Fred Jodry
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You might find some helpful tricks just above but the easiest way is to shoot film originals then run the negatives or prints through a telecine with the scanning area capturing the appropriate rectangular take in each area of the twelve. Be sure not to forget to use the editor`s grating pattern to help set up the rectangles. Here the video is easy but film sound if needed can sometimes be hard.
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How about Koss, Sony, or Philips “FM broadcast quality” headphones at $30 a pair? Although I`ve never heard a pair of headphones with dead on perfect high frequencies, many are way good. Use no high power audio into headphones.
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Re: Any recommendations for speakers?
by Gary Hazen on Aug 4, 2010 at 1:42:55 pm
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Pat, half of the laugh is in the replys like, “If you can`t afford a good camera write a poem instead then tell it.” It reminds me of my neighbor`s old saying, “Rich or poor it`s nice to have money.” Good technology can be similar.
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Rob, easy answer. ARRI is making the Alexa as a business tool introduction or re-introduction to Broadcasting productions. After several decades of seeing their line of film cameras and the new digital line atrophy from common use by Broadcasters, the Alexa is coming in as a visible wanted tool. Broadcasters will use both ProRes and ARRIRAW, and it`s my prediction that they`ll be using them in combinations, such as obviously pipeing ARRIRAW towards live mixing boards while ProRes records editable archives. The Arriscan telecines are already in increasing use, as film transfers are far from decreasing; the standard definition productions got rid of their Ranks too early, so the isoLinux community especially, is trying to make huge mistake- free archives -of every film age from old to brand new- complete with pre- sampled EDL (?) lists. My own experience in broadcasting suggests that a lot of annoying suppliers of parts and software, like Microsoft, Avid and Adobe, Sony, and Panasonic, could get flung out of the rodeo. The Apple community is fortunately not far behind in the archiving area. You, and others who come up with the right sweat will be both liked and needed problem solvers, who provide the mundane cures to the ills as ordinary for example, as those camera users who accidentally or on purposely use aspect ratio combinations on the photosensor plate that are not the “first choice” because they temporarily or not, don`t have or use the typical taking lenses. Stay of your own best training, you`ll be making many new friends with their business.
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Fortunately Steve, it looks like Alexa`s going to become deservingly a relatively unmoving item of engineering while the software brings most changes. Arri`s going to feel a little loopy when some new customers try to hook up 5 or 10 Alexas in parallel on a live mixing board while others try to upgrade their D20 or D21 into an Alexa. I can just see all those Alexa camera bodies drying their enamel paint in ARRI Manufacturing`s driveway while they wait for the decreasing volcano dust to mercifully let them restart making circuit boards and those little layer cards. -And I can just hear your sigh of relief when you can slow or stop buying those annoying Sony cables.
[Michael Bravin] “And this is all before we have even shipped a camera”
So, what you’re saying, Michael, is that ARRI will actually present a camera that is ready to go to work as opposed to releasing a prototype on build 1 that will take years (Build 24)to never actually finish. Hmmmm
Steve Wargo
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Florida, south-westward.
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Ah! You`re still using an Apple RAID card. What have Bob and I been telling you better? RAID 0 is not redundant. RAID 1 and some other types are. RAID 0 is data split in parallels. RAID 1 is data duplicated in parallels. Etc. Since you back up more than once per editing day and don`t have mini-crashes in between, RAID 0 is rather successful. Now go out there and get the new RAID card, whether it`s a good one with internal utilities or a new one with software utilities only. I`ll be watching my westward horizon with binoculars for the next smoke trail until you do (much though I`m wishing you better, no hex here). Using internal hard drives instead of external ones is largely a matter of what fans you use to air the CPU box, including the power supply`s one.
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When the cameras and VTRs/ VCRs manufacturers started playing with interlace comb filters enhancement schemes (too much) in the early 1980s, they couldn`t agree with each other on what`s needed or not, and why. One reason was bad testing. Another was sabotage. Today, we adjust things when we can and suffer the rest of it.
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Peter, the important part is that you`ve now switched something that brings practicality and success. RAID 0 has the advantage that it lightens the load on the hard drives environment until you gain what you would have wanted in RAID 1 (or 5, etc.); Practical editing with no mentional mistakes or common crashes. Some of us use RAID 0 + 1, RAID 5 etc., because biggy projects and work loads (Make that, big next steps thoughtlessly piled up waiting to be done) like days of NLE waiting to be backed up or done, means that you find out that even your battleship doesn`t like a hurricane. Custom quality RAID cards can offer hardware utilities and other deluxe operations. Bob Zelin is right. Even though you could roll the wagon a few more miles before your next fire by cementing a heat sink on each interface chip on the Apple RAID card, that`s desperation. A few more miles is only a few more miles.
So that begs the question, why do a hardware raid at all, if you can do a software raid? I always use Raid 0 and back up to externals several times a day. -Peter Tours
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John, Marc, you are wrong when you think that RAID has nothing sensible to do with archiving. One of the troubles is that RAID can encompass two opposite goals or mix them. RAID 0 is when what`s getting recorded or played is split between say, two or more hard drives to multiply speed. Clearly, when one of the drives caves in, the archive, whether short term storage, or long, is now incomplete, in other words, unsatisfactory, and usually completely worthless. Typically, in RAID 0 you are completely right in that the risk of failure is often divided almost exactly according to the number of drives substituting for the plain number used. In Raid 1 though, the data is redundant (paralleled) except for whatever new data is not yet written onto which drive is trailing (description simplified to two drives). More complicated arrays with maintenance features can make things more perfect and closer to what you and I can agree on. Still, your frowning when you think of RAID 0 instead of when RAID 1 is closer to typical archiving is about to be joined by more exposures as lack of thought. Who says every array is RAID? Who says every RAID (or array) has to be hard drives or all hard drives? Imagine for instance a generally functioning computer setup that then backs up it`s work twice a day during the off peak hours onto a hard drive array mostly to “increase horsepower” then writes to very many tape or CD/DVD recorders at the same time to brace up the weak steps of the operation even more on the very same cables and hardware cards as the array hard drives. -While!- the returning archive sets tapes or CDs/DVDs are being played back into the same cables, hardware, and array hard drives that spit it onward into the computer setup. Then the planned off- peak backup and restore is over and the computer operation returns it`s voyaging into the deeper ocean of peak load operation and customers while the floor technician hits the off- switch or low- switch on the booster backup operation before the electric bill climbs above the operating budget. One of the problems of the Array And RAID Storage Forum is that it was first made in the Feedback Forum between about February 24 and March 10 with the result that it`s beginning is neither in the proper forum nor on it`s first page. For instance, nearly complete opposites and the practical substitutes were asked for too. Although some archiving areas are far away from the usual drone of video…/audio editing and short term storage, there are some mutual areas too, such as when the hardware cards that can format, zero out, test, or otherwise utility hard drives can also do the same to tape or swinging read/ write arms (Zip, Jaz) storage, on the same cables. What about automatic backup and storage software? Just because one operation leans it`s shoulders on a Rave HD cube while another shuttles burned DVDs in wax paper sandwich bags while another stores data on a hard drive in a padded shoe-box while another plugs LTO tapes while another prods through the CalDigit offerings looking for something that justifies the cost while being the right size while someone takes a charcoaled stick out of the fire and writes his tax notes on a piece of paper then puts it under the seat of his chair, doesn`t mean the creative cattle have to get hot on each other and have a cow. CreativeCow.Net already has about 160 topics so I agree with Ron. Jump in and get splashing, the water`s fine.