Bret Williams
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Most the fx on the matrox are supported in real time, out the firewire, with simply the computer processor now. This has been for about 2.5 years. That’s why matrox stopped development.
For a second monitor, most the stock cards in a G4 and all the cards for a G5 support 2 monitors.
All the cards you’re probably looking at that you don’t think have the feature set are enormously better than the matrox. They operate in component and sdi, instead of svideo. They support uncompressed video instead of DV. They are scaleable to the processor as to how powerful they are, instead of locked into a particular feature set.
If you’re only looking to do analog to DV with real time effects, your money would best be spent on upgrading your computer. A new or used G5 will render enormously faster, and will support all the real time effects the matrox does (much more actually) and the effects will be sent out firewire to your deck and therefore to your monitor.
Your G4 is still worth 4 or 5 hundred bucks. Ebay it, and put that money toward a new or used G5. I assume you must have a camera or deck and drives since you’re already operating, so the new cpu is all you need. It will cost you about the same as a new card. But with the new aja or decklink cards you’re going to need new drives since they operate uncompressed. You may want to go there later, but you’ll need a G5 to really get the most out of them as well.
Step one. Get a dual G5.
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Simply because the Canvas window is now larger. The capture window is either 50% or 100%. Depending on the size of your canvas window. The actual size. Not the % listed in the window. For example, if you have your canvas window filling the screen, but are viewing material at 50%, then the capture window will be at 100%.
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You might go buy the book appropriately titled “Photoshop for nonlinear editors”
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The first thing I do with a system is make sure that everything is checked. It’s a good feature and all that you can choose what level gets rendered, but it should default to all checked.
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It’s the size of your canvas window I believe.
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The point was for cross platform compatibility, not for the ideal situation. Of course the right codec would be the best solution. However if someone was hiring me to make an animation, I’d create an uncompressed or animation codec version and a version in their codec from the uncompressed version. I’d want to give them the highest quality. They might online somewhere else in Digibeta vs. DV etc.
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The first thing After Effects does to every single file it processes is load it into RAM as uncompressed RGB for compositing. Everything AE does is in the uncompressed RGB color space. All elements are uprezzed and processed as RGB, rendered, and then converted to your codec of choice. aSo it doesn’t make a differece. If it goes to AE, even if it gets rendered out as a YUV format, there can possibly be a color shift.
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A couple things. Double clicking on a folder in 5 doesn’t open up the sequences inside. Can’t speak for other versions.
If you want to add a new sequence to a folder without dragging or opening the folder, simply right click on the folder and choose create new sequence.
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I used to do stuff like that on the old machines and it was like “ok, so this is an 18 hour render. Want to come by and check it out next Thursday?”
3 hours sounds pretty quick to me.
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There are presets in compressor. Beyond that I’d jump over to the DVD SP forum.