Erik Lindahl
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I’d say “yes, sort of”. We’ve created a commersial with a kaledioscope-effect and tried both After Effects and Motion 2 for the jobb but no-one came close to our solution: building a “real” kalediscope in 3D 🙂
Never the less, if you just want the “kaledioscope texture effects” – Motion 2 is very good at it.
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I’d opt for working in 3D first as well
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Yeah, when I choose RGBA today it actually worked. It didn’t do it just after I had installed the card (might have been a bad Animation file?) I just got a bunch of garbage on the videomonitor then.
Is it possible to playback Animation-codec in FCP?
Also, eventhough I’m breaking-away from the subject, will we ever see output from DVDSP through the KONA (or is this up to Apple to fix)?
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FCP today won’t benifit a lot from a 7800 GT compared to the 6600 card. However, apps like Motion and plugins for FCP like “Magic Bullets for Editors 2.0” will see HUGE gains from the 7800 GT. It’ll probably be well worth the wait.
Also, I predict FCP will at some stange “take on” a more motion-like rendering engine. Then the better GPU will be a huge plus to have.
Sadly, Apple has no option of an upgrade from the 6600 to the 7800 card today. Very sad
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Not speaking on the behalf of AJA, but the Kona LH is based on a “combo” of the Kona 2 and Kona LS which are highly regarded products. I saw card in action at IBC and it looked very nice.
I do have a great deal of faith when it comes to AJA. We’ve been using an Io for more than 2 years now and it’s never let us down.
The only thing you will lose compared to the Cinewave-card is a mix and match timeline (different codecs in the same timeline).
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Exactly. Since most, if not all, projects go through this process it’s a win-win situation. It does of course vary on what the footage is and what you do to it. I just did a test on the last projekt I did and here the difference wasn’t as great as the tests I did for a film last year. This, however, had very “calm” (greyish-blue) colours which are quite DV-friendly.
Sad I cant post pics here.
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Is there no benefit in going from DV > Uncompressed > MPEG2? I beg to differ… Keeping a complete DV-workflow will constantly give me a 5:1 compression loss per generation (i.e. color-correction, compositing work, adding of graphics etc.). Doing my offline in DV, converting the final edit to uncompressed and then do online in uncompressed 8- or 10-bit does give a better final result.
I did a lot of testing of this when doing a few films last year and YES the benefit is there when final output is MPEG2. When final output is DV I’d reckon it’d be good working in another format than DV when adding effects etc. since I then only get ONE generation loss in the end instead of a constant loss per generation of effects (for instance offline edit (gen 1), then color correction in Final Cut (gen 2), adding effects in After Effects (gen 3) and finally outputting that file).
If you can show otherwise I would be interested to see that.
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Yes, I was thinking of either going with an external SATA RAID or FW800 RAID.
No, a ADVC-device isn’t an option really. Being that I’ve grown out of DV and want to have more freedom in choice of codec. The ADVC (or any firewire divice aside from AJA Io, LA, LD) will ONLY give me DV. This isn’t good enough even if final output “only” is DVD and the video source might be DV I’ve seen what benefits uncompressed gives me in this workflow. Thanks but no thanks 🙂
Also, as you say, there is the latency. DV has 4-frames, Uncompressed over firewire today has 7-frames (should go down to 4 with Tiger/QT7/FCP5/AJA Io etc.). Still a drag.
Also, even “the best” FireWire i/o box out there (The AJA Io) can’t make my videomonitor/TV a secondary screen/view-area as most (if not all) PCI-cards do (or am I wrong here?).
So, back to my question again: I guess I should go with the PCI-X motherboard, right? But has anyone done any REAL tests here?
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Okej, so when it comes to SD or HDV editing, what PCI-X vs PCI options do I have? How will I notice a difference? Better RT-performace? Better throughput to HD
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I’ve actually set up a similar system… We have Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) on both the FCP-systems at work. It works GREAT to do simpler things from a remote machine. I’ve even captured video from out BetaSP-deck 🙂
The only “issue” I encounterd was or bigger FCP suite has a dual monitor setup, which in ARD works, but you get all the 2-screen-space scaled down to 3/4 of a PowerBook screen (very tiny). Aside from that, everything works. I just switch resolution when doing alot of remote work. Great to be able to, for instance, convert video locally on a system when out of the office.