[Richard Boghosian]

No go. I just called Apple to place my order, but the Quads don’t work with an ATTO UL4D, nor will it work with the Kona 2!!!!!!!!! AJA has their new product available, but no SCSI raid controller from Atto. What are they thinking???, Perhaps a video iPod, yes that’s good.

Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV Productions

[Richard Boghosian]

Thanks for the insight. But, can you tell me why I get a more acceptable result exporting the uncompressed sd capture as an hd file rather than just rendering that same file in the sequence. Even better than the hardware upconvert from Kona.

Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV Productions

[Richard Boghosian]

Walter, thanks for the tip, I tried the upconvert, however the motion artifacting and edge detail were poor. I still got a better result from the quciktime export to DVCPROHD of the 8 bit uncompressed capture via the IO . Any thoughts? -Rick

Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV Productions

[Richard Boghosian]

Thanks for all your input, but again I have to say that the Sony Cineframe look is not pleasing to my eye. And if the client hates it too, well it’s been shot that way, so that’s the end. I’ve downloaded a demo of the Nattress film look filters, but the rendering time is much too long for practical use. Someday someone is going to build an external box for the G-5 to speed up rendering, soon I hope. If Apple made the G-5 twice as fast, it wouldn’t be fast enough for FCP. Canopus has the right idea, a fast codec, a capture card with video acceration, and many off speed, chroma key, and PIP effects in real time.

Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV Productions

[Richard Boghosian]

DVCPROHD is really 960 x 720 in size. The magic of the low data rate is the smaller frame size.

Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV Productions