Mark Petereit
Forum Replies Created
-
[In my best Spock impersonation]
If you’re importing, editing and exporting, all in the same codec, there should be no effect on the quality at all.
Is there something you’re not telling us?
[Arching one eye brow]
-
How are you viewing it? Surely not in the canvass…
-
Sounds like it’s time to look at upgrading to an HM100.
-
Good. Then all is not lost. I don’t personally know of any device that would output HD video from your Mac’s firewire port.
What you REALLY need to get is an actual broadcast video card. I picked up an old BlackMagic Decklink HD Extreme card a few months ago for a couple hundred bucks. You could run component HD out from that to your HDTV and it would be look great.
The newer cards from BlackMagic, AJA and Matrox have HDMI out, but they’re more expensive and may not work in your older G5. Hopefully someone who knows more about G5s could chime in here.
-
Whoa! Are you doing this from an iMac or MacBook?
-
So you’re taking digital HD footage, downsampling to analog SD, sending the analog signal to your HDTV that then has to reconvert the analog signal to digital and upsample it to display it on the HD screen?
Buy yourself a DVI-to-HDMI dongle.
-
Go easy on Pat. I almost missed the first discussion.
-
Already being discussed here.
-
What kind of card (or device) are you using to connect your HDTV?
-
I’ll side with Steve Jobs on this one.
Some of the biggest gripes I have with FCS is the lack of continuity in the UI (understandable considering their individual pedigrees) and an ingest workflow that seems to be troubling to a lot of new users. Apple is famous for the practically magical way things “just work” — log and capture just doesn’t seem to fit with that ethic.
Imagine a FCS where all the UI elements are Apple-elegant and everything you plug in “just works”.
Mark