Bj Ahlen
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I’ve been doing this since nearly a year, with a DL Extreme. Never a glitch.
My secret? I followed the system requirements on the Decklink web site to the letter.
Do you have a good RAID? Fast enough CPU? Motherboard without bottlenecks? Etc., etc.?
If you follow their specs, it will work perfectly.
If you’re shooting heavily compressed video, you could get away with less of course.
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Thanks, I’ll give it a whirl then.
Smoothness is under-appreciated in these types of effects it seems, maybe it’s just “sloppy math” in some of the other plugins.
I remember in the golden era of very expensive scientific desktop calculators, when companies were mostly battling over who had the most digits in the display. Only a few of them cared about the accuracy of the calculations though, and with limited chip horsepower this wasn’t always so easy.
Two companies found an attractive published algorithm for a particular widely used mathematical function, that was fast and accurate for all input values except for “0”.
Based on this, one company gave up and used a less accurate algorithm that didn’t have a problem with any input value.
The other company used the smart algorithm, except when the input value was “0”, in which case it looked up the hardcoded value and displayed this. :O)
It gave them quite a good reputation, and nobody ever figured out how they did it.
(I worked for that company but had nothing to do with their calculators, only heard it over a beer with one of the developers.)
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It will see the Nero codec, but you can’t use AAC for the audio which is odd.
Recode 2 has H.264 right now, and the Nero Express is going to get it also.
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If you want significantly better H.264 encoding, try Nero 6 Ultra Edition.
Just remember that older Macs and older PCs won’t be able to play back H.264, it takes CPU horsepower to decode. New graphics cards that can decode this onboard are on the way though.
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As a workaround, you could try the freeware DVD2AVI tool at https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=55 and see what the footage looks like in AVI (probably good), then convert that to MPEG4 in Nero.
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Yikes! It’s easier to do that in AE, and even easier in Combustion which has a better tracker.
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No reason why they wouldn’t work with the current 64/32-bit chips from AMD and intel.
Win 64 is not supported yet though. From BMD’s web site:
Supported: Microsoft Windows XP
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…and in Europe even the top Japanese brands offer region-free players since years…
I’m intimately familiar with the reasons for doing regions in the first place (I have been on both sides business-wise), but I think this is a concept that is rapidly becoming obsolete.
The idea used to be that it was necessary to have an exclusive territory for each distributor. The distributor would pay a lot of cash upfront, handle translation for dubbing or subtitles, commit to high sales targets, etc.
Today people see prices in other countries, and they think “why should I wait 6-12 months to pay $40 for a localized version of a film on DVD, when I can buy it with an English soundtrack immmediately for $15, with delivery in a few days via air mail?”
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[Bob Zelin] “Please tell me WHAT CONSUMER CRT MONITORS are out there – what brand are they? And are they truly HD ?”
There are at least 4 brands in stores right now: Philips, RCA and another brand I don’t remember, these cost about $800 currently. They all accept HD 720p and 1080i signals and display them to the best of their ability (which is not that great because of the CRT mask). There are also several Sony HD CRTs at far higher prices, these are significantly better.
It doesn’t have to be 1920x1080p to be HD. The most common definition (in the U.S.) of what is HD today is in the ATSC standard, which apecifies 17 HD formats.
A lot of people today think 1920×1080 is the only HD format. They’ll have a hard time finding any kind of display with native resolution for this, and neither the Panny Varicam or Sony HDCAM qualify.
Today we have to live with various shortcuts.
As soon as native 1920×1080 cameras and displays become widely available, you can be sure that there will immediately be people saying that anything less than 4K shouldn’t be called HD…
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It sounds like you’re looking for the Rosendahl Bonsai, which records uncompressed 4:2:2 PAL or NTSC via component video or SDI to a small 12V-powered box. 10 uncompressed audio channels and LTC timecode too.
See https://www.fullcompass.com/Products/pages/SKU–77377/.
I’ve been waiting for this product since it was announced last summer, glad to see it is finally out.