Ron Shook
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Dave & Eric,
Well, sounds like I should just use what I have to within commonly accepted practices and not worry further. Excellent!
Ron Shook
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Friendly Dave,
Hey, Ho! Nice thread. Liked your shoot out!
This entire thread has dealt with the value of CBR when space isn’t an issue in terms of available DVD space.
Can you or anyone say whether CBR is also preferable because it has a contant bit rate and is less likely to choke a marginal player because the bit rate is all over the place with VBR, particularly a VBR where minimum and maximum rates are acres apart?
Ron Shook
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Barry,
[Barry Green] “Also, you can use DVFilm.com’s Maker 2.21 software to convert HVX .mxf files into quicktime movies, .avi files, or even transcode to Cineform files. Editors that support Op-Atom MXF will obviously be easier to work with, as you’d avoid that additional step…”
What editors support this Pana MXF currently? Only Avid? Doesn’t FCP do the same sort of conversion for itself (to QT) that Maker 2.21 does for others? I’m not trying to be contentious here, but just want to know.
Thanks,
Ron Shook
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Marisu,
Thanks for the head’s up.
[marisu fronc] “(bleeps, blurts, blatts and blank places)”
My pre-weekend giggle! An alliterator after my own heart.
Ron
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Tim,
[Tim Kolb] “however the entire audio portion of the software bases its functionality on the conformed audio concept”
As a non-but-potential-user looking in, could you or anyone clarify a few things about this conformed audio “feature.” BTW, from the discussion here, I don’t have a conceptual problem with the feature, quite the opposite, other than the fact that in some instances it has to be redone and the fact that it can’t be turned off inorder to do something quick, down and dirty. I’d rather have a little break and get the max RT video functionality when I’m cutting than having the RT video functionality corrupted by having to do too much audio manipulation on the fly from disparate sources.
Is the audio conforming process part and parcel of PPro’s ability to edit audio down to the sample level, a very good thing in my estimation? Are audio waveforms drawn during the conforming process or is this an on the fly thing? When you manipulate the audio, are the audio waveforms redrawn to reflect this and if waveforms are part of the conforming process, does this mean that the audio must be reconformed each time or just the waveforms, and does this happen in the background?
Ron Shook
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Graeme,
[Graeme Nattress] “Personally, I’d like the choice of both.”
I don’t know about the Dell, but the HP 23″ does both and although it’s a little more pricy than the Dell 24″ it does one thing much better than the Dell which may be critical to some folks. Both scale 720p to full screen very well, but the Dell scaling of SD resolution is gastly and extremely noisy, whereas the HP does an excellent job with SD.
BTW, Graeme, thanks for being around the COW. I have learned so much from your posts here and on the HDV Forum.
Ron Shook
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Sameer,
[Sameer Shrivastava] “If you happen to have a dual head video display card with tv out function( Matrox g550 or nvidia 6600 etc). Then choose PAL as the out put format of the secondry monitor out.( You will get under display settings –> advanced settings) the secondry monitor might have an composite, s-video or component out. Use this out to feed to you PAL camera or recorder.( You need to use dvd max settings on g550 or video mirroring on secondry display on others.”
Interesting! Can’t be the quality of the software encode, but sounds like a great “quick & dirty” for some things. Did you figure this out on your own?
Ron Shook
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Blast,
[Blast1] “Haven’t heard anything about that, I mostly use Procoder, but I’ve done a few conversion in PCex and haven’t had a problem, do you have a reference for it?”
Saw it on the Canopus Company forum. Confirmed by Anton, one of the top users, who swears by TMPGEnc. Full Procoder apparently doesn’t have the problem, a line twitter or shimmer of some sort. Perhaps it only happens when converting in one direction or the other, but if so, I don’t know which.
Ron
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Blast,
[Blast1] “The expensive Procoder was mentioned as conversion software, but Procoder Express ($60us) will also do PAL to NTSC conversion as Procoder but a bit slower, still uses the same software core though so its quality just as good .”
I hope that this is in time. There is a standards conversion problem with ProCoder Express currently. It doesn’t give you clean conversion. Best use TMPGEnc for this for the time being.
Ron Shook
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Jiri,
[jiri vrozina] “I just like solid memory solutions.”
Hey, so do I, but paying for that solution is another story.
Ron