20 Jan
2005
20 Jan
'05
8:45 p.m.
chris wrote:
I won't refute your argument, because it's like trying to argue against
artifacts such as the Shroud of Turin: No matter what the facts, it is a
religious artifact and is therefore impossible to disprove.
I will say this: The tools I work with are not only Windows exclusive, but are
also free (avisynth, virtualdub) and the hardware I use has had a total cost of
$1800 (the only additions were 1GB RAM, half terabyte RAID, raw 8-/10-bit 4:2:2
YUV capture/edit). I am not working with DV; I am working with uncompressed SD
video. My project has tiny margins, so if I am to see any profit at all, I
can't go mac because the equivalent would be over double the cost. And I
wouldn't have access to my power tweaking toys anyway.
Sorry, the mac
mini doesn't serve my needs (I work with video and audio
production, the stock mac mini isn't powerful or expandable enough).
Granted, if you are doing video work, I can see that even the fastest of
the G4's may just not be fast enough. But if that is the case, I assume
you are either after a dual processor G5 Tower, or you just aren't
serious about your video work (considering there is no match to it in the
Windows world.) :-) (I'm not being a troll, really, I don't care
what machine you use or your
reasons to or not to use it... I'm just poking fun at your claim that it
isn't powerful enough)
Well, to be blunt, can it encode 10-bit video to MPEG-2 MP@ML 1.5x realtime?
Or is there a *free* tool I can use on Mac that lets me perform temporal noise
reduction with adjustable edge masking? Or a scripting language that lets me
perturb video with a series of chained filters and transformations (also free)?
If so, please let me know. I am open to new ideas.
If I could go back 20 years, I'd buy an Amiga ;-)
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