Posted by Richard Crowley on 08/20/07 16:23

"peter" wrote ...
> Firstly, I don't want to sound too stupid and make totally unreasonable
> request from the station. E.g if the TV industry all standardized on Mac
> and I asked for an NTFS file, that would be unreasonable.

TV stations are not standardized on Mac. They aren't standardized
on PC either. The only way of knowing what they are using is simply
asking them.

I would offer to bring in my laptop PC (with a firewire port) and plug
into one of their capture decks. I would bring along an external drive
to dump the AVI files to (unless you have enough room on your C:
drive?) I would offer to do it in "off hours" when they aren't using
all their editing suites


> Secondly, I am currently going through a middle man to contact the TV
> station. I have asked for a direct technical contact, but if I was denied
> that for some reason, I would have to make my request through the
> middleman. Therefore it is better to make a request that is likely to be
> honored, or at least sound reasonable.

Suggest that direct contact is required for technical reasons unless
this middleman is prepared to just pay them to transfer the footage.

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