Marco Solorio
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Heh, I think the African Rand (their form of currancy) is better than the USD. Heck, I think everything is better than the USD at this point! Ahhh, I remember the good old days when a dollar would buy me the equivalent of a 2-bedroom home in other coutries. Oh how I miss the mighty dollar! :-p
Hope all is well with you too, buddy.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[Piper] “on another, non bovine forum, a post said all the Firewire ports (400 and 800) work on the same bus, and having more than one device on that bus at the same time can cause problems like capture probs, or dropped frames etc. “
Yes, this is true. They do in fact share the same bus.
You can definitely get a cheap PCI FireWire card to isolate it on its own bus if you’re having problems with FW bus overload on the G5 native ports.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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That can definitely work. I’d definitely recommend Nattress as well.
One trick we’ve done to help give it a truly realistic look (if that’s what you’re going for) is to acquire old blank film stock footage (usually shot against black or white) and combine/layer-mode it to your footage. You’ll still need to shorten the FPS and “jitter” your original footage and possibly add grain, but combining real 8mm stock really seals the deal.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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I second David’s notion. I think we export WMVs from FCP on an almost continual basis for our clients and without Flip4Mac, the old process of exporting it, transfering it to a Windows workstation and encoding it to WMV over there would have sent us to the grave by now.
The latest version really improves on WMV encoding times as well.
Definitely worth every penny… even a Canadian penny in David’s case!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Cool, thanks for the scoop. I remember you passing on the reins to Eric but it didn’t occur to me (at the time) that everything went back to CGI until just recently.
Hope all is well with the startup!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[walter biscardi] “Now we’re all waiting for Apple’s hardware to “catch up””
The G5 hardware is there. And the PCIe GPU hardware speeds are finally there too. It’s not so much a question of the CPU speeds/power, instead it’s the, shall I say, “unoptimized software development” to properly take advatage of that existing hardware.
Things that were done in beta on G4s years ago are yet to be seen on quad-core G5s today. This is still a mystery to me.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Wally speaks the truth. We have about 20 Dell LCDs in the facility, ranging from 20″ to 24″ and they all work great. You can usually find coupon codes for them too to help save a buck or two.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Curtis couldn’t have spelled it out any more clearly. Web production (at least, high-end, good looking and functional) web production is a completely different mind-set, tool-set, workflow-set, set-set than video production is. With video, you only have NTSC or PAL to deal with. With the web, you have a complex compatibility matrix to follow (from different browsers on different platforms on different versions) and it can be a daunting task for the new designer. Even DVD production, which is user-interactive based, kind of like the web, is still much more simplistic than web production since DVD authoring involves a strict compatibility set that works across DVD players. More often than not, the web is a crap shoot.
The two worlds are truly different, but not an impossible task if you’re commited to spending quality time on it on a regular basis.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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LOL! This is what I’ve loved about Bob throughout the years…
” but THEN, your client walks in with these horrible HDV tapes.
OH NO, you are going to have to get an HDV VTR, or even worse, work right from their HDV Camera. What junk!”
LMAO! As much as I couldn’t agree more that HDV can usually be “less than ideal”, I’ll never grow tired of Bob’s in-your-face approach!
Rock on Bob.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Just to add… AJA was in the video hardware conversion technology long before the availability of all this stick-a-card-in-your-Mac business. It wasn’t (and still isn’t) uncommon to see their hardware converters on A-list movie production sets.
We’ve been using their hardware (a lot of it) since the original AJA Kona SD debuted. For the record, we do use some BMD hardware, but our main HD edit suite uses nothing but (and a lot of) AJA hardware whereas the BMD hardware is sprinkled throughout other areas of the facility, like video-out support for audio production in the audio control room and video-out support for previewing CGI on one of our Windows 3D workstations.
When it comes down to it, AJA’s core video hardware is top-of-the-line.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media