Gus Little
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I’ve built 3 of the dual core pentiums in the last 2 months. All of them have been the 830 chip (3.0 ghz) which seems to be at a decent price point. I can only compare it to my main editing machine, as far as benchmarking goes, but the dualcore is 50 to 100 percent faster than my P4 3.0 machine on every kind of render I’ve thrown at it, from dv avi to mpeg2 to wmv hd and hdv. I’m duly impressed as I’ve rarely seen 75% improvement in any hardware purchase I’ve ever made.
Also, and I assume you know this, the 820 and 830 are priced very competetively, rare for intel, I think it’s their best deal going.
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reformat? I’d like to know why FCP is doing this first so I can address it if it happens again.
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I don’t get that dilog to “reconnect”. I don’t understand why FCP is looking for media that’s not in the project, just because it’s on the drive.
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Getting the new down converts is probably my only solution, but, if I can’t say what’s wrong with the old ones, i’m not sure the new down converts are going to be any different. If I had to choose between a “canopus” DV avi or a “microsoft” DV avi, which one should I choose?
Unfortunately, I’m at the mercy of a post house that has the Sony HD deck that can play the originals.
What I would really like to know is why one program can see timecode while others cannot, it’s like the old DV avi 1 and DV avi 2 format problems. If there’s a compatibility issue I’d like to know about it so I can advise my clients accordingly.
As far as the edl list out of premiere or vegas, I’m not going to deliver in 24p HD so I won’t be doing an online, but I plan on reading that white paper anyway, for future reference, as I work with 24p Sony F900’s on a daily basis.
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I didn’t capture them. A post house took the HD tapes and down converted them and digitized them to my NTFS formatted external hard drive. I think they might have been down converted and digitized via a Miranda box hooked up to the Sony F900 to an nNovia hard disk recorder via firewire out of the miranda box. Convoluted, and I’m not positive that’s how it was done, I just know that they had contemplated using that particular array of equipment to do live down converts. The nNovia hard disk supposedly gives two choices for creating avi’s. Either Microsoft DV or Canopus DV files. I was told that these were Microsoft DV avi’s. Nevertheless, Premiere plays them with the proper code but Vegas, and now I just tried them in Final Cut Pro 5 and it doesn’t see the time code either, although, they are avi’s so FCP doesn’t like avi’s to begin with.
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I just reread your message about FCP. I have the latest version of FCP (5) and I have edited HDV footage from the Z1U on it. It does not edit HDV effortlessly. I have a 2 ghz dual g5 with 4 gb of ram and fast hard drives and it hates native hdv files. Once an intermediate is made, it’s better, but not like editing dv.
I’m not sure what your friend was editing, it could have been a letterboxed down conversion from the z1u to standard dv, in that case it would edit easily, but so would that same footage in Vegas.
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I have some results from a lowly Pentium D 820 dual core processor. It’s priced at around $350. I was duly impressed in the render tests that I did with it. I was comparing it to my main system which is a Pentium 4 3.0 ghz single processor/hyperthreading box. The dualcore P4 always outdid the hyperthreaded p4 by 50 to 100 percent. That surprised me. Both machines are comparable, 3.0 ghz processor, 2 gigs of ram (although the dualcore had 533 mhz ram compared to 400 mhz on the older p4) both rendering from internal sata hard drives.
The dualcore wasn’t mine, so I did the tests as thoroughly as I could in the time I had, but they were very consistant, hdv project to mpeg2 project to wmv project, 50 to 100 percent faster across the board.
I was building the system for an Avid Xpress Pro user and unfortunately, the Avid software does not take the same advantage that Vegas does of multiple processors, but overall performance of the machine was very smooth and nice.
I know it doesn’t compete with those dual core dual processor opteron machines, but they are way, way cheaper. Intel put their 3 dualcore chips right at the same price point that their single core chips are at. Their fastest dualcore is only a 3.2 so far, and you do need a new dualcore supporting motherboard, but I was very pleasantly surprised at the improved render times of that chip.
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Thanks. That seems to work just fine. Keeps everything properly anamorphic as well.
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I tried printing the same file out of CS2 to my Epson 1280 and it seems to look normal, so maybe it’s an R800 driver issue? Hmmmm.
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Dont’ feel alone. I’m having the exact problem. R800 as well. I should try printing to my 1280 in CS2 to see if it’s R800 specific. I’ll let you know.