Advice on Setting up a Project

Hi.
I am new to Project Systems.
I have a reuiqrement like the following.
We wants to setup the Projects to know the budgets of expenses(Travel, Accommodation, Entertainement etc.,) for our meetings.
We are expecting 70 to 100 Meetings a year and the total meeting costs from 10000 to 100000.
I have a basic in this scenario.
What is the best practice ?
A. Setup one project and setup a new WBS Structure for each new meeting ?
B. Setup new Project for each meeting i.e. 75 to 100 Projects a year.
what is the best practice around it.
PS: Our main intention to use this is we would like to know whether we have the available budget before we book the cost into SAP(Travel, Accommodation, Food, Entertainement etc.,)
Thax. for your help guys.

Sorry for the confusion.
I meant 'I would be inclined to use WBS for each meeting within a project'
Option A!
Regards
Sreenivas

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Billy Corgan wrote:
> I intend to get my own DAW/general purpose computer
> in the next few months and was hoping to run my plan
> by y'all for advice.
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installations and antivirus software should generally not be installed
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officing computer, and such machines are not costly on the second hand
market.
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> a normal computer.
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Audio use and making it a multibooter. It however my experience that a
multibooter always ends up being booted in the wrong OS ..... O;-)
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on a daw because you need to avoid that the graphics cards bus bandwidth
requirements obstruct other, more vital chores. Less fast cards that do
not require a fan allows for a more quiet system.
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> maybe upgrading to dual monitors later.
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23", and it may be of more use, everybody is on some kind of a budget,
and you also need to have money over for audio hardware. Good mics and
good mic pre's do more for the quality of your sound than a larger
screen.
> I am running a HD tv card which needs some good headroom when
> recording.
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chasing specs rather than as being aware of just what specs you actually
need.
> I only play far cry and need for speed when it comes to games etc
> so won't have a million games installed.
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avoid having too many games installed at any one time.
> I have a about 50 gig of music mp3's and wmas and general stuff,
> so need lots of storage space. I have about 10gig of AA session
> files and that will grow so im thinking 30-40 gig min.
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the 120 GB drives of today are all comfortably fast. You should at least
have two physical drives for Audition so as to be able to avoid
simultaneous reads and writes on the same drive, three physical drives
are imo preferable.
> For recording/mixing, i have usually 10 trax minimum with lots
> of real time, sometimes locked fx, i do a lot of processing/wave
> editing and can have up to 10minute tracks up to 24 etc so i need
> some juice to power it all. running xp pro sp2.
I think that your setup is one that would benefit of having three
physical drives to prevent having temp files on the drive that contains
the "static" audio files.
> can someone explain raid vs ide, im told i can raid
> 2 similiar drives, but how much better is it,
Depends, it is not faster than a single drive where it is fastest, but
raid 0 (simple stripe set) is less likely to show performance reduction
due to file fragmentation. A stripe set still counts as "one physical
drive", and if you want to have only two drives in it you are better off
not having them striped.
> and are there draw backs?
You can not remove just one harddisk and move it to another machine. If
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stripe set. The probability math is tolerable with only two disks in a
stripe set, but it takes less of an error to loose all. All things
considered you need to have a problem to solve by striping prior to
doing it, and distributing multitrack files over several physcial drives
is also a way to increase playback performance if there is a problem to
solve.
> can i raid 2 x 15000 rpm drives together(2 x 20 or 2 x 40 gig)
> as my dedicated AA session files space or is that just overkill,
That would be a silly set up, three 5400 or 7200 rpm 120 GB drives is a
possibly less costly way to get same or better performance, assuming
wise deployment. You will always end up having some copying of files
from one physical drive to another, and consequently it is very wise to
have identical drives so that the faster need not wait for the slower.
> I plan to have maybe 2 x 250 gig 7200 or 10 000 drives raided
> as a dedicated digital vcr for HD tv recording,
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project backup instead.
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GB unformatted is not unreasonable.
> Any ideas for best way to configure this stuff? minimum I'm
> thinking is sep small sys drive, sep AA drive/raided or not,
> sep bigass drive for TV recording, and sep general storage
> drive so thats minimum 4 or more.
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> sort super silent DO THESE EXIST YET IF SO PLEASE TELL ME
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> im told the 14k rpm drives need a scsi
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servers and terminal servers.
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recording the number of pixels that is possible with a good DAW.
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multitrack audio recording simultanously on the machine that records the
video in case "both combined" is the productivity quest. Just one reason
for not thinking that hdtv is very important on the machine is that it
is not very likely that you actually record hdtv with a camera.
> wondering bout the new audigy 2 zn platinum pro thing
In the audio context that is relevant here something Midiman is "more
like it" - example product, not the only possible choice. See also
http://www.pcavtech.com, Arny Krügers very interesting web site and a
good place to start learning more about sound cards. A budget card that
it appears will meet your demands is the Midiman 1010LT or similar model
from other manufacturer.
Kind regards
Peter Larsen
* My site is at: http://www.muyiovatki.dk *

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AaronMcCollough wrote:
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I'm also wondering about a partition for the software that originally came bundled with the iBook and iLife 06? If I ever had to do an erase and install, I would really want to have this. Hopefully I won't--now that there is actually data on the iBook other than the address book and bookmarks, I am beginning to realize why it's only something to do as a last resort. But I would feel better if I had the option far from home. But if it makes no sense to install these on the external drive, would it be possible to burn a DVD of them on the MBP instead of all those CD's?
Also, how do the partitions show up in Disk Utility? Do you give the partitions names? I really don't have a very good idea how all of this works. As I understand it, I have to partition using the Apple Partition Map and I have to get it right the first time, as you can't change the partitions later without having to erase everything.
Oh yes, I did order the power supply for the drive--thanks to reading about that in another post.
Really, I have been trying to research all this, but so often I don't really understand everything I read. I very much appreciate both of you taking the time to help me with this project.
Many thanks!

How should I set up a project for .mpg files?

I recently got a panasonic waterproof video camera. when all is said and done, I end up with .mpg files. I brought them into premiere pro CS4 and started up a project using the avchd 720p 30fps preset. I used this preset, because it was my best guess, but when I play a clip in the timeline it shows up as a smaller picture than the monitor frame. after that I click on the preview and resize it to fit the monitor. then I bring the sequence into another project which is avchd 1080i 60 and again I have to resize the video. surely there is a better way!
by the way, the original clip shows up as 704 x480.
all advice is more than welcome. I'm sure I'm doing this absolutely wrong.

Try creating a Sequence (prior to CS4, you had to do this at the Project level) for the 704x480 with the appropriate frame rate, and see how that goes. You can do this as a Desktop Sequence to allow you to set the frame size.
Ideally, your Project/Sequence settings should match your Assets exactly. You can then Export to whatever is required.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Hello... hoping for some advice/suggestion and direction.
I am a bit green and get confused when it comes to setting up a "secure' network so I am not exactly sure how to go about getting what I want, with security in mind, or if I can even achieve it the way I have in mind.
Here is what I want to achieve:
A static IP coming into my office to feed 3 separate networks.
I do computer repair and I basically want to have a completely separate network for customer computers and I currently have a wifi spot at the coffee shop next door. On my private network I will have a server and multiple computers, etc., as well as remotely accessible security cameras.
So, how to achieve this? My thoughts were to have the internet connection come into a managed switch which will feed 3 separate routers.
I do Not have a static IP at the moment and I do Not have my server set up yet. I just have internet coming into Router 1, which feeds a switch and Router 2, and Router 3
What I don't know anything about is the managed switch. I do not know if I can configure it for a static IP or if I even have to configure it for a static IP?
I have a static IP at my residence so I know how to configure a router to work there, but the switch here is throwing me for a loop.
Thanks
(Sorry if this post goes up twice... the first one seems to have just disappeared on me so I modified it and reposted.)

there is no big problem with the main house, but the shop and guest house being 300 feet away is a problem, first its past the manium distance for a cable run for eathernet which is a max of 100 meters,
if there was a way you could have a switch located in between the 3 locations, that would work great.
or you could aet up a point to point wireless connection with outside antennas to over come the distance. this would probly be the best method to look at.

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I would like to maintain HD quality through the Export process to create a file that will be played on a Western Digital TV HD Media Player. I have tried a multiple of export settings without success. My goal is to play back using the WD TV player with the file stored on a USB drive...file size is not an issue.
I capture the HDV footage from a Canon HV30 camcorder into PremProCS3
I use the Project Settings preset = HDV, HDV 1080i30 (60i)
I have stabbed around with Export, Movie... as well as with the Adobe Media Encoder and can't find the magic
When I capture/edit in iMovie09 on a MacBookPro, I can easily export to a .m4v which plays back in great HD quality on my 46" TV via the WD TV player. But I can't seem to find the right preset or custom setting within Premiere Pro to get the job done. I greatly prefer the PP editing environment and want to stick with it.
The attached jpg file is a scan from the WD TV User Manual...supported video formats.
Thanks, in advance.
- Mike -
HP Desktop E6750 Core 2 Duo, 2 Gb, dual internal SATA drives, GeForce 8500GT, 30" LCD monitor, Vista Home Premium, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3

Hey, I'm glad I found you guys. This problem has been messing up my workflow for over a year. Maybe you can help:
I'm shooting HDV with Sony HD1000, capturing with HDV split, editing in Premiere. (So far, so good) Problem is, exporting from premiere (HDV 60i project) produces "squashed" and letter-boxed video, and my graphics and titles are "mis-aligned" with the video. It's like premiere scales down my video files, letter-boxes them, but leaves graphics untouched, which of course throws everything off. My only work around is to edit in an NTSC project, and scale down every single video clip myself, which yields lots of rendering. I thought I solved the problem, by importing the entire premiere project into after effects. Export worked great, no loss of quality, but after effects doesn't recognize premiere time-remapping, titles or wipe transitions (and has issues with .m2t audio)!
I've tried every form of exporting from an hdv project (adobe media encoder, straight to encore). ALWAYS squashes and letter-boxes the video files, while leaving the graphics/titles as is (now appearing larger than they did in the program monitor and less crisp.)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I love premiere for standard dv, I just can't get around this obstacle with HDV...

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