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Using OnLocation
Yesterday I installed OnLocation CS4 on my Toshiba laptop, and connected my Sony Z1 to it.
Image quality was reasonably good, and I liked the adjustments you can do to the image using pro procedures, like blue screen.
What I didn’t like was the jumpy movement. It reminded me of old-days low resolution web camera streams, like Skype or Yahoo Messenger, where fps seemed to be a few frames per second.
What is that related to? Memory capacity? Graphic board or graphic driver setup?
Interface was firewire, so that shouldn’t be an issue.
What can I do to improve on that?
The laptop is a Toshiba A215 type, with dual core cpu and 2Gb memory.
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Hi Carlos,
What OnLocation has to do in realtime to show that HDV footage is very intense processing wise.
Remember that HDV does not contain full frames, only changed pixels from the previous frame, so OnLocation has to recreate these in realtime, in addition to possibly record to a drive, etc.
On i7 laptop maybe be able to do better, but HDV is really tough in that domain.
Your best option would be to go to a better format such as DVC PROHD, and possibly newer hardware.
Vince Becquiot
Indigo Live
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Moving to another camera or video system, even I’d wish to, is not an option.
So I need to maked it work… or not.
What I could find out until now is that OL 5 there is an HDV option on the drop-down menu. On my OL4 there’s no even an HDV option to record, which would be m2t or mpeg.
My main reason for OL was to have monitor and wfm on the same screen.
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