Michael Phillips
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I think CPU will be fine. It’s more a matter of disk speed and sustain rates for high data rate formats off the media drive. You can run Blackmagic or other similar Disk speed tests to check that out.
Michael
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There is a concept called “supersampling” that the same image shot in SD and HD then HD downsampled to SD will look better. That is because more information was captured originally. A somewhat related example of this would be ripping a DVD to H.264 with the same settings from an SD version and the Blu Ray version. The Blu Ray encoded version looks better (for testing purposes only of course…;)).
Not to mention you have some flexibility in recomposing or shot if needed without losing quality.
Michael
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What kind of media and data rates are you expecting? Drive performance will affect resolution and number of streams being played. I would probably go RAID 0 and use that for media and backup as needed.
Michael
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I’m not a Unity/ISIS expert but it appears that that seat of MC is only looking at shared media, and not local. The fact that the database files were not created tells me it was not indexed when MC was launched.
Try importing a JPEG or some other small file and target the local drive to see if it forces MC to create the Avid MediaFiles folder and MXF. Also make sure your media creation settings is not filtering out the local drive.
Michael
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Have you tried AAF with embedded video media?
Michael
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Have you looked at MPEG Streamclip?
Michael
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Agreed, matching different frame rates to look the same is nearly impossible if not impossible due to motion resolution, and other factors in the image. Always match frame rates as well as progressive/interlace. So in this case, 30p (29.97) will be the way to go. Work in a 720p project as it will be easier to make 1920 look like 720 than the other way around, but depending on delivery (size – YouTube, broadcast, etc.) you may not notice the difference at all.
Michael
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I think the “works better on a PC” is something that may have been true in the past, and perhaps still true when connecting many systems on a Unity/Interplay type scenario – but from a single standalone application, I have found no real differences in stability between Mac and PC and I run both. Perhaps others have had difference experiences.
If standalone is what you are doing, just run MC on the Mac and not tie up CPU resources and memory running another OS, etc.
Michael
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Certainly not condoning violation of copyrights or any intellectual property but it is interesting at a high level what the industry is going through at this time. As a holder of several patents, I see violations all over the place. It is up to the company to pursue legal action at the cost that it entails. There are so many rules and strategies associated with it that in the end, it’s the lawyers that end up winning. 😉 I find that patent filing and granted patents are mainly a defensive counter move when being sued for patent violation as well as the right to do the process yourself. In the example in this thread, it is pretty clear with a difference matte between the layers that the similarities of “grain and noise” are identical.
That aside, it was ineresting to me to see how many employees these companies have to create the product offerings and the pressure from potential customers who want everything for free or hardly nothing. That only works when you have something that it is attached to that is of greater value to sell, protect, or grow market share. For example, Redcine X Pro from Red is free. Resolve is free but Grant has a great philosophy to back that strategy up and an ecosystem to back that up with what is available now as well as whatever he has in mind in the future. Apple has it with FCPX – between hardware, operating system, iTunes only purchase, etc it is it’s own singular ecosystem. I would not be surprised if Apple only allowed plug-ins to be installed into FCPX via iTunes in the future as a strategy, getting an ensure 30% of that revenue as well.
As the prices drop, volume sales must go up to stay in business. motionVFX has 15 employees. Each one making enough salary to make a living, raise a family, perhaps buy a home. But the new mentality of free to no cost because it’s software is fascinating and concerning at the same time – content is fast becoming that way as well and you’ve seen the stories of how much money the artist actually gets in the back end. There are more distribution platforms out there for all this, but marketing costs, competitive pressure all lead to a difficult endeavor, be it software products or content. There is truth to the saying; “there are a lot of first time filmmakers, not a whole lot of second time ones.” And getting a distribution deal does not mean you’re making a living. I’ve lived that one first hand as a content creator.
Michael
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I am seeing the same thing in software only, even with the correct render setting for pause (not in front of a system right now for the correct menu setting).
Michael