Scott Thomas
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COW Coins
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Also… The card does not show up in the System Profiler.
Anyone using the new Mac Pros with Blackmagic cards?
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Accom no longer exists. The assets were folded into Abekas a few years ago.
The OS X version of the codec was PowerPC only.
I would keep a PowerPC machine around, just to do transcoding. Or use the Windows version of the codec in BootCamp perhaps?
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Does Premiere still crash if you uninstall the drivers for the Intensity?
If the Intensity is working OK with After Effects, I would be less likely to blame it for Premiere’s problem. -
If you have a chance to look at Pixar’s Wall-E on Blu-Ray, there in the special features is a “behind-the-scenes” piece where the animators get instruction from a lighting designer. It will make you think twice about over-lighting a scene. 😉
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I just played around in Photoshop, is this more of the look you want?
I added a grain to try to hide the compression artifacts a little.
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Apparently I didn’t scroll down far enough.
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Well, it depends on what your final output will be.
Do you want the frame rate at 59.94p or 29.97p (p=progressive). You could do it either way.
I use ReVisionFX Fields Kit to do both conversions. RedGiant has a similar tool. Both are better than letting After Effects do the deinterlacing.
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I have to agree; Beta is not 720 pixels across. Nor is it 512 or 704 or any other combination of pixels. It is an analog format and predates ITU-R 601 standard sampling. You could sample it at 1280 pixels across, and the blanking would be right there in the same place.
The whole issue of number of scan-lines is also interesting. ITU-R 601 defines 720 samples of luminance on each scan line. There are 486 active lines. DV or DV-Cam or DVC-Pro are formats based on Discrete Cosign Transform (DCT) codecs. DCT codecs need images that are evenly divided by 16 and 486 does not evenly divide by 16. To accommodate this need, six scanlines were lopped off the top and bottom… Kind of like how analog blanking encroaches upon the dear 720 horizontal samples.
You lost a few samples on the left and right. I lost six scanlines. Lets call it even.
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The card is working fine with a few problems.
I attempted up update the card using the web interface and upon reboot, I had a dead card.
If I was in a mission-critical environment, I probably would have ordered a second card with rush delivery. Instead, I attempted to contact Highpoint support via email. They offered some advice, but nothing approaching the level of a broadcaster or editorial service, but you’re not really paying for that are you?
I finally found a Dell PC at my employer that had PCI Express slots, plugged the card into it, and re-flashed the card’s memory with the utilities from the Highpoint website.
So, the RAID continues to function. I don’t recommend trying to flash the BIOS unless you know *EXACTLY* what you are doing. Overall, still happy.
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We may have to go the route of Adobe’s volume licensing. Apparently you can get downgrades through that. Would be nice if they could have told me that last week, 4 phone calls ago! That’s a lot more helpful than “No, we can’t / don’t / won’t do that.”