Andy Patterson
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Any 3 GHZ quad core i7 desktop CPU with a mediocre GTX 1060 will edit native 4K Red One, H.264 4K and Pro Res 4K with ease. You can apply several layers and effects with ease. You might have to drop to1/2 or 1/4 resolution to edit in real-time but it is easy to do. If you want to edit 4K Red One R3D files at full resolution the 6 core Coffee Lake and a GTX 1080 Ti might allow you to add multiple effects while still playing back at full 4K resolution. The system in the video is a mediocre 3.4 GHZ Haswell CPU with a GTX 650 Ti for the GPU. Editing native 4K is a non issues unless you want to playback at full resolution.
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I hope Jon Doughtie answered your TBC questiion.
As far as capturing VHS tapes I highly recommend you invest in an Old NTSC CRT Monitor and a Fire Wire DV converter if you are going to capture and edit a lot of VHS tapes. It is money well spent. Looking at the computer screen while capturing VHS tapes using Avid, FCPX and Premiere Pro sucks. Editing interlaced video on the computer screen would be even worse. You really need to see it on an NTSC monitor. Use a standard NTSC interlaced timeline/sequence to edit if you have a Fire Wire converter and an NTSC monitor but when uploading to the website make sure to render a progressive version. It is super easy.
[Zack Culver] “I’m planning this webshow where an old creepy ventriloquist dummy does movie reviews of old obscure VHS movies. The type of stuff that just never makes it to DVD. And when I can find stuff without any current rights holder maybe even do “hosted” movies where I show the whole thing with the review character popping in and out like Zacherle or Elvira or Joe Bob Briggs back in the day…”
Sound interesting.
[Zack Culver] “As an afterthought, since I’m trying to do this video services self business thing and I just got into collecting VHS, I figured I could offer up Home Movie transfer/restoration/editing as a service as well.”
It might be wise to get the Intensity Shuttle and a TBC as well as an iEEE Wfire Wire converter. Or you could get a VHS deck with a built in TBC.
[Zack Culver] “So I need a deeeeecent quality but I’m also crazy broke and need to be mindful of my budgets.”
An IEEE ADVC convert from ebay and NTSC CRT monitor from craigslist will be your best option. If the tapes are old you still might need the TBC but the Fire Wire converter should capture at least 80% of the videos. The Intensity Shuttle probably will not capture anymore than 20% of the video without a TBC. The Intensity Shuttle needs a strong consistent signal. Having said that if you purchase a VHS player with a built in TBC the Intensity Shuttle might be your best bet.
The Canopus ADVC 110 would be your best bet since it does not require a third party power supply. It get it’s power from the Fire Wire cable. Having said that the ADS Pyro A/V works OK but beware. Some of the listing on ebay for the Fire Wire converters do not have the power supply included. I imagine the person lost it.
I hope this helps.
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Your best bet is to get the i7 8700K Coffee Lake CPU. The K version is money well spent. The GTX 1060 GPU would be the minimum. If you can afford a GTX 1080 Ti go for it. 16 GB of RAM works OK but 32 would be much better. If the case isn’t 100% what you want you can trick it out yourself.
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[Noah Kadner] “In playing with one at a store, I think the form factor of the Surface is actually kinda compelling especially if you’re in the illustration business.”
I want to thank you for actually trying it. The Surface Studio should have been more powerful but it is the interaction with certain programs that all the hoopla is about. I like the Surface Studio but I admit as of 2017 it is to expensive for me to purchase. What will the Surface Studio 3 cost in 2020? Who knows?
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[Oliver Peters] “TW – it’s interesting that Andy posted this video, because Leo’s comments are not entirely positive towards the Studio. The response time in Photoshop in fullscreen mode is awful. And for $4K. So this is better than an iMac, how?”
For the record the top of the line Surface Studio is much more powerful than what Leo Laporte purchased. Having said that no one ever said the Surface Studio is a powerful computer. Nor did anyone say it is better than an iMac. It is the interaction when using graphic design program that is most impressive about the Surface Studio. I have mentioned this to you several times. Having said that could you please draw a few cartoons using the iMac screen and the Apple Pencil. If you cannot then I would hope you could easily see the advantage of the Surface Studio over an iMac for some users. This is not rocket science. As has been stated there will probably be a Surface Studio 2 in another 8 or 9 months with much better specs.
As of now stop looking at the specs and demonstrate how the interaction of the iMac is better than the Surface Studio when using Adobe Illustrator. That is what all the hoopla is all about. How you missed that part of the equation is beyond me.
They claim the Surface Studio was the most interesting product of 2016 but it is not the most powerful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79_6b6lqSps
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[Oliver Peters] “These are all pretty laughable statements, which you just routinely toss out so casually. To say macOS in any version was like Windows 3.1 just makes no sense.”
Mac OS six and Windows 3.1 did use a similar paradigm. Most people would agree.
[Oliver Peters] ” Why is macOS like Windows 95 in your mind? What specific details make it so in your opinion?”
The Dock functions somewhat like the Taskbar. Apple did not want to copy Windows 100% like Suse Linux, Corel Linux and all the other Linus distribution that followed from Windows 95. Many of the Linux distribution today still use the Windows 95 paradigm. Windows 7 is not a new paradigm from Windows 95 nor was OS X. Windows 7 is slightly more refined than Windows 95 but not a whole new paradigm shift.
[Oliver Peters] ” What specific details make it so in your opinion? File/folder structure? User interaction? Other? And if so, why is that wrong?”
I did not say the Windows 95 paradigm does not work. I use the Windows 95 paradigm when I use Windows 10 on my desktop but Windows 10 can also work on cell phones and tablets. OS X cannot. Apple has iOS for that.
If you can demonstrate OS X working nicely on a tablet without a keyboard and mouse connected than all my comments will be invalid. If not then Windows 8/10 was a paradigm shift.
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[Morten Ranmar] “I did watch the video and one of my friends has the Surface.”
The MS Surface is different than the Surface Studio. You wouldn’t want to stay in desktop mode when using the touch screen option with the Surface. A 28″ touch screen makes a big difference.
[Morten Ranmar] “My point was not that MacOSX works as well on a Touch Screen – it doesn’t at all, but wasn’t designed to either.”
That is my point.
[Morten Ranmar] “For what it sets out to do, and for users that are not IT experts, I think MacOS does it better than any Windows flavour.”
You would have to experience the surface studio for yourself. There are many iMac users who use the Adobe products who switched from the iPad to the Surface and now will be purchasing a Surface Studio. I bet if you tried the Surface Studio with Illustrator and Photoshop you would change your mind. It is easier to just touch multiple things at once as opposed to mousing around.
[Morten Ranmar] “When I use Windows 10, I get lost even trying to find the Control Panel, which they now try to hide.”
The Windows 10 Control Panel is not hard to find in my opinion. It was hard for me to navigate through OS X coming from Windows but I did figure it out on my own. I prefer the Windows Taskbar to the OS X Dock. The video below will show you why.
[Morten Ranmar] “The interface screams that it is in transition between ordinary interaction and Touch.”
That is actually a false statement. There is no transition. You can switch between modes. Windows 10 can use the Windows 95 paradigm just like OS X. If you have a large monitor with touch screen you can stay in desktop mode but still use the touch screen features. On a small touch screen you can use the desktop mode but the Metro Mode might be a better option. If you connect a mouse and keyboard to the Surface you can opt to use Windows 10 like Windows 95 (OS X) and use desktop program instead the the Metro mobile Apps. The iPad and iMac do not allow for such flexibility as of 2017.
[Morten Ranmar] “It is ugly, clumsy and invokes too many pop-up dialogues constantly annoying you. Just makes me want to get back on well-known Mac ; )”
Any time I copy files from my SD card to my hard drive using OS X the Mac Mini needs my password. It also makes an annoying noise. Having said that do you think it is possible I could simply touch several things very quickly and more efficiently using the Surface Studio than you could using OS X and a mouse? Could I perhaps draw things in Illustrator more efficiently using the Surface Studio and the Surface Dial than you could using OS X? If you say you can draw things using the iPad that would involve using two separate devices. Sounds kind of clumsy not to mention the fact that iOS cannot run Illustrator. That is why the Graphics artist like what they see coming from MS. OS X and iOS are both very limited and designed for a specific purpose but Windows 10 is flexible and can change depending on what device it is being used on.
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I love my Blackmagic Design Intensity Shuttle. Having said that the inexpensive $45.00 solutions might better for capturing VHS tapes. The Intensity Shuttle wants a strong broadcast quality video signal. Depending on the VHS tape quality you might need a TBC (time base corrector). Don’t get me wrong even with an inexpensive $45.00 solution you might still need a TBC depending on the tape quality and the VHS player. The Intensity Shuttle is great for playback from the Premiere Pro timeline where the $45.00 devices probably will not work with Premiere Pro. The Intensity Shuttle will also let you view your capturing process on the old NTSC SD CRT monitors if you have one. The cheap $45.00 capture devices will not. If you have a lot of tapes seeing it on the old NTSC CRT monitors is money well spent. If you are only capturing a few tapes it would not be worth the extra money unless you want to use the Intensity Shuttle for broadcast previews when using Premiere Pro. Having said that the Canopus ADVC 110 Fire Wire device will let you view the video on the old NTSC CRT monitor and will probably not need a TBC but they are discontinued. The videos below might be worth watching. For broadcast previews the Intensity Shuttle is awesome but for VHS capture not so much. The DV converter works much better for capturing VHS tapes and does allow timeline playback to NTSC monitors using Premiere Pro. I hope this helps.
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[Andrew Kimery] “[andy patterson] ” What about Lenovo, Dell, MSI, Asus and HP? ”
What about them? Are they about to launch new computers that people have been clamoring for for years?”
Everyone was comparing Apple to Apple. iMac VS Mac Pro. I think it is good to see what the competition has to offer. Is there really anything that great about the release of new Apple products? All Macs and PCs will get the same hardware.
[Andrew Kimery] ” While Dell, HP, MSI, etc., are forced to compete mainly on price because they all get their main parts and OS from the same venders Apple markets a wholistic experience that can only be provided by them. Sony tried to do something similar with it’s VIAO line but it wasn’t sustainable..”
The Sony VIAOs were just Windows PCs. Sun Micro System and SGI were more like Apple but in the end Apple and Windows PCs use the same hardware.
[Andrew Kimery] “[andy patterson] “why doesn’t the new iMac Pro keyboard come with the touch bar? ”
IIRC the touch bar is powered by an ARM CPU running iOS so putting that into a wireless keyboard probably isn’t practical at this point in time.”
I am hip to the ARM CPU. I think it is odd that Apple forces users do edit differently depending on the which compter they use. Apple must figure the touchbar is kind of gimmicky and that Apple users are not going to pay extra money for the gimmicky touchbar features.
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[Morten Ranmar] “What do you mean by a Win95 paradigm in MacOSX?”
When Windows 95 launched I think Mac OS 6 was out. Mac OS six was like Windows 3.1. Windows 95 added the Taskbar. Apple bought out NeXT and soon added the dock. The Mac OS has not changed much.
[Morten Ranmar] “I work with both Win7, Win10 and MacOS, and truly feel Windows constantly masquerades the same old UI that you never get accustomed to, while MacOS nicely powers the engine under the hood, while retaining a well known UI.”
Did you bother to watch the video or did you respond as a force of habit? When was the last time you used the Surface Studio? If your answer is never how could you make a valid comment? Having said that could you inform me how well the Mac OS X works for you on a touch screen device? Does it work at all? Does OS X still use a Windows 95 paradigm? Windows had touch screen before Windows 8 but Windows 8 allowed the user to use a mobile mode (the Metro GUI) for small touch screen devices or use a desktop mode for large 24″ touch screens and mouse and keyboard connectivity. I have OS X and I think it needs to be revamp in 2017. Windows 95 was OK 20 years ago but in world of desktops and mobile devices I want one OS that does it all not two OSs (OS X & iOS). Leo was a dedicated Apple user. He stated that using a big 28″ touch screen and the Surface Dial was a much better way to interact with the computer than using a keyboard and mouse (for some things). iJustine said the same thing. She is a dedicated Apple user.