Mike Janowski
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Dude, what’s the purpose of your compression? Transcoding for edit, compressing for streaming services like YouTube, or squishing it so it fits on Aunt Mabel’s IBM PC/XT?
More important for us to know so we can help you is what is your original file’s codec (yes, it’s an MXF file, but what kind of MXF?), and what codecs have you tried?
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I would agree. I mean, I love my 10.4 Tiger machine…but whenever I jump on it, down in my basement “analog suite”, I’m never failed to be reminded how far Apple has taken the OS away from this release.
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I use the Oyen Digital Mobius 5-bay cage with 5 2TB drives, giving around 8TB of usable storage in RAID5 mode. It’s been a flawless performer so far, and in fact I have two of the boxes, one for client work, and another for my large personal collection.
A couple of things: RAID is great for editing, but should NEVER be construed to be a backup or archival volume. Sure, RAID5 can handle 1 drive failure and still maintain data integrity, but as the size of your HDs increases the spectre of a URE (Unrecoverable Read Error) during re-build becomes a greater possibility, and if you run into one of those most rebuilds will just shut down and you. will. be. screwed. So copying all this stuff into one fast, central and somewhat secure location is a great idea for editing, but make sure you have at least one backup of everything you copy over to the RAID.
Second, I have a friend who’s used the Drobo 4-bay enclosure for a year now, and loves it for the reasons mentioned above.
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Move the audio back to where is should be?
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Sure, why not? Rip the DVD with MPEGStreamclip, make it a QTDV movie, take the resulting QT movie and let AME figure out how to add 4.997 frames per second.
If you plan to create an NTSC-SD DVD, those prefer to be made in MPEG2; but if you’re just burning to a data DVD for ease of distribution, then h264 would work.
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OK, not to be a dick or anything…just starting at the obvi…you’ve restarted the program and your computer?
I have a problem with overlays disappearing from time to time…a simple Premiere restart fixes that.
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Here’s a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truevision_TGA
It’s been eons since I output TARGA files. My approach would be “the setting’s there, let’s output.” But according to my sources (multiple, all googled), TGA supports alpha. Just make sure you select “millions +”, which gives me an alpha channel when I use another ancient codec when called upon (Animation…)
This “native format” is a bit puzzling…native to what, your source material you’re using to build the comp?
As far as it’s being a “video” format…any editor I’ve used has been able to import .tga sequences and play them back as video.
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Well, yes, I know that QT7pro is a legacy. But it’s a nice legacy, and IT works fine.
It’s that damn QTPlayer. Acting weirdly.
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Thanks for the response.
Actually, I can view them quite fine in QT7. I just can’t Quick View them.
I guess my post was more of a rant, hocking a loogie into the wind if you will…why would Apple build a “Player” that won’t play?
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Shoulda said RAID 5.