Christopher Wright
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Actually, no, I think they will make the 64 bit version more than a point upgrade. That way they can charge for it. I hope you are right, but we’ll see what really happens.
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Hopefully this means that the 64 bit Vegas 9 Pro release is right around the corner!!
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I may just do that!
I will try the Prores route, and then if the difference is worse, I’ll just rip the VOB files from the other DVD.Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
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Rafael,
I guess my main question is which codec works best for the highest res encoding of HDV to standard DVD. I read all the past postings on the subject, and at times you suggest going the Uncompressed SD route, at times the ProRes route, and I even saw (other peoples’)posts suggesting using the DVCPRO50 SD route. I have seen both referenced and self-contained QT methods mentioned, and encoding from within FCP (using Quicktime conversion), or going to Compressor with your self-contained or reference QT movie. Have you seen any big differences going with one method or the other?? I am also wondering if anyone has tried rendering/transcoding the HDV project to either uncompressed HD or DVCPROHD and had a successful transcode from those formats in Compressor and therefore a better looking final SD DVD? That is my real question. I never work in HDV myself, and am just finishing up someone’s two year old project that has gone through several editors and organizational nightmares that I inherited and am finally down to the mastering step! I am really spoiled by having a component DVD recorder that takes the Kona LH signal and downconverts it in real time to a stunning letterboxed DVD. The problem is of course the client wants a DVD with motion menus etc, so I am stuck with this DVDSTPRO encoding conundrum.
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I am having this same issue for a client who brought in a final HDV FCP project for me to tweak in FCP and Compressor for their DVD master. Using the HDV self-contained QT directly in compressor yields absolutely horrendous results, even at highest quality. I actually asked in the Kona forum if anyone has had success rendering to DVCPROHD, Prores or uncompressed HD/SD with acceptable results and haven’t had a response yet. If I output and downconvert the HDV project via AJA LH component directly, it looks absolutely awesome, but of course the stand alone recorder doesn’t allow for menu and chapter customization like DVDSTPRO does. So unless someone else has done this successfully with high quality compression results versus the mangled mess Compressor does with HDV footage, I may just have to get back with you with the best method after several days of testing.
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Well, there is animation (2d, motion graphics) and ANIMATION (Pixar, major VFX work for film studios). For the one you can charge an hourly rate more like NLE editing fees, for the other $1k/second is still the norm. Set your prices accordingly.
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Jason has got my vote!
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Hey Lavinia!
I live in Santa Fe,only 60 miles from the U.S.’s only Albuquerque! Nice to know you both, (and hear the history behind the name!)
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Yes and it works so well!!
You go to the old .mac link which now brings up mobile me, except there is no link on the page to get to the mail program. I finally do a search on the Apple website and get the link to try to sign in to the new mail program. It asks for the log in and password I have had for the past 4 years, and then doesn’t accept them. You use the “Lost password” option and it says it will send an email (to the account you can’t access) to reset your password. It then locks out your account due to too many tries…
Apple truly sucks…Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
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Yes their obsession with consumerism is grinding Apple to a halt.
.mac has been broken for two days as well.
And now a new itunes software upgrade just arrived.
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