21 Jan
2005
21 Jan
'05
2:03 p.m.
(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)
[1] I thought the definition of a troll was someone who pokes fun at a
person or people to get a 'rise' out of them, especially whilst making
advocacy claims that clearly aren't true... And no -- the Mac Mini isn't serious enough for
video work, and there are
some darned good PC platforms that are. 'Nuff said.
Well, yeah, I can't actually argue there. Although I am planning to buy a
Mac Mini for myself specifically to do A/V work... but that's because I'm
poor, and a Mac Mini is a cheap upgrade from my G3 iMac that will let me
bump up a notch in tools.
Hey, wait, if I'm planning to use it, are you saying I'm not doing
serious video work?!? I'll have you know, not ALL my videos are
comedies... there are a few dramatic scenes of a serious nature in
there... how dare you insult my work without seeing it (normally insults
wait until AFTER they see it and can justify the comment in any number of
ways... I ain't gonna win no inde fest)
:-)
(note the smiley again... although I am really hoping to get a Mac Mini
to do better video work then I can with my current iMac)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
21 Jan
21 Jan
5:56 p.m.
chris wrote:
(note the smiley again... although I am really hoping
to get a Mac Mini
to do better video work then I can with my current iMac)
As a show of good faith :-) I'd like to make some recommendations if you're
going to get a Mac Mini for video work:
- Upgrade the memory to at least 512 and preferably 1GB if possible. MPEG-2
encoding, multi-layer compositing, rendered previews, caching, etc. all chew up
RAM. I don't recall if you can upgrade the CPU in a MacMini (or add a second
one) but it is much more important to max out RAM first and foremost.
- Stick with DV only. DV has a nice low data rate of around 3MB/s which is
enough for any hard drive to handle. In fact you can composite 3-4 streams on
any cheap modern hard drive and play them realtime.
- Assuming sticking with DV only, make sure your workspace (desk, etc.) has
room for a small cheap TV and your DV camcorder. Previewing on a monitor,
however nice, still doesn't compare to an actual video monitor (or properly
calibrated cheap tv if you don't have the cash) for checking saturation, field
order, overscan/safe title area, etc. Even if it's a cheap $130 15" color TV,
it's still better to preview via firewire->DVcam->TV. (Assuming your DVcam
does this kind of passthrough, of course!)
--
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25 Jan
25 Jan
4:53 a.m.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, chris wrote:
think I need PROOF?!? Selam didn't need proof to
claim Linux caused the
popular rise of the internet... proof be damned... I'm right because I
say I'm right!
Hey now, that was a legitimate hypothesis put forth by myself, which was
then ruthlessly scrutinized, assailed, and debunked. It wasn't a troll
and I resent it being considered such.
:-)
:(
(note the smiley... the internet way to point out
sarcasm, less you
honestly think I'm being serious above)
;)
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