[Alex Alexzander]

Digital Media Training also has a good DVD-ROM based Trainer by Steve Bayes.

https://www.digitalmediatraining.com/products/xpresspro/index.html

-Alex

[Alex Alexzander]

Is this the educational license or the license for commercial use?

-Alex

[Alex Alexzander]

If the project started as DV 4:1:1 and you digitize at 1:1 it doesn’t have more detail. However, when you do add effects that require rendering you would be uncompressing the DV 25 into 1:1 and then re-compressing it back to DV25 if you did not ingest it as 1:1. The benefit of digitizing 1:1 is that the footage isn’t recompressed every time you add an effect to it.

My opinion, digitize at 1:1, even for DV 25 if possible given your system storage capabilities.

[Alex Alexzander]

A double layer DVD+R DL disc is typically only 2.4x these days, else the disc will fail the write. My own recorder is rated for 4x, but in reality, 2.4x is best for now with this media type.

Single layer media, can be burned reasonably safely at 8x, but many of the DVD media is rated up to 16x.

If you first place the media in the DVD, and then select the burn option, it will have a chance to check the media, and determine what speeds it should offer. with 8x media in the drive, it will offer the burn speeds of 8x, 4x, and 2x, or auto for example. Likewise for other media if that media, and the recording device both support that function.

[Alex Alexzander]

I’d be interested.

Could you show the front? How much, as I don’t see it on the site.

alex.alexzander@yahoo.com

[Alex Alexzander]

You could Make Offline, and re-capture in SD, then encode, or if possible, export as a native m2t file, then change the file type from ,2t to mpg and then open that in Sorenson Suite, and compress to MPEG2 standard for SD.

-Alex

[Alex Alexzander]

Sorenson Suite 4.5 offers HD MPEG2 encoding. You could duplicate exactly your current conditions. Not sure about the MPEG1, but I’d use H.264 instead of MPEG1 for HD on the web anyway.

HTH

Alex Alexzander

[Alex Alexzander]

You would be better off going from Avid to Sorenson for MPEG2 encoding, or some other encoder, and then taking those encoded files to Encore.

-Alex Alexzander

[Alex Alexzander]

Xpress Pro doesn’t actually support the ATi cards. You should be using a Quadro FX card.

* NVIDIA QuadroFX 3500 PCI Express
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 3450 PCI Express
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 3400 PCI Express
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 1500 PCI Express
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 1400 PCI Express
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 1300 PCI Express
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 560 PCI Express
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 550 PCI Express
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 3000 AGP 8X
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 1100 AGP 8X
* NVIDIA QuadroFX 500 AGP 8X

For notebooks, the following:

* NVIDIA QuadroFX 1500M
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M
* NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400
* ATI Mobility FireGL V5200*
* ATI Mobility Fire GL V5000*
* ATI Mobility Radeon X600*

A couple laptop ATI cards show certification, but virtually everyone I know that has used ATi cards has simply just removed them and replaced them with a certified Quadro FX card.

You could try using Legacy Overlay mode, but that might not work for you. You will also lose features when you use this mode. You could try it and see what you think. When launching the application, hold down the “L” and “O” keys until you see the first prompt. Then open the console and type: legacyoverlay on

Again, this might not help you,. and you may even have to turn off OpenGL 3D functions. That’s holding down “O” and “G” and then using the console again and typing: disable3d

Just buy a Quadro FX 1500 or a 3450 and be done with it.

Lastly, as Bob suggested, you want to at least try to follow the HP as a guideline. I’ve built machines that run Avid perfectly, and I get to support myself, rather than depend on someone else to do it. I understand why you would want to do it yourself. Truly I do. But if you do choose to do this on your own, you should have gathered more information about what is certified before spending your money.

All specialized application will have a system requirement that needs to be followed. This is true of editing software, 3D software, music composition, and compositing software. Always always read their system requirements. Follow them all the way down to the IRQ and driver level.

Here is Avid’s for Xpress Pro:

https://avid.com/products/xpresspro/specs.asp

Good luck,

Alex

[Alex Alexzander]

Bob, I know you know this. You just forgot to mention that with Media Composer, you are not limited to just HDV. Any tapeless format can be ingested, and any FireWire based format can be ingested. So besides HDV, you can ingest DVCPro 100 HD, as well as XDCAM, and P2.

With the Mojo SDI, you can of course do all the SD resolutions via analog and SDI. All you are giving up is uncompressed HD, and real-time DNxHD transocding. You also wouldn’t have an HD-SDI output or input. You could however, use a 2nd or 3rd monitor to watch HD in full res via a DVI port of the video card for preview. The Mojo will allow you to preview realtime down-converted HD to an SD monitor.

So you really have to ask yourself exactly what camera and format you actually plan to use. XDCAM or P2 is no problem at all. DVCPro 100 and lower, also not a problem. Media Composer with Mojo SDI is a pretty good setup.