Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:14 +0300, Stuart McQuade wrote: You're right. There's aren't any specific prices for the Sony Pro range on their website, but there are plenty of Sony resellers who offer prices. You can get a rough idea of the prices from this site: creativevideo.co.uk. So Camcorders

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Len Ovens
On Tue, August 7, 2012 8:14 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I remember similar prices for the Sony Betacam, 15DM. Betamax already was pro in the beginning 80s, but only Umatic high-band was pro too. I started my carrier in the 80s, at the video studio of the University Essen in the age of 17/18

OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 14:13 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: Our RCA studio cameras were a bit bigger, but the peds and controls were similar. Control room layout was much the same too. At that time bigger usually caused a better quality. The funny thing is, that zooming and sharpness was operated

Re: OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 00:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Perhaps we should completely keep it off-list at some point, for the moment I only add an OT to the subject. I like to read such OTs. I learned by reading yours and I leaned a lot reading experiences of other engineers, my favorite is

Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-07 Thread Len Ovens
On Tue, August 7, 2012 7:13 am, Emmet Hikory wrote: Len Ovens wrote: I don't find SW to handle 3 or more input streams and do on the fly switching. (I think we used closer to 7 or 8 streams... though our switchers had more.. they had access to every stream in the building) Assuming

Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 15:13 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: Comments? Since Linux suffers of no or no serious NLE video cut, there shouldn't be too much video packages included to an install media. Regarding to soundtracks, resp. audio productions for videos, I would welcome http://rg42.org/wiki/a3vtl

Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Regarding to a German post Lives seems not to run with 12.04 and there are packages for Packages are available for the following releases: Ubuntu 10.04: 1.4.6-1~getdeb1 Ubuntu 10.10: 1.4.2-1~getdeb1 Ubuntu 9.04: 1.1.5-1~getdeb1 Ubuntu 9.10: 1.2.1-1~getdeb1 Ubuntu 11.04: 1.4.6-1~getdeb1 at

Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-07 Thread Emmet Hikory
Len Ovens wrote: Took a while to find any docs for it... in the doc directory of the src package. freemix is designed to do live showing switching of videos stored as file on the computer like a VJ. I don't know if it can connect to a gstream opened by another app or not. But it is not