Jeremy Newmark
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Frederic,
What are your system specs?
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David,
Thanks for the suggestion. I checked it out, but it’s still not quite the flexability and elegance I’m looking for. The best thing I’ve come across is the paint and clone tool in the new version of Boris Red. It’s a very powerful program that gives you access to it right from your FCP timeline.
best regards,
jeremy
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That is if they are even there. If I recall correctly, they didn’t even show up at IBC last year.
best regards,
jeremy
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We’ve been cutting ProRes 422 HQ at 1080 23.976 on a new macbook pro for two weeks now without any problems. And this is only with 2gig of ram and off of an old firewire 400 drive. We just received another 2gigs of ram and an esata drive today, so I’m sure that will only make things better. But yes you can edit ProRes on a new MacBook Pro, you don’t need the AJA IoHD to do it, however the IoHD may give you more real-time capability, we’ll see once they get them out the door.
best regards,
jeremy
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[Borjis] “I still get dropped frames after a few seconds capturing 720P with ProRes.”
What frame rate are you working in and what do you have for storage?
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Mark,
We’ve been testing out a brand new macbook pro here for the last week or so. It is a fantastic computer, especially with the full hd resolution screen, but if you are talking about a machine as your main editing computer, then I would suggest going with the 8 core tower. The only reason I would say go with the macbook pro is if you need a portable system all of the time. But if you are going to be doing the bulk of your work at home, then I think you will be better off with the tower. For sure there are many factors to weigh, but the tower will give you more options. You’ll have better storage options, monitoring options, more real-time tracks and effects, just to name a few. At the moment our G5 quad still outperforms the new intel macbook pro. We’ll be doing some more testing next week with some more ram and external esata storage, but if you are talking about a main edit system, go with the tower. The macbook pro is a great solution to have on the road and during shoots, but I would not want to use it as my main system. Just my 2 cents.
Best Regards,
jeremy
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Chrispy,
When you go the Cinema Tools route, it does change the speed of the video. The conform process is very quick, to roughly explain it, Cinema Tools is basically just re-writing a header file that tells quicktime to play the video out at a different frame-rate, so it is done almost instantaneously.
best regards,
jeremy
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[gary adcock] “My teranex does not support 24p at all, and neither does the AXR or VC100 product lines to the best of my knowledge.
to my limited knowledge, teranex has never done standards conversion like you find on Ukon and Alchemist systems. Which teranex system do you use for this.”
Hi Gary,
In my world I work with 23.976p and 25p not true 24p, but it was a Teranex rep that told me that the AXR product line can do true 24p <-> 25p conversion. If this is not the case, then I apologize for spreading mis-information. I do not own a Teranex system, you do, so you would no better than I. When I post information I try to make sure that it is info I’ve either learned from personal experience or trusted sources. In this case the info may be wrong and if so, I’m sorry.
That being said the Ukon may be another option, I don’t have much experience with Snell & Wilcox products, but I do believe that the Ukon can input 23.976p and 24p and output it to 25p, where as the HD version of the Alchemist is traditional standards conversion frame rates only, no 23.976p or 24p support. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
best regards,
jeremy
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You need to keep in mind that if you go the Cinema Tools route, you are essentially slowing it down around 4%, so the audio does need to be handled properly. If you go the more expensive Teranex route, your audio will match the 25p cut and you will not have to worry about it.
As with all methods, there are pros and cons to each. The Cinema Tools route is cheap but requires more work to be done on the audio end, if you want it to match your original cut. Where as the Teranex route is more expensive but requires no re-working of the audio. So if a lot of work has gone into the audio and the mix, then this option may be worth the money.
best regards,
jeremy
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[Jeremy Newmark] “…for the video and have a seasoned…”
I appologize, that “and” should have been an “or”
best regards,
jeremy