Annaël Beauchemin
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[Bob Zelin] “but the Adrenaline is discontinued, and now they call it NItris DX. It’s just an input/output box, like a fancy version of the Mojo SDI. “
Interesting… I tought that the Nitris DX was what the original Nitris was: an I/O box with additional processing units that enabled hardware real-time effects.
Are you saying that the Nitris DX is simply an I/O box with no effects processing?
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[grinner hester] “They make products for audio, products for hackin video up, products for sweet compositing, even some bells n whistles for quick and easy 3d.
but they don’t make any one product that assumes we make shows start to finish. While that use to sell two or three rooms instead of one room for em, man now it sells none for em. I’m thinking releasing a soupe to nuts solution would do well for em.”That is exactly what DS is about. One software for everything.
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I’m a bit late on this thread but i’ll chime in…
If you aren’t on a tight deadline, or working with clients directly on your shoulder and your boss understands you need some time to grasp the DS, i’ll say go for it. If you just know Xpress, maybe it’ll be a bit hard to get up to speed with DS because timeline behavior and media management is pretty different. But doing effects (especially compositing) on DS is a charm compared to Xpress/Symph/MC. I came to DS from FCP/AE/Combustion and it was easier to get comfortable on the DS than later when I learned MC. I whish my job would make me work more often on DS than I am right now…. it’s a sweet tool when you need to deliver quality products.
If you want to try DS, there is a “training” version you can download and explore at home on a PC with a decent graphics card. Unfortunately, it was recently updated and is currently unavailable, but you could email avid to get it I guess… here’s the “coming soon” link: https://aviddssupport.softimage.com/index.htm?section=documentation&page=DS_10_training.htm
DS also has a Google List my many passionate and knowledgeable DS users:
https://groups.google.com/group/DS-List/plus a wiki with many tips and tricks not in the manual:
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What disapoint me the most is the unability to output via 24p HDSDI once it’s recorded on the card. That was the feature I expected of this firmware.
What’s great is that the feature will be on the next firmware due in November. But how much more firmware updates are we going to go through before getting a fully working camera?
We live in a strange world….
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Can’t you just link the DVD to a .html page on which all the pdfs are linked?
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This is great news! Thanks!
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I work with footage mainly shot with the EX1 and I do see what you are talking about. But I thought it had to do with the CMOS chip, not the Long GOP MPEG2. Along the same lines with the problem it has with photo flashes.
The problem not only on the resulting pictures, but when shooting… if you put Peaking on to get you focus right, it’s pretty hard to see the peaking edges when the subject is moving because of the blur. My thinking was that it’s a CMOS effect since the LCD is probably shoing the raw (uncompressed) output of the CMOS.
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yes, just go to your Settings -> Composer -> FF/REW, check “Ignore track selectors” and have a nice day 😉
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there is something wrong somewhere. Your videcard should come up. Have you tried reinstalling everything?
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one last thing to check before buying an approved system…
in the Settings -> Video Display
is “OpenGL Hadrware” set to “Quadro FX 3500” or “Software OpenGL”? It should be set to the video card, not software.