Dennis Lisonbee
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[Tom Wolsky] “Can you get it onto a disc or any sort that will play on a set-top player?
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Not yet. Desktop only. I suspect that Apple will be offering Blue Ray DVD in G5’s in the next 6 months. Perhaps less. There is a battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD and standards. Typical technology war stuff. However the pictures are so stunning that everyone with a HD TV at home is going to want this new technology. I also suspect that they would like to have something out for the consumer by Christmas this year. The technology is all there, just typical standards issues. (Now I will need to buy new DVD’s.)If someone knows more than this, I hope that they might give us a post here.
I had two Blu-Ray beta units from Sony. A SCSI and a Firewire unit. I was able to get them to play out DVCPRO HD 720 24p in realtime. I also authored an interactive DVCPRO HD 720 24p test presentation using Livestage Pro. It was very impressive. Unfortunately, I had to send the units back.
Look at this link https://www.blu-ray.com/
Dennis Lisonbee
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If you have Tiger, the new player will be installed via “software update” Yes, you can edit HDV, export to h264 and author in DVD Studio 4, format and play on your mac using Version 4.6 DVD player in Tiger. I did it and it is a beautiful thing. The feature is worth the price of the upgrade to FCP Suite alone! Go to the DVD Studio Pro list for more info.
Dennis Lisonbee
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It appears to me you can render to DVD-HD compatable files (H264) from your HDV timeline. There is also a MPEG HD coded in compressor that I suspect has something to do with all this. I don’t have any HDV footage, but I just did it from a 720 24p HD timeline. DVD Studio Pro will author the H264 file created in compressor to an interactive DVD-HD project that will run on your Mac with Tiger and the new DVD player upgrade that came today. It’s too late for me to author it tonight, but tommorow I will be doing some testing and will post the results. Since the Blue-Ray burner is not on the market yet it will have to play on your computer.
Dennis Lisonbee
PS This new FCP Suite is the greatest buy I seen in years in this business. So much stuff it takes hours to install. (Yikes, a system crash would take forever to re-install.)
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Oh Yea, it is very sloooooo. A three minute DVCPRO HD 720p 24fps said it would take three hours. I left and came back in three hours and it was done. It could have actually taken much less time. Remember, there is a lot of number crunching going on here. I output to 1240 by 720 @ 24 fps. It’s worth the time as it looks very good. This will be a great way to have clients look at portions of HD projects. I will have the clips on a server tomorrow.
Dennis Lisonbee
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AMEN to that! FCP Media Manager works, but you have to do a dance on the full moon.
Media 100 also had great bins, where one organize great looking clip icons in useable sizes and no unusable “negative” space. This is one place the bin hold over from Premiere just does not make it.
Dennis Lisonbee
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A few years ago FCP was playing a catch-up game with Avid. After this NAB the tables have turned and Avid is now playing the catch-up game. Why Apple is historically the R&D king of computer technology and they put their R&D money where their mouth is. That is why they passed AVID and that is why AVID is having a lot of high level meetings this week.
Sooo, if you are making money at your craft, then the cost of a new Apple system is simply pocket change.
Dennis Lisonbee
PS FCP and AVID were side by side at NAB. AVID did not have to clean their carpets this year while Apple had to replace their carpets every night because of the high traffic wore them out.
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I teach at a college. We require all our students to have firewire drives. For classes doing video production they must be formatted HFS+. All the PC labs have Mac Drive. The biggest problem is students forcing the firewire connections and shorting out the motherboards or their firewire bridges.
FAT 32 does not work well. Sometimes is works and sometimes it corrupts files. Then there is the file size issue. I realize that many people posting here have no problems with FAT 32 across platforms, but I have 1,000 students using their drives daily across platforms and THERE IS A PROBLEM using FAT 32. File corruption does happen! NTFS does not work.
I use DATA VIZ on my business PC. MAC DRIVE also works.
That’s my 2 cents.
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I teach at a college. We require all our students to have firewire drives. For classes doing video production they must be formatted HFS+. All the PC labs have Mac Drive. The biggest problem is students forcing the firewire connections and shorting out the motherboards or their firewire bridges.
FAT 32 does not work well. Sometimes is works and sometimes it corrupts files. Then there is the file size issue. I realize that many people posting here have no problems with FAT 32 across platforms, but I have 1,000 students using their drives daily across platforms and THERE IS A PROBLEM using FAT 32. File corruption does happen! NTFS does not work.
I use DATA VIZ on my business PC. MAC DRIVE also works.
That’s my 2 cents.