Bj Ahlen
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If it’s any consolation, Sony didn’t say much about this in the Vegas NLE either, and it’s had mixed video codecs on the same timeline for years: it can mix most SD & HD video formats ever conceived, and 18+ different formats on the audio tracks (including AIFF and studio formats).
Realtime performance is good for everything except MPEG (it’s not designed to be an MPEG editor, that’s for XPRI although that may be about to get its code merged with Vegas, per official Sony statement last week).
Vegas also supported 24P (including the DVX100) well before any other NLE, and it always generated effects and transitions in true 24P which some other NLEs can’t do even today.
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I agree with Bob, this is happening whether we like it or not.
The good news is that the best LCDs now are really really good, check out Sony’s Luma series for example.
Have you compared the HD CRTs at retail stores with LCD etc. monitors? They’re note even close, due to a combination of the CRT mask interfering with the picture and cheap electronics.
Even Sony’s top end consumer HD CRTs are not good enough imho.
Who really wants to schlep around a pro HD CRT monitor on location? Between the weight and the price we’re looking at a dying breed.
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If you get the right Single or Dual Opteron system, you get top performance today and can upgrade to dual core Opterons when the price comes down to earth.
“Right system” means one with a motherboard that allows you to pull out the single core CPU and insert a dual core CPU and it just works).
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As they say, anybody who remembers the 60s wasn’t actually there…. :O)
Radio Luxembourg was a big thing back then, when state-run radio all over Europe didn’t have squat for anybody below retirement age (“…that was the winner of the 1964 Schnausenhausen Accordion Festival “playing ‘A Night in Casablanca’…. Next, tomorrow’s weather followed by the staff singing “God Save The Queen” before we close down for the night at 2100h. We will resume again at 0530h with Captain Craut’s Calisthenics Program.”).
Radio Luxembourg had to broadcast in French occasionally, I think it had something to do with their license, but the rest of the time it was all the best of especially British bands. They certainly were
not broadcasting for the Duchy of Luxembourg, a country barely as big as a mid-size L.A. suburb… Man it was great!!! Even brought me on a pilgrimage to the Liverpudlian Cavern, and some smoking-hot London clubs. Carnaby Street was incredible… I have great pictures in storage from my tour back then, Instamatic 100 photos in glorious Kodacolor, some of them were actually picked up for an exhibition in the late 60s.This was also the beginning of my audio career, initially making fuzz boxes for guitarists who were looking for that powerful, ahem, smooth, sound that our parents loved so much :O)
After some years, Radio Caroline started up on a ship in international waters to do the same thing as Radio Luxembourg, but they were soon hounded out by the killjoy authorities.
And TV… If a program ended at 7:25pm, and the next program didn’t start until 7:30pm, the viewers were entertained with a simple wall clock showing the time with a slow-moving clicking second hand, an even slower minute hand, and a really really desperately slow hour hand, all the way until the very properly dressed presenter appeared at 7:30:00:00:00:00 to advise what program was up next.
Drove teens crazy for sure…
I can’t remember the song you’re looking for, was it Ogden’s Nuts or something like it?
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Lyrics from the 60s Mod Rockers band?
I grew up listening to Radio Luxembourg at night when there was some reception.
208 meters wavelength, 1442 kHz, why do we remember these things?
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Alas, the Dark Lord has met with some frustrations too…
His most accomplished Prince of the Evil Empire, Long Horn of Eternal Darkness, is suffering from stunted growth and may not reach manhood in the lifetime of the Dark Lord.
See, the Dark Lord invited the Borg to help him with the conquering of all other life forms, but the Borg turned against him and paralyzed the Evil Empire with the mighty Meeting Cannon, and the Dark Lord was unable to produce any new offspring.
But his younger son, Ayyyeeeeee, challenged the Borg, saying “No matter how much you clog my code, people will still accept me, for I am the mighty Ayyyeeeeee.”
The Borg realized that he was right. With much gnawing and gnashing of teeth, they muttered and mumbled and left for the Restaurant at the end of the Universe, where they were last seen drinking Hypergalactic Gargleblasters at an alarming pace.
But then, suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, a new flaming hero reached Maximum Probability in earth orbit. “I am the Wizard of Open Collaboration. Send your e-mail address to bja7777 at yahoo.com, and a code reference will come that may be the answer to your quest. For, to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to shoot, and a time to edit; a time to composite, and a time to post on the Mighty Board of the Great Bovine Empire; And the code reference may be such that people of all Faiths will be able to enjoy the fruits of this effort.”
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Even though I have been a very long term Mac user, for the moment I’m using only Windows systems.
No flames please, I’d go back to Macs if I could.In the webserver browser logs, I wonder if Firefox is listed as Firefox or Mozilla?
I would expect that many of the top 15 browsers are search bots…
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Just do a Google. I did this last month and found free templates.
The info is at work, so I don’t have it handy here.
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I’ve been using a Decklink Extreme card with SDI in for a long time to capture [tapeless] 10-bit uncompressed 4:2:2. I never had the slightest problem, not even once, but your capture machine performance MUST be up to minimum requirements per Decklink’s web site.
I have been using BMD’s capture utility and then editing in Vegas 5, always worked like a charm. I would expect V6 to do the same, without having to use BMD’s capture app.
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“not sure what those colons and noughts mean”
Yes, the so called “smileys” indicated I was being a bit facetious, look at them from the side.
“dismay at Vegas’ unintuitive workflow. For me a great workflow and powerful media management is far more important than lots of ghasping gimmicky gadgets and gizmos.”
Vegas workflow is different from a Moviola or Steenbeck film cutting workflow. If one expects the computer implementation of editing to be only a screen replica of how things were done before (because they HAD to be done in a certain way by physical necessity), without considering new possibilities for a more efficient workflow, then one might indeed find it unintuitive.
I can’t think of any particular “gadgets and gizmos” in Vegas, only a different paradigm that makes editing of especially complex projects with some compositing much faster.
Media management was always the weak point in Vegas, but the new Version 6 (just released) adds a comprehensive database-based media management capability.
FCP and Vegas have realtime *preview* without rendering, including of multiple tracks and some effects too. Still when making the final render it takes time (in Vegas about real time or better to render to MPEG-2 for example).
Final rendering in general is painful on Macs, because their CPUs don’t do well in this area. Many professional Mac users have bought PCs and networked them for rendering several times faster than on a Mac (and for less money too).
Another nice thing about Vegas is that it may be the most stable NLE, crashes are very rare, you may see a whole year without crashing. Try that with Avid Express or Premiere…
When it comes to workflow, I have heard many more people complain about Avid’s particular way of doing things than about Vegas ditto.