Sean Oneil
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Assuming you’re mastering to Digibeta and not back to DV, DV -> BMD codec is better than DV -> Apple Uncompressed. Check out http://www.onerivermedia.com
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Yes, it can do that.
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That’s right. My mistake
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[Georg Misch] “The Kona LH also supports hardware downconversio”
Actually, the Kona 2 does, but the LH does not.
The Decklink HD Pro supports hardware downconversion.
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The Mac drivers for the Highpoint are actually available now. Someone posted a link to them here somewhere.
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Another editor here just got one. I’m jealous (I have a Cinema Display 23″).
The Dell has an adjustable platform so you can raise it very high. This can save your neck from getting destroyed over the years.
I know most editor’s desks have a high-up monitor stand in the back, but I find that for newer high-res monitors such as these, the monitor stand is just too far away and you’ll be hunching forward trying to read small text and such.
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[Warren] “I went to my local Fry’s and they don’t carry this– only male to female. Any ideas where I can get a Its a standard 9 pin M/M cable?”
Fry’s sells gender changers. It will work fine.
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Quick correction. When I said it has to be version 5, I meant not 4 or 4.5. I did not mean it must be version 5.0 w/o any updates. 5.02 or 5.03 is fine.
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[Sean Lander] “Hi Sean.
I have searched for your instructions but can’t seem to find them. This is of great interest to me as we use photo-jpeg
a lot. Please enlighten me.”Oh boy. Ok, first of all, I take no responsibility. This is obviously not supported by Apple.
Go to your Final Cut Pro 5 app file (it has to be version 5 I think). Ctrl-click, show package contents. The navigate to “Resources -> English -> FXScripts -> Enablers.
In this folder, the only file should be “RT Software Enabler.txt”. Before you do anything, copy this file to another folder for backup purposes. That way if you screw anything up, you can always revert to the original by restoring this file.
So now open the file with TextEdit. Scroll down about 2/3rds toward the bottom of the document.
Find a section that starts with this:
// *****************************************************************************
// jpeg settings. Settings specific to jpeg go below here.
// *****************************************************************************
// *****************************************************************************You’ll see that there is max sequence height and width which RT effects are allowed. They are set to half-SD-res for Offline-RT. Change them to 1920 and 1080 respectively. maxCompressQuality is set to 364 (36% quality). Change it to 800 or so anything below 80% P-JPEG quality will be RT (75% is the best quality for 4:2:2 and it’s what the BMD Easy Setups use).
Scroll down further into the section and you’ll find more places where you need to repeat the same changes. Once you get past the JPEG section (2YUV is next), then you’re done.
You have the original file backed up somewhere safe. Now, also make a backup of the modified file and keep it somewhere else. This is because sometimes updating FCP will revert it back to the original (the update to 5.03 did this – maybe they read my trick).
So go ahead and test it out. You’ll notice when you start FCP, you’ll get a warning saying that green render bars will now be blue. Click OK. It’s a bit annoying, but worth it. And the blue bars are purly cosmetic. Everything is still functionally the same.
You will now get RT Extreme orange bars for Photo-JPEG effects where as before they were red bars.
I use it all the time now for certain types of jobs. Before I was digitizing at DV and re-capturing at Uncompressed. So now w/ JPEG it’s been a huge timesaver having RT dissolves.
I haven’t tried it with HD yet, so I don’t know what kind of performence you get. But I can say that SD on a dual G5 works great.
Also, this trick does not work with other codecs. The reason it works for JPEG is because JPEG is already enabled to work with RT Extreme (for the Offline-RT capability). The Enabler file just restricts it to low-res. This “hack” of mine lets you get rid of that restriction.
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I’ve had several email conversations with Andreas at BitJazz about this.
Blackmagic Design can create the greatest codec known to man but it wouldn’t mean anything unless Apple supported it. In other words, BMD isn’t allowed to RT enable it. Otherwise they would have done so with Photo-JPEG among others (which you can do on your own BTW – do a search for my instructions). RT Extreme is only allowed by Apple supported QT components. That’s their decision. BMD has nothing to do with it.
I’m sure someday Apple will create a lossless codec and use it as a selling point for FCP 6. And it will only work on a new PowerMac G6 or something. That’s how they do things.
Sean