Devin Crane
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They support SDI we use it all the time and have had no problems. AJA, Blackmagic do not make any of the HD-SDI Vertical Ancillary data area other than that part which contains the active video available through a software API. It’s really in AJA or Decklinks court.
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What are you gaining though if you are going to recompress it in 8 bit DVCPro HD again after you compressed it in Pro Rez? Is it really that big of a difference? Yes the graphics will look nicer in Pro Res but what about after compress it again in DVCPro HD?
If this was HDV I can see the point of it, but working in DVCPro HD thats a different story.
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Pro Rez is great but if you are capturing in DVCPro HD and Delivering in DVCPro HD you might as well stay in DVCPro HD you will not gain a thing going over to Pro Res other than render times and a little loss since you are having to do extra compressions. If you capture a native format and deliver on a native format better to stay that route you won’t gain a thing.
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I don’t think they are selling out to Grass at all they make too much money coming out with new software that makes you buy new machines. I wouldn’t put it past them to at least come up with a Blu-Ray DVDSP or Phenomenon (Shake Replacement). Or maybe they are than thinned out in Software engineers that it took all of them working FC Server for them not to come out with anything new this year. We’ll see.
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Oh I wouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. With Apple making this announcement the week before NAB I wouldn’t put it past them to release something next Monday. They are showing up in Vegas next Monday, just not at NAB. I believe they are having meetings at the MGM.
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That’s something to talk about there a total rebuild. At the announcement of Leopard last year they dropped support for 64bit Carbon. I’m thinking FCP is being ported over to Cocoa. Adobe announced that Photoshop will be 64bit for Windows in CS4 but will be awhile for the MAC since they will have to report everything over to Cocoa. This maybe where Final Cut Extreme comes in who knows. Shake is supposedly going to be reported and redone, I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple makes a big announcement the day before or day of NAB even though they aren’t there.
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I don’t know if this helps or not but I’ll try. We recut all of our stuff in multicam with 20 different clips with TC from 4 cameras plus the line cut. We put all the clips into a bin then select the first 4 cameras plus the Line Cut and edit, once a clip from a camera is finished we just grab the next clip from that same camera and add it to the multicam by clicking “Command and the clip and drag it over the viewer and add it to the multiclip. You can then click the old clip and pull it out of the viewer and throw it away and keep on editing without having 19 different cameras.
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What graphic card do you have?
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I have 2 different IP addresses in my office so it works out great having 2 different cards. You can however get an aggregated switch and combine the 2 ports together have have a virtual 2 Gigabit connection. We don’t have a need for it yet but should here in the next year or so when we go HD.
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Have you ever compared the 2? I haven’t but have compared IMX against Uncompressed 8 and 10bit and couldn’t see a difference on the scope or to the naked eye on Broadcast Monitors.
Digibeta is good but is an older tech than IMX. IMX is MPeg 2, better formulated than Digibeta which is an older technology that uses DCT the same formula for DV but higher bandwidth. Head to head 8bit Uncompressed vs 8bit IMX we could not tell the difference from the naked eye or even on the scope. The great thing about IMX is that you can edit natively without having to uncompress and recompress again and save a bunch of space on our hard drives.
Also I’ve heard that Digibeta Decks require a lot of maintenance, we have over 3000 hours on our Deck and have had no problems with very little dropouts. Sony is still selling the Digibeta Decks but if you notice they aren’t marketing them anymore. I know people swear by 10bit but who broadcasts in 10bit? What DVD player uses 10bit? What internet codec is in 10bit?