leirbag28 wrote:
@Tigger
Here is why you are wrong on probably all counts that you said:
I'm not wrong on any point, but I'll get you straightend out a bit at a time.
No one is talking about IMPROVING Original Footage! I am talking about the CHEAPEST way of preserving it at the smallest possible effort required by the user and smallest cost possible with the highest results.
And then you went with a two step process that doesnt do much of what you are saying.
hmmm whats cheaper........ a Laptop with a PCI card.........or a DVD recorder standalone?
If he owns a desktop or a laptop, then buying the DVD Recorder standalone surely isnt the cheapest way to go. In addition, you can make better DVDs with a computer then with a standalone recorder
I think you get the point. And I got an opinion for you........I HIGHLY doubt Movie Studios use PCI cards that can be purchased for $9.......
If they are bringing footage in over IEEE-1394 they most surely could be using a $9 card or the ports on the motherboad if they have them (as most desktops and virtually all laptops do these days). Its a tranfer bus, whats next in your opinion, Movie studios cant use IDE Harddrives?
Im thinking they use Much Higher end equipment and cards costing in the THousands...otherwise what you are comparing is just as good as a Video Toaster Flyer.
If its DV footage, any format, including HDV, a better card doesnt improve the footage. The beauty of IEEE-1394 (Firewire) interface implmented for video is that a direct digital copy is sent down the wire, a very simple card allows the computer to write it to the harddrive. In fact Digital Domain (who have 2 oscars and 3 emmys) at least used to use the exact same $9 firewire card as me, because I hooked them up with them when they needed 20 of them. I've got a VT[4], I've got Vegas, Avid and Premiere on my PC, I have Final Cut Studio on my Mac. Was one of the leading third party guys for the Toaster/Flyer and owned the first Digital Broadcaster outside of Digital Micronics (Who later became Applied Magic).
Macs and PC's can indeed capture excellent quality at exttremely low prices........but thats usually coming from FIREWIRE...........being transfered from some Digital source that already did the capturing! a DV camera!
A DV bridge (or converter) does the same trick, is cheaper, and usually better then the Analog to digital inputs of a cheap DV camera as you are suggesting. And again I find it interesting that you are suprised people use $9 firewire cards and then go into a big rant about how cool firewire is.
Doing it through a PC is too much hassle and cost if you want things done legally.
What exactly do think I was implying that was illegal?
for the typical guy, the route I mentioned is best and cheapest and most effort free and still looks darn awesome.
Buy two pieces of equipment he doesnt have instead of using his PC and buying one piece of equipment?
I would first recommend a DV camera, second place would be a DVD recorder..........
Getting it on DV camera doesnt help the issue. Taking it to a DVD recorder is ok, but he might as well put it on his computer and make much better DVDs.
but PC with Windows just suck
Except of course you can edit video better on it, then any other system. Including HD, for not alot of money. They are so much faster then any Amiga thats its silly to talk as if they are the same device (ie computers) and there is so much software available that you can load a new piece every day for the rest of your life and never run out.
Apple is calling theirs: MultiDesktops............tsk tsk tsk..........these companies are getting the credit for evertything Amiga invented first.
And they are much cooler then anything even dreamed up by the Hype Twins for OS4.
Anyway, I will rejoice in the fact that I still think Amigas Multitask the most properly.
Except of course, that Windows XP (and before it NT & 2000) multitask much better then an Amiga.
-Tig
