Uli Plank
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While FCP can de-interlace, the filter is non-adaptive, i.e. reducing the vertical resolution everywhere, not only for moving parts.
If most of your footage is shot from a camera support (and not handheld) I’d recommend a better de-interlacer to preserve as much quality as possible. IMHO, FieldsKit from http://www.revisionfx.com is the best value for the money.Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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BTW, DV Rack is doing a great job flipping the image for it’s field monitor. For this kind of work with shallow focus you’ll want one anyway.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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If I may respectfully disagree, it’s one point only: I’d rather buy the 2.66 GHz model. Apple has a tradition of making the top of the line version a tad more expensive than is justified by the productivity gain. Rather spend some of the money spared for RAM, it’s expensive enough ritght now and will get more expensive when Vista hits the streets…
We had to decide on renewing our facilities Macs and had a 2.66 Ghz with 4 MB RAM (four 1 GB modules) and the standard graphics for serious testing over 6 weeks. I have a 3 GHz model under my fingers right now and I don’t see that much of a speed gain in everyday work. We didn’t find any serious flaw, the MacPro is reliable and silent even with 3 extra harddisks filling all the slots. It’s built very well internally, the best piece of engineering I’ve seen from Apple regarding expandability until today. We have ordered 6 more to come next week.
If you need it now, buy it now! Even the speed of applications which are still running under Rosetta (like Adobe’s) will be blazing fast compared to what you have now.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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It’s impossible to shoot uncompressed HD to a single disk, their HD recorder will definitely be recording ordinary HDV.
When we recorded the Canon uncompressed to HD, we used the MegaCine which has 16 (!) small HDs as an array…
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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I spoke to a Sony engineer at IBC, and from what I understood (you could tell he really was an engineer and not a marketing guy by his bad English) the 24p is recorded fully compatible with existing 1080i60
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You need to buy the upgrade to 5.1, it’s not free or automatic, only the update to 5.1.2 will be free.
But I suppose you’ll need the newer OS anyway, I don’t think it works with 10.3.Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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It’s a Mac Mini with Intel Duos 1.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM. Even Motion works better than on my ‘aged’ G5 with it’s original graphics board (only the expensive X800 is superior)
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You need to uprade only the program: project files (these are no EDLs) from version 5.1 are not compatible with older versions.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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OK, I gave it a try. I’m typing this an a Mac mini running FCP 5.1.2 under OS X 10.4.8 without any problem. Three HDV1080i50 streams running picture-in-picture in realtime from the internal HD …
Regards,
Uli
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I have a partial solution for you, I just tested this on our Decklink HD Extreme:
I set up a timeline for DVCProHD with 25p, unfortunately I don’t have any HDV25p files and set the video output via Decklink with downscale to PAL 8 Bit. I get a stable image on our professional Sony SD monitor and I can scrub or watch changes on filters. It just doesn’t play, but it’s good enough for color correction.
I can test this with our MXO as well, once it’s back from shooting (about ten days from now).
Hope this helps,
Uli