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Bob O’brien
July 31, 2009 at 3:55 am in reply to: 1080p choking my new 8 CORE Mac Pro!!

FWIW: I shoot 1080p (HQ) on my EX3 all the time, edit on my MacBook Pro 2.0Ghz with 2 Gb RAM, playing back from a FW800 LaCie drive, and have no problems at all. When I set render settings to ProRes HQ, it understandably does cause stuttery playback, but good enough. The straight 35mbs footage, though, plays just fine.

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite
Bob O’brien
July 23, 2009 at 2:37 pm in reply to: New Final Cut 7

Did anyone else notice that the DVDSP4 icon was left out of the original posting of “The New Final Cut Studio” on apple.com? But, it’s been added now. Kind of a freudian slip if you ask me.

Bob

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite
Bob O’brien
May 29, 2009 at 4:12 pm in reply to: replacing hard drive on MBP

I just installed a 500Gb Seagate into my 2.0Ghz MBP. Make sure you have the two tools required… and then just follow the online instructions. The process was not bad at all.

Bob

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite
Bob O’brien
April 21, 2009 at 1:29 am in reply to: Will Apple step up to the plate?

Hi Mike. Hope you’re well.

The lack of Blu-ray support from Apple has been a thorn in my side too. The bright side is that, eventually, I just simply cannot see them NOT supporting it sometime… and we sure have waited for a long time. I think we’ll know soon.

Bob

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite
Bob O’brien
March 10, 2009 at 12:07 pm in reply to: How to stop video “buzzing” on moving still photos??

Jonathan,

Where is the Flicker FIlter in Motion? I cannot find it.

Thanks.

Bob
Bob O’brien
February 17, 2009 at 3:53 pm in reply to: Blurry Monitor Out – BNC, RCA, S-Video

Chris,

I think the quality of the SD video outs are so bad that I wonder why Sony even bothered to put them there.

Every now and then I have to videotape a lengthy seminar or live event for which HD is overkill. I’d like to be able to play the clips back thru the HD-SDI out… into a downconverting “box…” and capture as SD material to save time in the conversion process. I can ingest either into my laptop (thru firewire?), or into my G5 with my AJA IO. Any lower-cost, high-quality HD-SDI downconverter recommendations for this purpose? And is audio embedded in the HD-SDI signal?

In advance, thanks for taking the time to respond.

Bob O’Brien
Video Design
Bob O’brien
January 6, 2009 at 12:52 pm in reply to: Don Greening – Question for you, please

Thanks Don. That makes sense.

Thank you for sharing your expertise.

Bob
Bob O’brien
January 6, 2009 at 2:21 am in reply to: Don Greening – Question for you, please

HQ mode.

Thanks.

Bob

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite
Bob O’brien
January 3, 2009 at 7:24 pm in reply to: EX to NTSD-SD Export Confusion

Don,

I was intrigued by method 3 since it would save the extra rendering step.

-Edit in XDCAM EX 1080 60i sequence (w/render settings to ProRes HQ)… but don’t render.
-Export Self Contained file in SD Codec of choice (I chose Unc 10-bit anamorphic).

The resulting SD file looks great playing back in Compressor (properly playing back in 16:9), but in MPEG Streamclip, it is squished to 4:3.

To convert to MPEG2, my Compressor settings were 6.2Mbps 7.7 max. 2-pass 16.9 AUTO field (the orig is 60i).

The results looks awful. In both Compressor and MPEG Streamclip, the m2v file plays back stretched out in a 16:9 frame (because of the stretch, the sides are cut off… as though a normal 4:3 file were stretched to fill a 16:9 frame).

So, I tried the same Compressor settings except with with a 4:3 aspect.

The results were a properly centercut 4:3 image.

Clearly, I’m doing something wrong. How can I use your workflow it get a 16.9 anamorphic MPEG2 file?

Thanks for your response in advance.

Bob
Bob O’brien
December 11, 2008 at 2:25 pm in reply to: NTSC and PAL on same SxS card

Thanks guys. Excellent points from both of you.

Have a great day.

Bob

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