Daniel Low
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It could be some sort of field issue – could you post a screen grab of it somewhere?
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Would you care to share with us what you did?
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Ben,
I’m sorry I got myself confused with Mojave and the real, next version of Windows . Mojave is a marketing effort by Microsoft to try and persuade people that Vista is in fact “great”, sadly from where I stand it makes these people to look like fools (I’m from the UK so stuff like this, like so many American commercials, makes me feels somewhat nauseous anyway). The people in the clips admit that they haven’t even tried Vista, they’d just heard that it was no good.
A new OS that bristles with amazing new features, top-level security and a beautiful new GUI should be a no-brainer for people looking to upgrade or buy a new computer. You shouldn’t need Smoke and Mirrors to persuade them it’s good for them.
The Mojave experiment is clearly not aimed at me and others who have tried to get on with it and make it work for them as they wanted and expected and hoped.
I do not want to use something that clearly is not ready to be used, no matter what you say, your mileage obviously varies considerably from the many other long-time Windows I know personally who have gone back to XP or who didn’t upgrade after trying it out on other machines.
Vista has earned its less than good reputation and nobody can deny that it’s been a disaster for Microsoft, why else would you need something like the Mojave Experiment?!
Who in their right mind decided that there should be several different ‘versions’ of Vista? What version of it would you recommend for us video professionals?
There is a reason why no other OS vendor confuses the consumer in such a way.
There is no other vendor that charges so much for something that didn’t deliver all it promised to.
You can build a PC for less than the cost of Ultimate!!
Why would you make DVD Video authoring only available in Home Premium and Ultimate and not any of the others!?
Why would you limit any of the Home editions to only one physical processor, all that does is to stifle progress. It’s got to be one of the most retarded limitations ever.
Why shouldn’t a ‘Home user’ have a seriously powerful machine or indeed upgrade to one – (which of course will need to be done in order to run the OS smoothly in the first place – despite all you claim!)
I’ll tell you exactly what didn’t work for me; the operating system didn’t work for me, instead it felt like it was working against me, every step of (many expletives) the way.
For example: Exactly how many times do I have to say ‘Yes I want you to do what I just told you to do”.
I kept saying to myself, “why did Microsoft try and fix what ain’t broke”.
This link will give one example of exactly what I mean:
https://spacefold.com/colin/posts/2006/08-20VistaFileReplaceDial.html
We all stick up for what is best for our interests but sometimes one has to concede. Let’s all hope that Vista SP2 brings new joy and removes some of the pain.
Right then, let’s get back on to the subject in hand….Compression Techniques: Got any new tips, ahead of your book Ben? 😉 (I’ll be first in the queue for it BTW)
DL
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Various parameters in those frame controls can be ‘turned down’ reducing the quality by a certain degree, but speeding up the process. Like anything with compression, it’s a compromise between quality and speed.
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I didn’t feel there was any need to ask any specifics. My answer was based on my real world experience. Like many I looked forward to using Vista but having done so, my experience with it can be best described as painful.
No video professional I know (and I know many) has either moved to Vista, or stayed with it for more than a few weeks before ‘upgrading’ back to XP.
Vista needs more processing power and more memory to do the same thing that XP does and at the same time it doesn’t really do anything more than XP does.It’s kind of irrelevant that Vista could potentially offer some hardware based performance improvements when other aspects of the OS affect your performance while using it. Of course many of these things can be turned off, adjusted and tweaked, but only if you know your way around, and you shouldn’t need to have to do those things.
Even your Chief Executive admits that Vista is ‘Work in progress’ and let’s not forget that it’s been on the shelves since the beginning of last year and took 5 years to get there.
I’m sure for some, Vista has proved to be a worthy upgrade, but in the company I work for, with a couple thousand employees worldwide, only a very tiny handful have Vista yet we are all using fairly up-to-date hardware on our desktops, and the very latest hardware for our heavy lifting, all running a flavour of XP (or Linux).
We’re not the only ones, sadly there are too many stories like this out there: Computerworld August 08
Sure, large organisations can be slow to move to ‘update’ like they did with Win2k to XP, but in that case there was a defined road map, it’s rare to hear of such road map for Vista
Vista’s prime-time may come; will that be before the already hyped-up ‘Mojave’ (Windows 7)? We’ll have to wait and see.
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XP Pro SP2 is probably the best version of Windows for the professional – (Home edition won’t support more than one physical processor), and it’s unlikely that you’ll ever see a better version of Windows. Ever.
All the more shocking when you consider that XP is now well over 7 years old.__________________________________________________________________
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On the PC I haven’t seen anything free (or indeed shareware) that’s anything like as easy to use as WMM.
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Windows Media Encoder $FREE
Expression Encoder $199Although EE is an excellent encoder, like WME it’s a one trick pony.
IMHO, your money would be better put towards something like Procoder from Grass Valley, which is one of those ‘Anything in, anything out’ packages.
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It’s a toss up between compressor and Episode.
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I’d say it’s easier and more intuitive.
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