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posted by GregStaten
on Tue, Jul 15 2008
Avid codec engineer Justin Kwan has written up an excellent article regarding working with QuickTime imports and the RGB / 601/709 import setting. Anyone who creates or works with QuickTime movies for import into Media Composer or Symphony should definitely...
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posted by avid_a.k.
on Mon, Jul 14 2008
In this video we will go over Robert Reinhardt's Top 5 Do's and Don'ts for encoding flash video. Produced by Coby Rich, Product Marketing Manager, Sorenson Squeeze Tip #1 Do determine a proper bit rate or data rate for your flash video content. Squeeze...
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[quote user="Haze"]I hope Avid spends their R&D dollars on emerging technologies as opposed to wasting their resources on of dying technologies.[/quote] That's the real point, I would have thought. Especially given the almost daily proliferation of new HD formats and compression schemes.
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jwrl
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Sun, Jul 20 2008
Have a look at this thread .
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jwrl
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Sun, Jul 20 2008
[quote user="MalachiX"]I wanna stick a full 8 gigs of RAM in there and it's cheaper to go with some 800 RAM over 1066.[/quote] If you mix 800 and 1066 all memory will be addressed at the slower speed anyway. Also with DDR2 memory you must keep the memory pairs balanced. By this I mean if you have Kingston 800 in slot 1a you should also...
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jwrl
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Sun, Jul 20 2008
Hmm... Lately I'm often confronted with students' AVCHD cameras, so I took a look at AVCHD Upshift (more precisely: I bought it). It works acceptably fast (considering AVCHDs evil cpu demands, and comparing to other AVC decoders), has a clean interface, does batch chores - in short: it could be a worthy tool. The created files _seem_ ok and...
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macjaeger
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Sun, Jul 20 2008
I wasn't aware there was such a thing. I would have thought that it only applied to analog formats.
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jwrl
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Sun, Jul 20 2008
