Uli Plank
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FCP runs fine for me
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– Regarding the RAID: I’d go for a RAID with DVCProHD, one drive is barely enough for runnning two streams safely. You’d be fine with threee to four drives in a RAID5 configuration. Currently Apple is not supporting this, but being an optimist I hope for Leopard, now that they have made it so easy to add drives. Everything else will be considerably more expensive. BTW, eS-ATA is faster than FW 800. You might try this: boot external, make RAID0s from two pairs and then couple those as RAID1s for safety. Might work.
– The RAM: rather go for 4 GB in four 1 GB modules. Some tasks (like encoding and some things in Shake) ar faster with four identical modules. No big thing, though, and since this type of RAM is pretty expensive right now, you might want to start with two modules and add two more later.
– The card: Currently the X1900 doesn’t really hold it’s promise, it’s not much faster than the regular card. But this might be caused by immature drivers, since the card is pretty strong on PCs. Plus there are some reports on conflicts with I/O-cards like DeckLink on the Mac.Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Definitely something wrong! Our MacPro is the quietest machine we had in a long time, and we have even added harddisks to all the slots.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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You can do this with a still video camera and long time exposure. We are using Canons, since they come with a free remote control program to do this from a laptop. Have a look at this month’s Cow magazine, and have a look at some stuff from Berlin: https://www.bili-rubin.com/timelapsereel_SD.mov
Some video cameras can do 2 or 4 fps with open shutter and get close.
But if you don’t have the streaks from recording, no filter will do this. You might give RS Motion Blur a try (www.revisionfx.com), but it’ll probably show side effects on the background if turned up that much.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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The Matrox is using the input from DVI and can loop through to DVI again, but it’s also doing HSDI and SDI plus analog component in HD and SD, so it should be able to feed any monitor out there. I don’t know if it supports 720p25, since we don’t own a JVC. I’d ask Matrox.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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If you can’t avoid offlining at all, I don’t see a simple solution. While the new P2 interface in FCP 5.2.1 is very well laid out, it can’t do automatically what you desire.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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It’s a great monitor, I’d say the best you can get in LCD (disclaimer: I’ve not yet compared the new JVCs side-by-side).
BUT: As long as we still have to deliver SD as well, I’d always have a traditional tube in SD next to it in my studio to check interlace issues
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But if you decide to go the P2 route I’d suggest upgrading to FCP 5.1.2 right away, since the handling of P2 data has been improved significantly in the latest version.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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I own a HVX200, and I like it. My comments were aiming at the discussion at hand, not at the HVX in general. And, yes, it’s pretty darn good alongside a Varicam.
Regarding latitude: I always find the HVX200 a bit noisy in dark areas, and that’s a factor to consider when discussing latitude.
For sure DV50 is a huge advantage over DV, I never denied that.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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FYI, while MPEG Streamclip is free and an excellent program, it’s not from Apple.
It’s from a talented Italian programmer and you can find it here: http://www.squared5.com .
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.