Graeme Nattress
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HDV is always 16:9
You cannot view HDV back through the camera like you do DV. You need to use a HD card like the decklink and appropriate SD or HD monitor to see it externally.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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It’s a bit louder than a G5, but not as loud as the original Xserves.
But why a 1TB RAID? I think the Xraid is only worth getting if you max out it’s drives. Otherwise there are cheaper solutions for 1TB of storage.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Unfortunatly, LCD is fast becoming a reality for all video monitoring due to all major CRT manufactures moving over to new technologies like LCD or Plasma. Before long you won’t have any choice. Sony have stopped all CRT manufacture, for instance, and only hold a stockpile of tubes for high end customers.
That said, LCD technology has come on in leaps and bounds. I’m using both a SD CRT and a HD LCD with the Decklink HDLink over SDI and the LCD compares very, very favourably indeed.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Buy this book: Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling) which is an excellent, if highly technical guide to all digital video, or ask us some specific questions and we’ll answer here as best as we can.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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For 60i to 24p conversions, check out my Standards Converter @ http://www.nattress.com
You’d have to do that to all your footage though, and although it should look good, will be time-consuming. Is there no way you can play your m2t back to tape, and then re-capture as HDV?
Or you could use MPEG streamclip to convert the m2t to something more edit friendly, or even uncompressed, and then can you use FCP to turn it into HDV by rendering on a HDV timeline? Just an idea?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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If you’re using a workflow to deliver true 24p with both Film Effects and Standards Converter (this is how I tend to use the plugins myself) then there’s a switch in Film Effects that turns off ALL frame rate processing. Or you can use the RT versions which don’t do the 24p stuff either. Then the entire finished movie can be put into the converter, and out it comes at 23.98fps (24p) for you to make a web movie or 24p DVD. That’s how I make the web movies on my site, for instance.
For your workflow, which used the 24p feature in Film Effects, the video is still 29.97fps NTSC – it just looks like 24p and needs to be treated as 29.97fps.
The MPEG2 DVD presets in Compressor are fairly intelligent and will guess the right frame rate and size without you having to specify the frame rate though.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago on another forum.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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An NTSC clip that has had Film Effects applied to it, although looking 24p, has 3:2 pulldown added into it to make it compatible with 29.97fps NTSC video. SO you must compress it, for DVD say, just like you’d compress any normal NTSC video. Similarly for web use etc.
However, if you do want to use it on the web or DVD, you’re further ahead not doing the 24p effect in Film Effects, but with the Standards Converter instead, leaving you with 24p media which compresses better than video at 29.97fps anyway as it’s less frames per second.
So tell me a bit more about what you’re planning to do with the video and then I can help more.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Yes, historically we’ve had the Cinewave and the RT Mac as the only realtime cards for FCP. After Pinnacle got purchased by Avid, the fate of the Cinewave was certainly doomed. And that’s a shame as there was good (if over priced) technology in there. The RT Mac was pretty much doomed from the start as FCP soon achieved better RT itself, and the quality of the analogue to DV chips inside the RT Mac as found to be quite suspect.
Both the Decklink and Kona products say that they “accellerate” certain codecs, but all they are doing is the scaling from, say 960×720 (for DVCproHD) to 1280×720 for display, so it’s not as if it’s doing much.
The major bottleneck at the moment is lack of PCI-Express which is stopping the GPU being a major player in FCP editing.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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The only “RT” card for FCP is the biggest baddest G5 you can buy, with the fastest largest hard drive you can fit on your desk.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP