[Ed Dooley]

You had glaciers? Lucky. When *I* was a kid, we didn’t have……
Ed

BTW Gabriel, it’s confusing when you say have 10g RAM and an Octo, but your tag says FCP5 on a dual 2g w/4.5g RAM. Sync ’em up man! 🙂
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

No pictures of the 700 yet, but here’s the JVC press release:
https://pro.jvc.com/pro/pr/2009/releases/solid_state_release.html

Ed

[Ed Dooley]

And there’ll be a bigger, shoulder mount version (in April I think), the 700. No info on that one though.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

This should tell you all you need to know:

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/apps/flv_bitrate_calculator/video_sizes.html

[Ed Dooley]

Not necessarily true. Yes you’ll lose the resolution if you use the simple de-interlace filter in FCP (and many other programs). If, however, you use Frame Controls in Compressor (do a search of this forum and you’ll find lots of instructions), you do not lose res, the fields get blended. There are 3rd party products that do the same thing (Nattress has one).
Having said all that, I wouldn’t deinterlace unless you need to (like for the web for example), the program’s going out to TV? Leave it interlaced.
Ed

[David Roth Weiss] “It would be worth doing only of you wish to sacrifice 50% of the vertical resolution of your video.”

[Ed Dooley]

Extra USB on the left, but no USB on the right (where I plug in my mouse). It looks like DVD slot and laptop lock slot only. No matte (anti-glare option, but I’ll wait to see what that looks like). No quad-core. Acer (I think it’s Acer) is already offering a quad core laptop. Up to 8G RAM, but they put 2- 2 gig sticks in, what a shame to have to get rid of 2gig chips to upgrade without paying Apple’s exorbitant prices.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

LOL! Hacking takes on a whole new meaning!
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Ummmm, time to go to de-caf David. 🙂
Ed

[David Roth Weiss] “[Ed Dooley] “Someone hacked into MacRumorsLive site while the presentation was going. They inserted stuff like:
9:23 Showing iWork ’09
9:24 Steve Jobs died

They shut down the site till the show was over. ”

Wouldn’t it really be cool if they tracked down that hacker and publicly eviscerated him/her live on the Internet?”

[Ed Dooley]

Up to 8 gigs of RAM in the new MBP, up to 2.93 processor, 1920×1200 screen res, with an $50 anti-glare option.
Someone hacked into MacRumorsLive site while the presentation was going. They inserted stuff like:
9:23 Showing iWork ’09
9:24 Steve Jobs died

They shut down the site till the show was over.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN TESTY??!!?? 🙂
It may be time for you to relook at the optimal bitrate for DSL viewers.
It’s come a long way in data-rate over the last few years. Even in my rural area, the local DSL service is in the 6MBit range these days. I’ve been looking at the lowest data rate to be around 700kbs to accommodate everyone and have had no issues with viewers. I use both VP6 and H.264, and they both look very good (I’m still using VP6 for Flash video, although I’ll be going exclusively to H.264 in the near future), adding another 200kbs to your 512kbs can really enhance the quality.
Ed

[Stan Hirson] “Interesting, although testy, thread. I have some questions.

On a Mac, I use FlixPro to make .swf files at 512 kbs. Most of my site visitors are on DSL and that bitrate seems optimum. I make my own .swf files with a player skin and use vPIP to embed the videos because, for one reason, it is easy to use when there are multiple videos on one page.

You can see an example on:
https://www.pineplainsviews.com/video-stories/54-dairyfarm

I’ve wondered about H.264 and fooled around with some files but I have not been able to get the bitrate down to 512 kbs at the same quality as the VP6 files. I don’t understand the work-flow at all in terms of embedding multiple videos on one page as in the example. The vPIP embed has been working very well.

Am I missing something? I am really curious to try H.264.”