[Ed Dooley]

Interlacing will look horrible on a progressive computer monitor, no matter how scaled the video is.
Do a short test to see just how bad.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Maybe even more important is, did they fix MPEG1s in Cleaner 6.5? I’m not sure, but I doubt it.
Cleaner did a terrible job of MPEG1.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

You can turn on or off the journaling of a drive. I think you go into Disk Utility and
select the drive. At the top there’s a Enable Journaling button. I read that you can format
the drive as journaled, but turn it on and off when and if you want to.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Officially, Apple doesn’t say it works or not. The minimum system requirements for Final Cut Studio say:

>>>>Macintosh computer with 867MHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, or Intel Core Duo processor;
HD features require 1GHz or faster single or dual processors (authoring HD DVDs requires a PowerPC G5 or Intel Core Duo processor)
512MB of RAM; HD features require 1GB of RAM or more (2GB recommended)
Display with 1024-by-768 or higher resolution
AGP or PCI-E Quartz Extreme graphics card<<<< The MacBooks don't have a Quartz Extreme level graphics card, so Motion probably won't work, but FCP should. Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Sure it will. Did you see the Apple specs?
Ed

From Apple:
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors

DVI output port
VGA output using included DVI to VGA adapter

[Ed Dooley]

Ouch!!!
Ed

[walter biscardi] “Now I did see a few LCD’s out at NAB that were just amazing with how they handled the blacks, but they were in the $16,000 – $30,000 range.”

[Ed Dooley]

As much as you or I (or pros you know) may not use it (it looks to me like the monitor adds set-up, that’s how grey the blacks looked to me),
the reality is that lots of pros *are*. A friend at Abel told me how many are getting out there from them, and this may be a wild assumption
on my part, but I don’t think they’re getting sold to amateurs (not at the price point they’re at!).
Ed (who’s very happy with his CRT, thank-you)

[walter biscardi] “[Ed] “Since Sony discountinued the PVM CRT series, pros have been using the replacement, the Luna series, an LCD.”

No pros that I know are using that. Everyone I know that has demo’d it hates the way it handles the blacks.

You can still find 14″ PVM monitors out there, we ordered one for our second suite already and may order a few more.”

[Ed Dooley]

I meant the Sony Luma.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Since Sony discountinued the PVM CRT series, pros have been using the replacement, the Luna series, an LCD.
I’ve looked at the Sharp and it looks pretty good. A few pros I know have bought the Westinghouse
and Sceptre LCDs for non-critical work. I guess it’s gotten good reviews.
Ed

[K Weiss] “I know that the pro’s out there wouldn’t use an LCD screen to monitor output, but my work is not broadcast quality and I’m tired of the big box on my desk. Iunderstand the shortcomings, but it’s time for me to make the change. Is anyone out there using an LCD monitor with FCP? Any recommendations. I’ve been looking at the Sharp Aquos and the Sony. I’m running a quad 2.5. Thanks.”

[Ed Dooley]

Sometime soon directly into FCP, but Lumiere HD allows you to do it easily in the meantime.
Ed

[Shane Ross] “720p30…yes.

720p24….no.

1080i….yes.”