Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Thank you so much for your reply, Luke! There’s a MBP here for a Decklink product 🙂
All the best!Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Two things I don’t understand: 1) The (rough) irony and 2) the not needed defense of Decklink and Grant, for whom I have complete gratitude. I mean, my whole post can be read as an energic request for a company I love. You are defending but nobody is attacking! I was more like saying to a friend: “come on”!
You have a situation where customers are asking, and the technology is there, so being Decklink such geniuses with innovation and non walked paths, I believed 1+1=2. Again, the irony (near agression) is really not needed. And neither is defending people I like and admire so much.
All this for Bob, who (while in a bit rude way), has his points. The other comment is plain silly. What’s your point, Paul? The Kona SD was in a not distant past attached to 800 Mhz G4s with dead slow, plain PCI and you ridiculize the idea of connecting a Decklink to a Dual Core, Vector accelerated 2 Ghz computer with a portable PCI Express bus?Interesting note for your bad irony pleasure: The kind of H.264 video the iPod plays would have caused a 800 Mhz G4 (the one with the Kona SD) a hard time, but an iPod plays it wihout coughing nowadays. Keep laughing at that.
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Not really, IMO. But they are all excellent and complement each other very well.
Why “not really”? Because sometimes the sum of the parts is not the same as the result. For example, Motion has wonderful text and particle animation and Shake has wonderful compositing and some 3D capabilities. However, having particles and text animation on an application that also does 3D is… After Effects (Not even Combustion combines all these in such a way).Shake is an amazing compositing application. It does hard things look easy in that field. But for motion graphics… it makes easy things look hard 🙂
This may change now that Apple announced that Shake is dead and they’re working on a next generation product. Probably something that mixes Motion and Shake’s strengths? That really would be a weapon 🙂
However, my opinion is: if you really love visual expression, having a machine loaded with Motion AND Shake AND After Effects is a dream come true. After Effects will be universal sooner or later, and it runs quite decently on Rosetta. So I wouldn’t base my workflow on the universal thing alone. I myself jump between Motion and After Effects all the time for professional motion graphics. Bear in mind that you can now import Motion projects into After Effects and have the best of both.
Hope this helps.Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Hello, Walter.
It’s not a third party product, it seems. It’s an OEM chipset thing, something other manufactuers will present as their product. It happens all the time. They are not making it for consumers…. so they are making it for people just like AJA or Decklink 🙂 If AJA or Decklink write additional software and add a little BOB or something like that, it becomes their product.They claim it will be compatible with FCP with the OEM drivers. As far as I’m concerned, I would then only need a Quicktime V-Out component, so it works with Motion, After Effects, Photoshop, etc. And the analog BOB. Oh, and someone who sells the product to consumers 🙂
Two years ago what you suggested wasn’t really possible because the slots didn’t have the bandwidth. At least for HD. Now it’s PCI Express on a laptop, which is the main subject of this thread. The question was how do you fit an uncompressed card in a laptop. This is how.
Interesting times, aren’t they?
All the best
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[Bob Zelin] “If you can tell me how to get ANY card inside a laptop, I will tell you how to get your Kona LHe to work on the MAC Book Pro”
Bob: One of the worst things that can happen to any of us in a web forum is being sarcasting and being wrong at the same time 🙂 I tell you because it has happened to me many times.
So, to answer your question, here it is: The MacBook Pro has an ExpressCard slot. You know what that is? No less and no more than a small form, full PCI Express slot with 1.5 Gbps bandwidth.
So, while the Kona won’t fit that slot, it’s not only doable: better than that, it’s being done.
An OEM developer is about to bring to market this ExpressCard that fits into the MBP and allows SD, SD-SDI, HD and HD-SDI in a laptop:
https://www.vydeo.com/products/EC34.htmlIf AJA and/or Decklink are blind enough to not buy it, add software and a small BOB for analog that’s another subject. There’s an obvious market for this. I for sure would buy one the day it comes out. I monitor their forums everyday to see if they annouce such a product, and I can’t believe they haven’t so far.
What was your question about fitting a card into a laptop? 🙂
Just kidding
All the best!Adolfo Rozenfeld
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All right! All right! I get it 🙂
I have to turn off the AE police mode!Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Technically, DV will always have nominal fields.
But you can totally have animation that updates 23.98/25/29.97 times per second instead of 50/59.98, with DV or any similar format. That’s what the render fields setting is about. In other words, the interlaced nature of the format doesn’t prevent you from rendering animation that essentially has a progressive time base. So much so, that when people want to render interlaced graphics from 3D applications, it’s common to do it at 50 or 59.98 fps and then interpret the footage as 25 or 29.97 fps with fields.Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Have you tried turning off field rendering? (View pull-down menu, on the upper right corner of the main window).
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[paul] ” You are right Le Coyote about combustion they are the best however for quick access to media for simple fixing this might be the way to go.”
Saying that Combustion is better overall than After Effects is as arbitrary as saying the opposite. They’re like two big boxers exchanging really powerful blows. The last two versions of Combustion, for example, were mostly about adding things that AE has had for years: like expressions and material options. In the same way, the last versions of After Effects really improved on the compositing side, like the motion tracker, which is now more or less on par with Combustion’s.
There’s this false notion among some Combustion fans: they want to believe it is a desktop version of Flame.
The truth is Combustion comes from a lo-end product Discreet bought years ago called “Illuminaire”, later morphed into “*effect” and *paint”. There are only a few tools coming in a direct way from Flame, like the Keyer (mind you, not the current keying technology in Flame).Returning to the original question, CHV software has a Motion tracking package for FCP. It’s called the CHV Tracking collection. I have no idea how good it is. But since is written in FXscript, I doubt it’s nearly as efficient as the specialized solutions.
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Hello, Walter.
I’m afriad Motion is not much better suited for paint and motion tracking. In fact, it’s not suited at all: those two are notorious omissions in its’ feature set. Paint means having proper brushes, not vector shapes or something like that. We all hope that it’s going to get them at some point, along with some form 3D space features.After Effects has really good paint -a subset of Photoshop brushes, in motion- and motion tracking (the later used to be quite bad, but improved a lot in both reliability and speed the last few versions).
Tom: You do get those for $1000, just not in FCP 🙂
All the best,
AdolfoAdolfo Rozenfeld
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