Erik Lindahl
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Motion can do alot for a presentation in terms of animation, but it isn’t really a presentation tool. A combo of motion and keynote can do you some really cool things.
If you’re going portable I’d opt for the MacBook Pro.
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It’s basically like PAL SD-fotage is 720×576 “native square” but actaully plays back at 768×576, or anamophic PAL which is the same 720×576 resolution, but plays back at 1024×576 pixles.
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I’m not 100% sure about this, but DVCPR HD 720p probably is non-square HD just like 1080i DVCPROHD is
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Just thought I could pass on a link to some G5 Quad Tests:
https://www.fcpug.se/forum/showthread.php?t=308
Even-though it’s a Swedish MUG the test is written in English.
Simply put: the Quad is FAST.
Enjoy!
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I reckon native IMX can’t be captured in FCP, only edited. I might be wrong, but I think you have to capture the MXF media through a seperate app and then conform it to work in FCP. I don’t know if the Blackmagic card handles it either. AJA just got support for it, again I think, in a recent software update.
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We’ll I can tell you that I’ve experience similare speed-increases as Walter, if not more. I don’t have all the figures in front of me but here are a few:
20s Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 HD to MPEG2 HD (1-PASS VBR + AIFF Audio)
Dual Core 2.3 G5: 68s
Quad Core 2.5 G5: 42s3x20s Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 SD to MPEG2 SD (1-PASS VBR + AC3 Audio)
Dual CPU 500Mhz G4: 300s
Dual CPU 2.5 G5: 70s
Quad Core 2.5 G5: 37sThat’s what I call a GOOD speed-up!
In After Effects I’ve gone from little over five hours to below two hours in rendering speed (Dual Core 2.3 vs Quad 2.5). With-out the NUCLEO plugin I was at about 7 hours on the same sequence
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I reckon this is one of the strangest problems Apple has done for it self. I just don’t get how they can be so stupid. Perhaps this is temporary untill the next version av Final Cut Studio comes? We can all hope
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QuickTime reads SWF up to Flash 5 or 6, at least on the Mac, so After Effects should be able to read it to.
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Well, perhaps
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I did some ending credits last fall and tried both the good old photoshop PSD > After Effects or Motion and actually typing the text in AE/Motion. Renderingspeeds wore about 10X faster with PSD > AE than anything else.
Motions doesn’t handle large files very well – they seem to choke to GPU or something. Also, writing text IN the apps makes them have to rasterize everything, every frame. Takes alot of CPU/GPU for that.
But someone might have a magic way of doing it?