[Ed Dooley]

Great info Craig, thanks! In talking about encoders to he pick a favorite?
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

And get a new employer :-), the directional blur worked, and yet “it’s not an option for my employer”, hmm.
Ed

[Brecht Wouters] “I get a real nasty flicker. I’ve tried lots of things to make it go smooth like:
– putting on a gaussian blur (which made it worse)
– putting on a directional blur (which worked, but it’s not an option for my employer)”

[Ed Dooley]

Right, the regular MXO is output only, duh!
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Uh, yeah, AJA IOLA, and all the other AJA cards that support Component (or even S-Video and Composite if you needed to go there). Blackmagic Design cards, Matrox products like the MXO and MXO2 (and probably a bunch of Matrox products I don’t know about), and on and on.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I own a JVC HD-110 and I’ve been interested in the 700. I like the SxS card and FCP compatability too. Having said that, the 110 has 1/3″ CCDs and terrible low light performance and too much noise with gain. Oh, I love the shoulder mount too. The EX3 has 1/2 CMOS chips for better low light, but not a shoulder camera. Still pondering.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Oh boy, here we go, more specs! I think freesat is using it in the UK too.
I only know of Dish Network using it in the U.S., but there may be more.
It’s the DVB-S2 specification that’s allowed it.
Ed

[Simon Weaver] ”
‘No broadcaster has ever asked me for an H.264 file.’

Sky News in the UK just asked me for one…

The learning never ends…”

[Ed Dooley]

Does that mean we’ll get the H.264 gamma shift problems faster than ever? 🙂
Ed

[Gary Bettan] “Matrox has just announced a new product CompressHD that provides massive H.264 acceleration with excellent quality for just $495. It’s a PCIe card that works along with any exisitng I/O hardware. So now Mac users can easily and efficiently export H.264 files for blu-ray, flash, iPod etc.

CompressHD starts shipping in May. At that time Matrox will also be offering their full line of MXO2 products with a MAX option. For $400 more the CompressHD chips and technology are integrated into the MXO2 box. Now you can get H.264 encoding acceleration in the field with laptops as well!”

[Ed Dooley]

Our regional broadcasters and CATV stations using servers like the VMX server, use Program Streams, and they range from 7-9Mbits for MPEG-2 to a ridiculously low 2.5Mbit for MP4. We don’t do as much broadcast work with regular broadcasters who use Transport Streams.
Ed

[Parke Gregg] “[Ed Dooley] But for lots of us, MPEG-2 (as Program streams in my case) are broadcasters’ preferred format

I forgot about this despite my plea with regional broadcasters to go tapeless… If they do accept files, in our experience, they’ve always wanted to do the Mpeg-2 encoding themselves, and for national spots, we’ve sent it via DG/FastChannel. Do your broadcasters ask for Program streams? If so, what kind of specs do they provide and what tools do you use to make it? Just curious ’cause I’d like to be prepared if I get the same request. –Thanks–“

[Ed Dooley]

But don’t do it twice, you only need one update. 🙂
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

But for lots of us, MPEG-2 (as Program streams in my case)are broadcasters’ preferred format, from 7-9Mbit up to 25Mbit (and beyond).
No broadcaster has ever asked me for an H.264 file.
Ed

[Parke Gregg] “For me, MPEG-2 is an end-of-the-line codec, only for making DVDs.”