Norman Lafranchi
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Do you find Red to be worth the price? Is it as fast as they claim?
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That’s great news Christian, thanks.
I’m sure the hordes of other users that also do this are similarly excited 😉
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If it means what I hope it means, then we can use our Leapfrog CC software to work with Decklink Extreme, on the Analog outputs, which wasn’t working before.
In other words, you can create your caption files and insert them over video, then output to, say, a Beta SP deck.
Is that right, BMD?
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If you’re working on a PC the Axio LE sounds like a little more complete solution for now. In a way, Decklink is still a pretty basic solution on the PC. (We have an extreme.) If you anticipate working mostly in HDV or other non-10-bit codecs it also sounds better.
If you see yourself doing higher-end effects or 10-bit stuff like HD-CAM SR then a G5, and Decklink, might be the way to go.
It’s ironic to me that Decklink is priced lower than Axio LE yet it’s aimed at a higher-end market, in a way, for film people and those that require higher-bit-depths and resolution.
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The effects on LOTR were done with 3D software, I believe proprietary software. All the little guys in the army were digital.
That requires a lot of knowledge, experience and software to do, and to look good. One shot in LOTR of an army (apart from all the other CG elements) of just the army probably took someone about 20-50 hours to create, with reams of specialized software, experience and talent.
Anyway, good luck.
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…but good luck with firewire 800. May not be quite fast enough. Either a SATA raid (minimum) or a SCSI raid would do you better.
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1. Using the PCI-board not the PCI-Express.
2. We’re not using the PCI RAID on the ASUS, just software RAID-0. (You can disable the RAID and just use the SATA ports as regular ports.)
Sorry I’m not a good test-case for HD. We’re a good year away from that, by which point we’ll be switching to a new platform, no doubt.
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I’m using the Asus A8N32-SLI Premium with a Decklink extreme and a dual-core AMD 4800+ processor. I have an NVidia 7800 GT board. so far so good.
We also use a Tyan Thunder K8WE with decklink which works fine. The SATA throughput is fine for what we need (SDI 10-bit only). If you needed better then SCSI is the only way to go for HD.
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Either that or a 6800 series NVidia card with 128 MB of RAM could probably be had for less than $200.
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Hmmm… good question. I would sell your AGP card and buy a PCI-express one instead. All the new dual-core and dual-proc AMD Mo-bos support PCI-Express only.
for example Tyan has the K8WE motherboards, which support only PCI-Express. Their old Thunder Mo-Bo’,s AGP, are more flaky and may not work with Declink.