John Sherman
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It’s all about space saving… we have a ton of data that has to be copied over along with these video files. Yes we could get high capacity DVDs but honestly our clients don’t like copying large files to their various servers to begin with. Thankfully my supervisor came up with the above software solution as the superior does not often go with expensive purchases. And I needed something mobile that wouldn’t involve more hardware, or a capture card in a large desktop.
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That would be the price barrier I was up against… But we found a solution:
We’re using macbook pros with Imediaconverter… transcoding takes about the same as realtime (2.66Ghz processor and 4GB ram) but changes native AVCHD to Mpeg-1s without much fuss.
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Well it’s a bit of both… We have a Macbook Pro with Snow Leop running Fcp and I’m prepping to load premiere pro because it handles avchd natively I heard…
And we also have PC laptops which I’m going through 1 by 1 to see if any are fast enough to use a converter.
Having a 1 day to same day turn around is killing us.
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I have a 512 Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT. The “Geniuses” told me it was my harddrive. There is no way in hell. They removed half my ram saying one of my 1GB rams were corrupt or broken. This was also ridiculously untrue and have since reinstalled and tested the ram. I’m leaning towards video card now… it generates a lot of heat in my computer. Considering the “Geniuses” would not even test the card before, now I will have to demand satisfaction. Their advice would have otherwise cost me hundreds. When I do anything video related, that slightly cooks on the video card, my next reboot will be the blinking lights of death. I’ve tried Cocktail, and Leopard Cache Cleaner, but my biggest symptoms now seem to be a slow boot time and a hang after processing video.
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This is the green line. They appear and sometimes look like corrupted video. I’m processing still photos… and have not seen this before. I’ve never had a problem like this before but I’m assuming since Safari also crashes on me now that it’s a mac problem.
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Actually I found the most bizarre solution…. the images were vectors, and AE was trying to interpret them as such. In keeping with my vector experience I had collapse transformations on each vectored images and noticed one large file I was given was a JPEG. The JPEG was fine and not jittery but the vector images who I had turned the switch on for were dancing, I suppose trying to scale, but were being treated as non-vector images. I turned the switch off and everything is fine…. Bizarre….
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The pixels on these are huge to help with the zooming some are 1100X1646. This may be a problem. I’m attempting to output right now to a DV widesceen video 16:9. My output is set to progressive output for upload to the web (for a client preview).
The “dancing” involves what I would interpret as a “Jitter” expression put on the image when I go to move it position wise or scale the image. It could be pixel depth…
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Well the override didn’t work, as they’re all being interpreted correctly as square pixels (1.00). So i know that’s not the issue. I have and do use the aspect ratio conversion switch on my previews, but that doesn’t help explain this distortion effect which appears in the preview and in exports. Could it be the still format? What still format should re-import the images in?