[Thomas Morter-laing]

Sounds good, and can we PLEASE STOP using the word WMV HERE!!! Tom’s campaign again the ultimately useless and old, inefficient codec/wrapper thing continues….

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Yeah I’d really like to see this, ill it be uploaded somewhere?

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

When will people learn… Prores is DA BOMB! 😀

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

That was all a little convoluted, but yes, FireWire 800 will work and it should be fine, I have used it for the past few years as a media “server” of sorts, although I’ve also magically raided it with another drive to male sure I don’t lose anything, because I believe external hard dives are statistically less reliable than sata drives.

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Or we could ALL stop using wmv, and tell our clients to use something more sensible. You know, like ANY OTHER FORMAT. sorry I hate wmv, it’s useless and has no point these days…

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

So what you’re effectively saying is that in conditions such as these, a small amount of gain (eg +3db) may actually HELP the situation- if thats the case then you’re by extension suggesting a possible time to use gain for real broadcast work? (I still dont understand why they build cameras able to use 18db- anything needing that would look TERRIBLE anyway…)

And just to confirm, all the negative gain does is reduce exposure digitally, rather than actually reduce noise as well? (I know it makes it darker, just wondering if there were any other hidden benefits to it…)

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Sorry that’s not quite what I meant, I mean if you set up the canvas to display 1920×1080 it DOES pillar box it. I understand the rectangular pixels hdv uses, but why does that not therefore fit into a 1920×1080 canvas?

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Sorry im sure I’m probably being thick here but what sort of situation calls formmore than that? I know a few very busy tv editors and I appreciate a lot of transcoding and compressing happens, but normally between dv pal and pro res formats, only to h264 for the last export or 2…

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

I make about 1 or 2 a week…. sorry as well, I just realised the specs of my machine are in my signature :S Oh well, anyway, thanks for all your helps 🙂

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

I have an iMac i7 quad core 2.93ghz, 12gb ddr3 1333mhz ram, ATI Radeon HD 5750 1gb- would it make a significant difference still?

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).