[Uli Plank]

I had a few test files from a former camcorder shootout, and they worked with P2 Log. I’ll get my HVX200 (European) this afternoon and tell you more.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

5.1 ist faster, even on PPCs.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Forgot to mention one thing: of course you won’t get true 50i, it’ll stay progressive and just look like film on TV.
Where should the extra temporal information come from?

Reagrds,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

FCP doesn’t do this correctly, it’ll insert frames.
Cinema Tools, which come with FCP, are meant for conforming clips to other speeds.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t cause any damage to the camera

[Uli Plank]

Have a look at my post in the HDV forum.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Just for comparision:

FCP does three HDV streams on a MacBook in RT.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

That’s not much of a conversion: QuickTime is just a ‘wrapper’ in this case, the codec stays native in FCP too.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Well, we are really happy with our render farm for Cinema4D, it’s up and running. Configuration was a snap with their excellent NETRender solution, once we learned to set it to the right ports. It can be acessed and administrated via internet.

Now that we are not stacking them any more, our DuoCore Minis run like a charm, they are neither overheating nor having any problem with their harddisks (knock on wood). The Duo runs at 188% of a single core, that’s even better than a dual G5 (only 176%), must be very efficient code.

All of this applies to 3D, where traffic is relatively low as opposed to CPU times, making net rendering very efficient.

We did some tests with QMaster, but that was not very impressive. A visible gain over one local Quad was achieved only with three or more Minis, while one Mini is rendering 3D as well as one dual G5 2GHz. Well, after all rendering MPEG-2 or H.264 is much more traffic intensive than 3D.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Two suggestions:
Use Photo-JPEG@75% quality. Yes, it’s even bigger files, but very good quality. The encoding times are far less than H.264.
There are two good freeware tools I’d recommend for monitoring: CoreDuoTemp will tell you if the Mini is overheating and SMART Reporter will monitor the status of the harddisk. The latter one can even send you an email like “Hey, I’m feelin’ kinda sick!”

We are into this stuff since we are setting up a bunch of minis as a render server for 3D. We’ve already learned that you shouldn’t stack Minis, but that’s probably not your concern.

Hope this helps,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.