[Kaveh Pourshahidi]

Thanks Chris for your submission about the ProRes-articles. That WAS interesting reading.
We are going to do some test to capture HD-cam and SD with different codec. I guess the bottom line, as always, is finding the best harmony considering speed, storage size and prise in one ring side, and quality, quality and quality in the other ring side!

By the way, does anyone know if the new imac 2,5 and 2,8 is able to edit (not capture!) ProRes HQ without problems? I mean plain two layers editing?

Have a good one,

Kaveh

[Kaveh Pourshahidi]

Thanks every one for your inputs. I feel much better now about ProRes as a serious alternative to full SD an HD.
Mark, you’re right about Fibre and San system being the only way when working with uncompressed material. But we’re trying to avoid that.

Here is the thing, we’re going to deal with hours and hours SD and HD material every day. That’s why we are looking at ProRes, DVC Pro HD and even AVC-intra to find smarter workflow to minimize the need of storage, and render time.

Shane, we had the opportunity to try out EditShare for couple of days and I must say the system worked pretty good handling both DV and multiple uncompressed SD coming from four FCP-stations and one Avid. We did not tried it out with ProRes which is a shame. It still remains some more testing before we decide what system we will go for. Tomorrow we’ll meet with some Apple-people and hear their solution.

Jeremy, we are a production company producing mostly promos, and billboards. Many times we do lots of keying, tracking and compositing. That was very good news you having such good results when posting.

And Matt, don’t worry. I wouldn’t even dreaming about doing the installation myself, not even with a gun pointed to my head. Our house is a creative house and we want to keep it that way.

Thanks again every one and keep sharing your wisdom.

Kaveh