Jack Mcgee
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I don’t know, I am thinking just putting one instance of Media Encoder on network. With GPU processing, it might do more anyway than two Episode machines.
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We are a Windows house. No Macs here.
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We use two Episode machines in a cluster. There is one watch folder and it outputs to one folder, no matter which machine picks up the job. We don’t have to wonder which machines has less jobs queued when we submit it.
I can run Adobe Media Encoder on multiple machines, but no way to cluster intelligently. If Media Encoder had that feature we would switch now.
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No problem. They are located in a very cool old building. The case they made for us is 41′ x 22″ x 28″. Has two rollers on the long end, and recessed handles on other end. There are 8 mics (4 rows of opposing mics) in a removable upper tray, and 8 below. All surrounded by foam.
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We use the same Shure MX 418 (just longer than yours). I had a custom case that holds 16 mics made at Kangaroo Case in Dallas several years ago. I took another old molded camera case, and had them cut custom foam to put in it to hold 6 more of those mics.
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What was notable to me was the Ross Acid box camera. It is a modified Hitachi DH-H200. It does 4:4:4 output with 64 db SN. I’m not aware of another studio camera that can pull this trick. It will be used in new virtual set environment, so quality of keys is key. We had considered Sony HSC-300, but this Acid camera paired with Ross’s chroma keyer that understands the two signals coming in to create 4:4:4.
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I found this thread from 2011 and chose to reply to it to illustrate the likelihood of Blackmagic fixing this closed caption bug ever.
I ran into the problem of 720P to NTSC captions not converting. Blackmagic phone support told me today that has already been reported and they are working on a fix. Yes, for about 5 years…
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Good luck with ORAD. We had placed a healthy order with them months ago, (before merger with Avid) and now can not even get a callback from account executive. We cancelled the order. My guess Avid is going to shut down the company and get the technology to use in other products.
We are looking at Ross virtual set solution now. Once you move past the Newteks, Broadcast Pix, other trackless solutions, there are very few players, Brainstorm and Ross are the only two I know of.
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Some time ago, we had a tape robot, made by Synergy Broadcasting in Addison, TX. It was pretty cool, automatically more or less, certainly unattended, digitize about 100 SVHS or Digital S tapes to MPG2.
Not sure this helps you now, but the successor company, techvideosolutions may have a line on old robot (we gave Synergy ours when we retired it).
At the time, you could have the robot formatted to to just about any cassette videotape format, including 3/4″. And today, you could probably digitize it to any digital format.
Not saying it was particularly delicate with tapes, but no less than a person.
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Not cheap by any means, but Harris HD-STAR is doing the trick for me.