Ed Dooley
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And speculation on other lists say that it eventually mean up to 500 FCP seats.
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Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. I agree with what Kevin said. I never scan bigger than needed and everything scanned
goes through the Photoshop wringer before it goes into FCP. My scanning at 300DPI suggestion was to have the one master he may get
from his client, that he can optimize for many uses in Photoshop.
Ed[Chris Poisson] “Ed,
In my experience, and detailed in Kevin’s answer in the other thread, size of the images matters a lot. Awful artifacts and flickering can be aggrivated by oversized images, as a rule of thumb I never make them any larger (at 72 dpi) than they absolutely have to be. Usuall no bigger that 1440 wide.” -
We scan our own stuff, so setting a standard size hasn’t been much of a concern to us. But one thing we always
do is scan at 300dpi. Video, of course, doesn’t work with DPI, but with PPI. Having a scan at 300DPI gives us
the option of using it for cover or advertising art, so scan once, use many ways. As for the size, it’s hard to say.
It really depends on how much panning and zooming you (and Ken Burns) are doing. I like to move around in
a still whenever possible, but sometimes it’s only a slight push and pan to match the movement of the previous
or next video clip, or simply to make it interesting. Other times there is so much information in the image that you may want to push into
a face from a crowd. If you only get one shot at scanning, I’d make it 720×3 by 547 (or 540 for DV)x3 for the square to non-square
translation.
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*Down* in Saskatchewan? How far up there *are* you? Far enough North to eat raven or magpie? 🙂
BTW, I’m the one who called Harley a Canuck. We Vermonters always call our Quebec neighbors Canucks (in the most
friendly way, of course).
Ed[David Battistella] “Hope nobody thinks I was being harsh here. I was just acknowledging a fellow Canadian, from down in SASK KATCH EW AN.
hee hee
🙂
David
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That’s funny Tony, from reading the posts, no one (except Bob and you, of course, maybe not even Bob), would know that was what you were
referring to. My vote goes to saving the Canuck from eating infested birds. 🙂
My 2 cents on SATA (or my sense on SATA2): I’ve always built my own SCSI and ATA arrays, so the best thing, in my view, happening with SATA2 is
port-multiplication. I know LaCie is doing it, I can’t wait for the single-cable solution for us do-it-yourselfers.
Ed[tony salgado] “I use the same technique you mentioned to identify individuals drives as well as my raid. However what Bob Zelin and I were referring to is when one or more of the raid drives are down and you have not identified or marked the drives in advance.
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I have Event 20/20 BAS speakers that are great (but way out of your price range).
The Event Tuned Series would be in the ballpark for you and are also very good.
You can get the TR5 for $300 a pair and the TR6 for $400, both are bi-amped.
If you’re looking for passive speakers, the 20/20 and others in their line come that way too.
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Insert editing?
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NTSC DV *is* 4:1:1, but PAL DV is 4:2:0
Ed[Danrnw] “The difference however, between 4:2:2 processing
(which is used with 8 and 10 bit uncompressed cards) and 4:1:1 is large.
DV is 4:1:1. There you have half the chroma
information to work with and it really shows when
doing colored text and graphics.
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Since Rob at Barefeats said he had beta drivers for his test, I’m hoping the released version
fixes the throughput problem with dual drives (if it can be fixed). I’m waiting to see the next
results.
Ed