[Mike Smith]

Expansion based on one client is really risky, and can make you vulnerable. Your negotiating position weakens, and if your client decides s/he’s p[aying you too much, what’s your negotiating leverage?

I’d thnk long and hard about taking on the extra overhead, unless you have a contracted workflow ahead.

Maybe it’s time to think about hiring help (freelance, short term, contract, trainee?) with some of the more routine aspects of what you’re doing, so you can put some more time into developing at least one other client?

[Mike Smith]

Have Matrox sorted out the problems that precented the RTX100 running with dual xeons now ?

My vote would be for the fastest system you can get; if the edit is pure DV, it will be fast enough, and if you want to go into other formats later you can add cards as needed.

[Mike Smith]

And Bryce of course still does a lot for skies …

[Mike Smith]

Thanks Steve.

So far as I can see on the Anandtech site, they seem to be keeping a rein on their enthusiasm: demos run by intel rather than product benchmarked by anyone else? Again, so far as I can see the demos were all single-core vs Athlon64, rather than looking at multiprocessor opteron systems.

It looks like we’re still several months away from Conroe launch. It’ll be great if the speed comes through as promised. No doubt AMD will do nothing while Intel catches up !

The Register has this:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/07/intel_core_idf/

And this

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/07/intel_heat_idf/

All best

Mike

[Mike Smith]

I don’t know Powerpoint.

Not sure that AE is the best way to make animated gifs. Couldn’t you export your animation for Powerpoint in some nicer format, .wmv with mpeg4,or even mpeg1? If you’re playing back from hard disc, then AE .swf Flash files might be OK for you.

If you really want to go animated gif, then Gif Movie Gear from https://www.gamani.com/gmgdet.htm is designed for gif animation, has optimisation features (and has the bonus of allowing creation of windowsXP icons with 8-bit alpha channel.) The trial version is fully functioning for 30 days, and it’s not too costly ….

[Mike Smith]

Hi Greg

Does the animated gif play normally when you drag it into an open browser …?

Mike

[Mike Smith]

Hi Steve

So far as I’m aware, Intel have not yet released details on architecture for this announced Pentium replacement, let alone performance details. Can you point us to where your info comes from?

Thanks

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/07/intel_core_idf/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/10/intel_heat/page2.html

[Mike Smith]

https://www.stereoscopy.com/

[Mike Smith]

[jhbrewer] “non-comedic parody” Interesting challenge: how are we defining parody here? Or is this a post-modern, non-parodic posting …?

[Mike Smith]

[jhbrewer] “non-comedic parody” Interesting challenge: how are we defining parody here? Or is this a post-modern, non-parodic posting …?