Rich Rubasch
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Markertek sells a cool and cheap desktop half width patch bay that can be easily customized. Do a search under Product Name for HRP-MT and you will find the rack frame and then on the right there are a bunch of additions, including RS422 pass thru, BNC BNC and RCA, Svideo etc. Works great and is very cheap.
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Looks like Apple bought media management technology. Not sure how that makes FCP any stronger, but it adds an arsenal of managment software to their iTunes and don’t foreget their iTV or whatever that thing is called. also, it looks like there is some goodies in there that will be attractive to news stations…networking and archiving and retrieving clips on the network. Pretty powerful stuff, both for the networked post house or station and for their iLife products. Lots of trickle down there and Apple is pretty good with trickle down.
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Jerry’s comments notwithstanding, I’m not sure if you have much to gain just for a first pass DVD. I’d say do a few color correction tests to see if you can get satisfactory results with the DV material you already have.
I do believe that DV material, if brought in via SDI, is uploaded to DVCPro50, it will not only look better than when it is brought in via firewire to DV, but you will definately have a better experience with it if you are keying or color correcting. Jerry is correct that the processing happens in uncompressed color space, but that pixel that has been changed has to be written BACK to the codec of the sequence. If the 4:1:1 space doesn’t allow for a certain black level or level of red etc, it would benefit from being written to a 4:2:2 codec. It will have more “space” or range for the color, lumanance etc.
Just not sure for a first pass it is necessary. It leaves you some room to tell the client that the final video will be even better!
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Or, if you have any old Avid codecs loaded in the Library-Quicktime folder take them out…that did it for me.
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I would also suggest trying different media…Maxell or Sony.
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Rhozet was a 25 minute waste of time. $5000 to make some pretty MPEGs? No thanks.
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Cleaner is still a great app….if you upgrade be sure to get the 6.5.1 update. But it’s a terrible WMV encoder…it only handles ver 7, unless you have flip4Mac.
If WMV is so important then i strongly recommend using a PC for that task. Nothing on the Mac can make encodes as good as an old PC. How about an intel Mac with Parallels?
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Couple things that can help….first reduce your frame rate maybe to 12 or so. Then crop the image a bit…cut off most of that action safe area. This will give you more of the primary part of the frame in the final encode. Deiinterlace. Compress your audio with AMA Narrowband or ALaw 2:1. I always use 44.1 khz and keep my bitrate low. The dimensions of your frame is pretty big and most 512k users might find it is chunking along.
Go to http://www.tiltmedia.com and look at the portfolio page. Most of those clips are about 4 megs and should play pretty well. Try it.
That’s all I have.
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I also did this and I cut one of the tracks first to determine content and pacing. I then duplicated that and cut the second track over it using the lower track as a guide to where the edits were. Sometimes they matched sometimes they were a little off..on purpose.
In the end I put them both into one sequence and did the PIP effect mentioned to see the final product. I went back a couple times to tweak the individual sequences but only had to render a couple times.
In the end it was an award winner.
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If you have a deck, you can downconvert with the deck and feed the Composite (Super) output to your NLE. If you are working entirely with Firewire, you would capture first, add a timecode plugin to the video track and output the DVD with that clip. So you can use a Super composite out to feed a video card, or digitize first and use a plugin that will generate time code from the clip in the sequence, render that and make an MPEG from that.
The super out to a video input card is the easiest.
Even better, I have the composite super out of my HDV deck feeding a Sony DVD burner and it is as simple as hitting play on the deck and record on the burner. Done.
If you think you will do this more than once get the burner.
Rich Rubasch
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