Joe Murray
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The Pioneer PRV-LX1 is $5,000 at B&H. I use the Pioneer DVR-310, which I got on overstock.com for $189. The 310 is no longer available, but the DVR-330SM should work fine and it’s around $320. I have had no compatibility issues and I send these disks to a variety of clients for playback on players or computer DVD drives.
Joe Murray
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There have been bugs in 10 bit renders in Final Cut for quite a while. Not sure why they can’t seem to get it working completely, and the bugs aren’t always the same from version to version. It’s pretty much a crap shoot from one version to the next. And maybe I’m pushing the envelope or breaking the Golden Rule, but I never worry about peaks at 100%. I’ve sent national spots to all the major networks and never had a problem with 100% white. I do use 90-95% white for white in graphics because they reproduce more cleanly on consumer grade monitors than if I use 100%.
Joe Murray
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I understand the concern about quality, but unless you’re sending a DBeta to network like ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox, you’re probably distributing spots on BetaSP, and then the station is compressing it to mpeg-2 anyway. For me, the choice was easy because I already owned Cleaner. The problem was that I would encode with Cleaner, then try to play back the encoded file with Quicktime, and would see all kinds of interlacing issues and huge blocky artifacts. I finally tried playing the encoded files with Windows Media on a PC and they looked stellar. Quicktime’s mpeg-2 component is a joke, and that they charge $20 for it is ridiculous. Haven’t looked back, and the spots look good on air.
Joe Murray
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As maligned as it is by many people, Cleaner works for me. The main thing that worked was switching from DG Systems to FastChannel, but maybe now that they’re one company you won’t have the issues I did. I found Digigami’s encoder to be extremely slow. Mainconcept looks great, but when I was using it did not have any video level adjustments. Cleaner does, so you can compare the encoded file with the original and make adjustments to brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. I have a settings file for SD uncompressed footage I can send you. Contact me through my website and send me your email address and I’ll send the file to you.
Joe Murray
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With the Dell you can use the monitor as a switcher between 2 computers and save desktop space.
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One thing that can really decrease the size of the compressed file is using some audio compression (I like Alaw 2:1 at 32 or 44.1 khz) as well as making the audio mono unless you really need stereo. This decreases the overall bandwidth and leaves more room for better quality video. I can get good quality out of mpeg-4 or Windows Media with a file size of less than 3 megs for a 30 second spot if I treat the audio this way.
Joe Murray
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As Bob said, you only need tri-level sync if you a delivering a theatrical release, which would need to be output to a deck at 23.98. If you’re outputting with realtime pulldown added, then you’re converting back to 59.94 and therefore should not need the tri-level sync. Same thing with authoring a DVD; you’re not trying to time the output of your system to a deck that needs sync, you’re just encoding to a different file format and authoring/burning your DVD. So yes, it makes sense to be able to work in 23.98 for all the reasons you give, but you don’t necessarily need the sync while capturing because you can sync your capture card to incoming video rather than an external source.
Hope this makes sense. Hope it’s all accurate as well. It works for me.
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It does make sense that someone will come with a monitoring solution for compressed HD formats on a laptop. Don’t know if it will be an AJA or firewire gadget or not.
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The Panasonic plasmas are definitely a great way to go. I almost got one, but went with a nice BENQ DLP projector and Stewart Filmscreen setup instead. My next client monitor will be one of the plasmas, if only so I can have a little more ambient light in the room. But dang, 82″ is BIG, and it’s a great picture with the room darkened.
Joe Murray
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It sounds like Chris is trying to create mpeg-2 files for DG Systems (or something similar). Is this correct? If so, the suggestion to send a tape is probably exactly what he or his clients are trying to avoid. Chris, can you provide some more information as to your specific situation? I spent a long time figuring out how to do this and might be able to help.
Joe Murray