for office personnel to be able to take the sd card, plug it in, click a few buttons, and burn.

Anyone ever use a SanHo or Digi Foci to quicky back up video files while working? Jumping multiple cards sometimes gets confusing and it seems like a quick way to back up footage on the fly.

Forgive me for being the most pain in the %$ guy here but I'm trying to learn this stuff. So...shooting in AVCHD but buring on a standard DVD is an HD video that can be played on any dvd player? I dont have to get a blue ray burner to give customers an HD product? And you are back to standard def if you are not using an HD lens correct?

What's a recommended set up for combining ssd and HDD? Maybe a 80 gb SSD to hold programs and a TB SSD for footage?

So with Sandybridge being shelved for the time being, would you recommend going with an x58 chipset or an AMD processor?

Aye yay yay...almost rolled out the credit card today. Thanks for the education and the update. Feel free to keep the rest of us clueless ones in the loop!

I'm not savvy enough to build one on my own but hows this for an out of the box system? http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Gamer_Paladin_E860 Is the i7 980 superior that the i7 2600k? The above system is $1699. I can get a Dell or Gateway with the i7 2600k for about $1200. What do you guys think? Again, this machine will be used for two guys to edit 5 minute tandem vids using GoPros.

What will all this run you?

You think any manufactured i7 tower will work for a DZ editing 2 5 minute HD GoPro vids at once and buring to DVD? Which chip would you guys choose?

These reviews are great if you have a masters in computer science. I just want to know if my HD footage from a 5 minute tandem will render from Vegas in less than 4 minutes in an out of thbox system.

Any word when this chip technology will be available for consuners? Will Vegas 10 be able to take advantage of it?

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Do you mean micro bands for the side and one inch tandem bands thru the grommets? How about doubling the medium bands for the side?

Has UPT offered a recommended procedure for stowing the new Vectran line on Sigma canopies? With Icarus we used to use larger, not tandem rubber bands, being careful not to let the stoe get to large in fear of bag locks.

Two go pros very nice. Give you the opp to shoot stills only and have over 100 pics easy. Its an easy sell. Its the best quality still avail for HC imho and Ive been doing HC for 8 years or so starting with PC 330, pc1000, cx12 now gopros.