Christopher S. johnson
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Right Walter, that is obvious. Gee, you sound like an Apple rep today 😉 But at first, and even second glance, it looks like all of the same tools and live fonts are in Motion 2.
What can LiveType do that Motion cannot (besides those cool backgrounds)? It sounds like not much. I think I will spend more time learning Motion and put LiveType on the back burner.
-Christopher
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Cool beans!
-Christopher Johnson
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I dont think people are really hearing Jaser’s question. He’s not asking about HD monitoring via a an HD card. He’s talking about using the camera outputs for viewing a native DVCPRO HD timeline from the computer — like we do with DV firewire cameras today. Something HDV doesn’t even try to do.
I THINK I heard that was going to be the case, Jaser. But I would keep on asking the question and looking at Panasonic announcements. Its a good question to ask and, IMHO, a vastly under-discussed topic. Amazing, really. It could save a few thousand dollars for someone who wants only native DVCPRO HD and not uncompressed. It might even work with DVCPRO 50 timeline too, Let’s hope so.
-Christopher Johnson
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Hi Walter,
I just bought the “old” Dual 2 Ghz used for $1600 from an online ad. I have also heard that the two HD cards selling now need the PCI-X slot — so the older model is superior.
Did you say that this model only has ONE PCI-X slot? Is that normal? Do any of those SATA RAID cards need the PCI-X too? I thought I was getting in at ground level for a near-future HD editing work station.
-Christopher
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That is interesting news, Dave. Do you think that would even be true on a SINGLE 1Ghz G4? But you know, the G5 was a good deal for $1600 and it supports the new HD cards too. I’ll get a better graphics card later.
Still, it would have been interesting to know if that 9800 in the G4 would be transferable to the G5. Are they different versions?
-Christopher
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Thanks again guys. While it would still be helpful to know about the cross platform compatibility of the 9800 Mac Edition, I just found a Dual 2 ghz G5 with 2 gigs of RAM for $1600 on Craig’s List (yes, its the older 2 ghz). So I’m going to buy now. It looks like this has one of the minimum requirement cards for Motion, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (8X AGP). So I know it wont be spectacular performance, but at least I’m in the game.
Believe it or not, I’m most looking forward to just having nice ease-in/ease-outs on photo-moves — something Final Cut Pro is very, very poor at.
-Christopher Johnson (FCP user since 1.0)
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Right, I think I gathered that by my process last night. I guess I should be more specific and ask: will the ATI Radeon 9800 Mac Edition work in a new G5 as an acceptable 8x graphics card when I update my machine later this fall?
By the way, Apple lists a “9800 Pro” and a “9800 XT” as being compatable, but no “9800 Mac Edition”.
Thanks again guys. I’m just trying to learn the program right now, not do live graphics with Mr. Lucas over my shoulder.
– Christopher
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But you know what guys? Even with a paired Kona2 and Io La, there still isn’t a way to capture the component signal from a Sony HDV camera. Isn’t component capture to DVCPRO HD still better than a FW capture to an HDV timeline?
So that’s a lot of clams for no component HD capture from Sony HDV cameras.
Any additional thoughts?
-Christopher Johnson
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Hey guys,
You know, it has been very interesting watching this whole HVX thing unfold over the last few months. I do longer form documentary stuff, so I was one of those originally concerned and skeptical about this camera and its potential usefulness to me.
But then the info about the FireStore came out. We’re guessing around a grand, right? So $7000 for a complete kit. Well, this kind of fills in the gaps that so many have been concerned about. So, I don’t understand all of the continuing skepticism about the workflow. Its getting out of place now. If you cannot afford $7000 to shoot long form DVCPRO HD, then please move on to another format and have fun.
I dont see much room for bitching about the cost and workflow of this system now. What do you want Panasonic to do; put a $10,000 additional mechanism for recording DVCPRO HD to tape?
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be cool if some one came up with some interesting hacks, or that P2 cards came down in price, but man, its becoming like an unwarranted bitch session now.
Lets move on and talk about cool ideas for filing away client projects on the shelf and delivery methods. Or we could speculate about the lens and chip quality. Or we could talk about different ways of securing the firewire cable in the field so it doesn’t fall out. But please, I think Panasonic was/is answering the call for relatively affordable long time recording.
-Christopher Johnson
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The answer is that it is about a 99% chance that it will happen, from the evidence given so far. Even Panasonic has said they are in communication with the FireStore people about it.
-Christopher Johnson