[Jason Brown]

Good call…I was playing with a couple things – overscaling by a small percentage or duplicate the layer, gaussian blur it, then blur feather the edges of the foreground layer…both looked decent.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

There is no labeling other than the main one on any keys on my MacBookPro…Fn + P opens Position parameter. I don’t have any experience with earlier models.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Genius Kevin, simply genius…looks amazing. I think I’m going to make up a project to use it! 🙂

It’s people like you that make the Cow great!

[Jason Brown]

I ran a speed test, and I’m getting about 2/3 the speed of my internal RAID. Both set @ RAID0

I purchased the LaCie card (2 port) and I’m going to connect it via that way…see if I have better speed. I’ll report on this post what I find.

-jason

[Jason Brown]

[Bob Zelin] “The minute “little Johnny” can buy his little product from the Apple Store, and make a world class video for major distribution, we are all in trouble. “

Hey Bob, with all due respect…my brother in law will NEVER be able to replicate what I can. All the technology in the world doesn’t make “little Johnny” a good visual storyteller. Timing, clean transitions…arrangement…use of natural sound…tweaking audio levels will ALWAYS be done better by professionals. (just look at the drywall job I did in my kitchen!)

We all (myself included) get hung up on the tech side of what we do…pushing the buttons…but in the end it’s about telling a captivating story…whether it’s a corporate video…training video…reality show, marketing piece or commercial. – If it ain’t good, people won’t watch.

I expect technology to work…why? Because I paid close to 15,000 dollars for all the equipment on/under my desk. Sure it’s not as much as my AVID Meridien was 12 years ago, but it’s still alot of money. I expect things to work…

Mac has always been touted as a *never-fail* *stable* *better than windows* computer system. I just expect more out of a company that I paid 3 times as much money for (vs a comparable PC).

I hope you don’t take it personally…I’ve always appreciated your good insight…I still remember an article you wrote on calibrating a monitor that rocked my world a couple years ago.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Thanks Todd…I have an external keyboard…but needed to do this in the field on my lap.

[Jason Brown]

you are going to need to be MUCH more specific…

Sounds like you are talking about something in 3D…best solution is to create it in Photoshop…break it into slices, then animate those on…just a guess based on the information you gave…

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I just put a HighPoint eSATA card in…RocketRaid 2312

Running 10.5.8

Hooked eSATA to a Big Quadra LaCie 8TB…RAID 0

My drive speed test showed that it was running about 2/3 of what my internal RAID is running.

I’m getting a 2 port LaCie card…I would assume it will be faster.

[Jason Brown]

[Terry Hahin] “Runs about 800 it seems,”

That is for the Max option…which allows you to transcode (only through compressor I believe) h264 faster than real time.

The standard I/O mini box runs around 450

As far as HDMI and 8-bit…I have no idea, that is WELL out of my knowledge base!

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I’ve had pretty good luck with the FSI LM-1760W monitor – I think it was about 2K…

You could use something like a Matrox MXO2 mini…and push out through HDMI, I do that occasionally for FCP and AE previews in a client’s office…it looks pretty good.

-Jason