Marco Solorio
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[chrispy] “Why can’t we all just go progressive…and lose this whole field thing. Better still, progressive with a single frame rate for everyone. Let’s just live in a 24p world.”
I’d die and gone to heaven if that ever came true!!!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Very nice tute, Andrew, but the only comment I’d have to mention (in defense of Peter’s Reel Smart Deinterlacer) is that this method does *not* do the same thing as RS Deinterlacer. This method, like most, reduces the vertical resolution by half. RS Deinterlacer, as well as Nattress deinterlacer do not reduce the entire vertical resolution by half. Rather, they mask only the portions of the frame that have interlaced motion while keeping non-motion data untouched (user controlled).
The method in your tute is very good, but is more akin to AE’s built-in deinterlacer plugin as opposed to the likes of RS Deinterlacer and Nattress Deinterlacer. I just felt uncomfortable leaving this unsaid since there is a reason those plugins cost money!
I hope to not offend! I know creating these tutes takes a lot of time. I’ve never thought of using a method like this for deinterlacing… interesting read!!!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[David Battistella] “Apple also seems to be moving away from supporting cards with “additional” processing for FCP, preferring to keep everyting on the drive speed, cpu and hardware, so the cards seem to be becoming the pipeline.”
On the contrary. Q-Rez isn’t your typical hardware accelerator. Unlike traditional capture cards that have built-in hardware acceleration, the Q-Rez hardware *helps* you gain more RT Extreme performance. How? By offloading decompression processing from host G5 CPUs to the Q-Rez hardware system, you free up more G5 CPU processing power to the system for RT Extreme.
So instead of having the G5 CPUs use valuable processing power for both decompression ***and*** RT Extreme, using Q-Rez leaves the CPUs open for JUST RT Extreme processing in its fullness.
I wish it did this for ALL the compressed codecs, like DV25 , DV50, etc. I look forward to seeing this hardware opened up in the drivers.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[gary adcock] “HDCAM SR Decks use a variant of mpeg 4 compression when recording to tape at 10bit, the compression / decompression cycle from a deck is within one “deltaE” of color and luminance difference– so it is considered (or accepted) to be lossless (that variance is about .05%)”
God I love it when you talk dirty to me, Gary. More, baby, more…
Oooooo yeahhhh
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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I agree, Wally. I also have to say that I really don’t care which way Apple goes with their new CPU change. In fact, when the G5 chip was first coming out, I was hoping that they’d go with AMD, since at the time AMD was making some serious ground with CPU speed. They went with IBM and I was fine with that. So the switch to Intel is fine with me. To me, it’s the OS that makes me enjoy working on a computer, so whichever CPU is powering OSX makes no difference to me.
Bring on the new chips.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[walter biscardi] “Looks like something that would get Marco Solario screaming all the way to the store to pick up. :-)”
Hee hee! Actually, my DM24 digital mixer has had it for a few years. I just need to get the optional FireWire card to have it talk to FCP and I’m golden. No time to try it yet though! Soon!
BTW, I’m in Washington D.C. on production. I had a layaway in Atlanta and screamed out, “WALLY!!!” but for some reason you didn’t hear me! What’s up with that?!!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Although I could put the K-box at the rear of the rack and hook up to the patchbay that way, I do prefer to have everything front-faced. So with that in mind, I leave a one-space opening beneath the K-box to run the cables back and into the patchbay. And as Bob mentions, getting patchbays, both video and audio is the only way to go, unless you have a digital router which is even better.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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[Chris Poisson] “But you know, having to do this kind of safegaurd seems absurd to me, it’s like buying a new car and hoping it won’t blow up or have a brake failure. You expect it to just work. I for one expect a company like Apple to solve all this stuff for me before I pay the price of admission.”
Cars have recalls too. In the hardware+software world, nothing is ever perfect. There will always be bugs and unpredictable conflicts. Truth is, the new combined upgrades *do* seem to be working quite well. With the millions of lines of code combined with the varying hardware complexities, there’s an easy probability of a 1-5% chance of something erroneous happening on a new release. This is absolutely inevitable. If anyone can’t accept this, then they’re in the wrong business.
With time an updates, the software+hardware combo on each major release will polish up. This is what OSX 10.3.8 and FCP 4.5 is… a fine tuned machine. Tiger+FCP5 will get there too. And looking at some of the results from my amigos, it looks like Tiger+FCP5 is off to a great start.
[Chris Poisson] “In total, I’ve spent around $3000 for all my FCP copies and upgrades, so I don’t think I should be the only one pissed about this release and it’s shortcomings.”
I’ve spent much more than that, but there’s no reason to be pissed (I especially should be pissed since I’ve beta tested for Apple… I should be getting free software from them!). I’d be pissed if I was a newbie or a hobbiest, but as a professional, you never take the risk of succumbing your bread-and-butter to the bleeding edge… unless you have a backup plan or have an alternative motive.
Truth is, I feel all this stuff works better than we all think. I’ve used beta software (even alpha software) on real-world projects (hey, that’s the only real way to see if something works and if you’ll encounter bugs) and I’d say 95% of the time (again, referring to beta software) it all works. Once it make public release, it’s even stronger. A huge part of this is how the system itself is set up.
If you have a contracted deadline, use the software you know will work 100%. For me, that’s currently OSX 10.3.8 with FCP 4.5. Plain and simple.
I don’t expect it to be too long before I can feel comfortable using Tiger+FCP5 on contracted deadlines.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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I don’t want give an I-told-you-so kind of answer, but in reality, you should
never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever never ever
NEVER upgrade to a brand new OS and/or new FCP software that runs your business. Bad, bad, bad!!!
At most simply do this…
If you have an extra open SATA slot in your G5, then buy a new SATA drive for only a couple hundred bucks (I always recommend Seagate), wipe it clean, install Tiger and all its updates and install the software you want on it and all its updates. Then simply boot between each drive when you want to and IF you want to. No you can’t open your FCP5 project on the old drive, but this at least lets you see if the software is perfectly stable for real-world use.
So that’s what we’re doing here before going head first into Tiger and FCP5. Then once we do feel we can fully use Tiger+FCP5 on everyday productions without worry, we’ll use the old original Panther drive as an internal backup drive. Perfect!
So is it worth a couple hundred [deductible] bucks to save grief? YOU BETCHA!!! =)
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Hey Wally, best of luck to you, dude. I’m sure you guys will have a blast. Nice to hear you’re using top-rated gear too. The primes will really make it shine. On a recent music video I onlined a couple of months ago, I convinced the producer/director to shoot with a full box of primes. Worked out great.
We’re almost done with an indie short here as well. About two years in the works now. I’m in the middle of finishing up the musical score and it’ll be done. Yay!
If you guys pull off your completion to the exact target date or sooner, I’ll be extremely impressed! Tough to do!!! =)
Best to ya,
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media