Better results than you could achieve in a real-time onlining suite?
Another for Zeb and anyone else who cares about color. HD for Indies (http://www.hdforindies.com/) reviews The DV Rebel's Guide by Stu Maschwitz. In a section, "Why so AE centric when such a pain - why not do in FCP?", Mike Curtis pseudo-interviews Stu, who says "When onlining, the rule is the polar opposite: no amount of render time is too much to endure in the name of increased image quality. I detail some techniques for extracting every last bit of luminance range from your video source, removing color subsampling artifacts (without plug-ins), and a complete pipeline for multiple digital masters. If you follow these guidelines you can actually achieve better results than you could in an expensive real-time onlining suite."
He is talking about the poor boy with a three year old laptop for whom long render times don't cost too much. Sounds like me.
Comment?
I have a valid example data file attached to this thread.
If you open BEXTEST.bin in a hex-editor of your choice, you'll see the BEXUS as 42 45 58 55 53 and then the time as 00 28 09 etc.
I couldn't get Joe Guo's VI to work. It doesn't count packages correctly, and the time is not displayed correctly either.
The file was saved using a straight save to file VI.
The data is from actual launching area tests performed a few mintues ago. The time displayed is "On time" e.g. how long the gondola has been powered up.
I have a spare T-junction, so I can hook into the balloon real-time data as we fly, in case anyone care to see if they can figure out why the latest version of Joe Guo's program is not displaying correctly.
I will monitor this
thread during and after flight to see if anyone can make it in time!
Thanks for the great effort!!
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0 db block gets
3397 consistent gets
78 physical reads
0 redo size
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14213 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
1256 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
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endSprite... At any rate, naming sprites is 100x better, so
far about the
only new feature in MX 2004 I can actually USE, but by itself
well worth the
price of upgrading.
I just can't believe it took so long to implement this
feature. I think
I've been putting in a request for this on their wishlist
after every new
version since Director 5 or so. And when they finally did
implement it, it
seems like it was just quietly slipped in there - I didn't
see mention of
this on any of the "What's New" documents - they spent all
their time hyping
the Javascript support and Flash Components, which I barely
touch. By
contrast, this is something I will be using on probably every
project from
now on. In fact, I think I may load up a couple old projects
and change
them all so they work this way. It just makes so much more
sense than the
old way, and requires no scripts to implement, so it's less
likely to screw
up.
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