Tim Kolb
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[Aanarav Sareen] “Old? Don’t see anyone old… 😀 “
That’s the spirit.. 😉
TimK
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Sort of traveled territory here…
I suspect the production firm is ignorant of the rules or they just didn’t write about acquiring rights because it’s a given.
A guy passed me doing about 90 on the interstate the other day. There weren’t any of those very attentive Wisconsin State Patrol types out there, but I suspect that doesn’t mean they changed the law…
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
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2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
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Finally…we’ve got an actual certified expert in here!
…the rule in here is don’t make the old guys look bad Aanarav…
🙂
Welcome. It’s nice to see our wall of heads growing again.
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
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2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
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[Keith] “Is anyone running with the Nvidia Quadro FX 540. I was wondering if it’s a true dual head display with the output to the HD monitor, or if one has to set the second monitor to full screen video, making it unusable for toolbars. ect.”
The answers are “yes” and “yes”…it’s a true dual-head display, so you need to dedicate one “head” to the HDTV output.
The only triple head card I’m familiar with is the Parhelia from Matrox with the ability to drive three display surfaces.
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
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An Athlon 64?
Interesting. I’m not familiar with an Athlon 64. I wonder what the differences are between that and an Opteron…
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
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Hi Paul,
…I still don’t understand exactly what “v210” is…is that your own codec?
An example of the math I’ve been most exposed to is here:
https://www.drastictech.com/wp_compression.html
…about half way down, the CCIR 601 uncompressed PAL figure comes out to be about 20 MB/s…which is what I’m used to seeing. Of course, it’s based on a 4:2:2 Y/R-Y/B-Y, 8 bit,”uncompressed” signal (undersampled…but uncompressed).
When I think of DV’s compression ratio…I think in terms of acquisition…and standard digital acquisition is 8 bit. Obviously using 10 bit colorspace as your starting point increases the “uncompressed” filesize..is that what we can attribute the datarate difference between my math assumptions and your figures?
If you find any bad assumptions in the math on the linked page…I’d like to expand on that so I understand it…I won’t need a card today, thanks.
🙂
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
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2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
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[Aanarav Sareen] “I would have to disagree with you regarding your statement that the Pentium M laptops are slower then Pentium 4 systems. I used to edit with a Pentium 4 laptop and it was a)heavy b)would get very warm. Due to these reasons, I decided to purchase a laptop with a Pentium M processor. My Pentium M processor easily beats the Pentium 4 system (3.4ghz w/HT) in terms of redering times and other processor intensive tasks.”
Well, I’m not sure said that they’re slower in every way…
The benchmarking I’ve seen over the last year or so estimate that a Pentium M running at between 1.7 and 2 GHz should be able to hold its own with a 3.0 GHz P4…but there are other factors. I said that you want to be careful about what hard drives they have and the slower FSB is simply…slower.
Rendering taxes processors, but not data pipelines in or out of them…now previewing video effects and multiple streams of video depends first on harddrive speed and second on buss transfer speed to move the data. Theoretically, even with an equal or faster processor, a slower buss speed slows the data flow.
I suspect that editing DV doesn’t exactly emphasize the margin between the different systems, but HD certainly would…and HD is pretty much here.
I agree completely with the heat and weight and power consumption issues with desktop P4 processors and, as I said, these newer processors are definitely the future…the very near future even, but they’ll overtake the desktop Pentium processors for all uses when the internal plumbing gets at least as wide, if not wider than the current 800 MHz FSB in the P4 systems.
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
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2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
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[John Hartney] “Most laptop hard drives are at least 5400 and there are several 7200rpm models. Dell offers a 7200 60 gig and 80 gig internal.”
I think “most” might be optimistic.
Most laptop drives outside of the high-efficiency segment may have 5400 rpm drives (though I don’t know that…), but most Pentium M’s and Centrinos have 4200s…it’s part of the low power demand package. Check the Dell website again and you’ll see that outside of the 60 and 80 Gig 7200s, every other drive offered as internal for the 9300 is 4200 rpm as far as I can see when I call up the grid…
At this point is there even another 2.5″ 7200rpm drive besides the Hitachi? I’m not sure…
Anyway, my point was to watch that spec carefully if considering one of these laptops. There is no question that they’re pretty impressive and can probably do DV stuff fine, and certainly are above a like-clocked P4 for on-the-chip performance, but the 533 MHz FSB is still a limitation.
These more portable, energy efficient laptops are the future of all laptop computing, even video…there’s no question. I just think developing a pipe to get the math on and off the chip as fast as the chip can process it will certainly help to realize the real media production potential of these systems.
Bottom line, if the system works, it works…how much headroom it has is a different story. I know I am happy to hear that most likely my next laptop has good potential to be a battery-preserving, non-lap-scalding mobile processor from the sound of it…
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
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2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
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[Mitch Ives] “[Noah Kadner] “Yep- welcome to the wonderful world of electronics. There’s always faster, quicker and cheaper right around the corner. Question is, what will be ready for your shoot today?
”Since the camera doesn’t arrive until November (assuming no changes), it would appear that we don’t need them today…”
Maybe so, but I suspect Panasonic would really like to have them today to have them ready for use by November…
The rest of the infrastructure that surrounds these cards takes some design time too, and in the year that Panasonic waits for the next best solid state technology to tweak itself for application, JVC and Sony are selling cameras…today. Even though the DVCPro100 quality is better than HDV, there are those who have a more immediate need and may compromise and go HDV if the small DVCProHD cam was still a year off…
As Noah said, there is always another technology just around the corner…unfortunately most of us have work that needs doing today…
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net -
What’s the possibility of a Windows media file on a CD-ROM?
The willing may not be local…I’m in the Midwest.
You could drop me a line at kolb at kolbsyverson dot com if you think this could be helpful.
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net