Dave Gorrie
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Hey Mike,
Can you give specifics for what you are trying to view? What are you outputting from and what format? We have a new 7000 series plasma we are looking to get 3D content on in the next day or so when our cables arrive.
-Dave
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Hey Robbie – I’d second building your own. That’s what I was going to do when we were going to get ultrascopes. Turnkey’s are way, way, way too expensive for the computers they offer, especially for the rack mounted systems (most I see are 2k!). You should be able to build your own for under $800 or right around there – the priciest part being the case. I think the minimum size will have to be 3RU due to the graphics card requirements/layout. The other problem with these is noise, but if you’ve got yourself a schmancy core, then you should be golden 🙂
I had never build a computer until about a year ago, kinda nerdy, pretty scary, but easy enough for most folks. And these server cases offer you enough room to figure out as you go, my HTPC on the other hand was a bad idea on a first build, but it’s still truckin today!
-D
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I’ve yet to nail down a solution to this – it seems to be more prominent in 5D footage as opposed to 7D footage. We are taking on a LOT of projects revolving around this format, and would love for some kind of fix. This seems like it’s a L&T issue really – I’ve seen it happen on P2 stuff before, but not as often as it is happening now.
Let me know if anyone has any other solutions for this.
-D
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Yeah – I know the hi-end cards don’t work so well…but the power rail wasn’t something I realized, so thanks for the tips guys! I know the gpu was the main thing dictating the functionality of the card in the end, but the processors seem to draw a grey area with the newer version of BH’s turnkey system! I figured anything they do is legit, but just hadn’t heard of that configuration before.
I can only imaging the daunting task BMD has trying to see what works, what doesn’t with what drivers…blah blah blah. It ALMOST sounds fun!
I’m just trying to get all my ducks in a row before we start buying all this equipment…mistakes at this level can start to add up, especially if we are saving up for a HDCAMSR deck 🙂 Unfortunately resellers in my town don’t have demo units set up, but I may know a guy or two that have them up in running in a post environment.
Thanks again for the insight guys – always good to know I can post on here for some good answers to questions!
-Dave
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Hmm, interesting – I checked the drive speed and it did seem a little low (we usually get around 300-400 MB/s on them) and it came out really wonky, drive started in fits and starts for some reason. Other projects seemed to be fine in ProRes. I might double check my raid cards…I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before! This is why I love the cow 🙂 Other smart folks that aren’t me!
I’ll let you know how it does,
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Yes, my bad – I really shouldn’t go around making up formats like that!
Up next, my question about that new fangled ProRes MPEG2 format 🙂
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Hey Shane – I tried that too – footage get’s very, very studdery. Even if I uncheck remove duplicate frames (then I just get a clip that’s slo-mo)…I get nothing really usable!
I figured I’d check here, you all run into this stuff more then I do! I really appreciate the insight you all offer on here!
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Ahh, thanks guys – I knew I was banging my head up against the wall for some reason!
It’s definitely the 24p in a 60i stream – I don’t know why I was thinking it was pA. I’ve tried to fix it in cinema tools, but didn’t fair so well. My reverse telecine option is greyed out…but I think that’s because it’s 59.94, not 29.97.
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I thought the same thing too, but on close inspection it’s still a step down from the 7D (and big step down from the 5D).
It uses only ONE Digic IV processor (7D uses two, 5D uses Digic II processor) – my guess is this will make a HUGE quality difference between the two. Maybe not to the average home video folks, but I think in terms of broadcast TV…it might be worth bucking up for the 7D…or better yet the 5D.
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Awesome! I have to check this out when I get a minute. What’s funny is I spent HOURS in the phone with adobe trying to find the logs with this info, and their own “employees” couldn’t figure it out!
And this is why I turn to the cow before I call ANY tech support line 🙂
Great work!