[kakutarvn]

I would say NO.

[kakutarvn]

I get the feeling that the SHI Autodesk relationship is very shakey now. After SGIs CH13 and Audodesk moving things to Linux on non SGI systems.

Even if SGI has a Linux system(which they have?) that works for Discreet, I think Discreet is moving on.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/catalog/catalog.jsp?fhquery=fh_secondid%3D230w5bs_00_gb_consumer%26fh_location%3D%2F%2Fconsumer%2Fen_GB%2Fcategories%3Ccatalog_gb_consumer%2Fcategories%3Cmonitors_pc_peripherals_gr_gb_consumer%2Fcategories%3Clcd_monitors_ca_gb_consumer%26&productId=230W5BS_00_GB_CONSUMER&activeCategory=MONITORS_PC_PERIPHERALS_GR_GB_CONSUMER&fredhopperpage=detail.jsp&language=en&country=GB&catalogType=CONSUMER&proxybuster=5TCXFGZFFHGN1J0RMRCSHQFHKFSESI5P

LCD widescreen monitor
23″
WUXGA 230W5BS/00

This is the monitor we have running on our Tezro.. V12 graphics/DM 5

Which is also the same hardware on our Oct.2

I haven’t tested it…. but I can’t imagie that it wouldn’t work.

How old are we talking?

BKM

[kakutarvn]

I would love it if you also talked to some of the top people at post-houses and production shops. Being in brodcasting at a local level I would love to hear how the big boys do it with regards to commercials, and other post projects.

Things like… workflow, timeframe, people usded, gear used, how, why.

The 3 of you guys are probably the types I want to hear from, you all tend to go very high end in your pods for people like yourselves. But to me.. you are the higher end. Don’t forget about the little guys… give them something useful that they can later experiment at their level.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

higginba wrote:

it’s done to protect the hourly rates of the folks who paid full price in the first place. imagine having one of your competitors go out of business. someone buys their flame at an auction for $30K (when you paid $200K), and begins charging 1/3rd the rate you need to charge to break even. if he’s even half as good as you are, your clients still have no financial reason to keep bringing you work. what a crazy world, eh?

So this argument is only based on post houses. What about the other markets Discreet sells gear in? (broadcast) It’s a market they have only scratched. We have 2 Smokes at our station… we don’t charge an hourly ratre. I just edit and put as much or as little into a project as the project demands.

We would like to get Flame sometime as well. But even though the Flame Software is under $20K when a new version comes out. Discreet will chagre us $200K even though we already own the hardware to run it on.

Now that’s a crazy world.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

Yea, I understand the license usage agreement… (you really don’t own and movie DVDs you buy, just the rights to watch them)

However, it seems odd to me that there is a huge fee for buying the software the first time. Now usually this comes with hardware and supoprt, and all the beels and whistles, so $200K isn’t a big deal. Then a new version of software comes out and you can upgrade for under $10k. That’s understandable.

What I don’t like is that if he buys all this hardware form a 3rd party. ANd it will run the software… all he needs is to buy the software that costs $10k.

It is no different than if I already have a PC and I buy a copy of 3DS MAX for $4,000. I don’t own MAX, just the license to run it on my system.

I think that restructuring the price of the software alone, vs. the entire system package might need to be looked at by Discreet. It might help get new users that are going the Avid, FCP way.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

Don’t you really need at least 3 Gigs of RAM to run Smoke 7? Or is that just the “recomended” specs?

Those transfer fees are insane (if posted correctly) what software manufacturer charges $44k or 88K plus the $7500-$10000 for the upgraded software? What other video/software company charges such fees?

If you own the hardware… why can’t you just buy the software?

Things like this is what keeps people from buying Discreet products and going to other companies.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

Early in my editing career, back in the days of linear editing, I had just finished onlineing a 30 min show and was just finishing up. All I had to do was to put Bars-Slate on the head of the tape before the show.

Somehow in my haste I mis-entered the TC numbers and ended up overwriting the first 30 sec of the top of the show. 😯

Took another hour or two to match frame back into it and rebuild the begining.

oops!

BKM

[kakutarvn]

Try “chkconfig” and see if it is listed as a service…. then type “chkconfig (process name here) off”

Then when you reboot it won’t auto run.

I don’t have Xstoner, but we have a Xenomotion server that acts the same.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

I’ll bet that it’s FRAMESTORE Space recalculate. Press it an it rechecks the stones for free space.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

Just a guess… I wasn’t at the machine to check.

[kakutarvn]

Try RE-ENTRY of that layer to get CC and shadows.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

Adjust the Resolution value. Usually defautls to 20. Turn it all the way to 1 for best lighting results.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

Did a little google and found this about Avid DS.

The DS preset is telling you the FIELD DOMINANCE of the DS, not the FIELD ORDER. See below.

NTSC – from the DS Editing Guide
Field 1 (upper) contains ODD lines
Field 2 (lower) contains EVEN lines

720 x 486 NTSC – FIELD ORDER of lower field, F2, first

1st field in field order 2nd field in field order
lower, F2, even line numbers [2,486] upper, F1, odd line numbers [1,485]

The first field in the NTSC field order is the lower field, field number 2, containing all EVEN numbered scan lines.
The first picture scan line (line 1) is contained in the UPPER field – which corresponds back to NTSC FIELD 1. Therefore, DS sets its FIELD DOMINANCE to ODD (1 = ODD).

Also this may be a reason…

A LTC codeword is one video frame time long. As specified in ANSI/SMPTE 12M-1986, the start of a LTC codeword always coincides with a certain line near the beginning of an F1 field, regardless of the field dominance of the video material.

A VITC codeword (also defined in 12M) tags along with each video field. The VITC codeword has a “Field Mark” bit which specifies if the field is F1 or F2. A VITC codeword’s hh:mm:ss:ff value always increments at a transition from F2 to F1, regardless of the field dominance of the video material.

So if your material is F1 dominant, then LTC and VITC behave as you would expect:

field type F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2
edits on tape E F G
LTC on tape 01:00:00:00 01:00:00:01 01:00:00:02 01:00:00:03 01:00:00:04
VITC on tape F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2
01:00:00:00 01:00:00:01 01:00:00:02 01:00:00:03 01:00:00:04

But if your material is F2 dominant, then LTC and VITC straddle your edit points like this:

field type F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2
edits on tape … H I J …
LTC on tape 01:00:00:00 01:00:00:01 01:00:00:02 01:00:00:03 01:00:00:04
VITC on tape F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2
01:00:00:00 01:00:00:01 01:00:00:02 01:00:00:03 01:00:00:04

This means that one frame of F2 dominant material consists of two fields with different timecodes!

See http://www.lurkertech.com/lg/dominance.html for more info and better pics.

BKM

[kakutarvn]

thelibran wrote:

floke wrote:

And also…

when smoke cant find the clips in the library, the layer names space in the dve is blank … How can I replace old layers by the new ones if I dont know wich one is wich ??

I save myself by naming the clips according to the layer… real pain in the @ss..

sometimes when i save the dve and load it again, lots of clips just go white showing blank .. but if i drop the rendered clip in timeline and use history and open dve, its all there… back to dve button and load the same setup, clips are missing… 🙁 been giving me hard time during last mt changes…

Are these clips WIRED at all? I find that you can wire a clip with history and you can edit that history on the second machine but the actual clips are hidden… buried in history but not in the library.

BKM

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