[Bob O’brien]

There is a multi-pin connector on the side that connects to an Express34 card. This adapter comes with the MXO2.

Only problem I see is with connecting it to the MacBook Pro I will no longer be able to use my eSATA drives which also hook up thru the Express34 card slot. Also, you hook up the monitor via an HDMI connection. This box has no DVI port on it. A mistake in my opinion, albeit still a cool box. An HDMI to DVI adapter would be necessary to connect it to a cinema display I guess.

Bob O’Brien

*DualG5, 2gHz, w/5.1.4 firmware
*2.5 Mb RAM, 160 Mb SATA HD
*UL4D w/1.4.0f1 flash and 3.0.0 driver *HMV800 DualMax RAID0 Revision 511
*AJA IO w/20-21 firmware & v1.1r1 driver
*OSX10.3.2, QT 6.5, FCP 4.1.1, Livetype 1.1.1, Soundtrack 1.1, DVD

[Bob O’brien]

Good point. Thanks for your input Matte.

[Bob O’brien]

Thank you for your responses!

The director has not requested to be able to see the talent. One thing I am considering though is if my location has a broadband connection, I might use the iSight on my MacBook Pro through Skype to offer that. Seems like this might work for a down-N-dirty “phone patch” as well, no?

Bob

[Bob O’brien]

That’s what I figured.

Thanks Don.

[Bob O’brien]

The footage is progressive. My problem with adding 3:2 pulldown is that this footage must be intercut with aleady existing NTSC footage shot at 29.97fps.

Thanks Uli.

Bob

[Bob O’brien]

Good point.

Thanks.

Bob

[Bob O’brien]

Thanks for responding, Dave.

Yes, I’m watching on a Sony broadcast monitor.

I guess my thought was that I should use Cinema Tools to convert from 25fps to 23.98fps. Then, use that file with the Nattress filter to go to NTSC. I wasn’t sure if that would improve the quality when going to 29.97fps. (Isn’t that the way to go with 3:2 pulldown – even though 3:2 pulldown is not an issue here?).

Since posting, I tried it and really can’t tell if one if better than the other. Overall, the resulting video is pretty good. I just wanted to make sure there was nothing else I could do to improve on it.

Thanks.

Bob

[Bob O’brien]

Seems like whenever I output from Juicer in 8bit, I still have to render in FCP AND I lose the alpha channel. Like Walter, I just use the Juicer as a very good auditioning tool.

Bob

[Bob O’brien]

For what it’s worth… I have totally noticed this same problem with italics. The angled lines are very jaggy. I’m working with 8bit uncompressed typically. My guess is that it has nothing to do with trashing preferences – it’s just bad with italics.

Bob

[Bob O’brien]

Yes. I created a new sequence and copied a 95% speed clip into it. Once again, it plays back fine in “Preview” (green) mode, but when I export it as a self-contained clip or render it, the blurriness happens.

I have tried best Normal and Best video processing settings with the same results.

Bob