Sean Oneil
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Have you considered using a Dual Layer DVD?
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[mark palmos] “On the desktop, i guess the AJA hi5 would do the trick… at a price. “
You can do that. But it’s a lot cheaper to get a Blackmagic Intesity card. It’s like $200 and gives you a broadcast-type HDMI output. It’s just a question of having an available slot, and whether or not you need SDI as well.
[mark palmos] “But on the laptop… If you plug a DVI to HDMI cable into the laptop’s DVI socket and use Cinema Display Mode, surely your laptop screen will also be toggled to full screen video?”
Surely not :). You get 2 independent displays. You can have Cinema Display on the monitor and the laptop screen stays the same. Someone in my office has this right now.
Also check out the Matrox MXO product. Same type of setup, but instead of Cinema Display you get a real broadcast output from the DVI port. You also get SDI output.
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You know you can just plug straight into a TV using a DVI to HDMI cable, right? You won’t get a real broadcast signal but you can use fullscreen Cinema Display Mode.
To keep the dual-desktop just add another video card. Or better yet you can get a Blackmagic Intensity card which is a real broadcast HDMI output.
As for the laptop, there’s no way to connect a 3rd monitor. You’d need an AJA IO plus an AJA Hi5.
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That is exactly what I’m talking about! Anyone here could put one of those together tomorrow if they wanted. That setup cost $7k. Plenty of people here spend that much and more on media storage. The Caldigit HDPro is in the same price range. Granted you’d only have a measly 144 gigs. But it wasn’t that long ago a 144gb array was considered large. Doesn’t take a genius to see SSD drives are in the very near future for us editors.
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[David Roth Weiss] “4-terabyte hard drives are due by mid year 2008 at about the cost of the present 1-terabyte drives.”
Sounds like a great option for backups. I still think by 2009 we’ll begin seeing flash memory used in post houses for media drives.
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[Ed Dooley] “Barefeats.com says that 128g versions are $3,000. I think I’ll wait a while.”
“STEC’s solution is alleged to cut the dollar-per-gigabyte price down to just $2/GB within two years. “
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[Arnie Schlissel] “SAS drives are available with spindle speeds of 10k RPM and even 15k RPM. All the 3gb/second SATA II drives are 7200 RPM. The only 10k RPM SATA drives are the WD Raptors, which are SATA I, 1.5 gb/s.”
If you want 10k drives, the Raptor is fine. It still won’t max out the 150MB/s SATA I bus.
15k drives are a bad choice IMO. They have small capacity and they’re expensive. And they’re not that much faster than the new crop of 7200rpm drives (750GB and larger) which use a new perpendicular recording technology that makes them 80MB/s per disk.
Also, flash memory based storage is creeping up on us. Technically you could have it now if you wanted to spend an incredible amount of money. It’s just a matter of time before price and capacity improves to make it practical. A no-brainer for video production. Zero latency, high throughput, low heat (no fans), no mechanical noise, no moving parts (far less likely to go bad). I can’t wait.
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This happened to me with the 1st Varicam project I did. 95% of my footage worked fine but some of the shots came in stuttering like this.
I don’t remember how I fixed it, but I did. Try the DVCPro framerate converter tool. Or re-capture those shots as 23.98.
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[Lee McEachern] “I guess SAS is the latest and greatest but is it worth another $1,000 on the pricetag?”
No. Not in the slightest bit. The bottleneck is the hard drive, not the bus. A SATA II bus is still twice as fast as the fastest hard drive ever made.
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[Gary Alan] “JES Deinterlacer has been doing it for some time now. At least a year. And it is a free app. I, and many others, have used it successfully for Canon HV20 footage that is 24p.
“I gotta 2nd that. JES can detect cadence breaks and everything. It’s really amazing.
The only time it will not work is if there are very quick edits with different cadences. So if you shoot 24p, edit 29.97, and it has a lot of quick cuts it won’t catch all of them.