Steve Freebairn
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Thank you, that is it. I’ll be second camera with a guy that is really good, so I’m sure he can help teach me the menu system. The project is a pilot for a cooking show, kind of like Food 911 on the food channel, so the cinegamma and 24p don’t really matter for this project. Anyway, thanks so much for the help.
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The important thing to remember about doing this in Premiere is to size all your pictures to the same size. then it will work, if you have different sizes of images, then scaling from 50% to 60% would obviously not be the same as scaling from 20% to 30%. One would increase your scale by 20% and the second would increase it by 50%.
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I owned a Matrox RTx100 extremem pro, I sold it to use a dual core. If you plan on switching to avid, then don’t get the matrox, since it is only compatible with premiere. Have you checked out cards from Black Magic or Aja? I’d go with one of them anyday over the RTX100, it did what it was supposed to, but it also has a lot of limits. Premiere with a dual core works better without than with an Rtx100, unless you are using only there supported effects. If you ever do photo montages or effects that aren’t supported, then things start getting sluggish.
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I forgot to put “RTX100” after I sold my… oops
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I sold my on ebay for about 600 and upgraded my system to a dual core. It is so much better now, I don’t regret getting rid of the card. It was good back in the day, when computers weren’t nearly as fast, but the whole “we scale with the power of your CPU” stuff doesn’t seem to be so true, I’ve used a RTX100 on a dual xeon system and it did worse than on my single P4. This new card doesn’t even do 24P in HD. I would go with the axio, or I wouldn’t go at all. On a dual core computer, software editing of HDV works just fine.
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By shooting it in 720 pn mode, you’ll be able to do speed effects also, which unfortunately can’t be done in 1080.
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According to Raylight, the timecode will still be there.
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you could import them into After Effects on a PC if you use Raylight. then you export it as whatever you want. Raylight makes a reference avi file that links directly frame by frame to your mxf, so you won’t lose any quality if you use a lossless compression.
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I’d use a glidecam or steadicam that has a spring loaded arm and then I’d either hook it directly to the boat or if you have to hook it to the vest (yourself) then you’d need to brace yourself against something to keep you stable. If you can mount it to the back of the boat (maybe mount it onto some wood and then ratchet strap that to the back of the boat, you’ll be able to do some pretty cool stuff. If you look at glidecam’s website, they sell equipment that lets you mount a unit on the back of a truck, so borrow that idea and do something similar on a boat. I wouldn’t do it though, until you have some kind of protection for the camera.
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you might try using Bootcamp and a copy of XP to use a PCMCIA card reader via PCI.