Marco Solorio
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You’re so crazy, Wally!!! =)
Now that winter is drawing near, I may have a secondary use for that heat source! 😉
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[Andreas Wittenstein] “Note: BitJazz Inc. has a policy of rewarding those who help us improve our products. The users who reported these problems and gave us enough information to isolate and fix the bugs received complimentary SheerVideo Pro licenses in return. “
And let me add that Andreas is a very appreciative and generous person. He’s definitely an asset to our community without question.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[Walter Biscardi] “Man I haven’t heard Apple and Quad in the same sentence since we picked up a DayStar Genesis Machine back in ’96 I believe for the studio at Foxwoods in Connecticut.”
Huh, the good ‘ol days, ay Wally? I bought a DayStar Genesis MP 800+ back then as well. Four 200Mhz CPUs. It cost $10,000 for that damn computer. I STILL HAVE IT TODAY!!! Yup, sits at home… in a closet… on the floor… doing… **nothing**. Makes for a great conversation piece though. Maybe I’ll bring it to work and start a mini-museum of sorts. It would look good next to my Mac Classic. Sigh.
So at $3300 for the new G5 quad, I say, “WHAT A BARGAIN!!!”
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[Andreas Wittenstein] “so it doesn’t do any interframe compression. This means it does just as well on fast motion as on talking heads.”
Doh! That’s right. My bad… it typically compresses it by half, which is part of what I was mentioning. If it was interframe, it wouldn’t do that. Silly me :-p
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[Andreas Wittenstein] “Animation is only lossless up to 8b. PhotoJPEG is never lossless.”
Absolutely true. However, there are times when it has worked perfectly in a particular workflow. Mostly when the client needs it over FTP, crunched down in file size as much as possible, doesn’t care that it is a bit lossy but doesn’t *look* lossy and doesn’t want to (or can’t) download and install 3rd party codecs on their FCP or AVID system.
PhotoJPEG 100% Quality is never my first choice, but it does have its merits and purposes that end up working perfectly.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Hey David,
Good question. No, it actually wont shrink any video file by half. IOW, if you have a Sorenson 3 video file that’s 50 MB, it wont make it 25 MB. It’s (roughly) half the file size in relation to the raw source. It also depends on what kind of footage is being encoded, i.e., fast motion cuts vs. a talking head, as most codecs are. It’s a very intelligent algorithm as there are Y’CbCr options as well.
The good thing too is that the decoder/player is free on Mac/Win, including OS9, so anyone can read a Sheer Video file if they need to. It is only the encoder that costs money.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[gary adcock] “The Silicon Color scopes in Final Touch HD / 2K match my Leader LV5750.”
Agreed. The feedback in Final Touch HD is sweet.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Some good alternatives to Animation are…
PhotoJPEG @ 100% quality (crunches the file size a little bit lower than animation)
BitJazz SheerVideo (encoder costs money)
Microcosm (encoder costs money)When working in RGB space, Animation is always the safest bet if file size isn’t the biggest concern. With a :30 spot, the file size differences may be moot.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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I think your situation, as unlucky as it was, was in fact unique, just as people have unique problems with any other RAID system. I’m still using said HighPoint RocketRAID in a system and it’s still working perfectly after all the time. Never a problem with it, other than purposely unmounting the RAID, turning off the RAID and the controller card sounding an alarm.
With any system, things can go wrong. Sorry to hear you had bad luck with yours!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Reading through this thread, there’s a couple of points I’d like to add for Tim.
I’m a huge fan of Seagate Barracuda drives. I’d absolutely recommend them for your main RAID setup if you’re building one yourself. I prefer them so much, I’ve bought them for my boot drives as well on some systems.
I personally wouldn’t build an internal RAID setup in the G5. There’s so much heat that’s already built up in there by the CPUs and such, let alone the heat the drives will generate alone. Heat are drives’ biggest killer and diminishes their life-span. Go external where you can control the heat in the enclosure with a ton of fans.
Get an (external) 8-port PCI-X SATA card so you can add drives later. Buy good cables and DO NOT use internal cables externally.
If you don’t feel 100% comfortable building your own SATA RAID, either have a pro build one for you or buy a pre-built system from Promax or the like.
Lastly, put your seatbelt on… you’re going to get some insane disk speeds!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media