Matthew Sonnenfeld
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HP zr2440w. I have one and I love it. Honestly it looks very good, has a nice set of connections, and is easy to calibrate. You won’t be disappointed.
Panasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
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What about Resolve on the Retina display and how it will pixel double any application that does not have built in support for Retina Resolution? Will this degrade the resolve interface? And keeping at the optimum resolution of the computer still has the real estate of a 1440×900 screen. How would you expect this will effect Resolve on the screen?
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Just got off the phone with Apple. Spoke to a Mac Pro sales rep and got the scoop…
The processors are updated to the current Intel Xeon processors but the website has not reflected the change yet. If you check the numbers stated, the Intel Xeon E5645, it is still the one from Q1 2010. Also, they changed the RAM configuration. You now get more RAM standard.
These are the ONLY changes and they do not know if anything else will be changed at any time but these are definitely the only changes for today. There will NOT be Thunderbolt, USB 3, updated graphics, or any sort of case redesigns on this “refresh.”
They recommended checking back at the Apple website about every half hour to see if they update the Mac Pro pages with what will be the new spec.
Additionally, if you look close at the benchmarks, they do reflect May 2012 tests on pre production models.
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2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
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Haha love it Andy!
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2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
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I might need to disable email responses for whatever threads I post on tomorrow. I feel like they just won’t stop and quite frankly, I’m a little afraid.
Panasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
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Also getting this with my IoXT. Will be calling tech support tomorrow.
Panasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
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Walter I’m just curious… Is there a reason why you wouldn’t want to use a PCIe Thunderbolt chassis for the Kona 3, 3G’s and LHi that you already have? The Sonnet is half the price of the IoXT and the Magma is a bit more expensive but has 3 slots. Could be very useful especially if you have fiber RAIDS, etc.
https://store1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?&products_id=403
https://www.magma.com/thunderbolt.asp
And don’t get me wrong, I have the IoXT and I love it, but as long as AJA is supporting the Kona cards that you have, why would you switch for twice the price?
Panasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
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Hi Ashley,
Just glad to be able to help! Another thing that you can try within premiere if you haven’t already is to set the playback resolution to half or even a quarter. If you’re only working on your laptop you shouldn’t really notice a quality loss as its playing in those tiny screens. This can be very beneficial when working with HD+ footage.
In terms of quality, Cineform has a really fantastic algorithm. If I can dig it up I have a comparison screenshot of 5DmkII footage next to the same scene converted to Cineform. Night and day, the Cineform looks BETTER. Only time I’ve actually gained quality after a generation. If I find it I’ll repost it on here but it’s not on the computer that I’m on now.
As for the output format, Cineform is very good but you will find yourself limited in terms of where you can play it as other machines will need the Cineform codec to play it back. But that will most likely yield you the highest quality in terms of a master file so I would definitely recommend exporting one right out of Premiere to have a high quality master. You can make your copies for distribution off of that. On a PC it would probably be good to have a copy in Avid DNxHD. Their codecs are available for free online also. This of course may wind up with the same problems as a Cineform in terms of playback though…. You could also always export a high quality .avi. For PC that will be fine, will have trouble on a Mac but that may not be an issue for you.
Really it depends on where you want it to go. If it’s for youtube/vimeo then you want an H.264. Just choose this setting in the export window and select the preset for VimeoHD or YouTube HD. Then just check the export settings to make sure that the frame rate is correct and everything (I know that the VimeoHD setting defaults to 29.97… very frustrating when you have 23.976 footage. Need to always remember to change it). Same things with DVD and Blu-Ray… just choose the presets and check the settings. If you just want a high quality digital master to show your friends, just export the Cineform (which you should do anyway and make conversions off of the master and not right out of Premiere). It would be a bad day if you lost your project and only had a low resolution/highly compressed master file.
Let me know if you have any more questions!
Best,
MattPanasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
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Happy to help!
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2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
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Hi Bob,
The viewfinder hood is made my Blackmagic-Design and is bundled with the camera. Close look says that the tripod is the Sachtler Video 20 S1, follow focus is Chrosziel, and the red on the mounting plate and rods tells me Zacuto.
Hope this helps,
MattPanasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
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