Mark Raudonis
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[rafalaos] “BetaSP never has been a Broadcast format because it doesn’t reach the “Band-width” and the “Signal to Noise ration” that a Broadcast system has to acomplish.”
What????
Sorry Rafael, but this statement is just WRONG!. Beta SP has been the standard “go to format” for many years before digibeta was invented. News. Documentaries. Network playback. All of it was based on beta SP. Sure new formats were developed, but to claim Beta Sp was not “broadcast format” is just misinformed. Please be careful when making such sweeping statements. It calls into question everything else you may claim.
Mark
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I have a 16 X 9 plasma HD TV at home. It has a dozen different ways to “stretch” 4 x 3 programming to fill out the screen. When I first bought it, I spent days experimenting with the settings. My conclusion is that they all SUCK! However, I hate the black “pillars” even more. So, I’ve resigned myself to either: A) watching only HD channels in true 16 x 9 or B) living with the slightly “stretched” look of expanded 4 x 3 that fills the screen. Nothing is more annoying to me than a picture that doesn’t fill the entire screen.
This aspect ratio issue will be with us for MANY YEARS as the population switches over to 16 X 9. There is NO EASY ANSWER. It’s either black bars or stretched picture.
mark
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You must be doing something wrong.
We’ve got a whole building full of twin 23″ Apple cinema displays. Every G5 has one DVI plugged in and one ADC to DVI adapter going to the second cinema display.
When you say it doesn’t work, do you mean that you have a black monitor? No picture, no nothing? Power plugged in?
Mark
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Cautionary tale;
If you work with “window dubs” or “work copies”, be sure to check that your VITC and LTC timecode MATCH! If they don’t, you can end up with logging notes that reference one number and digitized off-line code that match another. And, if you’re not careful, this problem can persist for days and days worth of dubs, totally throwing a wrench in the “off-line to on-line” workflow. (Not that this has ever happened to me!) 🙁
mark
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[Steve Wargo] “I find that ridiculous and know there’s got to be a way around that nonsense. “
Steve,
“one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor”.
What you find “ridiculous” others may find a good value. In the networked environment, you really do get what you pay for. Cheap out on components and you’ll eventually “pay for it” in other ways (frustration, downtime, etc.).
There are alternatives out there. Facillis “Terrablock” for example.
mark
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“Small router box”? If you’re only going Mac to Mac, you don’t need that router. If you’re connected to the WWW, then yes, you do need that box.
Here’s the deal. DV quality over ethernet is iffy at best. Depends on alot of other things. How many streams. How fast are your drives? Is it connected to the outside world. What kind of internet traffic/e mail do you have.
We work at “Off-line RT” quality and have more than twenty people connected to our X-SAN Only via gig e. It does work at that resolution, but you have to be aware of your bandwidth limitations.
Machine to machine is OK… but when you start adding more than that, you’re now in a “networked environment” and different rules apply.
mark
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Christian,
So far, everyone has given you the best “professional” advice for a multicamera shoot. It’s good advice and well intended. It seems however, that you’re trying to do this with a “no budget” approach. Worse, the fine line between doing it or not doing it is the cost… right?
So, here’s a suggestion that is clearly NOT the best professional way to approach it… but will enable you to live switch a multicam shoot live to tape (or file) and then immediately review or distribute.
Check out this product called “Wirecast”.
https://www.varasoftware.com/products/wirecast/It takes a firewire feed from a camera and allows you to live switch, add FX, titles, and best of all, go out directly to a webstream for live broadcast. It’s surprisingly cheap… only $450 bucks.
Look, there’s a right way to do this, and an “anyway” to do it. Three firewire cameras, a PC (or Mac) with multiple firewire ports and you’re in business, for pennies. Good luck.
Mark
PS, We use this program tied to a three camera setup to regularly create direct to the web programming. I can tell you that it works as promised, but in a “live” environment, may not be the easiest set up to deal with. However, weigh this against not doing it all due to cost.
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use “multi cam”
Sync to in point.
Mark
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We’ve got a bunch of DSR-11’s. Just about all of them are missing their front flaps! What’s up with that?
Other than that, they work fine. Several have had their firewire port go south, but that’s most likely due to knuckleheads cramming in a cable without looking carefully at how it should go.
Mark