2 pcs, 2 iphones best practice

Hi - we have been running iTunes on a single PC with the library saved locally and the music files saved on a NAS where they are also accessed by SONOS. We have recently purchased an iphone for my husband (syncing with his iTunes account on a laptop) and my iphone (syncing with my iTunes account on another PC).
We have now come to the realisation that this is obviously not the best approach since we both want access to the music library on our PC and iPhones but want any playlists, new downloads, updates, etc reflected in all locations. Ideally we would also like to both have access to any apps downloaded by either of us. I have seen some on-line instructions for saving the library file on the NAS and accessing the single library from all PCs, but this seems to have serious issues re corruption if more than one PC tries to access the file, and I am also not sure whether having 2 iPhones will further complicate this.
Any suggestions on the best way to configure iTunes across all of these components? Should we keep the 2 iTunes accounts or shoudl we both be using the same account? Is there a simple way to sync the library files between the 3 PCs, or do we need just a single library and manually control who is accessing it when?
Thanks (I am new to iTunes, so sorry if this has been answered before but I am just so confused between "home sharing", "library sharing", etc)

Answering my own question: 5GHz link worked first time I tried to link my iPad 1 to a network today (no idea why)! Worth a try and some persistence if anyone else has this problem.

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IPhone Best Practices - A Work In Progress

Hello all. I've been tasked with introducing my coworkers into the inner workings of the iPhone, and there are a good number of pointers that I find myself saying over and over again. I'd like to share my best practices with everyone, as well as collect more pointers and opinions from the community at large.
Care and Handling:
First - wash your hands, often. Now I know we all do this often anyway, but I'd like to point out that a healthy amount of hand washing will really go a long way to keep your iPhone screen smudge free. The worst offender, unfortunately, is doughnuts. A small layer of sugar will render that area un-tappable, without any real indication that it has done so. If you are frantically tapping the screen on the iPod button and nothing is happening, clean your phone before you do a hard reset.
Second - Pockets. Keeping your phone in your front pocket is natural and what most of us do. In these summer months, however, keeping your phone in a sweaty front pocket can do a good deal to the dirt level of the screen. If you find yourself cleaning your phone constantly, try a belt clip.
Lastly - Battery Life. Your iPhone's battery life is in your hands, literally. Being aware of your power consumption and planning accordingly is going to be infinitely more important that the battery's native charge-holding ability. This goes especially for the day of purchase - as tempting as it may be to open the box and activate, immediately running around the house watching YouTube, it is best to let the phone charge for 12 hours before use. Charging the phone every night is an absolute must, skipping a day will kill the battery life as your ride the bottom edge the following day. Most of us have access to a USB port while we're at work, best idea will be to plug in your phone when you sit down at your desk.
iPod:
Large Libraries: In the opening weekend, I got many complaints that you cannot manually manage your music. There is a workaround that has made me change the way I work with all of my iPods: the iPhone specific playlist. Simply create a playlist with all of the music you wish to put on your phone and sync that one playlist. This also helps with sync time - you have a start sync and an end sync, not a constant sync all throughout your music management, slowing your computer down in the process.
TV Shows: I watch a lot of MST3K, which I have organized into iTunes as TV shows, split into seasons, the works. The problem that has arisen, therefore, is the one of selective synchronization - you cannot specifically select the TV show you want to sync to the device, instead getting the choices to sync all, unwatched, or latest shows. This is problematic when each show is 700MB large. Here's the work around - select all of the episodes of a specific show and right click, selecting "Mark as Not New", removing all of the little blue dots from the episodes. Select the one, three, or five episodes, and right click them, selecting "Mark as New", then sync the last one, three, or five unwatched episodes. The shows you selected will sync.
iPhoto:
Many users are complaining that iPhoto opens whenever the phone is connected. This is not a preference of the phone, but rather iPhoto. Remember when you first launched iPhoto and it asked you if you wanted to use iPhoto whenever your camera was attached? iPhoto is detecting that your phone is a camera and launching, just as you told it to do.
Mail:
POP accounts - too many unread messages: When first adding a POP account, all of the messages downloaded to the phone arrive as unread. Tapping a message, tapping back, and then tapping the next message can get tedious. Here's the workaround - tap the small down arrow to the upper right hand side of the screen, watching closely to the number next to Inbox. When that number goes down by one, tap the arrow again. If that number hasn't gone down yet, wait a sec, and do not try to tap tap tap tap tap, you'll flood the input queue and crash Mail.
Syncing Mail accounts - All too often people blame the iPhone when their mail does not work. A perfect test is sync you accounts from Mail. If they work in mail, they'll work on the phone, if they are unreliable in Mail, they will also be unreliable on the phone. The Mail client on the iPhone is just as powerful as any other mail client in terms of how it connects to mail servers, if you are having problems you need to check your settings before blaming the hardware. If you prefer to leave your install of Mail.app alone, create a new user account on your Mac, set up all of the accounts you want there, and use iTunes to sync that data to the phone. Make sure to remove that portion of sync from your actual user account's instance of iTunes, however, or it will all sync back.
This message has not been downloaded from the server: This message has snagged a couple users, but upon investigation, these users have filled their iPhones to the absolute brim with music and video. It hasn't been downloaded from the server because there is no space to download to - this also applies to the Camera application dumping to the Home screen. Because there is no space, it can't add any new data. Make some room, then be patient as the mail client gets to that message in cleanup (often a sync or reboot will clear it up).
Safari:
Safari and iPod: Many users have reported iPod stopping in the middle of browsing, often pouting and pursing their lips crying, "This is terrible, I can't even browse the web and listen to music at the same time?". I then check their phone, and lo and behold they have upwards of eight separate pages open at the same time. This device (like every other computer out there) has a finite amount of memory, each page taking up a significant portion depending on how busy the page is. I've routinely gotten through entire albums while browsing through Safari, but I've got one page open in total, and it's usually mostly text. Keep it to one or two pages open and iPod will run forever if you let it.
Web Apps: "This web app is terrible, it keeps booting me to Home!" When was your last reboot? How many other pages are open? In the same vein as Safari and iPod, Web Apps need a good deal of breathing room - give it to them. Close down other pages, stop iPod, or even reboot. Give the app a clean slate and it will perform, every time. iPhoneRemote users will attest to this.
iCal:
Multiple Calendars - Default Calendar: When adding a new appointment, it adds to the default calendar. Appointments can't be shunted to the correct calendar until after sync anyway, so create an "iPhone" calendar and make that the default. Because it's in that calendar, you'll know enough to move it to the appropriate calendar after sync.
Please feel free to add your own best practices, and ask questions, too.

is there any application you can get for the iphone to enlarge text and phone numbers ?
If included with an email or on a website, yes with no application needed.
If you are referring to the text size for your iPhone's contact list, no.
can you insert a phone number from your contact list into a text message ?
No.
i cant seem to figure it out, does the alarm clock work if you turn off the phone at night,
No - powered off with the iPhone means powered off. Any phone that provides for this is not powered off - it is in deep sleep or deep standby mode, which the iPhone does not support. If you don't want your phone ringing or don't want to receive SMS at night but you want to use the iPhone's alarm feature as a wake-up alarm, you can turn on Airplane Mode before going to bed, which will also conserve the battery if your iPhone is not plugged in at night.
can you send a multi media text message ?
No.

Iphone; best practice for better battery life

Okay, I've searched other threads and can't really find anything definitive on all this. I've found my battery life to be disappointing; I can go one and a half days without wi-fi or bluetooth turned on before it turns off.
1) Is it true that when I press and hold the 'home' key while in an application the application 'quits.' If so, is this more likely to save battery life? Does an application ever really 'quit?' It strikes me that it doesn't.
2) If move from safari to home without quitting is that safari page still loading, and thus sucking up battery life ?
3) If I hold the sleep and home keys at the same time I am able to turn off my iphone. What is the advantage of doing this at all? Has anyone experimented with turning the phone off at night? If so, has anyone noticed a better battery life? Is the iphone even meant to be turned off?
4) Should I be turning off the iphone to charge it once in a while; the other threads I've read seem to indicate no, however, I thought I would open this up again.

I believe you directed this at me: I called them...I do not have an apple store within a reasonable distance. They sent the loaner phone in a box, waived my rental fee. I sync my phone took out the sim card and put it in the loaner phone, syncd the loaner phone and had all my stuff. put my phone in the box, fed ex picked it up the next day. I tracked it on the apple repair site, it said they were running diagnostics that same day and the next the web site said replacement phone sent and it got to me in a brand new nice little apple box like the original, only smaller. None of the accessories were sent in or replaced. Hope that answers your question.
Good Luck!
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DPS iPhone best practices - can an app exclude the smaller screen size iPhones?

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Best practices for managing Movies (iPhoto, iMovie) to IPhone

I am looking for some basic recommendations best practices on managing the syncing of movies to my iPhone. Most of my movies either come from a digital camcorder into iMovie or from a digital Camera into iPhone.
Issues:
1. If I do an export or a share from iPhoto, iMovie, or QuickTime, what formats should I select. I've seem 3gp, mv4.
2. When I add a movie to iTunes, where is it stored. I've seen some folder locations like iMovie Sharing/iTunes. Can I copy them directly there or should I always add to library in iTunes?
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1. If you type "iphone" or "ipod" into the help feature in imovie it will tell you how.
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3. If you mean movies purchased on DVD, then copying them is illegal and cannot be discussed here.
From the terms of use of this forum:
"Keep within the Law
No material may be submitted that is intended to promote or commit an illegal act.
Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store."

Best Practice to recharge iPhone

Dear all, I have purchased MacBook Pro for almost a year but have just newly purchased my iPhone. For MacBook Pro, I learned from Discussion forum that the best practice for charging MacBook is to keep connect AC power to it as MacBook battery management will know stop charging when the battery was fully charged.
For iPhone, it has the similar battery design as MacBook Pro, where you cannot replace your battery like other ordinary cell phone. Therefore basically you have to charge your iPhone every day because those apps would exhaust power in a faster rate than ordinary cell phone.
If so, as a best practice, should I always wait until the iPhone used up all battery before charging it?
As a best practice, whenever the iphone has been charged up to 100%, should I keep connecting the AC power supply to iPhone so as to keep 100% battery power level, before I have to relocate iPhone to somewhere without AC power supply?
Have you ever used any portable backup battery? Would it be a good idea to always connect iPhone? Or should I only connect it when it is available? Or should I only connect it when all iPhone battery has been used up?
I look forward to your valuable comment and sharing your valuable experience.

The iPhone includes a Lithium based battery as with your MacBook Pro.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
As with your MacBook Pro, after your iPhone's battery is completely charged when remaining connected to a power source, charging stops. I always leave my iPhone connected to a power source at night so I have a fully charged battery to begin each day. I have a vehicle charger and I always connect my iPhone to the charger when driving regardless the battery level so when I arrive at my destination, I have fully charged battery or as close to it as possible when being disconnected.
There is no "memory" effect with a Lithium based battery, so you can connect your iPhone to a power source regardless the battery level.

Flash Alternative Content ~ Best Practice ~ Safari on iOS Devices ~ iPad iPhone iPod Touch

Hi Folks,
Is there a documented best practice for providing alternate content for Flash in Safari on iOS devices?
I am getting white space where my Flash animation would normally appear, and management is displeased. I need to display alternative content in this space. I'm hopeful that Adobe has published a best practice for how to accomplish this.
tyvm
Keith

Not sure about Adobe official stance but they have started using swfobject Flash detection to place Flash <objects> on the Web page. The problem I see with the Adobe implementation is that about the only alternate content they recommend is "Click here to download the latest version of Flash player".
That is about the lamest alternate content you could possibly imagine! Just because you recommend that your viewers download the new version.... doesn't mean they will... so they still go without REAL alternate content.
A MUCH BETTER use of swfobject is to actually provide alternate content! For your review::
If you think that Flash is somehow bad for SEO, it's time to dispell that MYTH!
If fact, in some circumstances I'll use Flash INSTEAD of just HTML because then I'll have better SEO than with just HTML alone.
http://www.worldbarefootcenter.com/
The link to World Barefoot Center in the above post is just one example. View the source code and you see a couple paragraphs of text along with regular HTML links.... but what displays is the Flash version of the image and Flash links.
The client provided the artwork for the page... and that's what they wanted to use a .jpg image. Well yes, that could be done in HTML but it would be virtually invisible to Google. So Instead I converted the image into a Flash .swf and used swfobject to display the Flash. swfobject allows you to create alternate content inside the <div> which also holds the Flash .swf, then when the page is loaded it detects if the browser has the Flash pluggin. If it does, it displays just the Flash content, if not, it displays the alternate content. Since almost everyone has the Flash pluggin, for most people the Flash version of the <div> will display.
The alternate content for that <div> can be any regular HTML text, images, media player, links, etc., anything that you would use if you were not using the Flash. Now the best part is that the alternate content can be "over the top" as far as optimizing for SEO, since it will not be seen by most viewers.
Here's another example of SEO with Flash.. again, the page is just a single image provided by the client:
http://www.ksowetsuits.com/
View the source code. The alt content is paragraph after paragraph of information about the site, including lists and links. If it was just the HTML, it might be kind of a boring Home page. But for SEO I can go "over the top" in promoting the site, since most viewers will never see that part... but it's all indexed by search engines. The end result is BETTER SEO using Flash than just HTML.
On another Web site, a Flash video is displayed, the alt content is the complete text narration of the video. Now how many people would take the time to read that if they could just watch the video instead?? again, better SEO with Flash than without. In fact in one case we had first page search result from that video narration within 4 hours of posting the page.
On still another site with a Flash video, the alt content is another video, but a .mov version, which will, in effect play Flash video on the iPhone (not possible you say??). Well since the iPhone does not have Flash pluggin, it simply displays the .mov version of the video, while everyione else sees the Flash version.
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http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
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www.cidigitalmedia.com
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Tips n Tricks/Best Practices for integrating iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro

My wife just purchased an iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro for her non profit consulting business and I was wondering if a tips and tricks or best practices for efficiently and productively integrating these devices exists?

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[iPhone SDK] Database/SQLite Best Practices

Taking a look at the SQLiteBooks example, the idea of "hydrating" objects on-the-fly doesn't seem like a best practice to me. If you have a large number of books, for example, and they all need to be hydrated at the same time, I would want to lump the hydrating statements into one large query instead of each Book doing a separate query for it's own data.
I'm imagining these two scenarios:
1. A large query that loops through the rows of it's result set and creates Book objects from them, adding them to an array.
2. A query to get the primary keys, creating Book objects with only that data. When the book hydrates, it queries the rest of the data specifically for itself. (SQLiteBooks example)
I can see how the hydrating of method 2 would be easier to manage the memory stored in each Book object, but I'm really concerned with the speed it would take hundreds of Books to hydrate themselves.

If you know you're going to need many of the objects hydrated at the same time you may want to create some mechanism that allows you to do a single query and hydrate everything at once. In the case of SQLiteBooks, the hydrate method is only called when the user clicks through to the details view for a particular item, so hydrating objects en masse is not necessary.
I'd be very careful to avoid premature optimization here. We're working with very limited resources on these devices, and it is definitely important to optimize your code, but if you're dealing with a large number of items you could easily shoot yourself in the foot by hydrating a bunch of items at once and using up all your memory. If you dehydrate your objects when you receive a memory warning (as I believe the SQLiteBooks example does) you could end up thrashing - reading all your data from the DB, hydrating your objects, receiving a memory warning, dehydrating, and repeating. As the previous reply states, indexed lookups in SQLite are extremely fast. Even on the iPhone hardware you can probably do hundreds of lookups per second (I haven't run a test, but that'd be my guesstimate).

What are best practices for managing my iphone from both work and home computers?

What are best practices for managing my iphone from both work and home computers?

Sync iPod/iPad/iPhone with two computers
Although it isn't possible to sync an Apple device with two different libraries it is possible to sync with the same logical library from multiple computers. Each library has an internal ID and when iTunes connects to your iPod/iPad/iPhone it compares the local ID with the one the device normally syncs with. If they are the same you can go ahead and sync...
I have my library cloned to a small 1Tb USB drive which I can take between home & work. At either location I use SyncToy 2.1 to update the local copy with the external drive. Mac users should be able to find similar tools. I can open either of the local libraries or the one on the external drive and update the media content of my iPhone. The slight exception is Photos which normally connects to a specific folder on a specific machine, although that can easily be remapped to the current library if you create a "Photos" folder inside the iTunes Media folder so that syncing the iTunes folders keeps this up to date as well. I periodically sweep my library for new files & orphans withiTunes Folder Watch just in case I make changes at one location but then overwrite the library with a newer copy from the other. Again Mac users should be able to find similar tools.
As long as your media is organised within an iTunes Music or Tunes Media folder, in turn held inside the main iTunes folder that has your library files (whether or not you let iTunes keep the media folder organised) each library can access items at the same relative path from the library folder so the library can be at different drives/paths on different machines. This solution ensures I always have adequate backups of my library and I can update my devices whenever I can connect to the same build of iTunes.
When working with an iPhone earlier builds of iTunes would remove any file not physically present in the local library, even if there was an entry for it, making manual management practically redundant on the iPhone. This behaviour has been changed but it will still only permit manual management with a library that has the correct internal ID. If you don't want to sync your library between machines on a regular basis just copy the iTunes Library.itl file from the current "home" machine to any other you want to use, then clean out the library entires and import the local content you have on that box.
tt2

Best practices to share 4 printers on small network running Server 2008 R2 Standard (service pack 1)

Hello,
I'm a new IT admin at a small company (10-12 PCs running Windows 7 or 8) which has 4 printers. I'd like to install the printers either connected to the server or as wireless printers (1 is old enough to require
a USB connection to a PC, no network capability), such that every PC has access to each printer.
Don't worry about the USB printer - I know it's not the best way to share a printer, but it's not a critical printer; I just want it available when its PC is on.
I've read a lot about the best way to set up printers, including stuff about group policy and print server, but I am not a network administrator, and I don't really understand any of it. I'd just like to install
the drivers on the server or something, and then share them. Right now all the printers do something a little different: one is on a WSD port, two has a little "shared" icon, one has the icon but also a "network" icon... it's very confusing.
Can anyone help me with a basic setup that I can do for each printer?
p.s. they all have a reserved IP address.
Thanks,
Laura

may need to set print server... maybe helpful.
http://www.techiwarehouse.com/engine/9aa10a93/How-to-Share-Printer-in-Windows-Server-2008-R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/yongrhee/archive/2009/09/14/best-practices-on-deploying-a-microsoft-windows-server-2008-windows-server-2008-r2-print-server.aspx
http://joeit.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/how-do-i-share-a-printer-from-ws2008-r2-to-x86-clients-or-all-printers-should-die-in-a-fire/
Best,
Howtodo

Best practice - caching objects

What is the best practice when many transactions requires a persistent
object that does not change?
For example, in a ASP model supporting many organizations, organization is
required for many persistent objects in the model. I would rather look the
organization object up once and keep it around.
It is my understanding that once the persistence manager is closed the
organization can no longer be part of new transactions with other
persistence managers. Aside from looking it up for every transaction, is
there a better solution?
Thanks in advance
Gary

problem with using object id fields instead of PC object references in your
object model is that it makes your object model less useful and intuitive.
Taking to the extreme (replacing all object references with their IDs) you
will end up with object like a row in JDBC dataset. Plus if you use PM per
HTTP request it will not do you any good since organization data won't be in
PM anyway so it might even be slower (no optimization such as Kodo batch
loads)
So we do not do it.
What you can do:
1. Do nothing special just use JVM level or distributed cache provided by
Kodo. You will not need to access database to get your organization data but
object creation cost in each PM is still there (do not forget this cache we
are talking about is state cache not PC object cache) - good because
transparent
2. Designate a single application wide PM for all your read-only big
things - lookup screens etc. Use PM per request for the rest. Not
transparent - affects your application design
3. If large portion of your system is read-only use is PM pooling. We did it
pretty successfully. The requirement is to be able to recognize all PCs
which are updateable and evict/makeTransient those when PM is returned to
the pool (Kodo has a nice extension in PersistenceManagerImpl for removing
all managed object of a certain class) so you do not have stale data in your
PM. You can use Apache Commons Pool to do the pooling and make sure your PM
is able to shrink. It is transparent and increase performance considerably
One approach we use
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What is the best practice when many transactions requires a persistent
object that does not change?
For example, in a ASP model supporting many organizations, organization is
required for many persistent objects in the model. I would rather look the
organization object up once and keep it around.
It is my understanding that once the persistence manager is closed the
organization can no longer be part of new transactions with other
persistence managers. Aside from looking it up for every transaction, is
there a better solution?
Thanks in advance
Gary

Auto-Anchor Controller's Best Practice

Hi All,
I got confused with this setup. I have 2 Wlc's.One is the internal controller and another one configured for the anchor controller (different subnet-DMZ zone) for guest traffic. Where do i configure DHCP assignment for this users..? Should Production controller intervine in this dhcp process or shall i direct to Anchor to take care of everything..? which is recommended ?
And also any best practice doc is available for this ..?
Please help...
thanks in advance.

Prasan,
Just keep in mind that there are best practices that are published and best practices that you learn from experience. Being a consultant, I get to implement wireless in various networks and everyone's network is quite different. Also code versions can change a best practice because of bug issues or how a standard might of changed and how that standard was implemented in code. The biggest best practice secret is really working with various client devices, scanner's, laptops, smartphones, etc., and seeing how those change because of newer models and it firmware updates. It's amazing to understand how some devices will require a few checkboxes in the WLAN to be disabled compared to others. Even with anchoring for guest and using a custom WebAuth to make sure the splash page works with various types of browsers.
What I can say is to always try the defaults if possible when you have issues and then enable things one by one.
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Multi layer table view/navigation controller hierarchy best practice

Hi,
I am new to iPad/iPhone development and wondering what the best practice for multiple layers of table views is? I understand the principle of a navigation controller providing the framework for moving up and down a list but have not yet quite got my head around if you should have one navigation controller for the whole tree or several navigation controllers.
In my app I need to have the following:
Main view -> window view showing some interactive elements (picker, buttons etc.)
Setup view -> Hierarchy managed by nav controller/table views
The setup view needs to manage the following hierarchy...
- Level A:
- Global app variables (one table view)
- Level B Items (table view showing list of items at belonging to Level B)
- Level B Item 1 (table view showing list of items at level C belonging to level B item 1)
- Level C Item 1 (table view showing list of items at level D belonging to level C item 1)
- Level D Item 1 (table view showing list of items at level E belonging to level D item 1)
- Level E item (table view for properties of item at Level E)
- Level D Item n
- Level C Item n
- Level B Item n
Each level in this has some properties and then a list of child items.
What would be the best way of structuring this? I would assume that creating a class that extends a view controller for each level is a given but what about the control of the navigation? Should this be handled by one navigation controller or one per level? I think I know the right answer but have not seen a neat way of implementing
I think I am also best off having each level in it's own xib but, once again, am not 100% sure that this is the best design pattern.
Many thanks in advance for any help/pointers!
Cheers
jez

Hi Julian,
I have struggled with the same questions you are addressing. On a previous project we tried to model based on packages, but during the course of the project we encountered some problems that grew overtime. The main problems were:
1. It is hard to enforce rules on package assignments
2. With multiple developers on the project and limited time we didn't have time to review package assignment
3. Devopelers would click away warnings that an object was already part of another project and just continue
4. After go-live the maintenance partner didn't care.
So, my experience is is that it is a nice feature, but only from a high level design point of view. In real life it will get messy and above all, it doesn't add much value to the development. On my neew assignment we are just working with packages based on functional area and that works just fine.
Roy

Best Practice for Conversion Workflow

Hello,
I'm converting video files from our "home grown" virtual media reserve to iTunes U. Some of the files are in RM format, some are already compressed .mov's (not H.264) and some I have the original DV files for.
Anyone out there have a best practice for converting these file types for posting to iTunes U? I have Final Cut Studio (Compressor), QT Pro and Squeeze available to me.
Any experience you have with this would be helpful.
Thanks,
Jeana

For converting old files to a podcast compatible video and based on the machine you have, consider elgato turbo.264. It is a fairly priced "co-processor" for video conversion. It is comprised of an application and a small USB device with a encoder chip in it. In my experience, it is the fastest way to create podcast video files. The amount of time that you will save will pay for the device quickly (about $100). Plus it does batch conversion of any video that your system currently plays through QuickTime. it has all the necessary presets and you can create your own. It has a few minor limitations such as not supporting (at this moment) enhanced podcasting features such as chapter markers and closed-captions but since you have old files for conversion, that won't matter.
For creating new content, the workflow varies a lot. Since you mention MP3s, I guess you are also interested in audio files. I would stick with GarageBand, especially if you are a beginner plus it supports enhanced podcasts.
In any case the most important goal is to have the simplest and fastest way to go from recording to publication. The less editing the better. To attain that, the best methods will require the largest investments. For example, for video production the best way is to produce the content live so when you finish recording it is only a matter of encoding and publishing. that will require the use of a video switcher that can ingest at least one video camera and a computer output to properly capture presentation material. That's the minimum. there are several devices that can do this for you. Some are disguised PCs and some connect to a PC for tapeless recording. You can check the Tricaster, which I like but wish it was a Mac and not a Windows Xp PC. Other routes may include video mixers from manufacturers like Edirol, Pansonic or Sony connected to a VTR or directly to a Mac for direct-ti-disc capture. I f you look at some of the content available in iTunes U, you will see what I explain here. This workflow requires preparation and sufficient live support but you will have your material ready for delivery almost immediately after the recorded event. No editing required. Finally, the most intensive workflow is to record everything separately and edit it later, which is extremely time consuming.

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