OT: A Simple Mistake We All Make?

wjsd wrote on 7/4/2009, 5:03 AM
I feel sorry for this teacher because I can't tell you how many time this has happened to me since I've started producing DVDs. Bet it's the last time she attempts to make a DVD movie for her students.

Sacramento teacher DVD

What sort of scenes have you 'accidently' included in deliveries to YOUR customers? Anything better than this?

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jetdv wrote on 7/4/2009, 5:47 AM
Can't say this has ever happened to me. In the many DVD's I've delivered, they've all had exactly what I wanted on them. If you render straight from the timeline to the MPEG2 file that goes on the DVD and the timeline only contains footage for that project, I don't see how an error of this nature can occur. Plus, if for some strange reason it DID occur, wouldn't the preview of the disc before copying catch it?
Chienworks wrote on 7/4/2009, 7:10 AM
Of course, not having anything like that on your hard drives helps a lot!

Even still, i do worry that after a 3am editing session i may have grabbed a clip from someone else's project and accidentally stuck it in the timeline. An even bigger worry is when i do an Extras directory on the DVD that i may include unwanted material. It's a two-fold problem: not only may the material be unwanted on that disc, but the owner of that material has the right to not let it be seen elsewere.

So, that's why an initial burn is previewed 100% every single time before more copies are made. There simply is no excuse for that in such projects.
musicvid10 wrote on 7/4/2009, 7:17 AM
"Of course, not having anything like that on your hard drives helps a lot!"

A wise teacher would never have school stuff and personal stuff on the same box, much less on the same drive, regardless of the content. The average bright middle school student can often hack a password in a matter of minutes, and I've seen careers compromised as a result.
Chienworks wrote on 7/4/2009, 7:20 AM
Hmmmm. It never occurred to me that she might have produced the DVD on a school computer. That would mean having the offending material also on the School PC. In my experience teachers are a heck of a lot smarter than that! I had assumed she did all the editing at home.
gpsmikey wrote on 7/4/2009, 7:31 AM
It would be interesting to know if it was a case of something she did to accidentally include that other file or if somehow a file pointer got screwed up and was pointing at the wrong file. Interesting that it "switched in mid clip". Definitely agree with the "view the first one 100%" (and I always create an ISO that I use to burn from so I know all the rest match exactly).

mikey
musicvid10 wrote on 7/4/2009, 7:47 AM
It probably was at home, and I doubt student sabotage because it was fifth grade.
The fact is that many teachers carry laptops from home to school, and often synchronize files between them, or with portable drives, etc.
Many large districts have done away with this because of the proliferation of email viruses, etc.
However, I have seen similar corruption of school web pages, graduation videos, yearbooks, daily broadcasts, all done by students and sometimes with the teacher's own (embarrassing) content. The ways they have to crack passwords should make us all never want to write a check again!