Follow Up Question

[David Bogie]

THE Todd Gipstein?
From ye olde 35mm Multi Image days?
The master of the 20 second dissolve?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Todd Gipstein]

Yes, I am THE Todd Gipstein, still working with stills, and also some video. Still making multi-image shows, more or less, but doing it in Final Cut. Actually off to a festival in Italy where the show mostly good old M-I and are honoring me with two nights of my MI shows for National Geographic (where I have worked for almost 18 years).

WIth Kodak E3s, I ALWAYS knew what resolution to use. Never rendered a thing. Ane there never were manuals to read.

But seriously, even the FCP manual seems very vague on any number of things. I have been using it for 4-5 years now and get very nice looking DVDs. Still, I am not sure that I couldn’t do better.

Take a look at my website http://www.gipstein.com to see what I am up to.

And, anyway, which codec WOULD look best???

Todd

[David Bogie]

Thanks for the inspiration. I saw many of your shows at the AMI festivals.
Not sure what I can tell you if yoiu’re going to DVD for playback. That’s MPEG1 or 2. Period. If you’re just going to DVD-ROM, then it’s all up to your playback system’s ability to support the codec you render to. You can’t play lossless without some big iron (or a traveling video deck) so you must use some kind of compression. H2.264 is supposed to revolutionize the combination of superb image quality with totally scalable playback from a single QT file. It’s still voodoo till Tiger ships with QT7.

If you have the energy, you might explore the Digital Signage industry. These guys are creating high rez playback for scalable systems but it’s meaningless to me, a subtly different tech.

Nice to chat with you, Todd.

bogie

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