[Nick Righton]

Hey There,

The new anon bauer unit may work for you. https://www.antonbauer.com/EX1_gold_mounts.htm

Nick

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[Nick Righton]

You can also set the camera to record 1080i 60 SP (AKA HDV) use the firewire port to out the footage to a laptop and capture the footage live. Using sp mode will gain an extra 10 minutes per 8GB SXS card. You can simultaneously record to the SXS cards and send the footage to a computer via firewire. I

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[Nick Righton]

qplay has a weird url :

https://www.q-play.us/

Nick

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[Nick Righton]

By the way, don’t play the video out of the Macbook Pro. It will not look right. The output on the DVI connection of the laptop is RGB and not YUV ( video’s color space ) computers don’t do well with video playback. If you have a matrox mxo or AJA IOHD you can get the YUV component video output via firewire. We use a HD media player from a small company called qplay. I capture a live stream of 1080i HDV video (essentially 25Mb/s mpeg 2 the same as HDDVD and BLU-RAY) directly to our mac pro and copy the .m2t or .ts file to the player via usb. The player has component video output (the larger model has DVI with YUV as well. They are about 600 bucks and work great aside from a cheezy interface and clunky controls. The 600 dollar player looks 10 times better than video from any of our computers except our Mac Pro with an AJA Kona lHe output card.

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[Nick Righton]

Sorry about that…I missed the HD content part of the post. If the films are less than 30 minutes you can encode the content to HDDVD format in Apple Compressor changing the bit-rate to around 15-19Mb/s and burn them using DVD studio pro to a regular DVD5 (single sided, single layered DVD-R). The HDDVD players will play back the content without any problems and it will look amazing. The HD-DVD players are also nice up-converting players for SD DVDs. I have done this many, many times and have had great success. You can still buy the 1080i / 720p Toshiba A3 HDDVD player for about 60 bucks. https://www.warehousedeals.com/Toshiba-HDA3-720p1080i-HD-DVD-Player/M/B000U62N1S.htm

Nick

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[Nick Righton]

Even though projectors can upconvert they generally do a okay job. For great upconversion and a good price point check out the Oppo upconverting DVD players (981HD). They are fantastic. Here is a link to AVSFORUMS.COM, they love this player. https://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1001832
or check out https://www.oppodigital.com/ The oppo players have high quality Faroudja processing and look great.

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[Nick Righton]

Have you considered utilizing the Apple PRORES 422 codec? For standard def you will end up with a bit rate around 42Mb/s and a compression that according to many is not discernible with the naked eye (especially if coupled with lower end display devices).
https://images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/resources/white_papers/L342568A_ProRes_WP.pdf

Good Luck,

Nick

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[Nick Righton]

check out the lacie rugged drive. They offer a firewire 800 version that is bus powered and 500 gigabytes.

https://www.amazon.com/500GB-Rugged-Triple-FW400-FW800/dp/B0018B5CA8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1216257218&sr=8-3

Nick

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[Nick Righton]

The audio will sync with the video. The photo jpg codec will be used for the video only. The audio will be set as you desire…DV uses uncompressed audio 16bit 48khz.

Nick

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[Nick Righton]

Stay away from uncompressed video. You will end up with a huge file (about 15 gig) for the 10 minute video and you will need a beefy system to play it back. ( video raid and multiprocessor preferred ). You will get a much better product if you export using photo jpg compression. Export it in progressive format (no interlacing). The best option would be to create the video project in the native resolution of the projector you will present on (probably 1024×768). For a photo slideshow uncompressed video is way overkill. You will be very satisfied with the photo jpg compression. Good luck.

Nick

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