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Final Cut Pro 5: About capturing down-converted DV from HDV source

Final Cut Pro 5: About capturing down-converted DV from HDV source: "Final Cut Pro 5 supports capturing a number of different media types using FireWire device control. Because of differences in the data-structures of DV and HDV, there are some important points to keep in mind if you plan to capture DV video that is being down-converted on-the-fly from an HDV tape source."

Recapturing HDV, Can it be done?

Recapturing HDV, Can it be done?: "RECAPTURING HDV- Can it be done"

P2 drivers

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editors's note P2 Drivers for the card. Y'know, in case you buy that HVX 200

Kona 3: Not everyone waits till NAB

Kona 3.

Here are the items of note:

• DVCProHD hardware acceleration


• HDV hardware acceleration


• Dynamic RT Extreme hardware acceleration


• Up-convert


• Down-convert


• HD/SD Video/Key Output


• Internal HD/SD Live Hardware Keyer


• PCI Express

The DVCProHD+HDV acceleration is greatly needed.
The RT extreme is important.
Up/down convert (can someone comment on the quality

Now, the one that most people miss is that it has a downstream keyer.

This means you can get two (or more) streams of HD PLUS a Title in RT.

Oh yeah, it's PCI-Xpress (or is it E?) which means, it's great in that QuadCore

Lumiere HD - Edit HDV on Final Cut Pro - Beta Download

Lumiere HD - Edit HDV on Final Cut Pro - Beta Download: "• Encodes HD output from Final Cut Pro into HDV MPEG-2 Transport Stream and transfers back to HDV cameras and decks (not yet supported with JVC GY-HD100 & GY-HD50 in 24p & 25p)"

HD DVD insanity.

Sure, they want our money. But they want it in their format.

DRM, re-buying what you own already, and other future headaches. I'm glad that DVDSP 4 will work in both spaces. But not by much.

Daggers Drawn Over DVDs: "he news touched off a torrent of recriminations and finger-pointing. Several movie studios quickly voiced their support for Sony. Two major Chinese DVD makers backed the Toshiba standard, which is called HD DVD. And Dell (DELL ) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ ) took the highly unusual step of issuing a joint statement denouncing the move by Microsoft and Intel, the PC makers' two most important suppliers."

Warner Bros. Backs Blu-Ray DVD Format - Yahoo! News: "Warner Bros. has become the second studio to support both high definition DVD formats, a move that could shift the advantage to the Blu-ray format backed by a group led by Sony Corp"

HP Pressures Blu-Ray on New DVD - Yahoo! News: "Hewlett-Packard Co., a major backer of the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, is urging that it be more consumer-friendly in a bid to forestall a lengthy and costly war with a competing standard."

Apple - Pro/Film - Warren Miller Entertainment, pg. 1

Apple - Pro/Film - Warren Miller Entertainment, pg. 1‘Higher Ground,’ brings skiing and snowboarding to life in the country’s first-ever high-definition film tour.

Produced on a Power Mac G5 in Final Cut Pro, "

Digigami Announces "Think Outside the Box" Promotion for Final Cut Studio Owners

Digigami Announces "Think Outside the Box" Promotion for Final Cut Studio Owners: ""

Digigami today announced a 'Think Outside the Box' upgrade promotion for owners of Apple's Final Cut Studio family of professional digital video products. Upgrade from any version of Final Cut Studio, adding Digigami's two professional HD and DVD video compression tools (MegaPEG Pro HD and MPressionist Pro HD) for just $199.00.

Digiami - HD MPEG-2 encoding

Digigami - Main

Long Beach, CA - September 28, 2005 · Digigami today announced it is now shipping MegaPEG HDTV for Macintosh OS X based laptops and workstations, its flagship MPEG-2 Encoder for compressing High-Definition video into standards-compliant MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818) bitstreams. The product creates streams compatible with ATSC (North American), ISDB-T (Japan) and European (EBU) standards for HD, and can perform format conversion on the fly, including SD upconversion and HD downconversion and conversion from ATSC to EBU and vice-versa.

The product, in it's third major revision since 1996, is unique in the world of HD encoding tools by integrating compression with built-in picture quality analysis tools (PQA) which provides the encoding operator with unparalleled feedback, diagnostics and control over the encoding procedure. MegaPEG HDTV includes an integrated PQA tool with the same features as Digigami MPressionist Pro HD. Any HD encoding job can be paused and the intermediate compression results analyzed to ensure that the stream meets quality expectations.

editor's note

I took a look at this product. It's depth is scary. If you want to know how/why your MPEG-2 files come out looking the way the do (without suprises) it is the only software way I know of. If your business is DVD authoring on the mac, you must check out this product.

No region codes for HD DVD? - Engadget - www.engadget.com

No region codes for HD DVD? - Engadget - www.engadget.com: "The ‘DVD Forum Japan Conference 2005’ is being held in Japan today, and because of the time difference, it’s already over. The primary topic of the meeting was, as expected, HD DVD. Plenty of information is emerging from the conference, such as the steps towards finalizing standards that we won’t bother you with (though they did announce ‘HD DVD-RR,’ a sort of HD DVD version of DVD-RAM). But one statement from Toshiba Digital Media Networks’ Hisashi Yamada was particularly intriguing: ‘We’ve gotten a variety of opinions about region controls. Even in the Steering Committee, they are extremely unpopular; we decided to not put them in. HD DVD probably won’t contain any region playback controls.’ Of course there’s still that ‘probably’ in there, but it’s nice to see someone up there realizes how ridiculous DVD region codes really are."

(Via < www.engadget.com//a>.)