Todd Beabout
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Where could I find one of these Dual 2.7 G5’s? I guess I could check e-bay, but it doesn’t seem that apple is selling them anymore. Also… I’ve been a bit confused regarding “Dual” and “Dual Core”. According to the apple website:
https://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html
It would appear that we have 2 “Dual” systems and one “Quad”. Is the “Quad” the same as “Dual Core”? It also appears if you scroll down that all these new models have the PCIe slots.
Where could one purchase an “older” Dual 2.7?
Thanks for your help too!
-Todd Beabout
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[Lee Berger] “Other NLE’s such as AVID and Media 100 allow you to mix codecs without rendering.”
That is true with CERTAIN Avids. If you haven’t been on a Symphony or Media Composer in a while I’d wait before making those claims. Remember the always fun “Wrong Format” screen?
[Lee Berger] “Of course you can mix codecs”
I was responding to the original post:
[janice keuhnelian] “As we unfortunately know, we can?t mix different codecs
in the same sequence. “-Todd Beabout
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[janice keuhnelian] “As we unfortunately know, we can?t mix different codecs
in the same sequence.”Wha? I use different codecs in the same sequence all the time. Is this not working for you for some reason? The other posts are correct in regards to how much space you are going to take up on hard drives, but if you wanted to you should be able to mix codecs in a timeline.
-Todd Beabout
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It will be the same. If all the settings are the same for both exports.
-Todd Beabout
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Yes. Sorry.
-Todd Beabout
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Yeah, I saw that too and told him. The website says that they ship in “about 2 weeks”, but he said that they aren’t actualy shipping any of them. Unfortunately it seems that the dual 2.7 is not available either, at least from their website. Also, ALL the G5’s listed on the apple website now only have the PCIe slots, so anyone buying a new G5 will have the same problem.
I can’t really believe this. Very wierd.
-Todd Beabout
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You said that your footage was 16:9. OK, so how do you expect it to look on a 4:3 screen? Are you wanting a center-punch? Otherwise about your only option would be to letterbox. Or are you looking for anamorphic output?
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That’s what I’m not sure about. It seems that with you selecting the “Uncompressed 8-bit” codec that lower fields would be default, but I suppose it is possible that AE is adding fields to the rendered video even if it does not render those fields out. It might be rendering frames but then outputting fields. And I think I’ve just gone over my own head.
Sorry I don’t know more about AE. I know that in-house here we usually have our AE dept. send us QuickTimes with “Animation” codec. That is mainly because editors use different systems that aren’t codec-compatible, and it retains alpha. But unless in the case of a crawl or scroll on CG, the motion seems fine. Don’t know if that will help you, and it does require a render, but that’s all I’ve got. Good luck!
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Sounds like somewhere within AE it is not rendering your fields. I use combustion much more than AE myself, but I do believe that there is a render setting that may be off a bit. Just a thought.
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Trash your preferences.
User>Library>Preferences>Final Cut Pro User Data>Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs
Go ahead and trash the other 2 files too. (Obj cache, Prof cache)
See if that helps. FCP will re-create these files when you open the application if they are not in that folder, so it is an effective way to “re-start” to “factory” settings.
Hope this helps.
-Todd Beabout
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