[Bj Ahlen]

[Rafael Amador] “Scroll up to see the FC I/O supported formats.
8/10b YUV and 8b RGB. Nothing new. “

Ah, good catch.

Now if someone could explain this from Apple’s ProRes White Paper:

Apple ProRes 4444 supports image sources up to 12 bits and preserves alpha sample
depths up to 16 bits.
[…]
Like Apple ProRes 4444, all Apple ProRes 422 codecs can in fact accept image samples even greater
than 10 bits…
[…]
The Apple ProRes 4444 codec losslessly encodes alpha channel values of any bit depth up
to and including 16 bits.

So in FCP, it’s up to 12 bits in and up to 10 bits out, except for the up to 16-bit alpha channel in ProRes 4444?

[Bj Ahlen]

From Apple’s FCP7 specifications:

Import OpenEXR files (float processing requires a graphics card with 128MB of VRAM; 256MB or more recommended)

Export as 16-bit or 32-bit floating-point OpenEXR format (float processing requires a graphics card with 128MB of VRAM; 256MB or more recommended)

[Bj Ahlen]

It sounds like he’s using what was once called an Avid DS Nitris, running on a Windows platform.

I think the UYVY codec he is asking for is .AVI only, and it doesn’t seem to make any sense for what’s described here.

Ask him to accept a DNxHD codec deliverable instead, then he can do whatever he wants with it, including rendering the HDV footage to 3×32-bit float OpenEXR or beyond…

You can download the DNxHD codecs for free from Avid.

Or if he “upgrades from Nitris to MC5,” he’ll also be able import ProRes Quicktime files using Apple’s free ProRes decoders for Windows.

[Bj Ahlen]

Yes, but the options to deselect the many bits can look a bit confusing.

Make sure everything is thoroughly unclicked (no checkmark) except for the content (you’ll see why I say “thoroughly” :O).

And you have to start from the install disk of course, not the content disk.

[Bj Ahlen]

Sounds like time to give this a try.

[Bj Ahlen]

Is your footage DV25 (“DV”)? If so, search this forum for this problem, which comes up every few weeks.

Make the timeline ProRes to go from 4:1:1 (4:2:0 for PAL) to 4:2:2 when rendering.

[Bj Ahlen]

[matthew bradshaw] “Client = the person whose opinion counts. I think that is the same in all languages.”

So when the client e-mails you asking for a title sequence that says CLEINT in big, bold letters at the top, you give it to them, right?

:O)

Seriously, I have always felt a need to protect clients from themselves when necessary.

Some clients overruled me, which I accepted of course.

And then I got paid to fix it afterwards, and they trusted me a bit more next time.

[Bj Ahlen]

[Eric Bowman] “So take this for example. The interviewee says the english words “naked eyes”…this apparently has no easy translation into Japanese or at least would be very odd to a Japanese person without having a definition.”

That is a special case. The Japanese like to use foreign English words because they think they sound interesting. Within a text in Kanji (the “Chinese” ideograms) and/or Kana, these should be kept in English and will be readable by educated people.

If you have to show viewers how to pronounce the foreign words, Hiragana can be used. This is a Japanese alphabet (not ideograms) that is useable for this purpose. And there are more ways…

The intended meaning of “naked eyes” may be something completely different, or it may be more of a decoration of the speech.

Like on this paper towel package that has English words added to look cool.

[Bj Ahlen]

Dell U2410 gets a good review as the successor to their 2408:

…the U2410 provided far superior quality to Dell’s previous 2408WFP out of the box

…the U2410 happily chomped its way through greyscale and colour images, showing subtle distinctions and stark contrast differences with consummate ease – doubtlessly helped by its 12-bit colour processing.

There was almost no sign of banding – the best performance we’ve seen since reviewing HP’s professional DreamColor LP2480zx, no backlight bleed (though some slight backlighting inconsistency in two corners), excellent sharpness and not a hint of the aberrations we saw across tiny fonts on previous Dells.

Anyone here using it for post?

I have to say I’d have great trepidations about buying Dell though.

Looking at some Amazon user reviews may make you want to get that FSI or DreamColor instead.

[Bj Ahlen]

[Alan Lacey] “I just couldn’t think of any other reason for Apple to make the rather strange decision to remove ExpressCard slot off the smaller MBPs
“

Yeah, perhaps someone was dropped on his head as a child.

It was a bizarre decision.