[Ty Ford]

Hi,

I was in Las Vegas last weekend for the roll out of the new Event Opal audio
monitors. The science behind these monitors is very interesting. The demo
sounded very impressive.

There's a 92 MB quicktime video file.

Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/5ey3pa

Regards,

Ty Ford


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[Ty Ford]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:50:56 -0400, Ty Ford wrote
(in article ):

Hi,

I was in Las Vegas last weekend for the roll out of the new Event Opal audio
monitors. The science behind these monitors is very interesting. The demo
sounded very impressive.

There's a 92 MB quicktime video file.

Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/5ey3pa

or in another universe

redo

http://tinyurl.com/6xpwyq



--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU

[Ty Ford]

ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

I can download the file from my own server and play it fine on two of my
three Macs, but experimenting further this AM, on my 3rd Mac...no audio. Even
if I bring the file over the network from the machine I rendered it on...no
audio. And the "get info" doesn't describe the audio. both running Quicktime
Version 7.5 (149.5) How weird is that?

It's as if the audio is being scraped off for some computers, Mac or PC, but
not others.

Anyone with an explanation, toss in.

Fascinating. Maybe I'll try another render. Got any suggestions?

Regards,

Ty Ford



--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU

[wildt®ax]

It works fine but like all .mac-based sites it´s incredibly slow.

On 31 Jul., 13:44, Ty Ford wrote:
ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

I can download the file from my own server and play it fine on two of my
three Macs, but experimenting further this AM, on my 3rd Mac...no audio. Even
if I bring the file over the network from the machine I rendered it on...no
audio. And the "get info" doesn't describe the audio. both running Quicktime
Version 7.5 (149.5) How weird is that?

It's as if the audio is being scraped off for some computers, Mac or PC, but
not others.

Anyone with an explanation, toss in.

Fascinating. Maybe I'll try another render. Got any suggestions?

Regards,

Ty Ford

--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
Acting and Voiceover Demoshttp://www.tyford.com
Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU

[Arny Krueger]

"wildt®ax" wrote in message


It works fine but like all .mac-based sites it´s
incredibly slow.

I don't know about "all mac based sites", but on this file agreed. Download
speed was about 1/4 of what I usually get.

[wildt®ax]

On 31 Jul., 14:56, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
"wildt®ax" wrote in message



It works fine but like all .mac-based sites it´s
incredibly slow.

I don't know about "all mac based sites", but on this file agreed. Download
speed was about 1/4 of what I usually get.

Yep, that´s normal for .mac. Look at Scott´s, or Jeff´s site they are
all .mac and pretty slow. Apple limits bandwidth on .mac.

[Jeff Wexler]

In article
,
wildt®ax wrote:

Yep, that´s normal for .mac. Look at Scott´s, or Jeff´s site they are
all .mac and pretty slow. Apple limits bandwidth on .mac.

I have to correct you here, Frank. I understand this would be a common
assumption since I am such a Mac fan(boy) but several of my sites,
including the Discussion Group, have nothing to do with Apple or .Mac,
MobileMe. Most of my stuff resides on Lunarpages servers which have been
very fast and reliable for me for the last five years.

It is true that my main personal website, which I don't think anyone
visits anyway except possibly as a portal page to the Discussion Group,
is now on Apple servers through MobileMe. It has been somewhat slower
the last 2 weeks most probably because of the massive problems (I am
sure you are aware of) that Apple has had transitioning from .Mac to
MobileMe.

I can't speak for Scott F. although I know that one of his sites is
definitely on Apple servers.

- Jeff Wexler

[wildt®ax]

On 31 Jul., 16:19, Jeff Wexler wrote:
In article
,
.

It is true that my main personal website, which I don't think anyone
visits anyway except possibly as a portal page to the Discussion Group,
is now on Apple servers through MobileMe. It has been somewhat slower
the last 2 weeks most probably because of the massive problems (I am
sure you are aware of) that Apple has had transitioning from .Mac to
MobileMe.

I can't speak for Scott F. although I know that one of his sites is
definitely on Apple servers.


That´s the one I meant Jeff. Sorry for the confusion. I was a .mac
user myself for 2 years till I got sick of the sluggish performance of
the web-pages and especially the very slow iDisk that always was 2-4
times slower than any other FTP site I visited.

Moved to a different ISP and got full-speed up/download, PHP, MySQL
etc. for a fraction of the cost. Of course less comfortable as it´s
not as integrated with the OS as .mac but I can live with that.

I do my file-transfers over digidelivery anyway since most of my
cliets don´t allow to share or transfer data over quasi-public servers
like yousendit who never really disclose if they actually delete the
data or just harvest it like google. Most of my jobs need encrypted
transfer and traceable traffic. Can´t be done with FTP and other
"consumer" aimed services like .mac or yousendit, pando and their
clones...

best,

frank.

[Lucky[_3_]]

Ty Ford wrote:
ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.


No. iMac G5 10.4.11 QuickTime Pro

The woman in the bikini was nice, though.

[Boris Lau]

Ty Ford wrote:
Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

Not for me. But I am using totem player under linux, that reduces the
odds anyway. But there are indeed quicktime movies that I can play.

Best,
Boris

[Laurence Payne[_2_]]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:44:00 -0400, Ty Ford
wrote:

ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

No. Vista on a Toshiba P100. Quicktime 7.4.5

[Mike Rivers]

Lucky wrote:

The woman in the bikini was nice, though.

Oh, so then it isn't the same video as you get when you connect to the
Event web page. I could neither play it on line nor download the file to
play off line.

--
If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach
me he
double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo -- I'm really Mike Rivers
)

[Arny Krueger]

"Laurence Payne" wrote in message

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:44:00 -0400, Ty Ford
wrote:

ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

No. Vista on a Toshiba P100. Quicktime 7.4.5

No sound. XP with a ton of add-on audio and video codecs.

Letsee 92.3 megabytes at 35 kB/sec = 2,637 seconds = 44 minute download.

[Mike Rivers]

On Jul 31, 7:44 am, Ty Ford wrote:

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

Finally got it, and no, the audio doesn't work for me. Windows XP,
Quicktime player (no iTunes).

[Ty Ford]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:32:43 -0400, Laurence Payne wrote
(in article ):

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:44:00 -0400, Ty Ford
wrote:

ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

No. Vista on a Toshiba P100. Quicktime 7.4.5

OK, I re-rendered last night. This time an mp4.

See if that works for you and thanks for your patience.

Regards,

Ty

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Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU

[Ty Ford]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:13:26 -0400, Chel van Gennip wrote
(in article ):

Ty Ford schreef:
ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

It downloaded with about 300kbyte/s, but the audio doesn't work with
mplayer under Linux. I wont even try to install quicktime on my Windows
system. My only mac is an emulated Mac IIci with Software 7-1.



This was a very weird situation. I rendered out of FCP. The clip played on
two of my Mac just fine. Later, after folks said audio was not there, I
pulled it over to my third Mac from the Mac I rendered it on (and which it
played well on) and...NO AUDIO.

I re rendered last night and now there's also an mp4 version that does play
on all 3 Macs. If you have the inclination, please check it out. And yes,
there's more than just the formal presentation; especially after Freeman
speaks. You see/hear some of what happened after his presentation and the
info in the demo room.

Thanks for your patience.

Regards,

Ty Ford


--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU

[Charles Tomaras]

"Ty Ford" wrote in message
. ..
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:13:26 -0400, Chel van Gennip wrote
(in article ):

Ty Ford schreef:
ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

It downloaded with about 300kbyte/s, but the audio doesn't work with
mplayer under Linux. I wont even try to install quicktime on my Windows
system. My only mac is an emulated Mac IIci with Software 7-1.



This was a very weird situation. I rendered out of FCP.


That's why we are sound mixers and not editors! Do you have a union card to
do all that video rendering?

[Ty Ford]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:53:01 -0400, Charles Tomaras wrote
(in article ):


"Ty Ford" wrote in message
. ..
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:13:26 -0400, Chel van Gennip wrote
(in article ):

Ty Ford schreef:
ABOUT MY VIDEO CLIP

Please let me know if the audio works or not for you.

It downloaded with about 300kbyte/s, but the audio doesn't work with
mplayer under Linux. I wont even try to install quicktime on my Windows
system. My only mac is an emulated Mac IIci with Software 7-1.



This was a very weird situation. I rendered out of FCP.


That's why we are sound mixers and not editors! Do you have a union card to
do all that video rendering?

Same one you have.

Ty


--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU

[soundriven]

Downloading from your .Mac iDisk Downloads page took 2:20 at 600-650
kB/sec., and the 44.1 KHz. mono ACC soundtrack played fine on my
iMac. The monitors look a little pricey but interesting. Will they
perhaps be appearing soon on the shelves of my (our) friendly
neighborhood Guitar Center...like so many other Event products...or
will I need to look elsewhere?

Don

[Ty Ford]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:24:22 -0400, soundriven wrote
(in article
):

Downloading from your .Mac iDisk Downloads page took 2:20 at 600-650
kB/sec., and the 44.1 KHz. mono ACC soundtrack played fine on my
iMac. The monitors look a little pricey but interesting. Will they
perhaps be appearing soon on the shelves of my (our) friendly
neighborhood Guitar Center...like so many other Event products...or
will I need to look elsewhere?

Don


Thanks Don,

BTW, the 788T is all packed up and ready to return to SD. If you really HAVE
to see it. Come by this coming week. Jim Bigwood likes the look of it.

Well I did see GC's Dave Angress at the event (in fact he makes several cameo
appearances in my little video).

I think they are due to ship in September. Don't know what the distribution
may be but there are more than GC people there.

Regards,

Ty Ford


--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU