[Mike Curtis]

If you’re looking to “make a movie” and have any prayer of theatrical distribution, you’re better off shooting 24p, especially if it is a narrative rather than a documentary.

[Mike Curtis]

Rafalaos – that was in version 2.3, not in version 3.0.1 – the described process above should generate the desired results, but it doesn’t.

-mike

Mike Curtis
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[Mike Curtis]

Nope, sorry, Austin, TX. But I could walk you through it over the phone.

Mike Curtis
HD For Indies – Hi Def Filmmaking & Post for Independent Filmmakers

[Mike Curtis]

I’m not aware of a post.

I consult for a living on matters such as these if you’d like me to walk you through it.

-mike

Mike Curtis
HD For Indies – Hi Def Filmmaking & Post for Independent Filmmakers

[Mike Curtis]

AFAIK, here’s the deal – you can work in:

-10 bit 4:2:2 Y’CbCr
-32 bit 4:4:4 Y’CbCr if you set it up right
-8 bit RGB 4:4:4

I really wouldn’t recommend FCP as the tool to fix this stuff – After Effects would be better, and there are ways to properly set it up and do batch type processing on it.

Mike Curtis
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[Mike Curtis]

As Khan would say, “This IS Seti Alpha Six!”

: )

This IS coming from a Compressor setting – the 1080i60 HDV preset that is creating the problem. Smells to me like Apple needs to make a tweak to the presets to make them display correctly if the aspect ratio was set correctly in Compressor.

And all of this is coming from FCP, so that isn’t a help.

But I DO appreciate you taking the time to respond – we’re both suggesting what SHOULD work, it just isn’t.

-mike

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[Mike Curtis]

Doh – I meant 24 “P” support, not the 24f that I wrote – I realize that is a Canon only thing, not a JVC thing – just a typo on my part.

Mike Curtis
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[Mike Curtis]

Short version – it won’t work.

Why:

1.) 1st off, the bus – it is PCI ONLY, not PCI-X nor PCIe.

2.) Even if it were PCIe native, it would only be one lane, and the max throughput isn’t enough

3.) All HD capable cards are PCI-X 100/133 MHz, or PCIe 4 lane cards

4.) Even if you had the HD card working, there wouldn’t be enough leftover bandwidth for the storage solution

5.) I specifically asked Grant Petty from BlackMagic if it would be possible to do anything HD over the expansion slot on the newest Intel based MacBook Pros, and we discussed it and it boiled down to NO, can’t be done for HD. You might be able to get 720p24, 8 bit only 4:2:2, that kind of a thing, so not worth doing. And even then, you’ld only have the HD signal and no fast storage (FireWire 800 not fast enough). Since a single card solution would require both a storage solution and an HD solution, and no company has all that expertise, and there’s not enough throughput anyway, and that’d be a tiny market to serve, It Ain’t Gonna Happen.

With FireWire ingest for HDV, DV, DVCPRO/50/HD, and Matrox MXO coming for HD-SDI output, that even more reasons why this product doesn’t have sufficient demand to make it on top of the fact that it is not possible and not practical and not feasible given the technology limitations.

I’d like it to work, but it ain’t gonna.

-mike

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Mike Curtis
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[Mike Curtis]

For HD video, the data rates are huge – up to 160 MB/sec raw data rate, disk subsystems need to be capable of about 200 MB/sec to account for overhead etc. No FireWire solution gets that fast – gotta go SATA or fiber channel (or SCSI, even less likely). You’d need an HD-SDI in, and port multiplying eSATA out most likely, and I don’t think the bus even goes that fast to be able to support that much throughput. I also am not aware of any one company that has the expertise in SDI and storage throughput to put out a single card with all them smarts on it. So I don’t think it’ll happen.

SD video, on the other hand – that might be doable – use FireWire 400 with a Kona I/O (presuming there are drivers soon), and a SATA card to go in the slot in the MBP and that could theoretically work OK.

-mike

[Mike Curtis]

Nope –

DVCPRO HD is only included with Final Cut Pro HD (v4.5 or 5.0) on Mac. There is NO WAY Apple is going to release this for Windows – it’s categorically not in their interest. I’d say your best bet would be to try some kind of re-wrapping into a WM/AVI file if you have a some other DVCPRO HD native codec installed. And I don’t even know if that would work. In short, U B hosed. Sorry.

-mike