[Russell Lasson]

If you’re dealing with HDCAM SR, then I’d also recommend the Kona 3. Otherwise, you could digitize it at 29.97 and remove the 2:3 pulldown in CinemaTools. (Just make sure it’s an actual 2:3 pulldown and not some other conversion).

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

I think that it’s nice that your teacher is introducing you to a community like creative cow. To Zane’s point though, it is annoying when people ask questions that they could easily find the answer themselves.

I would hope that this experience starts some sort of conversation in your class of the role of communities like this. If you’re teacher thinks it’s just a place to get questions answered, than he/she has a short sided view of what this really is. Answering questions is part of it, but it’s also building something like a support library for users to search though to find answers to their own questions when the have them. Also the networking power of communities like this is much greater than most users understand.

Your question is a very simple one and within 20 seconds I pulled up the wikipedia page on MPEG that answers your question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg

I believe that’s why Zane was giving you grief because 1) the question had already been answered and 2) if you needed more info, it was seconds away if you just took some self initiative to search on you own. Now Zane was criticizing your teacher’s methods more than anything.

Anyways, we all hope you get an A on the assignment and grow up to become a wealthy producer and hire all of us on your $100 million dollar features. Remember the little folk that helped you get an A on what MPEG even is.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

[Chris Seguine] “We tried it with the xena2k, decklink and intensity cards. There is a huge delay in screen updates, seconds, not frames. Around 5 seconds for 444 sources, slightly less for 422 and hdv sources. “

Ahhhh!!!! Seconds! Wow. Hopefully they improve this. I’ll have to check it out at NAB.

Thanks,

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

Very simple explanation:

MPEG-1 – Old
MPEG-2 – Used on DVDs and some consumer/prosumer formats
MPEG-4 – Newer and more efficient compression
H.264- Like MPEG-4 but more efficient (best option for size vs. quality)

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

If you’re viewing your video in QT Player, then make sure that you’ve enabled High Quality Video.

Hit Apple+J
Select Video Track
Select Visual Settings
Check the High Quality Video box in the lower right

Did that fix it?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

Well I might be the first:)

If I only needed 422 HDSDI, then I probably would spend the extra money, but with my needs quickly adapting to 444, the Videoscope-vx444 looks mightly attractive and under $5K too.

I’ll let you know when I finally pull the trigger.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

So after looking more, I found Bob’s article on it. Also this quote:

SO, here is the cheap solution. Get a HP xw4400 Win XP computer (about $1000) stick in a Blackmagic Decklink HD card ($995), and get the Hamlet VidScope software, which will use the Blackmagic (or AJA) card as it’s hardware, and display a BEAUTIFUL SD or HD display for you – all windows (vector, waveform, picture, audio) can be instantly resized.

Anyone else want to comment on it?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

After a little searching I found it again.

https://vidscope-vx.com/

Anyone tried this with a AJA card?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

What’s the name of the software scopes that you run on a windows box with SDI in. I can’t remember it?

Anyone have experience with it?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Russell Lasson]

As far as converting DPX to QuickTime, you might look at Glue Tools. I know that both AJA and Blackmagic Designs both have abilities to wrap DPX files to open as a QT file too. From there you would just export it to prores using compressor.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT