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Thanks a lot for the info about how to show invisible files. Great tip! But unfortunately, it did not find any file that would be an easy answer. Any other idea’s?
Matt
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Never needed to see the Mac hidden files. How do you “turn them on” to see them?
Matt
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I think you might be wrong Rafalaos. I haven’t ever physically taken one apart, but from what I understand, there are actual hardware chips that are doing the conversions, within a Kona card for example. There is Not software doing stuff inside a card like the Kona. It’s actually hardware. That’s how it can do the conversions in real time as it’s happening.
At least in my own experience, trying to downconvert by putting an HD sequence into a SD seuqnece then rendering, still gives you artifcating and I can see the “uneasyness” of the filter trying to shift the fields (HD is upper, SD is lower) within the software. Yes it works. But I recommend letting the hardware do the job. In my honest oppinion, it looks 100 times better.
Matt James
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Wayne is right. The best quality you are going to get is to let the Decklink HD Card do the conversion. You can either hook up a DVCproHD Deck to it and capture “Center Cut” into uncompressed 8-bit codec, then you’re already in an SD edit work flow. Or you can do as suggested above, especially if you don’t have a DVCproHD deck, and bring in your P2 card clips, edit in a DVCProHD timeline, Then when you’re done, make the Decklink HD Pro hardware convert it to the “Center Cut” uncompressed 8-bit signal into a Beta Deck.
Hardware conversion gives you much better quality than software conversion any day!
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We all forgive you Bob! You have provided more than your share of wonderful information here and in the new magazine, for anyone to think that you’re an idot. Appreciate your honesty.
Thanks,
Matt James
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That’s what I thought and have been reading. It seems that the AJA I/O-HD only has hardware for Pro-Res and no harware for DVCproHD like the MotuV3HD does. I haven’t had time to do tests on the Pro-Res codec. Do people like it compared to DVCproHD?
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Bob, below is the link to B&H. I didn’t see the “accepting orders” in the availability section. Sorry for the excitement!!!!
So just to confirm, we are not limited to the Apple Pro-Res codec out of this box. We can hook up a nice HD-SDI camera input, and send DVCproHD to the laptop through the firewire?
One of my client’s just upgraded and I haven’t been able to do my own tests of the Pro-Res yet.Thanks a lot,
Matt James
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I had a client whose 500gig internal went south, after only 4 months of use. IT was the internal HD with the OS and the FCP software bundle and all the little fonts and everything else for the system. I personally think the 750gig is too big and just too large a platform to house the tiny little system files. Way too much for the OS to sift through to get to the info you want. Also, I would imagine there is a huge performace difference, from info on the inner part of the drive, versus the outer part of the drive as it fills up. Video files however, are large chunks of data so they don’t confuse drives at all like small files do. Just make it tough for some to play depending on how it’s connected to the cpu.
So I will recommend a smaller internal drive for you operating system and software. Then you still have space for 3 more dives in the new boxes. So get 750 gig or 500 gig drives in those slots and the RAID them together as one drive. This will give you the best performance and stability.
Matt James
Freelance FCP editor
Denver, CO
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Popwire is exactly what we are doing now. I can make it a high quality WMV file and they bring it into thier windows encoding program and can make multiple flavors of WindowsMedia files for streaming, from my one master. They do a lot of streaming and don’t want to tie up a hole edit system just for encoding stuff.
There is a darkness issue when making WMV files from a Mac, but the client says they can make it brighter in this PC encoding program. I think this is because of the difference in color space between the PC os and MacOSX.
Thanks a lot. Any other thoughts about what’s happpening with the AVI’s?
Matt James
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Also remember to check your number of Real-Time audio tracks in the User Settings. The higher number of tracks you want it play, the lower the quality and more anamolies you’ll hear. To get the best audio, BEFORE you audio-mixdown and/or RE-Render all your files, set the real-time audio tracks to 2 at High. Render your audio and then if that doesn’t work, do an audio-mixdown.
Matt James