Sean Oneil
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That’s not a dumb question. So you’re saying it looks fine but when you render you get a white strip?
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Repair disk permissions.
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I’m having a ton of problems myself with my SATA RAID. I didn’t think it was 10.3.9 thought and starting having smaller problems prior to the update. I’m quickly starting to think that people at Sonnet are a bunch of hacks.
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What exactly is wrong with Final Cut’s filter? I’m not saying there’s nothing wrong with it, I just want to know what it is.
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It’s a major drag. There is no good solution. FAT32 works perfectly on both platforms, but FAT32 sucks. It has a 137 gig limit, and files can be no larger than 4 gigs (useless for most of us video people).
OSX can read NTFS but can’t write to it.
Yes there’s MacDisk and similar products. But you have to open up a program to make it work. And of course you have to have that program on the PC in question. Not helpful if you want to take it somewhere. If you want a firewire drive or something that will work anywhere you go, there are no good options.
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I wouldn’t expect anything revolutionary. I read somewhere that the fastest model would be 2.8ghz. The architecture will remain the same so the performance boost will be trivial. What would take 30 seconds to render on a dual 2.5 will take 27 seconds on a 2.8 – that kind of thing. The real improvement will be cooler running chips so they can do away with the expensive liquid cooling system.
This could lower the cost, but for someone who already has a dual 2.5ghz, the new G5s will pretty much mean squat.
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[Peter Wiggins] “Huh? It is possibly a good aquisition format, for delivery, no”
Not delivery as a master, but delivery to actual consumers. I’m saying that if the actual MPEG-2 stream that’s on the XDCam’s disk is the same stream (not recompressed) that gets beamed up to the satellite dish, then it’s probably great for people in that field.
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The funny thing is everyone discusses these things with this ridiculous assumption that the footage will not go past one generation. Imagine if everyone down the chain was re-encoding the video with lossy compression. It’d be terrible. This is why we’re professionals and we’re supposed to know this stuff. A producer or cameraman isn’t going to think about that. And the broadcaster or authoring person is going to use whatever he or she is provided. It’s up to the people in the middle to keep it at a pro level.
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Try diabling the Decklink as a 2nd (or 3rd) monitor.
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[Wayne Carey] “You wish has been answered by Sony. Its called the XDCAM HD. Sony is announcing at NAB that they will have a high-def version of the XDCAM system in the very near future.”
XDCam is MPEG2. Be it SD or HD, it’s nowhere near uncompressed quality. XDCam is a good final delivery format, like for broadcasters. It’s hardly good enough for post.