George Socka
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After it is compresssed to DVD at say 5 mbps, the difference between DVcam at 25 mbps and whatever you are going to capture BetaSP into will be irrelevant.
Now a $750 DV camera will likely have poorer glass than even a UVW100, but that is a given anyway.
And you know that there is no difference between DV and DVcam except for Sony marketing speak.
George Socka
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With Premiere again running on Macs, there is less point in pushing FCP. Sure each additional sale of FCP is almost 100% incremental gross profit, but if that were such a good thing, they would let it run on a vanilla PC – and sell boat loads more. No, Apple is about pushing Apple boxes. Not sure what percent of Macs are bought just for FCP and how many came out of that show alone, ( big iron, high profit Macs to be sure ) but I would guess, subject to a bit more research, not THAT many.
Might this be the beginning of the end of the line for FCP all together?
George Socka
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look at boogie-heads.com. These are the people I saw.
Problem with a switcher is that the other source needs to be video ( or a still store outputting video ) Their system, or a Newtek VT(whetevr number they are at) lets you key over in any number of sources.
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I saw those guys at a meetings and events trade show. I though they used Visual Communicator – now an Adobe product – with cheap consumer DV cams which VC is apparently good at – like Ultra but in real time.
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At the other end of the scale, adobe added more to CS3 than was in CS2 ( flash, ultra, on location, illustrator?? ) and took out only Audition, and AFAIK, kept the price about the same.
George Socka
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Maybe a dumb question, but how far apart are these displays? If the displays support video, just run a distributiom amp and coax out of a single DVD player that loops. If they are VGA connections, there are VGA to Cat5 adapters and VGA DA’s that will do that nicely over 100’s of feet. Cheaply. Simply.
George Socka
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I have no opinion on costing, but the message and delivery is no worse than the Head On spots – and they seem to work. No worse than the Blowflex infomercials. Bay more believable than any of the Mac vs. PC things. But not sure that they work anyway.
A TV viewer will watch this twice – he needs to remember the name and the 800 number. And remember his last long airplane flight.
Of course most such spots also offer 2 more free if you order now, but that is a fulfillment thing, not a video creative thing.
Your average pillow buyer is not going to analyse the quality of the acting. An ad agency might, but obviously this was not sold with a slew of intermediaries with their fingers in the pie.
George Socka
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Its Flash video in its most creative use yet. I am going to try this over the weekend. And will report back.
George Socka
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I have 6.5, 1.0 and CS3 all running on the same XP computer right now. Even accidently started 2 versions at the same time with no ill effects. You need to manage your third party plugins so they show up in both places properly. And once you install CS3, if you just click on a project file, CS3 will try to open it. Just don’t let it save if you need to go back.
Nothing Matrox anywhere near this computer since 6.5 was 6.1 though.
George Socka
BeachDigital
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