Hi Norman. I'm using a Mac PowerBook G4 and while it's pretty nippy, I've still had to wait 25 minutes for a 2-minute piece to render broadcast-safe colour correction. Still at least now the MPEG encoder won't spit at it when I encode it for authoring.
The material's all Apple Quicktime DV - no AVIs or redigitising needed here, though I am rapidly running out of disk space. You never know... maybe once the Q200 comes along I can throw away this Apple stuff ;) Any takers for developing a QL(or derivative)-based real-time MPEG2 encoder...??? WHEN it works, you'll get a lot of sales - especially in the States. I know, I know - probably pushing things a bit far, but it was only in Manchester that I was discussing alternative applications for the Q60 with the D & D boys. Maybe this could be one.....? The question however, that you'll all be tearing your hair out over when you see the footage, is if we're all at a Chinese restaurant, then why isn't there any food on the table? Steve >From: Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...! >Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:47:18 +0100 > >Hi Steve, > >That video rendering takes ages doesn't it ? > >I once rendered a bungee jump for a friend - only about 10 mins of video, >it >took about 4 hours to render down to an AVI, and then it woudn't run on my >friends PV because it wasn't rendered with a 'standard' codec. Cost me a >blank CD as well that did. My ATI graphics card added some decent codecs to >my PC - and I used one of those and tested it, of course it worked fine on >my PC :o) > >Oh Hum. > >Maybe it's just as well we can't do video rendering on a QL (or can we >......) yet ? > >Cheers, >Norman. > >------------------------------------- >Norman Dunbar >Database/Unix administrator >Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel: 0113 289 6265 >Fax: 0113 289 3146 >URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com >------------------------------------- > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Reyal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:43 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...! > > >Hi folks. I know I don't send often, but I'm waiting for a long video >render and thought I'd pipe up. > >I haven't seen the sun in a while - busy editing video for the upcoming QL >2002 DVD, which I hope to have finished in time for NESQLUG next month. > >I'm working on the AGM's Chinese meal footage at the moment, and the colour >correction's what's rendering. It may not be a crab fest (though I'm sure >there was some seafood in there somewhere) but it's making a nice musical >interlude. > >Phoebus - DB tells me you've been to these things before, so any idea what >time the crab fest will start on Sunday 2nd June? > >Just wanted to say you're not the only ones around today. > >Thanks for listening. > >Steve Reyal >J-Edi(t) Knight and friend to Captain Branagh. > > > >From: "John G Hitchcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ? > >Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:08:20 +0100 > > > >I'm here! > > > >Oh dear... a zapped zip. > > > >It'll get better when it gets home for the weekend, I'll bet (and hope). > > > >Sun's shining here - of course. > > > >John in Wales > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. >http://www.hotmail.com >This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and >may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you >must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy >it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the >addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email >and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx >Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
