Sean Oneil
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ProRes HQ for 1080 is about nine times larger than HDV. So you’re better off keeping it as HDV.
Sean
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Have you tried all five cadence options?
Sean
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I don’t know who these “guys” are, but that has to be the most inarticulate way of describing a technical problem that I’ve heard in a while.
What does that mean, “not real?” Does that mean they’re unreal, surreal, or just flat out fake?
To answer your question, they are as real as it gets. No different than if you encode using any other encoder.
Sean
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What’s your final output going to be? 60 or 24? You also ask on the RED forum
Sean
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UCLA provides this, last I checked.
Sean
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I don’t think it’s possible. FYI, Final Cut doesn’t even use Qmaster. Only Compressor and Shake do.
Sean
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I’ve seen this happen before on a G5. I don’t remember what fixed it. Sorry.
Sean
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I bought a license from 2 Degrees Frost a while back. They’re very nice and accommodating people. I believe it’s a family run operation.
I only bought it to test their AoE initiator with the Linux “vblade” software (which turns a Linux server into an AoE storage device). It worked, but it was slow and they don’t support it. So I passed. I was a bit annoyed because 2-degrees didn’t offer a demo version. So I had to buy something I ended up not using.
Back then, the only SAN hardware they supported was only a system from a company called Coraid. Those systems were very expensive, only held 12 disks, and only had two ethernet ports (and no way to expand). I thought it was a crappy deal. Two clients max, and only 1gb each.
According to the email you posted, it looks like things have changed. I guess now they’re selling their own version of “vblade” that runs on OSX Server. But rather than sell it separately, they are just packaging everything as a turnkey system. I don’t know the pricing so I won’t inject an opinion on that. All I can say is that like all ethernet SAN products marketed towards video editing, if it costs almost as much as Fibre, then why bother? Fibre is cheap now. You can get used Qlogic 2gb adapters (which work on a Mac) for $150 or less.
Sean
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[David Roth Weiss] “So spill the beans Sean. Do you find it difficult to use? Or do you think it’s inferior in some other way?”
It’s beyond more difficult to use by comparison. But aside from that, there are a lot of functionality differences. I’m going to assume you haven’t tried Squeeze, else I don’t think you’d be asking me this.
The biggest thing is cropping. If you use the crop filter in Flix Pro (which I need because I have letterboxed stuff), the encoder does not intelligently recalculate the AR and size for you. You have to calculate the dimensions yourself and enter them in manually. Squeeze is the complete opposite. It’s cropping and AR calculation is smart and automatic.
When you create an FLV progressive download in Squeeze, it automatically creates an SWF player file as well for you. Flix requires you to hit Command-P and manually create a SWF player.
Player skins in both programs are a total joke. But On2 also sells a “Power Player Pack” which I bought assuming they’d be good. They’re not. Squeeze at least provides the FLA project files and a very detailed manual on how to edit those skins in Adobe Flash.
The Flix Pro interface is very clunky. Going into that hidden menu to add player skins is annoying. Little hiccups like previewing one of the skins loses focus of the app. And that annoying popup screen when you quit the program – it tells you to click “Yes” to exit (I’ve never seen that on a Mac app before). It just seems like a very amateur-hour port from the Windows version.
Last but not least, I did not see any obvious way to batch encode multiple files and multiple outputs. Squeeze is very well designed for this task – better than Compressor even. Perhaps there is a way to do batch encoding in Flix Pro, but it wasn’t worth spending time to figure it out given all the other shortcomings. Even if there is a way to do it, I know it’ can’t do all the things Squeeze can. Like you can take a filter preset and drag it on some movies in the batch, or all of them. It gives you a graphic tree telling you what’s being done to each file.
So comparing the pros and cons for each program, I couldn’t find a single solitary thing I liked better about Flix Pro.
Oh crap! George Carlin just died!!! Not too happy at the moment.
Sean
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I gotta jump in here and suggest NOT getting Flix Pro. I bought it and I think it’s awful compared to Sorenson Squeeze Flash Edition. Just my opinion of course, but I ended up buying both a few weeks ago and it’s a night and day difference on many levels.
Sean