Dom Silverio
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[gary adcock] “then neither is Avid”
Actually if I remember correctly, you can do Advance Pulldown on any 24p/23.976 project types with Avid Adrenaline.
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Since Meridien is the older hardware set, it has not firewire support (unless you want to pay for it) and since DV is already compressed, I would digitize it as 1:1 to prevent adding anymore compression artifacts and noise.
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The Meridien based codec (1:1, 2:1, 20:1, 14:1, 15:1s, etc) are all 4:2:2 based. Standard codecs like IMX, DV, and DV50 use their respected sampling ratio.
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White screen wit QT means the lack of proper codec or just plain codec incompatability. I would just bring it to another system with the latest QT Pro and see if it works.
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Use another system with the latest version of QuickTime Pro. Convert to Meridien codec based QT movie.
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[Oliver Peters] “Maybe you should re-read my posts. I never framed the argument in terms of price and I never mentioned functions that are really there, but needed mapping.”
Sorry-I was not refering to you but to the original poster of the criticism – Mr Raudonis.
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[Oliver Peters] “If you look at FCE versus FCP, there are differences, but at least same-named features act the same.”
Yes, I agree that buttons should behave the same way. But to frame the argument in a way that it made “thousands of dollars” of expense unjustified is disengenous at best.
The argument also ingores the fact the XPro enjoys some impressive features that are NOT in the older Meridien MCs like color correction and AVX 2.
BTW – a lot of the features named here ARE IN Xpro. Just need to map them.Also, I guess I am not really in the same industry as you since the offline/online workflow is very much alive here in NYC (be it small or large production and post facilities). Hell, many can’t even offline in DV25 mode (15:1s, 20:1 and its 24p counterparts are very popular). FCP users tend to do it in DV25 or 1:1 – then again offlining in FCP is bit more involved considering its media management and offline resolution RT support is quite lacking.
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Yes and know. Some very well known bugs have beend fixed, like slow motion, but there are still some minor and esoteric bugs in existence (like recompression with correct field arrangment) – not to mention the lack of overall robustness. Its very ‘lite’ as a mendia manager.
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I realized that AFTER I posted. No edit function… 🙁
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[Oliver Peters] “Smoke is an editor and inferno a compositor.”
It was hyperbole for effect Peters.
My point was there is always stratification in many levels with a lot of companies – be it software or hardware – UI or “features” – Apple or Avid. Picking on Avid doing it is rather silly, especially when the other company does the same thing.