Randall Raymond
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Here’s the thing: will the audience get tired of the effect after a few page turns?
After all, they want to see the photos, not the effect…
I would go easy. Straight cuts are still the best cuts.
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Use the page peel transition in Vegas – lot’s of options within that transition to get the look you want.
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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “So then when we put the card into other devices like the computer, or into a P2 Store or a P2 Drive, where do we put the Raid Controller there?”
Put the raid controller in the P2 Drive itself – the cards would be read as a set of drives, like any raid. You’d be up to 64gig cards before you know it!
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May I play engineer here for a moment?
Why not put the raid controller IN the camera, rather than ON the card?
Wouldn’t that get the cost of these cards closer to dirt?
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[Barry Green] “The ExpressCard technology allows for 2.5gbps transfer rate at the bus level, but the actual SxS cards are limited to 800mbps. Just like the PCMCIA bus is capable of 1 gbps data transfer rate, but the P2 cards max out at 640mbps.
A faster theoretical bus speed doesn’t translate into real-world performance gains (I mean, the PCMCIA bus is faster than the SxS cards). The underlying memory technology is the hangup; Panasonic RAIDS together SD cards, Sony probably RAIDS together the raw components, but either way there is no memory chip that runs at 800mbps or 640mbps; it has to be done by RAIDing.”
Yes, I see my mistake now – I agree, they must also be implementing a raid chip on their cards. The larger physical size of the P2 cards would seem to hold the advantage for larger future capacity. Yes?
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[msacci] “Sony only needs 35Mb/s while Panasonic needs 100Mb/s. HDV is a highly compressed codec.”
I thought I read that Express Cards can read 800 mb/s in and 2.5 gb/s out
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OK, I have question – after I took a little time to learn about ‘Express Cards’:
Why is Panasonic using an old technology card that requires a Raid chip on board each P2 card to handle the bit-rate?
Am I missing something?
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[Naiche Lujan] “Did I read correctly that DV is a low-grade codec? Also did you say that there are multiple versions of the DV codec? I thought that was the standard before HD and that it was universal.
What does it mean to use a 4:2:2 sample?”
4:2:2 provides more color information than DV – which here is 4:1:1 and in Europe 4:2:0 – both are DV codecs.
DVD’s provide a 4:2:0 color space universally.
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Oh, and shoot in ‘manual mode’ – i.e. ‘automatic’ mode will be fiddling with your iris setting and, frankly, make tuning your lighting a exercise in futility.
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A couple more lights for the background is needed.
First, light the talent – move the lights IN closer until zebras appear.
Then light the background in the same way with the other lights.