I’d suggest experimenting with different codecs. Uncompressed may work better then again it will also tax your hard drives with its much higher data rates.
March 30, 2006 at 12:44 pm
in reply to: DVDit Pro 6
not a DVDit user but the way this would work into DVDSP would be at the end of a slide show jump to a video track, then jump to another slide show after that track ends. Hence the appearance of a single slide show with a video in the middle.
Problem with HDV is that it is not a discrete frame codec that means that it must be actually decoded on the fly as it plays back so your performance will always be slower than with discrete frame codecs like DV and DVCPROHD. Plus the HD resolution also is a signifigant roadblock too.
Might want to re-read that article. It really depends what you plan to do. If you are not caring about a 24p native output ever then cut with the standard DV NTSC settings. But actually cutting at 24p gives you the most options for example a native 24p DVD or a filmout.
90 second is quite long for Motion- remember it works in RAM so you’re better off with much smaller chunks. Also you don’t have a super fast video card and HDV is a massive, massive processor hog. So there ya go.
The 80 is not bad but IMHO 24p is worth making sacrifices for and the DVX100 is the only cam of those 3 that has it. You should be able to easily find a used DVX100(not a or b just 100) for the price of a new 80. That would be my suggestion.
Really good question. Personally I have to agree with these formats becoming more like SACD. I could see them being great for about a year. But this time next year the 50GB capacity of Blu-Ray is going to seem kinda small. If it were 500GB or 1 TB I’d say that’s a format that we could keep for many years. Who wants to go out rebuy all of your favorite movies again knowing there’s not a long lifecycle.
That’s 3d. Not really a true capability of Motion as of yet. There’s the basic 3d filter you have in Motion 2 and there’s a Zaxwerks plugin that gives you a lot more 2.5D functionality but I suspect that particular animation was completed using Shake and/or a 3D app like Maya or Cinema 4d.