Mark Petereit
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I don’t think the delay of the new Mac Pro has anything to do with iPhone/iPad development. Those are totally separate engineering teams.
I think Jobs has his usual ace up his sleeve and is simply waiting for the perfect time to play it. When he finally does, I think he’ll announce new 12- and 16-core Mac Pros and spring the surprise that ALL the pro apps have been rewritten to use all those processors.
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Here’s another option that might get you the best of all worlds: find a tech-savvy local church that’s ready to get their feet wet in video and volunteer your time. Let them provide the Mac Pro and all the toys and you provide the creativity, talent and time.
Don’t laugh. It’s working out GREAT for me and for my church!
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One other thing to consider: if you ever want to do any color grading, you simply can’t do it on an iMac or a MacBook Pro. You MUST use an external, broadcast spec monitor, which requires a broadcast video board (AJA or BlackMagic) and that will require a Mac Pro.
As far as I’m concerned, the only use for an iMac or MacBook Pro with regards to editing is AS AN ADDITION TO a fully kitted out Mac Pro workstation. iMacs work well to enable you to start cutting another project while your Mac Pro is busy compressing. A MacBook Pro can work in the field to ingest media directly from a camera and to start editing a project on a plane on your way somewhere. Trying to use either of those as a complete suite will only lead to frustration.
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If you’re getting great results in Edius, then use Edius.
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How does it appear when the station airs it? Letterboxed?
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Nice work! Can you upload the version that you downconverted to SD for the local TV station?
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Just seems strange to me that all the local TV stations have all the equipment they need to transmit HD from their networks, but none of them have the equipment necessary to handle a local HD commercial.
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What are you delivering?
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Interesting! I’m up in Florence, SC. I’ve been holding off on TV advertising, waiting for the local stations to get their HD act together.
Do you have any examples of your SD down-converted commercials available on the net? I’d like to see how they look.
Mark Petereit
Family Worship Center, Florence
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If the computer you’re playing it on doesn’t have the same codec you used to create it, you’re not going to be able to view it. That’s why most people compress to H.264 for distribution.