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Phillip Van west
November 2, 2006 at 1:31 am in reply to: TWO 23″ OR ONE 30″ ?

I’d go with two 23s – but look at the Dell’s. Do a ‘Search Posts’ (above left) for Dell 23″ and you’ll get a lot of feedback about them.

Hope that helps.

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 21, 2006 at 4:04 am in reply to: OLD iMAC AS MONITOR AND HARD DRIVE??….POSSIBLE??..help!

https://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30915

may be just the ticket…

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 16, 2006 at 9:59 pm in reply to: Mac Pro momory issues – ATTN Walter

Thanks for finally clearing that up, Walter. I would NEVER have interpreted what Apple published about optimal RAM location that way.
The whole notion of never having 1 or 3 DIMMs in a riser just didn’t make sense until you described it the way you did. Thanks again.

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 16, 2006 at 9:53 pm in reply to: flicker/movement in still images

I couldn’t agree with you more.

I’m certainly not suggesting that a large image is as easy to work with as a small – of course it isn’t. But it isn’t the DPI, per se, that matters – it’s the size of the image we’re trying to work with, and of course we shouldn’t use an image that’s any larger than we really need.

But my point stays the same: “Dots per Inch” is meaningless in video. Sure, DPI may come into the equation when we’re adjusting an image’s size, but the idea that “72 dpi (or whatever) works best in FCP” is meaningless as well. Wouldn’t you agree?

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 16, 2006 at 8:05 pm in reply to: flicker/movement in still images

No. NO. NO!! Post Man is absolutely correct: DPI is IRRELEVANT (and can cause no end of frustration) when working with video. Let me give you an example:

I have a 4 inch by 3 inch photo I want to scan for video use. If I scan it at 72 dots (or pixels) per inch, I wind up with an image that’s only 288 by 216 (4″x72dpi by 3″x72dpi). Too small for my 720 x 480 NTSC sequence – it’s going to look awful if I have to scale it up to full size. So I need to scan it at something like 200 dots (pixels) per inch to get an image that’s 800 by 600. A little too big if no panning and scanning is to be done, but no harm done, either. The point is that it’s the size of the video frame that matters. The same image, at 720×480 or 7200×4800 will look IDENTICAL on a television.

Get it? DPI is important if you’re working with print media because you really ARE working with dots of ink per inch. With video, it’s just a holdover that some people refuse to let go of, like the concept of IRE in a digital environment – absolutely meaningless. I really hope this helps.

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 13, 2006 at 7:57 pm in reply to: Captured HDV is taking up far less space than expected?

HDV is anything but uncompressed. It’s MPEG-2, compressed IN the camera – hence your low (DV-like) data rates of 25 Mbps or less.

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 12, 2006 at 3:11 am in reply to: not seeing tape machine

Did you upgrade QuickTime lately? If so, this could be your problem (and your salvation!):

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852

Hope this helps…

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 11, 2006 at 2:48 am in reply to: Loss of Timeline Movement feedback in FCP 5.1.2

Running 5.1.2 on a dual 2.5GHz G5 I get the “feedback” at ALL zoom levels – even all the way in.

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 5, 2006 at 6:36 pm in reply to: Dammed text!!!

Are you using Title3D (the Boris titler, which came with FCP)? It looks (and IS) a lot better than the generic text generator that also comes with FCP.

Also, be sure you’re checking your text on an external monitor (as you should be for everything you edit). Don’t judge quality with the Viewer or the Canvas.

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
Phillip Van west
October 5, 2006 at 1:22 am in reply to: Do I need to uninstall FCP 5.0 before installing the cross grade on a G5?

Just install over your old version. No need to uninstall anything.

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3

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