Erik Lindahl
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Downscale on capture isn’t an option for many of our productions. They are filmed on film, colorized and sent to HDCAM SR and then ingested as a 4:2:2 10-bit UC file. Going out to something lesser than HDCAM SR would be sad and both HDCAM SR and HDCAM decks are really expencive to rent or buy. We just want to deliver an SD copy for TV with the best conversion possible and so far the Kona LHe is outstanding. But since we have to output the SD-converted signal somewhere we’re in though-luck-land since we currently only have one suite and no decks. File to file based transcode would mean a great deal for studios not having a large amount of machines or decks. It would be extremely cost effective, even if you couldn’t transcode at realtime speed (FCP took a good 9 minutes for 20s of HD material to transcode to SD with much worse quality than the Kona LHe offers).
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But since I can preview stuff from HD in SD, the frame-buffer on the card must be getting this down-scaled image, or? If the framebuffer can old the image, couldn’t it just pass this out this data to an image-sequence or QT file onto disk or to RAM?
Also, wouldn’t it be possible to use the scaler to do a SD anamorphic to SD Letterbox? Above would rock mine (and others) world I reckon. The hardware downscale of the Kona LHe beats even a 100 000 dollar DS or Inferno system.
I guess we’ll have to get a dual-system setup for the down-rezing until we have our own digibeta-deck.
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Neither of these are good options. They get the work done, yes, but they don’t get them done “good”. 50% resolution will give me blocky previews on the HD monitors (and probably look weird when scaled down by the Kona-card to SD).
How do I get a faster computer than a Quad G5?
AE might be outputting 4 times as much data (wrong, more than that actually, almost 5 times more actually) but so is FCP. An exported RAM-preview plays fine in QT player or AJA TV.
Oh well
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I’ve done HD/DVCPRO 1080i50 Capture form HDCAM Tape via a Kona LHe, that works fine. However, here the format is identical in both playback and capture.
Since HD can be everything fr
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I have 2.5 GB and only previewing around 1-5s of video.
Running SD works perfect, HD gives me around 22.5 fps of the 25 I “need”. Turning off video out doesn’t make a difference either. It’s 8-bit comp I’m working on now.
Exporting the RAM-preview and opening it in AJA TV works fine however (and that’s playing from disk!)
Really strange
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I’m looking for the same thing, however, something BETTER than the CC-wire removal. Currently I’m painting by hand on offset-frames. Works well but takes very long time.
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Great great… Might be an option to do this then. Thanks!
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“Flash Video” is video in Flash, really. I wouldn’t say it “kicks QuickTime and Windows Medias As”, but it could. Adobe just need to create a NORMAL VIDEO PLAYER and they’ll be competing head to head with a major plus:
Basically every browser in the world has flash.
I must say, however, flash 8 quite demanding on the system. As it is now flash 8 fills a different need than QT and Windows Media. Real I’d say is quite dead.
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Our main editing suite has a Kona LHe. As far as I know, the card only handles “video out with key” that is sending out video with an alpha-channel and/or compositing video going into the system with a stream going out from the system. It doesn’t mean it handles the actually green-screen keying in realtime. But I might be wrong here.
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I don’t think Automatic Duck handles internatinal langues at all. It has issues with filenames that are to long. It seems it also has issues with file paths which are too long or contains non-standard english ABCD etc language. It also has issues with sequence names with the above…
This is for move quite annoying and time consuming since I quite often use Swedish charachters as well as stuff like quotation marks. The plugin give me, I reckon, more warnings than it just works (9 out of 10 times it’s filename or filepath related).
I find this quite strange in year 2006 on MacOSX, but hey… You can’t have it all 🙂