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From: James Dore on 17 Feb 2010 09:16 On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:03:09 -0000, SM <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote: > Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > >> > I've bought three of the 5i 27" iMacs for a place I work which turned >> up >> > on Friday - going to have a play next week if I get time. >> >> Pray tell how they perform. > > I finally had a quick play yesterday with some XDCAM footage from a JVC > GY-HM 100 > > Stuck the SD card in the slot, transferred to FCP - all good. Beautiful > footage, lovely iMac screen, quiet, the timeline felt nice and slippery. > Only real downside I could think of is the single FireWire port. > > Stuart Belkin do two-port Firewire 800 hubs, and you can pick up 6-port firewire 400 hubs via eBuyer/eBay. -- James Dore New College IT Officer james.dore(a)new / it-support(a)new
From: Elliott Roper on 17 Feb 2010 11:08 In article <1je29bw.1saq596o3deg0N%info(a)that.sundog.co.uk>, SM <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote: > Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > > > I've bought three of the 5i 27" iMacs for a place I work which turned up > > > on Friday - going to have a play next week if I get time. > > > > Pray tell how they perform. > > I finally had a quick play yesterday with some XDCAM footage from a JVC > GY-HM 100 <colour = green> You get too many toys to play with /colour > > Stuck the SD card in the slot, transferred to FCP - all good. Beautiful > footage, lovely iMac screen, quiet, the timeline felt nice and slippery. > Only real downside I could think of is the single FireWire port. > > Stuart -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: SM on 17 Feb 2010 15:33 Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > I finally had a quick play yesterday with some XDCAM footage from a JVC > > GY-HM 100 > > <colour = green> > You get too many toys to play with > /colour Coming from Mr 5D MkII? ;-) The JVC is a lovely little camera - I'm slightly smitten although only had time for a quick play as I've had the flu since it arrived. Ever so slightly plasticky though. Stuart -- cut that out to reply
From: R on 18 Feb 2010 06:59
SM <sundogmedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The QuickCluster is set up using Apple Qmaster which is installed with > Final Cut Studio. There's some debate online about how many instances > should be used - most say half the number of available cores. Another > approach is to leave one core for the system which is what I've been > doing using Compressor to make MPEG2s and AC3s for use in DVD Studio > Pro. The compression is divvied up between the seven instances. I must say it's all slightly mysterious and baffling :-) For example, sometimes, when transcoding with Compressor, you can use several cores (perhaps all 8) without using Qmaster, just as you can with a standard export from Qt Pro (I'm not sure if this uses segmenting or not - there are other approaches such as frame slicing). Other times it appears not all cores are used and one must use a cluster to get the multicore speedup. As I said, mysterious and baffling. I don't really know what's going on. |