Harm Millaard
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AVI is a generic name that can contain various codecs. It is comparable to an animal, but what kind of animal is not designated by just saying I have an animal. It may be a rat or an elephant or a hare or a pigeon or a duck or any other kind of animal. Adobe just likes only a limited number of animals, just as you would prefer to eat a duck or pigeon over a rat or spider.
For AVI, the kind Adobe prefers is DV AVI type 2. What codec did you use?
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Presumably a wrong codec. It should be MS-DV avi type 2.
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Or use Linux on this rig and switch to Autodesk Smoke for editing.
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I already have a DVStorm for the backdoor and a Raptor for the kitchen.
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To sum it up, Matrox offers a $ 1.200 board plus the upgrade from PP2 to CS3 @ $ 299 as a deal for only $ 1.500?? Given the track record of Matrox and their lack of support for existing boards, as stated in your message (they stopped supporting the RT.X100) this does not look attractive. IMO AJA and BlackMagic have better options with less compatibility issues, better stability and a more attractive price.
I still have a RT.X100 board somewhere and it is perfect…. as a doorstopper. I never could get Matrox to work decently and as you said yourself it only works on approved systems (well not even then) so you face an additional investment in a new system and know, that when CS4 comes out they will stop support for the RT.X2, which will be superseded by the soon to be announced RT.X3.
It seems like a $ 1.200 investment down the drain.
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If money is not an issue, a HP Integrity Superdome with 64 x Itanium2 @ 1.6 GHz CPU’s, 2 TB of RAM and a couple thousand 15K RPM SCSI disks would be a supercomputer you are looking for. It is way faster (2.5x) than a IBM System P570 with 8 Power6 CPU’s @ 4.7 GHz. Price/performance is the best in it’s class.
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XP can use 4 GB. Normally this is allocated between the OS and applications in 2 GB chunks. OS gets 2 and applications get 2. Using the boot.ini switch it is possible for applications to use up to 3 GB (if they were compiled with that capability) and allow the OS only 1 GB. Whether that is beneficial depends on the application and the housekeeping tasks of the OS. Under a 64 bit OS this limitation is removed. When you have 16 GB RAM under a 64 bit OS, each application can use 2 GB for itself. If you have AE, AI, EN, PS, PR and SB open at the same time, each can use 2 GB of RAM and the total is still 12 GB, leaving the OS with 4 GB for housekeeping. This is all assuming 32 bit applications, like CS3. Hope this explains it somewhat.
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HD-SDI. Otherwise firewire.
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Further example on the same XPS710 system:
Upgrade price from QX6600 to QX6700 is
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The Dells are great IF you only opt for the standard version. No memory upgrades, no CPU upgrade, no additional HD’s, no better video card, etc. Their profit is in selling additional memory or HD’s at twice the going price. They deliver reliable good stuff for the standard configurations. Everything after that is a complete rip-off. For instance, the Dell XPS710, add a 500 GB Samsung Spinpoint disk at a cost of