Ric Shellhammer
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Charles,
Although I haven’t tried it on the Mac Pro, the exporter was only approved for sys 10.3.x. On my previous edit system k(dual G$) I had issues using it with system 10.4.x and FCP 5.1.x. On the Flip4Mac site, Real was not listed as an output option for Episode. And on the Sorenson site, there is a note that Real encoding does not work on Intel Macs. If someone is acutally using any of these options, encoding Real Media on an Mac Pro, I’d like to hear from them.
best,
Ric Shellhammer -
Thanks Luke for the quick reply. So, the Decklink HD Extreme does software only downconversions and Multibridge Extreme and DeckLink HD Pro 4:4:4 PCI-X have the capability for hardware downcoversions. Right?
Not sure what you meant by “If you are using a HD deck, then you might well have the optional hardware downconvertor board in the deck and these will often cost around US$15000 but will provide a sharper picture than software down conversion.” Please explain.
Finally, yes, I’m aware of the option to monitor HD with LCD computer display and I’ll probably end up doing that. The issue is most of our work is still SD. It just seems silly to me to view HD on one monitor, SD on another. If the downconversion is at least as good as a LCD for color correction, I’d like to do that for now. At least until other options become available.
Ric
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Thanks for the feedback … it’s basically what I got out of other discussions posted here. The intent was to take a look at both cards … just tough finding a dealer who has both setup to demonstrate.
ric shellhammer
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Exactly what I did and had to bury the drive;) Thanks for the help.
ric
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In Drive Utility I just found I can erase the one good drive in the RAID. Obviously no more RAID disk but got the one drive back. Thanks for the suggestions.
ric
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It’s a software RAID … done with Apple Disk Utility and I already know the risks. There was nothing on the RAID that couldn’t be reproduced …. luckily. The issue is Disk Utility won’t let me unmount/delete the raid. If I can do that, I can at least get use of the drive that’s working albeit not a RAID set.
ric
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Does anyone here know if the Blackmagic products do this?
ric