Jim Leonard
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Found the answer; I missed the “selected apps” choice in CS3 and assumed CS2 was the same way. It’s not; when installing, you have a drop-down of “all apps” or “selected apps” and I’m installing Audition 2.0 right now. (Whether or not it integrates with PPro (Render to SoundBooth, etc.) remains to be seen, but at least I can have a decent audio editor again.)
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You are correct; I missed this in CS3 and assumed CS2 was the same way. When installing, you have a drop-down of “all apps” or “selected apps” and I’m installing Audition 2.0 right now.
Whether or not it integrates with PPro (Render to SoundBooth, etc.) remains to be seen, but at least I can have a decent audio editor again. Thanks for the help.
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These are all excellent replies, I had no idea the capability existed, nor the premiere pro wiki. Thanks to everyone!
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You should duplicate what you’re doing on the PC with more Blackmagic Design hardware/software. If you don’t want to do that, then CineForm is what you’re looking for.
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I have many hundreds of hours of archival footage that is only available via an S-video out connection. I love the uncompressed 10-bit quality I get from the DeckLink SP; what is the cheapest product Blackmagic offers that will let me capture s-video?
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Bumping this up again as nobody has responded — I thought BlackMagic support monitored these forums, do they not? Should I contact support directly?
I can put s-video into my scan converter and then my scan converter’s component to the DeckLink SP, but I would much rather avoid the generational loss in doing that and just pump s-video into the DeckLink SP. See previous post for what I’m seeing; am I doing it wrong?
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The reason we were looking at a Mac-> PC workflow is because we are unfamiliar with the current state of the art H.264 encoding engines for Mac. We’ve been using Compressor 3 exports directly from the Final Cut Pro 6 timeline and have been unhappy with the results for 720p footage at lower bitrates.
I hear a lot of good things about Episode, but can’t find detailed information about it online (other than grabbing the trial, but I won’t have access to a Mac until I’m on-site). Does it allow significantly more options for tweaking H.264 encoding than Compressor 3?
This is a topic change 🙂 but the problem we’re running into is that we have to fit our footage to a certain filesize target, and the footage varies between 60% high-motion and 40% static talking heads. Since the compression artifacts are only visible on the high-motion footage (obviously), we feel that Compressor 3’s 2-pass H.264 is not properly allocating bits and we want to skew it toward the high-motion footage at the expense of the talking heads. Can Episode do that? If not, what Mac solution can?
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Transcoding from .mov to .avi without generational loss is definitely possible if the video and audio codecs are the same; I was transcoding Cinepak .avis to .mov and back with a command-line utility in the 1990s. It’s just been a very long time since I had to perform a Mac workflow and was curious if there was something established for this in today’s day and age.
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Anyone know?
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If they removed the DVD authoring tool (Encore) then how do you author DVDs in CS3?