Alex Udell
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Hi…
to chime in on the whole HDV thing…
HDV in an editing expereience is not the same as HD or even DVC Pro HD if you want to work with a chaper compressed format.
HDV compression scheme is much like that of DVD…where material is stored in goups of pictures GOP instead of individual frames (like DV, HD, SD, or DVC Pro HD)….
this allows for siginificant bandwidth and storage reductions…so cost is lower, BUT…
It makes CPU’s work really, really hard…
Ironically some systems that have no problem doing real time effects with HD have a much harder time with HDV…
that’s why many systems that claim to work with HDV don’t do so natively, but rather transcode the ingested HDV stream into an intermediate frame based format…makes it it easier to chug through…
basically…you’ll start seeing those render bars pop up pretty quick using HDV with even nicely equipped machines doing software based editing…
So you may want to digitize in the DVC pro codec, if you system allows the option…
or you’ll need an external converter on the way in….AJA is a good choice here…
Yes…you can tell the diffenence at the end of the day…particularly if the stream gets crushed again by the local cable companies encoding the stream to delvier to their digital customers….(Yikes)…
but in most cases while not as good asa true HD….it still looks better than SD… 🙂
hope this helps….
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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Hi LJC…
Fancy seeing you here!
I remember you from the D-Vision Days. We actually met at an informal D-Vision UG at NAB in 97. Doubt you’ll rememebr me….but I was the guy from Florida pushing them to implement slip and slide. 🙂
Great to see you’re still rocking!
Best…
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
See My Current Reel
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Michael…
thanks for clearing that up…that’s what I thought too….but it hasn’t been clear up unitl this point.
Also…
can Xpress read the old avid formats: JFIF and AVBV media?
🙂
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
See My Current Reel
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Hey Michael…
Since H264 is part of the latest QT…couldn’t you just choose that as the codec once you said that QT was what you wanted to output?
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I would suggest keeping an Avid around…or getting at least one Avid Xpress package so you can restore your old prjects as needed…
then maybe the guys at Automatic Duck can help you translate those old dogs into something you can use in FCP….
check out: https://www.automaticduck.com/products/pifcp/
hope this helps….
Alex Udell
lead demo artist and trainer
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MPEG is amazing!!!
Alex Udell
lead demo artist and trainer
PEI Graphic Technology http://www.profileeast.com
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Yeah….
I don’t think that is the problem….
Normally when you NEST something and then use that nest in other sequences….this creates Instances of the nested source which dynamically refernce it.
That way if you edit the original, it’s updated everywhere….
I think this is what he wants to achieve…
Not sure how to tell him to do it….
Alex Udell
lead demo artist and trainer
PEI Graphic Technology http://www.profileeast.com
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Your last commment is what sticks out at me…
If you need any REAL MIDI capabilities….Pro Tools is not the answer you seek.
Logic is probably far better equipped in that realm….
I can’t speak to Logic from a DAW perspective….
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I thinbk it depends on the “level” of Avidyou are on?
Symphony has some nice relational cc to help you out…
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thx guys!
AMU