Ed Dooley
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Back when I was a kid, it was all about bells and whistles. Time moves on. 🙂
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That’s good. I nearly bought one, but held off because of the graphic card fiasco.
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One big, big, vast improvement is that it’s no longer just an O box, now it’s an I/O box. I hope they don’t drag their feet for 7-8 months or more to update compatiblity/usability whenever a new graphics card comes out though, like they did when Macbook Pros changed cards, rendering the MXO totally useless with them. It didn’t stop them from ads showing a MBP hooked up to the MXO either. (Insert grumble here)
Ed[walter biscardi] “I would definitely take the MXO 2 over anything from MOTU. It’s not the same as the Io HD, I would still take the Io HD for all the versatility, but the MXO 2 is a vast improvement over the original MXO. At least we hope it will be when its released.”
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For example, most of my clients are medium to large businesses and educational or government institutions. And because of their target audience I assume that they have broaband, and further, that broadband has increased bandwidth these days. So where I used to provide a 320×240, 15 frame, 300kbs video, I now generally compress a 480×360 or 480×270 (although that’s another subject), 700kbs, 29.97 video.
Flash looks great *if* you encode with ON2VP6, H.264 looks great (and Adobe recently included H.264 into their Flash spec, Windows Media 9 looks good. ON2 VP^ needs a recent Flash player, H.264 needs QuickTime 7 or higher, WMV9 will play on slightly older machines, but looks slightly older too. 🙂
We often provide a WMV and H.264, sometimes an ON2VP6 and one or both of the others as options.
We still don’t know what your settings are. When you say it looks horrible, we have no way of knowing why unless you tell us what you’re doing.
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Give us some more info, like, what codec are you trying? Who’s your audience, high bitrate PC or Mac users?
The best quality you’ll get easily is H.264. Viewers will need QT7 however.
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I agree that FCP doesn’t compete with hardware, but I’ve added a bunch of 720P footage to SD programs by dropping it into the SD sequence and it looks as good or better than the SD footage. Chris’ suggestion to use Compressor is better though, short of buying hardware or hiring it out.
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My favorite Hollywood book is “Hello, He Lied”
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Sounds like the makings of another stock answer. 🙂
Ed[Shane Ross] “WHich is why it is good to have LOTS of voices here to say “uh, try this!”
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Why does he need a capture card? Why can’t he drop his 720P sequence into an UC 8bit sequence, render it and send it to his Beta deck? He has an AJA IOLA.
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I agree wirh David about people saying that they tried a search, but didn’t find an answer. If someone says emergency, they seem to get their answer (but a search could have been quicker than waiting for someone to see their question). Here are some highlights of the “Do A Search” thing that I remember being a part of (they might even be entertaining):
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/975418#975521
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/947064#947130It might be more helpful if the COW posted a header in every forum suggesting first steps such as SEARCH FIRST!
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