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Re: I wish to upgrade my "work" editing suite - 15 years agoAnd, if I am not mistaken in any way; it is the ONLY card that can use the three (or four) internal sleds of the MacPro. All the other cards listed are connected to external disk enclosures. which drives the total cost of ownership up. SATA RAID's are built on disk throughput one + two + three +,,,,,. For each additional stripe (disk) in the RAID set, you get a bump upward of transfer speeds.by John Foley - Café LA Re: I wish to upgrade my "work" editing suite - 15 years agoSure 3x 750 or even 3x 1TB if you wish. The Apple RAID card is the only one that will fit "inside" your system. Since it's an Apple product, it must be there somewhere? Just now looked; no where on the Apple web site, but Google search for MA849Z/B and it's everywhere else.by John Foley - Café LA Re: problems with h264 and DVD Studio Pro 4 - 15 years agoI would like to help, but I have chosen to completely stay away from this mess! HD DVD is not a supported format any longer. No further work will be done on it. The future for HIGH DEF is BluRay and Apple is not responding in a timely manner. It i s my understanding that DVD Studio does not use progressive content, only 29.97 drop fame.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: More than 2 hours on a DVD? - 15 years agoBringing a self contained QT movie directly into DVDSP is doing the same thing as Compressor, but you are not getiing the control during the background encode process as doing it in Compressor. Encoding anything about one hour is best using CBR - Constant Bit Rate, but when going into 1.5 -2+ hours, I use VBR - Variable Bit Rate -2 Pass. Compressor is just a GUI on top of Quicktime. It givby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: I wish to upgrade my "work" editing suite - 15 years agoDoes your MacPro have the 4 internal disk sleds? Why not start by installing 3 more SATA drives inside the MacPro as they are much more reliable than edit with Firewire externals. You can add the Apple RAID card and have a 3 drive hardware RAID. What size is the television? Are you planning on learning/doing color correction in the future? I personally am not adversed to LCD displays becausby John Foley - Café LA Re: Print to video vs edit to tape - which to use? - 15 years agoAhem! What is an edit to tape got to do with a person who owns a stable? Horses of Courses!by John Foley - Café LA Re: Mix aspect ratios? - 15 years agoUsing DVD Studio Pro 4, telling it to be a 16:9 format automatically creates HD DVD. There is NO real 16:9 SD media so something here is misleading. Are you using anamorphic recorded SD looking like 16:9 or what? What camera/format were these clips recorded into? The output of Compressor can change formats to some degree, but it may take a very long time.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: More than 2 hours on a DVD? - 15 years agoAll DVD+-RW writers today are dual layer burners. Now it is interesting that Apple started out supporting DVD-R media and did so until about 3 years ago. Today in my Quad G5, my MacBook Pro and my older G4 with an external DVD-+RW burner, I can not use dual layer DVD-R media but DVD+R dual layer media works fine? So, yes a dual layer 7.95 GB DL DVD will accomodate 4 hours encoded mediaby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: More than 2 hours on a DVD? - 15 years agoIf you mean a dual layer SD DVD, then most likely yes. But not on a single 4.37 GB layer DVD. In my experience, I have had to encode 4:3 at or below 4 Mbps to get two hours on one layer. You do understand that a faster bit-rate of decode means a bigger file size - right?by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Suggestions for inexpensive WinXP Pro, Video Edition/Capture Software. - 15 years agoUsing the built-in Windows movie editing program is the "least expensive" you can get. But if you want a good program that is Windows happy, then Premier Pro and there are several other low cost" options. Google Away!by John Foley - Café LA Re: Connecting DLT Device - 15 years agoDriver Installed: No Isn't that telling you that you didn't install the driver for the card?by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Has anyone used the Sony HVR-Z7U ( interchangable lenses)? - 15 years agoWell, so sorry to nitpick BUT I have used HDV and DVCPRO and HDV has problems with fast pans and sudden zooming. The format can not pick up the nuance of chrominance that 4:2:2 can, so whether or not you call it color space, there is a difference to be recokened with. Those of us with the HVX200 are not as colorful as the HPX500 or better 2/3" cameras but that doesn't invalidate the advanby John Foley - Café LA Re: Has anyone used the Sony HVR-Z7U ( interchangable lenses)? - 15 years agoAVCHD uses H.264 or Mpeg part 10 which is a much more modern codec than Mpeg 2. If you have ever encoded anything into H.264 you can tell immediately how much better that codec is than is MPEG-2by John Foley - Café LA Re: Has anyone used the Sony HVR-Z7U ( interchangable lenses)? - 15 years agoDoes anybody understand color space in video here? The unprecedented standard before HD?? was color space 4:2:2. Sony went off the edge of civility and started using a compressed 4:2:0 or MPEG-2 for recording to. Granted that the new ATSC standard for broadcasting digital TV is MPEG-2 and AC3 audio but why start with an inferior format ? The task of getting all those extra pixels of 108by John Foley - Café LA Re: Dual 2.5 G5 with ProRes 422 HQ - 15 years agoIt is noted in the Apple docs that the only G5 system that could use ProRez HQ is the last Quad 2.5 G5. It does work on my Quad G5 2.5 machine, but evidentally not any of the dual G5 processor systems?by John Foley - Café LA Re: DVD without menus - 15 years agoSet "first play" to the video track and the "end jump", back to the video track, if you want it to repeat.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: formatting video for 16:9 tv - 15 years agoA bit more information would be helpful, such as the original format and how you made it look like 16:9. I am assuming that the footage is some actual NTSC 4:3 footage that has been anamofized. That means you chose the anamorphic codec to trim pixels off the bottom and top of each frame to simulate a 16:9 looking picture? LCD and Plasma displays use HD codecs of 720P or 1080i and some willby John Foley - Café LA Re: Proper rates to edit sound for FCP - 15 years agoI would like to answer your question but I don't have enough information to do so. My first reaction to this question is " Well, if they gave you audio from a 29.97 video at 48Khz, then that's what they want back". This is an incomplete answer past the info given here.by John Foley - Café LA Re: web link? - 15 years agoSearch Help for DVD SP and look for DVD@Accessby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD studio pro problems - 15 years agoEnger, You are hijacking this thread by posting another problem in the same thread. You won't get anyone to help you that way. using the compressor for transforming a sequence into the best quality format for dvd, using dvd pro to create dvds and as i am using both a widesreen hd and a normal sd camera Which cameras, formats are you using? Make sure they are ones that FCP has codecs for.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD Studio 4 Burning Problem-Pixelization During Transitions - 15 years agoEileen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have run numerous tests with bit rates, all under > 8, to no avail. No Settop player can decode above 6Mbps. Never ever go above 6.0 if you are sending this out to people with DVD Players. > I've tried Compressor in the past. It seems to > work fine until after I have imported both audio > and videoby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD Studio 4 Burning Problem-Pixelization During Transitions - 15 years agoMost likely bit-rate of encode is TOO HIGH. Commonly misunderstood of how to encode. Export full rez QT and then encode with Compressor or other tool, but do not let DVD SP do it for you. (HINT: Where you see the term encode, that means something else must decode it to play out.)by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Compositing questions, layering and specal effects. - 15 years agoI call that ADD graphics. Since no one can concentrate for more than 30 milliseconds, it gives no message to the viewer except confusion.by John Foley - Café LA Re: HDV nightmare - 15 years agoDid you read the HDV post 6 posts below yours?by John Foley - Café LA Re: Can a Leopard and a Tiger do the nasty? - 15 years agoSystem Preferences > Sharing - tick Local Sharing and use the other machine to connect to it with the Go menu > Connect to Server. You can use any ethernet cable as GigaBit detects the type of cable and adjusts send-receive.by John Foley - Café LA Re: need an expert opinion on FCP tape compatibility - 15 years agoI don't even understand your question? You shot video at 23.98 on a Sony F900 camera (High Def) So why not use that codec in Final Cut Pro? HPX500 with P2 cards is also High Def and has a codec in FCP as well. So, what is the question?by John Foley - Café LA Re: Clips were fine, now say "Codec could not be opened"?? - 15 years agoFCP and I assume FCE do not have a codec for AVI files. It's the old MAC vs PC game. It's almost a miracle that all computers decided to communicate by TCP/IP. Wouldn't it be nice if there were standard "wrappers" for audio and video as well?by John Foley - Café LA Re: Can a Leopard and a Tiger do the nasty? - 15 years agoThey both have gigabit ethernet to share files. In what way do you intend to "share" files between the two. Both FCP versions had better be the same if you intent to move the project files between both.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Smallest Mac Book Pro - 15 years agoMichael, I do agree that it is BIGGER, but I use a backpack style case fro the 17" and I can cary it through an airport with luggage and all. Also the 15.4" is 14.1" x 9.6" at 1440x900 screen resolution while the 17" is 15.4" x 10.4 at 1680x1050. Thats about 1.3" x .8" larger for the 17". For me, that difference is definitely worth it.by John Foley - Café LA Re: FAQ : how to rip DVD and convert Video to iPod - 15 years agoI use Handbrake for converting DVD movies to MP4 at 320x240 for iPodby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro |
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