Norman Lafranchi
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I’ve used that MB with a single NVidia 7800 GT card, with no problems. What problems are you experiencing with a Quadro board? Which Quadro Board?
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Closed captioning generally means that the captions can be turned on or off. Is this the case or are your captions always on?
The two types of closed captions I know are 1) Those on a DVD 2) Those embedded in line 21 on an NTSC signal. The latter are turned on or off with the “caption” setting for your TV set.
To do line 21 captions you need a full NTSC signal (720×486). They will not work on 720×480.
If your captions are on all the time then it’s a non-issue. Just put your captions in as you want them in Premiere Pro and then output the file as MPEG2 from the media encoder in PP, or output the picture in whatever video format you’re using, and do the MPEG2 encoding in your favourite encoder (Procoder, Cleaner, etc.)
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Thanks, that’s it!
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Unless you’re doing a ton of compositing, give yourself a bit more time. If you’re die-hard intel, it seems there’s some new products coming down the pipe from them, you’ll probably be happy you waited.
I’m using a 3.0 Ghz Intel with a 5600XT card… with Production Studio it’s just fine.
Of course, I have access to an AMD Dual Core 4800+ with an NVidia 7800GTX card. It’s a lot nicer, but I can do the job on the other system without much more delay (unless I’m compositing).
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You might want to do a test or two first. DV is much harder to key with. Serious Magic is the only software that gave us a good result.
If you do a test with DV, try varying the exposure a half or full stop either way to see which gives you the best results.
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Is there a SATA solution for some sort of RAID-3 or 5 data protection?
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Component HD output is an analog signal. DVCPro HD is a digital signal. So it’s not compressed in any digital sense.
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If one wanted a tube TV, perhaps to use as a second monitor, why not use a Sony XBR consumer type tube? A good technician could probably tweak it so it’s close to a broadcast monitor.
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You should be good to go with that system. You may want to bump your RAM to 2 GB. You’ll need a firewire card if your computer doesn’t have it built in (<$40). Also, you may want to add another hard drive, it's nice to have a dedicated drive for audio, you're performance will improve a lot. (Because then the single media drive isn't skipping around trying to play multiple tracks of audio and video at the same time). It's not a must, though.
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Shake seems to use Open GL processing so that’s probably why the Decklink monitor would slow it down (no OpenGL).
In Combustion, you can output to an NTSC monitor from Decklink as a framebuffer, without enabling decklink as an extra display monitor on the desktop. Perhaps Shake has such a setting?
Option ‘B’ is to get an Nvidea 4500 card with HD-SDI output and use that. (Just kidding.)