[Adam Schmidt]

In the easy setup dioluge box, there is a “show all” button that will display all presets in the computer. Turning this off will limit you to just the setups that fcp shiped with. Also in Hard Drive/Library/application suport/ final cut pro support/custom setups you will find all the custom setups. If you trash these settings, the will no longer be avalibal in the easy setups dioluge.

Adam

[Adam Schmidt]

ATA Bus:

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109:

Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109
Revision: A912
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal

[Adam Schmidt]

I have two G5 dual 2.0s, a G4 dual 1.25, and dual 800, plus both a g4 800, and 1.5ghz power books, and 4 xserves at 2.0ghz.

The momentous occasion is that this is my mac, not my businesses, and I can say that Doom 3 is the scariest thing that you can do with a super computer.

Adam

[Adam Schmidt]

QT 7 provides for 24 tracks of audio. Right now i can not record more than two, must need a driver update. Also the Qt player has a record feature that makes H.264 files in real time. The video side works with the io but not the audio, I just hest hiss on all imputs.

Adam

[Adam Schmidt]

Ok, so apple released the dual 2.7 GHZ G5 macs today, and I was first in line to buy one at the stonestown apple store. I came home and have been testing for six hours.

The set up:
G5 Dual 2.7GHZ
MAC OS 10.4.0 Tiger
512MB Ram (I have orderd 4GB)
512GB SATA internal drive (have not conected the raid yet.)
AJA io (full) Drivers 1.3.1 (I have not tested the beta control pannel yet)

Sorce Deck: Sony J-30
Formats: Dbeat and Beta SP

Captured at: D25, D50, UC8bit, and UC10bit
All 30min docs, all without drop frames, all works great.

Hopped into Ae6.5, and video out works great (boy is this mac fast, makes AE look like motion).

I don’t know what AJA thinks is wrong but everything worked.

Now onto the UC10bit stress tests. I hooked up my Medea RTRS 320 to my UL4D ATTO card.
Six UC10bit (tiled 3 top 3 bottom) Stream, no drop frame warnings.
Started to add Color corection to the clips. First two and the “Safe- High” setting was still green.
I added CC to 3 and the bar truned red. Droped down to “unlimited -high” and had an orange bar, but no drop frames.
Added 2 more CCs (up to 6 clips, 5 with cc) and 7 minutes into the program I hit my first drop frame.

DV (D25) tests: D25 playing out the io. 5 streams (tiled) three with CC, no drop frames.
And this is all on 512MB or ram.

On to more testing,
Adam

[Adam Schmidt]

OMG, the coolest thing about 10.4 is the RSS screensave. It pulls RSS feeds and posts them on a blue moing backdrop. to get the ful story, just type the number of the story. its all 3d opengl, and way too cool.

Leed story: G5 2.7
Then it hoppen to ABC news : iraq…

This mac is too cool! Installing FCP 4.5 now, I don’t know what will happen with QT7, and the old FCP.

Adam

[Adam Schmidt]

Yes, xserves make great editors. I have 4. But they are very loud, and should not be in the same room as you are. Oh, and they are long, around 29 inches. But non the less, They make great standard use macs, and with the server software you can even play with setting up your own video server.

Go for it,

Adam

(ps though, new 2.7GHZ G5s are coming out very soon… like in hours)

[Adam Schmidt]

I have not used the program that you have stated above, but I have used countless programs to try and attempt the same result, and this is what I have found.

First let me say that I have used Shake 3.0, AE 2-6.5, Fcp 1-4.5, commotion, and even hand done frame by frame stabilization. In all cases “quality” of the end result came down to two settings.

First, progressive recording of video. Interlaced artifacts destroy stabilization be maintaining the horizontal shift of the pixels without the frame actually moving. Progressive video is the way to go, and I have been able to utilize digital stabilization ever since I bought a GL1 in 1999.

And second, hight shutter rate. A shutter grater that 1/200th reduces blur that reduces the effectiveness of the stabilized footage. In other words, if the image is still, but the blur is still moving stabilization will make the audience trip out and vomit.

Something that impressed me about the software that you mention is that it works on panning shots. Most software will require separate key frames for a pan to be stabilized. The samples a impressive but also suffer from not being progressive, and are not shot at a high enough frame rate (see previous notes above).

In the end, I did buy a glidecam 2000 plus vest for all of my productions, and I have never looked back. Also optical image stabilization is the only way to go. All digital (computer or camera) stabilization reduces the resolution of the final product. Oh, and BTW, I just bought a Nikon D2x DSLR ($5,000) and a 70-200mm lens ($1500) that has optical “vr” stabilization, and I can shoot at 300mm at only 1/100 of a second, razor sharp. On a non “vr” lens I would be at 1/300 to 1/500 to shoot hand held.

Adam

[Adam Schmidt]

ilpoldo,

Stuart, in his comment before mine, was wondering if the kona 2 ran with shake 4. My kona 2 runs with shake 3 just fine, and I thought he would like to know.

no confusion here,
Adam

[Adam Schmidt]

Do you have the QT mpeg 2 extension? Also there is a free program:
https://mm2d.sourceforge.net/index.php

I would move the files to DV there and then import to fcp.

Adam