Sean Oneil
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Sonic Scenarist is the only one I know of.
Sean
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I don’t understand. Discovery HD has been showing original HD content for like 5 years, before anything other than HDCam even existed.
Sean
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Yeah I just switched over to it from the ATTO initiator. So far its working out much better.
Sean
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[Nick Franco] “i’m expanding my business and i’m really happy wih the sata raid array i have but when we are working on a large project and i have several editors working with me it’s inconvienant transfering and doubling up on files etc (this might just be my bad house keeping). but i feel it will increase productivity
i was looking at an xsans fiber chanel storage (NOT CHEAP), but resntly i’ve been made aware of ISCSI will this provide the speed and metadata handling i need for HD Uncompressed (and at some point 2 and 4k) (i do unnderstand that the more drives you have the faster the raid)
i just wondererd if anyone has experience of either?”
I thought this out a great deal myself and went iSCSI. I’m using dual gigabit. The way it works is you don’t get 2gbps of bandwith. You get two streams of 1gbps bandwidth. Hope that makes sense. Anyway, 1gbps isn’t quite enough for uncompressed 1080 HD. It’s almost enough, but not quite. Even if it was enough, you really want it to be a lot more than enough to have a good experience.
For me, I don’t do any offline editing in uncompressed so its not an issue.
If you NEED a SAN right now, and you NEED a mission critical solution that can take a beating, support uncompressed, and have good support, you probably want a fiber channel solution from Apple or one of the other major players in that market. It’s mature, and there is a large userbase to lean on.
But… it sounds to me like you don’t absolutely need it right away. It’d be great to have, it’ll speed things up, but you’re not going to turn away any work because of the time lost by not having one.
If that’s the case case, consider this. Fiber Channel is on the path to becoming obsolete. 10Gb ethernet is out now. And sometime within a year, 10,000 Base T will be ratified. That means very cheap 10Gb devices that work over regular Cat cable (even Cat5e at short distances).
My strong opinion is that you wait it out. In fact, just waiting till this fall might really pay off. By then you’ll probably find a very inexpensive 10gbe iSCSI solution. You can actually do 10gbe iSCSI now, but it’s certainly not cheaper than fiber. But it will be soon. Way cheaper. Plus Leopard will be out, and it is supposed to include Apple’s own iSCSI initiator built into Disk Utility.
Sean
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Yes, HDCam SR is the best choice. But if your options are D5 or regular HDCam, D5 is much better.
Not only is the compression lighter on D5, but you get the whole 4:2:2 1920×1080. HDcam is 3:1:1 1440×1080.
HDcam is great for HD camcorders. But you definitely don’t want to master to it from film.
Sean
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[walter biscardi] “[Sean Lander] “I seriously doubt that Apple will ever make a version of FCP that costs 10K.
That would be insanely stupid.”You’re gonna look pretty silly if they do announce something like that, now won’t you?”
It’s fun to speculate. So this is what I think.
Apple will not sell an “unlocked” 4k version of their software for 10x the price. I just don’t see them as a company that does that. Media 100 used to do that. You’d get the same card, same software, but your license number determined what features you were allowed to have. And the price difference was staggering.
I think Final Cut will be Final Cut. Only one version of the core program. But, for something in the neighborhood of 10k, you get Final Cut plus extra hardware and software included.
Extra hardware could be something like this:
https://store.nvidia.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Env=BASE&Locale=en_US&SiteID=nvidia&id=ProductDetailsPage&productID=49538700And the extra software could be Final Touch plus a Mac version of this:
https://store.nvidia.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Env=BASE&Locale=en_US&SiteID=nvidia&id=ProductDetailsPage&productID=49548100#Sean
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That sounds like a disturbing problem. I hope Apple addresses it.
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Yes, the AVI codec called “None” is RGB I believe. Blackmagic Design makes a more suitable 4:2:2 Uncompressed AVI codec. Its a free download. But I don’t think you can use it on a Mac.
Export Apple Uncompressed Quicktime, copy it to the PC, and download Quicktime on the PC. Then, if you must, you can convert it to a Blackmagic AVI using tools on Windows.
Regardless though, the AVI/None conversion shouldn’t add pixellation. As Walter said, HDV is hevaily compressed. Low-light footage will be pixellated.
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[Bob Cole] “Networking (“Fix Alias” – and why do I have to do this each time?”
That’s not normal. Perhaps your PC’s IP address keeps changing?
[Bob Cole] “Networking PCs and Mac. I have been totally unable to figure this out. My Mac will see the PCs but not vice versa. Is there a source of wisdom on this issue, whether it is on the web, in a book, or even in the form of a human being in the Baltimore-Washington area whom someone can recommend?”
Go into System Preferences -> Sharing -> Turn on Windows File Sharing.
Do that first. Then there are less than obvious steps to finding your Mac from within Windows. The Mac OS X Help explains how to do this.
Sean
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SDI to HDMI converters are meant for monitors, not for capturing. Is there a difference? I’m not sure. There very well could be. While they’re both uncompressed, its very possible those devices alter the colorspace. Also, there may be a delay introduced which might affect deck control. You won’t have SDI output from the Mac. So you can’t feed it a sync signal and you can’t record out to the deck or camera.
I think its a bad idea. It might work just fine, but you’ll probably be the first person to try it which is never fun.
Sean