[Mark Palmos]

hi ben
afaik h.264 did not start off as a mac or apple thing. It has been used by all sorts of people and i believe the mpeg4 used in bluray video files is also h264…

but whether it will play on your client’s pc really depends on the codecs they have on their computer. Some of my clients cannot even play a basic mpeg-2. Most of these new, efficient codecs require the user to download something, flash, quicktime, wmv, real… but I would agree with David, go with flash, most people have it, erm, flash h264!

[Mark Palmos]

[David Smith] “You might be interested in this thread, starting with the fifth post:”

hi
yep sounds very intersting, though the tech ramble is a bit over my head, but it seems its basically via gigabit ethernet you would be editing anyway.

I didnt think ethernet, even gigabit ethernet, was fast enough for video editing… but apparently it is.

thanks for the help
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

aah kapish,
we would use the other for internet access/connection to the rest of the building.
ta
mark

[Mark Palmos]

hello you two.
thanks very much for the new (for me) ideas… i will check into both of your ideas/links and will report back… tx,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

hmm,
it seems we may have to do the separate raid5 / gigabit ethernet route for sharing.
tx
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Thanks Walter,

Its pretty new, and shocking to me.

We will see what these Root6 people charge for the Facillis or DVS SANs.

Do you use the secondary Ethernet socket on the MacPro to gigabit-connect the two systems up directly? We would have to do something like that and avoid going through the whole network since our IT Dept imposes way too much security.

BTW earlier today i was rendering something and browsed off to the Cow and clicked on one of your tutorials (easy setups), and you had me giggling… so thanks!

Till later
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Peter,
Thanks, I called them and they will call back… it seems they have Facillis an DVS Products, so we will see if the prices are any cheaper.

In my ignorance, I would have guessed there was a way of putting a fibre controller card into each MacPro, then put a bunch of 1TB SATA drives into a basic PC with a SATA Raid controller and fibre network card and then connect that to both MacPro’s via fibre cable…

but it seems not. ;-(
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

hee hee
thats funny!
ok, i will “go soft” on words like the aforementioned speci…
i hope all is very well with you and kathlyn
catcha later
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

hi
yes you can, but of course only the commands that correlate with the same feature in Premier.
mark

[Mark Palmos]

heh heh,
well yeah, but elitist and snotty are first cousins!
mark