Peter Wiggins
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Just a quick note here, beware of the difference between a 500 & a J3 style player.
Apart from the obvious playback only restrictions, the ballistics of a J3/J30 are terrible,
so bank on much longer times digitising. In fact I have a couple of clients who refuse
to use them, the timecode not updating properly on shuttle being one of the reasons.The old 500 was only replaced due to the new legislation about the PCB’s containing lead.
It was actually cheaper for Sony to do a complete redesign of the product and hence the
new model.My advice? find a low hours used 500 and then get a good service. Do you really want SX or
IMX playback? Also check if the model has the analogue input board option which was another -
Mark
First of all, more resorces for people to learn is always good. I know the ammount of time it takes to write something up.
Was a bit NTSC orientated though. There are a lot of PAL users out there 🙂I would be interested to see some comparisons between filmlooks, one straight deinterlace, one your photoshop method
and maybe ‘our graeme’s’ smart deinterlace.Peter
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Its probably easier if you make the freeze in FCP then import just the writing from Motion using the animation codec with a transparent background. Overlay this on the freeze.
I prefer to things that way to fine tune timings as you can then slip the animation, add a dissolve off etc.
Peter
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XSR = XserveRaid
With a volume based SAN you can access material from other clients, but it takes a ‘snapshot’ of the volume when you mount it.
This means that if another client creates new media, you have to unmount then remount the volume to see it. I was using SanMP earlier in the week and trust me its a pain as you can’t unmount without quitting all the apps that reference that volume first.With a file based system, files just appear on the disk and any client can access them without the above hassle.
Its all down to price really as Xsan is more expensive than say SanMP.Remember you will need speed if you have 4 HDclients, thats why you will probably need a few XSR’s
Peter
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Per,
The general rule of thumb with HD & Xsan is one XSR per client. Now you say you only need 3-4 terrabytes which is actually quite a small ammount of storage these days. So 4 clients = 4 XSR to get the speed you need. Also one half of one XSR will be taken up with metadata. You need fibre connection for speed and the fact that you can put a fibre channel switch in to connect all XSR’s & clients.
Can you use sata? yes its very quick, but you wont be able to share any of the media between clients. Check the RAID configs for these big boxes, what happens when a disk fails?
Please be aware of the difference between a volume based and a file based SAN – I would not recommend a volume based unless you get a really, really good deal. Having to unmount/remount drives to see new media is a pain in the a**. SanMP being one of the offenders
If you decide the Xsan route, please go to a supplier who has previous experience of installing it – its not plug and play and although I can tackle most stuff on OSX, I stay out of Xsan configuration. I recommend ROOT6 here in the UK, give them a call and they will probably take you to some of their intsallations. https://www.root6.com/Home/index.htm
Also take a look at Tiger’s Metasan which is file based & doesn’t require metadata controllers.
Now just to confuse things further, the Apple XSR is getting a bit old, so who knows, maybe an update soon 🙂
Peter
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[Ed] “the most common opinion
is that shooting in HDV and downconverting gives a much better final SD image for DVD than shooting in SD.
Ed”Whoa Ed!
That is a wide ranging statement. Give me a Digibeta shoot, 10bit edit & DVD master & put that up against the same in HDV.
Might look vaguely similar until something moves 🙂Peter
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You could always check the refurb store on the Apple website.
Peter
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Yes
It is all down to GPU from now on 🙂
OK, I will qualify that by saying I’m not a beta tester for FCP, but I have got a beta copy of FXFactory.
Peter