Jonathan Miller
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So, here’s the difference between 8-bit and 16-bit as illustrated by Shine applied to a white solid. In the 8-bit example, you can see how the effect is degraded by banding artifacts along the gradient.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
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Personally, I like the Twixtor plugin from Re:Vision FX. You can do a 29.97 interlaced to 23.976 progressive conversion, or basically anything to anything…especially slowing down footage with very effective results. Plus, it’s not that expensive in the grand scheme of things.
HOWEVER, if you’re looking to convert all of your selects to 24p before the edit, it’s going to take forever. That would probably be the best way to do it, so that your dissolves and fades would be at a proper frame rate, but again, the rendering hit will be huge.
It will still work very well to just convert your finished piece to 24p. Just be prepared for some strobing here and there (par for the 24p course). If you go the Twixtor route, I’d also recommend getting their FieldsKit deinterlacing plugin which is very inexpensive, and check out the frame rate conversion tutorials on their website.
Plus, I just like that company. Good guys.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
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Oh, and it was great meeting you at the COW booth on Tuesday.
Jon
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You betcha, Ron.
Whatever you need. In case you missed it, I also posted in the AE forum a couple of weeks ago. I was talking about Algolith’s DNR plug.
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111325649151908&forumid=2
Let me know if you need any further info.
Jon
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I, too, have recently used a few of the Algolith tools. I was really excited to check out the new board as the render times are really high when running the AE plugins. The two guys manning the booth were very nice and did the best job of answering my questions with total honesty.
Here’s what I got from them:
The PCI card (AlgoSpeed) really does use the Teranex HQV chip. It’s right there on the board, and the first thing they show you. It will perform many of the tasks of the stand-alone Teranex Video Computer, but not at realtime. They said that it will average about 1/4-1/3 realtime. Still that’s fantastic compared to running software-only. So, with the card, a 1-minute clip will take 4-minutes to render.
I asked if the noise reduction was the same as the Algolith DNR plugin, and they said no. It was based off of the Teranex specs. I asked if it was the same quality as what their plugin can perform, and again they said no. It’s really good, but not as good as their own software. But you get the HUGE speed advantage with the card.
They said the card will not perform complex frame-rate conversion at this time. However, they have built the card to be upgradeable, and if their client-base wants it to do frame-rate conversion, then they’ll just develope a firmware upgrade. I hope they do soon. Being able to do an accelerated NTSC to PAL conversion (or 30i to 24p) would be fantastic.
The card will be available for both PC and MAC. Sometime this summer.
They did not have the card running at the show, which would have been nice to see. They had a card there, but it was sandwiched between two pieces of clear plastic.
Anyway, I’ll be really interested to get my hands on the card when it’s available for my MAC. I recently rented time on a Teranex, and at the normal rate of $1000/hr for the Big Boy, the Algospeed could pay for itself in half a day.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA