Ed Dooley
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The system requirements are right where they should be, on the Apple site. 10.3.9 is OK
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Yes you can, *unless* you’re also using FireWire drives. The AJA doesn’t like to play with them either. It needs all the bandwidth of the FW ports.
Ed[najor] “Can I just use the existing firewire port? I would not have the DSR 45 hooked up via firewire, just the Aja.
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I wouldn’t stop shopping there based on general and vague info like you gave. Is it still under warranty? Had it been fixed under warranty, and now the warranty has run out they won’t fix it for free anymore? Did you ask for your money back and they refused? Did they say they can’t repair it because they don’t know how and give you a “good luck”? Did you ask for a replacement? Did you express your frustration to their customer service department and they blew you off?
Ed[hdfilmmaker] “I purchased the DA-MAX+, from promax. It has never worked properly. It will only play about 1 min. of footage before the viewer in “Log/cature” locks up. Two firewire ports did not work on the thing. The guy who built the thing for them doesn’t even work there anymore and they can’t repair it. based on this track record….. I would not buy anything from them that “they had manufactured”…..
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I don’t think Century makes an anamorphic adapter for the DVX-100A. I think Panny’s the only choice.
Stretching 4:3 to 16:9 horizontally only makes all your skinny on-camera friends fat; stretching vertically too just loses resolution.
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Should you switch to 16:9 in the middle of a project? It depends on what the project is. A number of documentaries use footage from many sources, some 4:3, some 16:9. It usually works fine.
I think the anamorphic adapter looks better than squeeze mode, and I use one. But they’re not without their problems. The alignment can be knocked out fairly easily in a run and gun situation, and the little adjustment screw is very easily stripped.
And good luck stretching 4:3 to 16:9.
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Barefeats.com usually shows test results on empty drives and at 90% full. There are some test results there that show the empty, 60%, and 80% full performance (a 5 drive internal G5 array, for example). The performance dropped a lot at 80%.
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It’s not the player that needs to be multi-region, it’s the DVD. In DVD Studio Pro 3, for example, the default setting for Region Code is *all*.
For a PAL player and TV, that means the DVD will work, at least for most players, and for all newer PAL TVs. Now if he was simply sending an NTSC DVD of a movie he bought somewhere, it *would* have a single region code most likely, but this is the DVD Authoring Forum, so I assume he’s asking about authoring an NTSC DVD that he wants to play in PAL land.
Ed[daniel_l] “Ed,
I’m from the UK and the legal standpoint here is that no manufacturer can supply a “DVD” player as multi-region. That is because the DVD specification requires regional coding on all players and recorders – any player not conforming to this specification cannot be called a “DVD” player.
It requires that the supplier or the end user perform a multi region hack.
You have obviously been lucky with your customers, from my experience most domestic DVD players are not enabled.
I used to make a living from doing standards conversion (NTSC->PAL) for DVD.
Regards
DL”
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Daniel,
Not quite sure what your point is from the links you posted. The question isn’t “can a UK player play a region 1 DVD without a hack?”
It’s “will my NTSC DVD play on a PAL machine?” The answer is yes, on most machines and TVs. We send NTSC DVDs to Europe all the time and they play on every machine tried. Make sure to set the Region codes in your authoring program to play everywhere though.
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The 2 flavors of HDV, when compressed to tape are the same as DV as far as bandwidth, 19 and 25, depending on the flavor.
Ed[Robin] “Thanks Ed that’s all really useful. I guess that there’s not too much about HDV yet, which is the real thing that I wanted technical specs for, it’s a newish format I guess.
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The performance of SATA is better than FW and is probably the price/performance king right now. SATA II is here, with most drive companies having a SATA II version of their fastest SATA drives. The only sticking point with SATA II at the moment, if I understand it correctly, is that current SATA II host adapters only support one port per card on Macs, so you’ll still only get SATA I performance. It’s still faster than FW, but needs an as yet to be produced *real* SATA II card.
Ed