Aristides Tiropolis
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[Philippe Gariepy] “what is the craze about wanting to shoot 24p instead of 30p or 29,97? “
24p Comes from the world of cinema so it has been associated with achieving the oh so desired “film look”. This has also led to this being used as a marketing/selling button from prosumer cameras to DVD players, Plasma/LCD screens and so on. Many people don’t seem to understand the technology too well and seem shocked when they see a strobe effect in a fast pan…
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Yeah, I would follow up on the case, but it didn’t seem to worth the effort or the time…
EFI-X is probably a rip off the OSX86 community, this however has not been officially been proven since the module’s content is encrypted. It did at the time seem to have its merits. Sadly the company seemed to operate (and still does) under shady business practices, not to mention a hilariously megalomaniac company director (or whatever his official position is) .
The module still works and the machine has been upgraded to the latest version of SL and Final Cut Studio 3 with the Blackmagic working better than ever. However I strongly suggest people to steer away from it. I feel safe in being able to maintain the machine by myself, with free solutions like chameleon if the module breaks.
I recently set up another machine (i7 with Gigabyte EX58 UD5) only by using Chameleon related material and DSDT’s. These machines are great but they’re not Mac Pro’s. If you treat them that way they definitely pay off. Also it is illegal in the U.S and in maybe other countries as well (not in mine) to break the terms of the eula. Even when using an original copy of Mac OS X. So it is what it is… -
Not the best thing ever, but here goes:
Do your edit in an adobe preset. You do not need the broadcast monitor for your edit. When finished and for color correction, checking legality (you need the scopes too) or for scene discussion and inspection you can always copy everything in a blackmagic sequence.
It could be a little difficult for BM to bypass the fact that Mercury acceleration happens in the graphics card. So if outputting from the BM Card I guess something’s gotta give. On the other hand it is not clear to me if Mercury acceleration happens as process giving back an accelerated timeline for “everyone” in the system to use, or if it is something meant only for the graphic’s card output. Maybe the BM team can shed some light as to how the API works, or if there is an API to tap into anyway.
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Actually a single socket 4 Core 2.6Ghz or more Nehalem kicks all the dual socket pre nehalem XEON’s, I’ve actually tested this my self with apps like FCP, Color, Shake, AE and even with tools like Geekbench 64…
The reasons:
Faster architecture
Onboard memory controller(no latency)
DDR3 1066Another reason to stick with Nehalems:
You have a better upgrade path for the Gulftown nehalems which will fit and work just fine in the same socket…So in the future when the 6cores are cheaper you can slip one of these and get 2 more cores…
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The Windows world is as proprietary as the Mac OSX world. Their point is simple: They cannot control security though group polices in Active directory (which means you can do whatever you want in your machine), or deploy updates, in a centralized manner. They only thing they can do is provide exchange support which has been recently supported in Snow Leopard.
They have a point in terms of upgrading the system because hardware choices are quite more limited (which is probably for the best) and probably more expensive so they might see it as a pain in the ass..
This is more of a clash of culture and control than anything else substantial and I don’t think the IT department should be in a state of having to be persuaded by anobody for the simple reason that media and video choices isn’t their kind of field… -
My mistake, for 720p it should be 960×720, I confused it with the sensor information for the HVX/HPX500…
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The DVCPRO-HD Codec spec for 1280×720 is actually 960×540. For 1080 it is 1280×1080(60Hz) and 1440×1080(50Hz)
So it sounds right…
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You can never go wrong with ProRes, I believe this should be your best choice…
Cheers.
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I agree with Mark, although myself a tapeless-flash card aficionado, sometimes and and in some situations the need to transfer material constantly, backup, burn copies (e.g on Blu-ray or DVD9),or use hard disk enclosures on the self so that it doesn’t get lost is too much. Tape does have its advantages…Let’s not forget, LTO is tape too and it’s being used for data archiving everywhere…
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The gulftown (nehalem) series is already out. Benchmarks show an incredible performance boost (lots of L2 Cache and 2 more processors help) Apple will definetely release this to the Mac Pro. Although at a probably steep price, the i7 desktop equivalent is at about 1000$ so we’ll see how will that translate to the XEON series (the only difference is ECC and multisocket support)If money isn’t the issue I would strongly suggest to wait.