Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:03 pm
Valid Questions, Liam.
I'll answer your questions, but first I have a question about your Teranex 2d. Does the Teranex 2d convert betacam sp to HD, then output it as Pro-Res into the mac mini if I want that choice? And if the mac mini only has a firewire interface , can I still use a Teranex 2d?
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I was a member of the original group of editors that sat with "screenplay" for a weekend when they were designing their hardware based non linear editor. It was a decent and I assume continues to be a decent product, but I felt it had issues regarding hard drive costs always being behind the times and much more expensive, so storage costs seemed an issue for me. If a person was just editing, making a few copies, and then deleting, that would be less of an issue.
Prior to Screenplay, I saw computer based NLE's that worked off of field resolution for their transitions effects, which looked absolutely horrible because of the aliasing it created on people's faces.
Before that, I witnessed Avid change their model numbers from AVR 20 series and suddenly go to the 70's, basically dropping the value of the AVR 20 series by over 10,000 dollars overnight, I veered away from considering Avid after that stunt.
When I wanted to upload 30 second commercials, I was held back by youtube limitations that were based on 10 minute projects, so I was hardly using any bandwidth and the projects never looked anywhere as good as they could have.
I also wanted to use segments as various educational demos, and didn't think it made sense to upload video that had the quality muted the quality.
I'm not so much bitter as somewhat odd that people that just created their own projects from film and high end betacam sp in the 90's were forced to run it into a non linear system codec, and use up far too much computer hard drive space, when the project was already done, as is.
And yes, I do have film stock footage that would be nice to show off as HD versus the very low quality compression scheme I had to settle for in the past.
I'm glad you made your product and that it is available.
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AlexLOGIC on Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:15 pm, edited 2 times in total.