Silent mantra to the many people I have to spend hours cleaning spyware and maleware off of their system and feel guilty charging them because they are friends. Mostly they buy me gifts because I refuse to charge them. I have them bring the sick virus infested computer in on company time and test the company firewall.
I had a chance to test drive a system direct from Avid and had the unique opportunity to pick from my stations limited supply of hi-def footage standard test footage of flowers and driving through eastern USA's wood covered bridges and such plus some goodies like an airshow recorded in HDTV but the kicker was the twelve reels of LOTR personally recorded by our chief as "Test footage", I wound up chopping down the battle for Helms Gate into four minutes with fighter jets bombing the orcs in film quality and I liked it very much. The only problem with those resoultions is it takes an insane amount of storage and computing horsepower. One thing I noted is that the bottleneck for Avid is not in the realtime horsepower that the Adrenaline provides, but in the host computer that has to do the rendering. And Avid tech support is very hostile to any homebrew equipment. HP or nothing is the motto. I digress, the front end computer is more than critical to the expensive back-end DSP dongle such as the Adrenaline or the (Shudder) Mojo. Perhaps a total software solution is in order. I can safely say from experience that Avid's code could use a review or two and possibly consider a rewrite.
Having said all of that, I am eager to welcome the dual Adrenaline system overlords into our shop next month.
I would also say that a program such as Avid Express DV just might settle the interformat hassle very well. >$5k. This program can cut through formats like a knife. Also some great stuff on sourceforge and other places for free.
Avid is used by film makers world wide. I insist that everybody in my workgroup has at least some knowledge so they can pass along Avid Free to their kids.
...airtight, blacked out inside, and highly susceptible to vibration.
You are right! Except for the airtight part. They had very fancy mountings and gee would you want to disturb a painstaking shot like you describe? The boxes were light shielded not airtight. However there is a inherent problem with dust that accompanys film, and I will give you filtering the air rather then hermeticly sealed chambers.
My point that putting together todays cheap tech can do suprising things seems to have struck a nerve.
I can tell that you have been there because of the detailed discription!
I loved attending those ILM seminars in the 80's.
It's all about innovation and the fact is that George Lucas would give his left nut to have todays consumer toys available back then.
Well, It just so happens that I am an expert and I do have an easy solution for you but I might add that your experts don't know what they are talking about when they say to scan convert to 1050P when in fact the best HDTV signal is 1080I. I=interlaced P=Progressive scanning.
Having said that my solution is to purchase a medium end HDTV prosumer camera and shoot the picture off of your biggest and best monitor. All you have to do is tweak the monitor and camera (Color temperature and scan rate are the biggies but not that difficult) and you will be amazed at the results. Also you will know exactly how much you are cropping because you can look at the camera output while you are recording and not be at the mercy of a expensive post-production house because the "scan converting" was not done right on the first pass.
After all Lucas did it for years shooting hi-res monitors with 35mm film at ILM and those films at least looked good. Todays HDTV cameras are the very close equivalent of 35mm film.
I am sorry, I am certain that I have caused my ISP much grief by converting from elitist bitcher with a high profile to a total downloader burning tons of bandwith while maintaining a low profile.
Call me what you will, At least I get my downloads.
I would like to weigh in with a comment on these assholes.
Macrovision has been touting their "Secure" tech for a number of years.
It has been broken time and time again.
I have a hard time believing that Microstupid is dumb enough to buy into this.
After the early efforts to get a halfway good anti-spyware package together via the buying of Giant. They have to sink down to the low-lifes like Macrovision.
This is why I keep refusing the DRM "upgrades" to my media player 7.
Firefox just kicks IE up one side and down the other IMHO.
Put it this way, in the big trade shows. Macrovision employs a very humble booth.
I had such high hopes for the Bill Gates security speech.
"However, search engines are protected from things like __AA by US law, I believe."
You are quite right, Google is protected by the disclaimer at the bottom of almost every cached and HTML page: "Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content."
Also I think if you refined your search string to include IRC you would get many more valid results.
"I must be a long-time member. I don't think I've ever been able to respond to a "low slashdot ID" comment with "that's not low, you nube"."
I just lucked out on my number because I listened to a friend at the right time. I screwed up the spelling when I first applied for an account.
I would trade it all (Karma, low #, ect.) to redo that typo.
Hey if your number is in the single digits or the astonishing seven digit members I have being seeing lately, All are welcome to Slashdot. Be civil and you will do well.
"even though this is just a tired Doom game with fancy graphics."
Man, I don't know what planet you are from but have you actually played the game? I am only writing this because I have to take breaks from Doom 3 because it is so intense. I literaly have to stop down every ten minutes or so to catch my breath. And I am not a wimp. This is the most detailed, scariest game I have ever run across. You are literaly jumping in your seat at every turn of a corner, I don't care how good you are at online gaming. Your best weapon is your flashlight.
How many games do you know that can achieve this level of immersion?
You are wrong! 64 bit is going to be a huge thing in gaming. Of course SSE2 outruns current 64 bit code because SSE2 is hard encoded into mainstream CPU's Including AMD's 64 bit products. I point out the potential that is available in new machines. Carmack is well aware of this and I think he is exploiting one if not several of the new tech that is just emerging and I am wondering just which one is important enough to delay the release of DoomIII.
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Thank you, Mr. Gates. May I have another?
Silent mantra to the many people I have to spend hours cleaning spyware and maleware off of their system and feel guilty charging them because they are friends. Mostly they buy me gifts because I refuse to charge them. I have them bring the sick virus infested computer in on company time and test the company firewall.
I really do!
Matrix
I have not RTFA but your post bring back the hard memories...
I had to go to work with 50lbs of recording machinery with another 20lbs of batteries in the snow...
Those darn 2" recorders were so very heavy.
Having said that, the current generation of camcorders and 5 megapixle cellphones don't know what they have in the palm of the hand.
At least I know.
Funny you should mention the Adrenaline.
I had a chance to test drive a system direct from Avid and had the unique opportunity to pick from my stations limited supply of hi-def footage standard test footage of flowers and driving through eastern USA's wood covered bridges and such plus some goodies like an airshow recorded in HDTV but the kicker was the twelve reels of LOTR personally recorded by our chief as "Test footage", I wound up chopping down the battle for Helms Gate into four minutes with fighter jets bombing the orcs in film quality and I liked it very much. The only problem with those resoultions is it takes an insane amount of storage and computing horsepower. One thing I noted is that the bottleneck for Avid is not in the realtime horsepower that the Adrenaline provides, but in the host computer that has to do the rendering. And Avid tech support is very hostile to any homebrew equipment. HP or nothing is the motto. I digress, the front end computer is more than critical to the expensive back-end DSP dongle such as the Adrenaline or the (Shudder) Mojo. Perhaps a total software solution is in order. I can safely say from experience that Avid's code could use a review or two and possibly consider a rewrite.
Having said all of that, I am eager to welcome the dual Adrenaline system overlords into our shop next month.
Bet you did not see that one coming!
Regards,
M
Yo, Andy!
Do you have anything to help this guy out?
I would also say that a program such as Avid Express DV just might settle the interformat hassle very well. >$5k. This program can cut through formats like a knife. Also some great stuff on sourceforge and other places for free.
Avid is used by film makers world wide. I insist that everybody in my workgroup has at least some knowledge so they can pass along Avid Free to their kids.
Got any help?
Just wondering.
...airtight, blacked out inside, and highly susceptible to vibration.
You are right! Except for the airtight part. They had very fancy mountings and gee would you want to disturb a painstaking shot like you describe? The boxes were light shielded not airtight. However there is a inherent problem with dust that accompanys film, and I will give you filtering the air rather then hermeticly sealed chambers.
My point that putting together todays cheap tech can do suprising things seems to have struck a nerve.
I can tell that you have been there because of the detailed discription!
I loved attending those ILM seminars in the 80's.
It's all about innovation and the fact is that George Lucas would give his left nut to have todays consumer toys available back then.
-According to the 'experts'-
Well, It just so happens that I am an expert and I do have an easy solution for you but I might add that your experts don't know what they are talking about when they say to scan convert to 1050P when in fact the best HDTV signal is 1080I. I=interlaced P=Progressive scanning.
Having said that my solution is to purchase a medium end HDTV prosumer camera and shoot the picture off of your biggest and best monitor. All you have to do is tweak the monitor and camera (Color temperature and scan rate are the biggies but not that difficult) and you will be amazed at the results. Also you will know exactly how much you are cropping because you can look at the camera output while you are recording and not be at the mercy of a expensive post-production house because the "scan converting" was not done right on the first pass.
After all Lucas did it for years shooting hi-res monitors with 35mm film at ILM and those films at least looked good. Todays HDTV cameras are the very close equivalent of 35mm film.
...How addicted are you?
Well, I have a subscription to Slashdot and a under 200K number.
This speaks volumes.
Plus, if my DSL craps out. I don't know if I could handle going through a modem again.
I am sorry people, but the likes of Cory Doctorow are beyond even the collective mind of /.
/.'ers .
You academic types rave over Neil Stephenson while the people like Cory are doing far, far more to bring understanding to the common folk.
Cory is well grounded and hangs out with the like of Lawrence Lessing and that tart Xeni (NSFW) plus the other crew over at Boing-Boing.net
Good Stuff, fellow
My sig sucks, but it plays over a modem to this day.
As a long time hunter of the Sturgeon I would have to say that this is recorded and the ones that get away are much bigger.
Err, except for the patch last part I say this guy has it dead on.
Me, I prefer to patch via a USB stick before I plug it in to the uber virus laden internet zone.
I have to take my previous post back.
After spending a chunk of time in irc watching ten thousand people begging for the latest "OC" torrent is a tad discouraging.
Oh, Well.
...They need to provide a compelling alternative themselves.
Mod Parent up!
He truly has it in that statement.
On the other hand what the actions of the MPAA did today was drive this whole thing into the undernet.
I have not seen so much irc activity as I did just a few minutes ago when I looked around.
I guess the ISP's are going to be looking at a sharp increase in newsgroup and irc traffic.
And of course a whole new generation of savvy users as well.
Very good,
ROFLOL.
Nice to meet someone who understands.
M.
I actually had a couple of hours on my friends PSP and I will tell you the thing totally rocked.
/. crowd to check out the many, many holes around the DMCA.
My friend suddenly turned enemy wanted to reclaim his property an I honestly considered clubbing him over the head and running for the door.
He is my LAN buddy AND my bartender.
Sony did very good.
I invite the
I am in love.
Typical of Slashdot to mod down,
I do think you are a bunch of chickenshits for jumping on a different viewpoint.
Take away my Karma.
I still know better.
Dear Steve,
Welcome to the real world.
To bad you are five years too late.
Sorry I had to buy a Logitech laser mouse and plug it into a G4.
Signed, A very happy W2K user.
Whatever.
"and the US in third at a pitiful 7.3%"
I am sorry, I am certain that I have caused my ISP much grief by converting from elitist bitcher with a high profile to a total downloader burning tons of bandwith while maintaining a low profile.
Call me what you will, At least I get my downloads.
Matrix
I would like to weigh in with a comment on these assholes.
Macrovision has been touting their "Secure" tech for a number of years.
It has been broken time and time again.
I have a hard time believing that Microstupid is dumb enough to buy into this.
After the early efforts to get a halfway good anti-spyware package together via the buying of Giant. They have to sink down to the low-lifes like Macrovision.
This is why I keep refusing the DRM "upgrades" to my media player 7.
Firefox just kicks IE up one side and down the other IMHO.
Put it this way, in the big trade shows. Macrovision employs a very humble booth.
I had such high hopes for the Bill Gates security speech.
Oh, well.
"However, search engines are protected from things like __AA by US law, I believe."
You are quite right, Google is protected by the disclaimer at the bottom of almost every cached and HTML page: "Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content."
Also I think if you refined your search string to include IRC you would get many more valid results.
Cheers, and nice post!
My $.02,
Matrix2110
"I love firefox."
Well gee, so do I.
I am amused by the "middle button crowd" I simply right click the link and say open in a new tab.
I guess I am missing something very arcane here.
"I must be a long-time member. I don't think I've ever been able to respond to a "low slashdot ID" comment with "that's not low, you nube"."
I just lucked out on my number because I listened to a friend at the right time. I screwed up the spelling when I first applied for an account.
I would trade it all (Karma, low #, ect.) to redo that typo.
Hey if your number is in the single digits or the astonishing seven digit members I have being seeing lately, All are welcome to Slashdot. Be civil and you will do well.
My $.02
"even though this is just a tired Doom game with fancy graphics."
Man, I don't know what planet you are from but have you actually played the game? I am only writing this because I have to take breaks from Doom 3 because it is so intense. I literaly have to stop down every ten minutes or so to catch my breath. And I am not a wimp. This is the most detailed, scariest game I have ever run across. You are literaly jumping in your seat at every turn of a corner, I don't care how good you are at online gaming. Your best weapon is your flashlight.
How many games do you know that can achieve this level of immersion?
I can count it on one finger.
Yeah, and that is why I am advising all of my "trouble" clients as of yesterday to start using Firefox.
I am just sick to death of fighting IE browser exploits. Now I figure I have a little breathing room on the exploiters.
Firefox and Mozilla are a great example of the promise of open source. Lets make sure that we be thinking security right out of the gate.
I love Firefox because it pretty much works a lot better than IE with the security cranked up.
"You play SS as well? If Linux had a port of that game then life would be all the better."
My point, exactly.
Thank you!
You are wrong! 64 bit is going to be a huge thing in gaming. Of course SSE2 outruns current 64 bit code because SSE2 is hard encoded into mainstream CPU's Including AMD's 64 bit products. I point out the potential that is available in new machines. Carmack is well aware of this and I think he is exploiting one if not several of the new tech that is just emerging and I am wondering just which one is important enough to delay the release of DoomIII.