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Sheer Video
Hi,
I have ben working with this codec and it is a really nice product. The picture quality is pristine and I love that it only uses half the space of uncompressed video. I do not think that FCP has RT enabled this codec, but they might with enough user response (not that FCP really cares about the PRO market 🙂
So this is my request, just copy paste it into your FCP feedback form. Imagine doubling the HD space for all of those HD projects that need double the space after rendereing the color correction.
“Could your RT enable Sheer video’s codec so that users will have the option to save disk space with uncompressed SD and HD video. This would get users who frequently use Uncompressed 10bit codecs, get more out of their harddrive space. This is a big advantage because virtually everything gets rendered (particularily in HD) and we could use the extra space.”
I suggest you give this codec a try if you use Uncompressed codecs a lot. I hope that AJA listens to this as well.
David
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6 Replies
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I tried that along time along when I first used the Sheer codec.
I doubt Apple will ever do anything considering they have their own uncompressed 8 and 10 bit codecs that they would rather push.
Tony Salgado
Tony Salgado
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I think that it does nothing but help Apple by offering great alternatives to some bundled codecs inthe software package. RT enabled, the sheer codecs would be a great time and space saver. They are really well engineered.
I know that, as users, talking to Apple seems like a few Rams on a mountain side, but we have to try when good things are avaialbe.
Thanks,
David
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Hi David,
On the BitJazz web site they mention it is possible to do 10 bit HD uncompressed on a single firewire 800 drive. Can you confirm this? Are you using SheerVideo as a capture codec?
Thanks,
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Over a single FireWire 800 “line”, not “drive”. A single drive wouldn’t be fast enough.
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Hi Andreas,
Great work on your codec! I took a look at your PC version when it was in Beta but this would be my first look at the Mac version.Would two Firewire 800 drives striped on that same bus be enough or would you need to have a seperate bus?
One the PC side do you think two striped SATA drives would be enough for 10 bit uncompressed? Since the Machina app is going to be available I am now quite interested in setting up another capture station and I think your codec raises some interesting possibilities.
Thanks again,
Gary -
FireWire 800 is supposed to be able to deliver a sustained throughput of 85 MB/s, and reportedly does so on many PCs. However, Mac G5 users have reported hitting ceilings of around 50 MB/s for writing and 70 MB/s for reading, whether using the built-in FireWire 800 port or a PCI card, even for RAID 0. However, I’ve read a couple reports of getting over 100 MB/s on a RAID 0 array in which one disk uses the built-in FireWire 800 port and the other uses an add-on FireWire 800 port, even with several other devices chained onto each of those FireWire channels (https://www.it-enquirer.com/main/ite/more/firewire_800_power_mac_g5/).
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