Compressed High Quality capture – why Mac only?

[Mark Palmos]

[Igor] “Buy a cheapest BMD board that works for your workflow and put it in some Xeon machine and give it a try in uncompressed. For a start there is no need for raid.”

Hi Igor,

Thanks for the tips…
Do you mean you can do HD off a single drive?

Mark.

[Igor Babic]

SD only. I have Extreme board so don’t now for HD.

[Mactrix]

“Even pay extra for a codec.”

Why not pay a little extra for a Mac? ;-))

[Mark Palmos]

[mactrix] “Why not pay a little extra for a Mac? ;-))”

Hello,

For a number of reasons…

1/ PC’s are faster
2/ I dont like steve jobs and wouldnt want to support him
3/ I already have a lot of PC software, like PP2 very much and would not want to buy more software or have to deal with PC>Mac conversion issues

I would be prepared to suffer 3/ if PP2 was written for Linux, because I am no fan of Bill Gates either.

If I could justify the cost personally, an Axio system would be first choice, but for the moment my work are moving from Discreet Edit to Axio.

Mark.

[Shane Chadder]

Hi Mark

We did the move from Edit to BlackMagic in the fall. We got a “free” SD plus card with a multibridge converter we bought and I tossed it in an old edit system in place of the Matrox LE and it works quite nicely.

We later put together some HP “clones” with HD Pro cards in 2 and another “free” card in the third. Onboard SATA raids seem to cope with most SD jobs fine. I’ve only done two HD jobs and they played fine out of 3 striped SATAs, but they were uncompressed renders from HDV sources so it wasn’t complex.

I passed on Axio in part because it meant buying a prebuilt system and I thought HP was overpriced. We are all digital in the suites so I don’t need Axios i/o abilities either.

Unless you are doing a lot of layering within Premiere BM seems to do the job quite nicely. There are a few anoying bugs but they keep the updates coming so I am hopeful they’ll get the DV situation fixed soon.

The biggest challenge is moving to Premiere from Edit and that you have to cope with whether it is BM or Axio.

Good Luck
Shane

[Mark Palmos]

[Shane Chadder] ” We are all digital in the suites so I don’t need Axios i/o abilities either.”

hi shane

yep, i guess for your situation it would make sense to spend the money you save not buying axio on a very good box or three!

for us, our source is anything from vhs and dvd or mpeg1 and jpeg stills to uncompressed, dv and betacam sp… so a varied IO is important, and since we are not in broadcast, uncompressed is “nice” but overkill.

also PP is coming along, they are not deaf over there…

catch you later
mark.