Michael Slowe
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External drive not fast enough for 8Bit uncompressed??
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Yes but did the statue go up?
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I would have thought DVCAM tape would have the same life as any other tape, and a darn sight longer than DVD’s which some people find are failing in as short a time as five years. I hear of people archiving to tape with more confidence than to any other medium, including drives.
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Great history lesson, thanks! As one who joined with version 6 I have a great fondness for the brand and great respect for the tools, a fantastic editing system, geared for editing in the good old way as we did with film!
One thing the history does indicate is that fancy new names don’t mean a thing, it’s the product that counts. I really urge you NOT to be tempted (agreed Nike success is significant!) and to stick with Media 100 as a label. We are all (?) confident that Boris is now on the right track and are very relieved at that.
You will doubtless get many replies that differ but that’s the way of the world!
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Although not really under the heading of ‘Producer’ I can answer that the DVD route (as approved by Floh!) is as follows:
Export film ‘by reference’
Encode in BitVice (VBR average 7.25, two passes
Create an audio ac3 file in Compressor
Build and burn in DVD Studio Pro.This seems to give the most stable and compatible DVD’s that play on anything and with picture quality as good as I have yet seen. Mind you I am creating these DVD’s from an uncompressed HD timeline and BitVice is doing the down scaling to SD. Takes a long time (six hours for 15 minutes) but it is worth it!
This is from a system Media 100 HD 10.1.3 (I think) on a Dual Mac G5. with many TB’s external drives. I don’t know of a better way to produce DVD’s than this but am awaiting the advent of one of the HD DVD systems to emerge.
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Thanks Jerome for your interesting answer. If there is no great difference in quality between the two methods of producing DVD’s why are some of us (most?) spending time (six hours for fifteen minutes) and money (for BitVice and SP) compared to mastering straight to a set top box? Can Floh kindly comment please?
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Jerome, two questions regarding your latest post (28 Sept). Do you see a big quality difference between your direct record to a ‘set top’ DVD machine and what I would call a ‘proper’ encode, format and burn using BitVice and Studio Pro? And, do you find there are compatability issues with other players using a ‘set top’ recorder?
I found that quality is far better encoding properly and that the resultant DVD never causes problems in any player, regardless of what you do (2x, 4x, 8x forward and back, stop, start).
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Floh I am on a Mac G5 Dual. OS 10.43, QT 7.03 and Media 100 10.1.3. I am working with 8bit uncompressed HD acquired through the Convergent Design HD-Connect LE box from original HDV shot on the Sony Z1. I am hoping to go up to version 11.5 as soon as I can so hopefully a number of problems will go away but this one is a pain for colour correcting.
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Disagree with Floh here (heresy!!), quality into set top DVD recorders not brilliant anyway and through composite poor I would have thought. Why not bother to do proper encoding and formatting, it’s only time after all and the disc is much more likely to play on many more players.
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Thanks Kieran, that’s what I assume the position to be. Stand Alones may be OK for a quick fix and as someone else said, to show a preview to a client, but for a quality ‘show print’ good encoding is the only way. ‘Alright’ quality is not for me, after all we go to tremendous trouble, not to mention expense, to get good pictures in the first place, why mess it up at the most important stage! Roll on HD DVD’s when the quality should match the tape of today, (or even better?).