[Michael Belanger]

Obviously I have not kept track of the Mac Pros configs of late . However, the point is that a Quad G5 should not be considered to be underpowered by a Quad Intel . It is the fact that Apple has written the code to better utilize the Intel chip over the PPC chip. Quite clearly alot of us do upgrade yearly but a quad G5 in many instances can perform as admirably or better in some respects, check barefeats, than some of the MacPros. While you may try to down play the improtance of Pro Rez it was clearly used as a marketing tool at NAB, those of us there saw them tout the greatness of Pro Rez having gone down 10 generations and be clearly as good the first generation (although it was not clearly explained how they defined 10 generatons) The advantage of Pro Rez is that you won’t need superfast drives to do high quality HD capture and edit. The part they neglected to mention was that you needed new chipsets to do this. It is on the edge of misleading the public. This should have been clearly pointed out. I guess there will be alot of G5 trade ins over the next few months. Curious if my MacBook Pro if used in conjuction with the new AJA portable unit unveiled at NAB would capture PRO Rez. That would make be a treat.

As for the mutli codecs on the same timeline, that certainly is a help , but also may be best utilized by the purchase of a Mac Pro. I guess I will find out this week upon installation.
From my experience with the Cinewave though I never did find this a flawless function .
I often had issues with this function on the cinewave systems I used. Dissolves were often clunky, colour shifts and the like. Also issues with the qt and os and drivers needing to be in the correct alignment, not alot of room for error on that system, and that was only standard def, can’t imagine what it was like with HD.
Nonetheless at least Apple has released the new software at a great price and threw in Color, that to me is the biggest thing they did to make the software a killer app.

Mike B

[Michael Belanger]

That is quite a remarkable turn of events. Essentially Apple is forcing people’s hands to upgrade, in some cases just cross grade, to a new chip set. I find it quite hard to believe that a quad G5 doesn’t have enough muscle to do a capture to Pro Rez and a Dual proc Mac Intel will be able to do this. Sounds like they have written something into the code.
Does this mean that the lowest end Mac Pro will achieve what the highest end G5 cannot.
That seems incredulous to me. Apple must resolve this somehow . No one is asking them to make a G4 single processor work miracles but when a quad G5 cannot do this capture something is wrong indeed.

Mike B
Dandelion Editing
Toronto Canada

[Michael Belanger]

Can we assume that once footage has been successfully digitized with Pro Rez that there is no further requirement to used a Mac Pro? Is the strain on the CPU consistent throughout the usage of this codec or only during digitizing?>

Mike B

[Michael Belanger]

Thanks

I guess puting a finished movie into AE then sizing it up will ultimately make the movie softer
Are the folks at Particle Illusion resolving this issue or offering a solution. Maybe the latest release. Should just be a pixel stretching thing like AE.

If you are in the neighbourhood please feel to drop by. I am not sure I would characterize the building as a media building.

Mike B

[Michael Belanger]

Hey Chi-Ho Lee

Couldn’t get to your website, please forward me your email if you could please

Mike Belanger
Dandelion Editing
Audio/Video Post Production
111 Peter Street

[Michael Belanger]

For those who might need this fix
I got a great guy, Paul , from BORIS to post me the plugs that resolve any issues with the Title 3d and other Boris titler plugs not showing up in the pull down portion of FCP 5.1.4. They work BEAUTIFULLY so thanks to Paul at BORIS support for the fix.
He may just put a posting on here for those who are still grappling with this problem.

Thanks again Oliver

Dandelion Editing
Audio/Video Post Production
111 Peter Street

[Michael Belanger]

Hi Oliver

I tried both solutions from the previous link. Your solution of making duplicate packages and renaming them and re inserting the Boris contents seemed to work up until I had to put it into the fcp plug ins folder.
Here I have four packages. Do I double click them to install? That doesn’t work. Do I just drag them to the folder ?

thanks
Mike B

[Michael Belanger]

Thanks Oliver

That is one wacked solution. Apple wasn’t aware of this? Sleeping at the switch I guess.
I’ll try your solution if I can even follow the route. I guess the boris script wasn’t much help to you?

Mike B

[Michael Belanger]

Thanks again Luke

I think the bulk of my work will be compressed HD , hopefully XDCAM HD will be working soon on FCP.

Great advice. Thanks again

Mike Belanger

[Michael Belanger]

Thanks Luke

Can I use the HDlink to feed another 23/24 inch monitor when editing compressed hd material
such as dvcprohd? I have discovered as you suggested that I can drive compressed material onto a desktop monitor and get quite good results. However if I need to have two monitors this scenario doesn’t work. Any suggestions

Mike

PS
As you suggested to Bob, I can use a large tv fed by the hdlink through hdmi but as I have discovered those TVs simple lack the resolution to make it worthwhile
Is there a better way I am not aware of to have a large 30+ screen?