Angus Mackay
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Gents,
Thanks for the input. The reason that we plan to use pro-tools is simply that
A.it’s what the audio post house has.
B. I’m hopeless at sound 🙂
We may retink our strategy though.
Thanks again
Angus
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Hi Shane
Thanks for the post. Yeah, BMD = Black Magic Design. Smoke can import XML files with various forms of uncompressed media. It cuts out a re-conform, which HAS to be a good thing.
many thanks for the quality advice
Angus
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Hi Paul,
I far from being an Avid fanboy, and I’m certainly no appologist. But they have recently sold one of the biggest Unity systems in the world (apparently!!) into Beeb Scotlands much heralded new base at Pacific Quay in Glasgow.
Broadly though, I agree with you. I don’t believe customers will be willing to wear the restictive nature of avid product for much longer; certainly not in the numbers that they have been. They’re very vulnerable to a robust, professional and open PC based editor – If Autodesk hadn’t lacked the bottle and/or foresight to persevere with Edit*, they’d probably be far worse of than they are. In fact they might have been toast already.
Having said that, it’s a mugs game writing of Avid
laters
Angus
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Hey,
There’s sage advice in the two posts above, if your budget is limited. Personaly, (if you can at all afford it) I’d sugest taking a project of that scale and nature to someone who has a proper finishing editor (such as Smoke or DS). I’ve done it both ways and the difference is immense. Smoke sails through stuff like that and has a proper 3D environment for compositing, the keyers and colour correction are killer. And if the post house has a Burn module attached to their Smoke (which most should) there shouldn’t be much in the way of rendering time as it will be done remotely.
If you have the budget, that would make the next month of your life very much easier
HTH
Angus
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Hi Nic,
It’s hard to know how bad the aliasing is without seeing the actual footage.
However…….. IMHO AEs poor Anti Aliasing is probably, and inexplicably, the greatest weakness the application has. Given that PCs are now as powerfull as they are, I can’t understand why Adobe has done nothing about this. The quality difference between text elements and fine lines rendered in AE and (for example) Discreet Systems is unreal. AE seems able to render minute detail created by filters beautifully, I don’t really know why text and artwork has to be so poor.
rant over
Angus
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Hi Mike,
Have you posted that in the forums over at avid.com? I think that probably represents your best chance of a result.
sorry I can be of mre assistance
Angus
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Hi Dan,
The difference is that Nitris can handle uncompressed HD while Adrenaline can only deal with fairly heavily (but well) compressed HiDef. The tools are also substantialy different, Symphony Nitris has a deeper finishing toolset and better CC than MC on DNA. We run adrenaline at our studio and as an edit workhorse, and for light finishing work, it pretty much rocks. But we went for Smoke on Linux (against DS Nitris) for our more hardcore finishing work, I’m really glad I made that call, our customers are blown away by the speed and sophistication of the Smoke toolset.
HTH
Angus
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nope, this one 🙂
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Hi Bill,
Check out Sony’s new consumer HDV camcorder, the first of many with HDMI out. low cost, high quality mini studio output is tantalisingly close….
Angus
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Editz,
I dunno about that, but I think that Avid should become a lot more open about its solutions, otherwise BMD and AJA will rule the world shortly. Interesting to note the Both Avid and Discreet are now buying in capture solutions from AJA. I really like the idea of software MC that could be used with BMD and or AJA hardware.
If memory serves DNxHD is circa 50mbs which seems to me a smart place to be with a compressed HD codec.
Angus