[Mitchji]

Hi Shawn,

I am going to get a tower duplicator sometime in the next six months. I was investigating building my own. A lot of the towers on the market use older model drives which sell at a premium compared to current drive models. I decided the best way to do this was to purchase a controller that supports the latest Pioneer Drives (I have a close friend who duplicates about 20k DVD’s per year and he says the Pioneer Drives are the most reliable).

So I found a controller model that supported the newest Pioneer Drives and then I looked for a retailer who sells it by searching on Google. This Ebay sellor came up:
https://stores.ebay.com/OnlineDuplicators

He sells towers for about the same or a little less than I can buy the components for and he has 100% feedback. For example the one to five Pioneer is $499:
https://cgi.ebay.com/5-Target-Pioneer-111-16x-DoubleLayer-DVD-CD-Duplicator_W0QQitemZ8784209104QQcategoryZ31509QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

I think they are probably very good. All a tower duplicator is is the Case with fans and a power supply, the controller, and the drives.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Thanks again Graeme!

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[thewanggao] “should the dv be captured in uncompressed, then, or still just ntsc dv?”

Hi,

Capture is not necessary but rendering out uncompressed to reduce passes through the DV codec will be good.

Another option would be rendering out as PhotoJPEG@75%. See this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?univpostid=886339&forumid=8&postid=886430&pview=t

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Graeme Nattress] “However, as I’m investigating noise removal, I’m finding that when you remove noise, you make compression artfacts in the noisey source more visible. Noise can be good as it hides 8bit banding and compression artifacts.”

Hi Graeme,

Thanks again.

Some of our Digibeta is very noisy. Do you have any discoveries or information to share as a result of your noise reduction investigation?

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Sean ONeil] “In fact, according to the technical tests I’ve read (onerivermedia.com), P-JPEG is virtually lossless and is pretty much equivalent to Digibeta. You can run it through many generations before any degradation, unlike DV50.”

[Graeme Nattress] “PhotoJPEG75% is very good indeed, but it still lacks compared to uncompressed on “extreme” colour correction, where you’ll start to see compression artifacts.”

Hi,

So the consensus is that I can capture Digibeta to PhotoJPEG@75% and unless I was doing “extreme” color correction the results would be about the same as uncompressed?

Would you clarify what you mean by “extreme” color correction? How about noise reduction in AE?

Thanks,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Thanks Sean!

Do you know if this would work with SheerVideo?
https://www.bitjazz.com/

Thanks,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Thanks Guy!

[Mitchji]

[Craig Roy] “PhotoJpeg does have it’s downsides, it hates BLACK …….”

Hi Craig,

Would you explain this a little more?

Thanks!

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Graeme Nattress] “you can “hack” the RT enabler file to make it so!”

Hi Graeme,

Would you mind explaining how to hack the RT enabler file?

Do you know if the hack will also work for Sheervideo?

We are going to be capturing, editing and archiving a lot of SVHS on SATA drives so this seems like a free lunch. The quality is better AND it takes up less space!

The AJA IO officially supports DV, DV50, 8bit and 10 bit uncompressed.

Does anyone know if we can capture SVHS or 3/4″ to Photojpeg at 75% via the IO? This would avoid the DV codec and 4:1:1 colorspace completely.

Thanks!

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

Is there a SATA card on the market with 8 external ports?

Best Wishes,

Mitch