Encoder card recommendations

Hi All
The facilities house where we get our encoding done is looking to buy a new encoding set-up and one of the things we have mentioned to them is the ability to do PAL and NTSC progressive.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to a set-up - capture card and software or realtime hardware encoding or whatever. Obviously budget is a consideration (for instance I don't see them going for a full Cinemacraft set-up of, I think, $20,000). We are UK based and it could be PC or Mac
Many thanks
Steve Kirkham

I guess there is various approach to have, once you have accepted the harsh reality of mpg encoding, you have to educate your clients with it. Crap is crap, and if you want to encode a piece of crap, then you will end up with an encoded piece of crap!!! I guess we all agree with that. But we have now enough tools around us to enable us to make a piece of crap, a better piece of crap (I am obviously not talking about content, but visual quality!!!!!!!!!!). this is were you can really make a difference, fixing film scratches, color correcting shots, resolving interlacing problems. That of course takes time and effort, and depending on the project and who you are dealing with, those are points you can negotiate. But always remember that a DVD is not a solution to a badly produced video production, and that you can only provide as good as you are given. Too many producers thinks that DVD will solve all the problems they have, well it doesn't. DVD at is best is a clear representation to what you are given to work with. and that is rule number 1 !..... So do educate those cheap producers who think that DVD will save their lack of professionalism......

Similar Messages

F110 : MICR Encoding card attached to cheque printer

Hello,
With our cheque printer we have attached the MICR Encoding card which adds the encoding to cheques that allow banks to read information such as account numbers.
When MICR Encoding card is not inserted in the printer, SAP is still printing cheques but without MICR Encoding. We're wondering if there is an alternate solution to fix this situation. i.e.: Is there a way to prevent SAP from printing a cheque if the MICR Encoding card is not inserted?
Thanks,
Saeed

I opend OSS note on it. SAP responded that SAP does not support MICR as it is outside of SAP.
Issue being closed.
Saeed

Video Encoder Card ??

Currently I have an ATI 800Xt i believe. I want to put in a 2nd video card that is capable of inputing video. I want to be able to receive video and audio signal from another computer, tv, or really any device and be able to input and encode for live streaming.
Any idea of what video card is capable of doing this? I believe my current card is using the agp slot, so i would need something else that would fit in the machine
i have an older dual g5 (powerpc)
Thanks

i am trying to find an internal solution. I have some mytv or my pvr usb input device, but it is not recognized in any other software other then the one it comes with.
I am basically looking for this video card so i can live stream the input signal. For example if i hooked up a device with an s-video cable to the input card. Then i use software to send the stream to the internet.
I already am doing this with my pc with the reverse set up. I have an ati all in wonder card, plus the normal video card in my pc. I can actually output my mac by s-video cable to my pc tower and then live broadcast whatever is being displayed on my mac. So now i am trying to find a similar video card but for my mac
any thoughts?

Need graphics card recommendation

So I've just ordered a new model MBP 15" Retina, upgrading the 2.0 ghz i7 quadcore to 2.3, and doubling the RAM to 16 gb. This includes the 256 gb flash HD, and the new default config Intel Iris Pro graphics card (no NVIDIA graphics card). FWIW, I'll be plugged into my thunderbolt display (already own) for video editing.
The new MBP is of course a hefty hit to my pocketbook. Yet, I'm still torn by the notion that for $250 (I get the educational discount) I could go ahead and add the NVIDIA 750 2 gb card, not to mention doubling my HD (mainly to future-proof it - I only use about 122 gb right now).
Is it worth it or is Iris Pro good enough for FCPX, and presumably some Motion 5, Compressor etc?
I haven't edited in years, but I have just returned from Nepal, where I shot several hours of HD footage that I'm going to be editing together with stills for a doc. I'm a writer-filmmaker, so if it comes out as I hope it will, this will be a professional sample and festival submission. I have no clue how much use of Motion or After Effects I'll need to use - in fact I have no clue how to use these, but presumably I'll figure it out. Some of the footage has issues, it was all shot run and gun, so it could be I'll use that stuff a lot.
Do I need the NVIDIA 750 card or can I rest easy with just Iris Pro?
Thanks so much for advice either way!!
Andrew

I have a 2TB backup drive and a 6TB RAID network storage. I load new video directly onto the backup drive to save hard drive space on the iMac, then copy it to the RAID for safekeeping. I can wipe it from the backup when I'm done with it, and still have two copies on the network RAID. I consider this to be the minimum for HD.
I ended up with about five hours of AVCHD footage that I had to sort through to pick out the little morsels I needed, along with some .MOV files from a DSLR. I'm not sure how much space it took up when I converted the AVCHD into .MOV files, but I started out with about 650GB available (after clearing it off) and now I have about 150 GB. That includes what FCPX generated as I edited. I don't want to go below that 150GB level, as the processing performance drops. I keep the .MOV files on the main hard drive because that's the quickest access. I keep a sharp eye on the capacity.
Fortunately I did well enough on this project that it got me a lot more work. Unfortunately, if I decide to pursue it more seriously I know I'll have to get a better system. I'm already looking at the new Mac Pro with at least 32 Gs of RAM, the biggest internal hard drive available, and a massive Thunderbolt RAID. With the deadlines I've run into, it's the only way I'll be able to get things done without staying up until 4 a.m. waiting for stuff to transfer (I got this iMac just before they started coming out with Thunderbolt, darn it). If I had to choose, I'd get more hard drive storage versus more RAM. In my experience, 16GB does OK, but then I haven't had to render anything longer than ten minutes in HD.
If you use Time Machine for back-up onto the 1TB external drive, you're probably going to have to get an additional drive. I would recommend one to two TB depending on how big your final files are. If you decide to RAID that second external drive-- highly recommended-- then you'd need to get double that. Get a Thunderbolt splitter so you can run both of them at the same time. If you need to convert the RAW files, keep those on the second drive.
Very best of luck, and send us a link to the piece when you are done. -JB

Graphics card recommendations

Hi, I have an HP Pavilion Slimline s5120y on Windows 7 64-bit with default specs and I cannot seem to find the right graphics card for playing newer games like Civ 5. I assume it is the nVidia GeForce 6150se that is causing it to lag a lot, even on minimum settings in the options. It if helps, here is all the specifications on my computer:
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01738809&lang=en&cc=u...
I had tried another card today (GeForce 8500GT, didn't fit -_-), but being the unsavvy person I am at this, I need help getting the games to go faster, please.
Thank you.

JB, welcome to the forum.
The truth is, Slimline models are not meant to be upgraded. The small cases don't allow for good airflow. Newer mid-level video cards develop more heat than can be vented in the case. Can it be done, yes. Would I do it, no. A video card that would handle the games that you mention would require more wattage than the 220W power supply unit (PSU) can handle. I know this is not what you wanted to hear, but I don't like to recommend upgrades for these computers.
Signature:
HP TouchPad - 1.2 GHz; 1 GB memory; 32 GB storage; WebOS/CyanogenMod 11(Kit Kat)
HP 10 Plus; Android-Kit Kat; 1.0 GHz Allwinner A31 ARM Cortex A7 Quad Core Processor ; 2GB RAM Memory Long: 2 GB DDR3L SDRAM (1600MHz); 16GB disable eMMC 16GB v4.51
HP Omen; i7-4710QH; 8 GB memory; 256 GB San Disk SSD; Win 8.1
HP Photosmart 7520 AIO
++++++++++++++++++
**Click the Thumbs Up+ to say 'Thanks' and the 'Accept as Solution' if I have solved your problem.**
Intelligence is God given; Wisdom is the sum of our mistakes!
I am not an HP employee.

30" Cinema display graphics card recommendation

Pathetic apple customer service refused to supply me with a recommendation since my G5 is out of warrantee date. So perhaps this forum can help. I have a Dual 2GHz Power PC G5 running 10.4.10 with a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card. This will only go to 1280 x 800; I need 1280 x 1600.
Data:
I do mostly photo work and scientific processing- almost no video
I will not add a second monitor
Recommendations please?
many thanks in advance...
Peter
btw, I bought two of these monitors, one for home and one for the office. Having spent almost $4K , how can apple refuse to speak with a customer unless he pays for support?
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.10) 4.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5 GB DDR SDRAM

The AGP cards Apple sold that have dual-link DVI ports needed for 30" are:
ATI Radeon 9650 XT (one single-link, one dual-link DVI)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL (two dual-link DVI)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL (two dual-link DVI)
Apple doesn't sell these as retail items, but you might find some at
<http://www.welovemacs.com/agpg5vica.html>
There are two new graphics boards that will work:
ATI Radeon® X800 XT MAC Edition RoHS 256MB AGP (one ADC, one dual-link DVI)
<http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=3170810>
ATI Radeon® 9600 Pro PC & MAC Edition RoHS 256MB AGP (one single-link, one dual-link DVI)
<http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=3170809>
The ATI cards may also be available at
<http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/video/hardware/>

Bug? - CS5 Spacebar Activates Bird's eye View - Graphics's Card Recommendation?

Hi,
Overall I'd say that the OpenGL is improved in CS5 over CS4, although I have this disruptive bug. Sometimes I hit the spacebar to move and the bird's eye view is activated instead. My Nvidia GTX 260 driver is up to date. Photoshop is also updated. If I disable OpenGL my 2-3 gb images crawl, instead of scroll across the screen.
Assuming there is no solution to this problem can anyone recommend a video card that works for them. Based off of Nvidia's advertisement and other misc stuff I've read I'm assuming Nvidia is a good choice - http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe_photoshop.html
Thanks for your help!

NVidia's marketing is good, and they have greater market share, but don't discount ATI wholesale. Their cards work quite well with Photoshop and OpenGL.
However the card you already have is quite fast for pretty much anything Photoshop does (you've already noticed how much it accelerates Photoshop). I'm not sure you'll be able to see an improvement with a newer model.
When working with large images (e.g., gigabyte sized) your CPU throughput and RAM space are going to play a large factor in Photoshop's performance. Do you have the ability to put more RAM in your system?
-Noel

Dual Monitor Graphics Card Recommendations

Hello, I have a HP 6005 pro small form factor Desktop PC with AMD Athlon II X2 Processor, 8GB Memory, 2TB Hard Drive and Windows 7 Professional. Key Features: AMD Athlon II X2 processor 3.0GHz8GB DDR3 SDRAM system memory (expandable to 16GB)2TB SATA hard driveDVD-RW optical drive10/100/1000Base-T EthernetIntegrated graphics Additional Features: 10 x USB ports, 1 x microphone jack, 1 x line-in jack, 2 x audio out jacks, 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet port, 1 x VGA port 1 x low profile PCI slot (x1), 1 x low profile PCI Express (x2) slot, 1 x low profile PCI Express (x16) slot, 1 x external 5.25" bay, 1 x internal 3.5" bay 16.7 lbs, 13.3" x 4" x 14.9" I would like to get a graphics card that can support dual monitors, can you recommend any cards that would be compitable with this system? 1GB if possible or more? I believe the slot can handle upto 25 watts so I would need a graphic card along those lines. I appreciate your help in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.

Hi, The below HP OEM graphics cards are available for your PC. Nvidia NVS 300 Graphics CardNvidia GeForce 310 DP Graphics CardNvidia Quadro NVS 290 Graphics CardATI Radeon HD 4550 Graphics CardATI Radeon HD 4650 Graphics Card MT models onlyAMD FirePro 2270 (512 MB)AMD Radeon HD 6350 (512 MB)AMD Radeon HD 6450 (1 GB) MT models onlyAMD Radeon HD 7450 (1 GB) These HP Quickspecs will give your more detail. Check with HP Sales for further information.

Video Card Recommendation for Power Mac G5 Quad

Can anyone recommend a video card upgrade for my Power Mac G5 Quad?
I am now running the nVIDIA GeForce 6600 card that came in the machine, but I'm wondering how much performance increase I'll see with a large image library in Aperture if I upgrade. I'm interested in all comments.
Also, is there a "medium" upgrade and a "kick-***" upgrade?
Thanks!
G5 Quad / 4.5GB Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I hate to say it: At the moment there is no graphics card upgrade available for the G5 Quad and the other PCI-Express Power Macs. There are a lot of threads about this topic in this forum. It is simply a shame that Apple does not offer any graphics upgrade for their former top of the line machines - but they do offer them for their new Intel Mac Pro. Maybe one day ATI will offer an upgrade, but at the moment this is just a rumor. All you can do now is to buy a reflashed PC version of the GeForce 7800 or buy a ridiculously priced spare part GeForce 7800 from a store who is willing to sell you one (there is one on the web but i forgot the url).
Power Mac G5 DualCore 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Video card recommendations for Lion?

Hi everyone - I'm still on Leopard but want to make the plunge to Lion. I've spent the last two nights trying to install SL then to Lion as recommended, but couldn't. I would get the Apple icon on install dvd boot, then the spinning wheel, then it would tell me to power off. Reset PRAM, the whole works. nothing. Finally stumbled upon some articles that mentioned that maybe it's my old video cards that were the culprit. So two questions:
1) Is that right? I have two of the video cards seen below, and I'd rather not spend money to upgrade if not necssary.
2) If it's the video cards, which I'm 95% sure of when reading the other articles - which is the best kind to get? By best - I mean least hassle. I'm OK to do a couple of things here and there, but rather not have to deal with firmware issues, flashes, etc.
Oh - I do have a CalDigit RAID card, but I don't think that's the culprit... (?)
Thanks in advance for your input.
Tri
Mac Pro 2,1
Quad-core Intel Xeon, 3 GHz (x2)
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT (Slots 4, 2)
CalDigit RAID card (Slot 3)

Wait until Lion has matured; wait for drivers and apps to be upgraded and tested.
And 7300GT is not much of a graphic card.
Heck, you might look into an 8-core X5355 upgrade which have become popular and cheap.

Analogue capture card recommendations?

I would like to import some old VHS/Hi-8 analogue tapes into my Mac and edit them in iMovie (if I get the bug them maybe FCE). Any recommendations for a suitable capture card?
I have a late 2005 PowerMac, so a PCI card would be preferable, but not essential.
Any recommendations?
Thanks
Mark

Simpler and more flexable would be the use of an external Analog/DV converter.
Canopus and Datavideo make reasonable ones. Look into the Canopus ADVC300 - it has a time based corrector built in which is very important in cleaning up mistimed frames (the 'tearing' effect you see)
Cheers,
x

ATTO UL5D PCIe card recommendations

ok i got a Quad Processor 2.5 ghz G5 with 4gig of ram, and i need a SCSI card..
i called Apple they told me to call Quantum since i have a quantum DLT 8000, when i called them they told me that i needed a LVD card so i did some research and i got an atto card on the G4 i called them and they told me the ul5d and now just wanted to ask for recommendation whether is GOOD or not, of if another card is BETTER....ThX

ATTO's latest driver for the UL3D added a feature (to G4 MDD that wasn't there before) to be able to power up drives AFTER startup - a feature that the UL4D supported in G5. Still have to scan the bus from within ATTO Config. I think the UL4D even allows connecting cables, something that when I mistakenly tried when I didn't realize the system was in deep sleep would corrupt a drive (and require re-zeroing).
If I have any drives attached and running on UL3D, I never let drives spin down, and if I booted from SCSI drive and did put the system to sleep, it would not (at least in the past, have not tried with new driver) not spin back up - the system would lock up or not respond.
Deep sleep with running SCSI drives isn't something I need. As for disabling deep sleep... I wouldn't hold my breath of course, but. And sounds like it might require a redesigned board or chipset. LSI use to make ATTO's and now I think LSI sold their chip business.
I wonder if a new card in Power (Intel) Mac or new PCIe architecture will change that. (ATTO in their email years ago would call 'sleep' as "advanced power management."
With drives like 150GB Raptor and less expensive SATA controllers than UL5D Ultra320...
You can only put three Atlas 15K IIs on one channel right now for a stripped RAID. Where is SAS on Mac? SAS drives are becoming available from more vendors, too.
But none of that affects a tape library, where a single channel card would do fine.

Need a Graphics Card Recommendation & Help

I am currently using a Radeon x1900 512MB card. It seems to work well for video editing, and I've enjoyed it. But I am really wanting to get into gaming on Windows with Boot Camp (flying and racing simulations), and although I have a lack of knowledge with video cards, I believe I can do better with what I have right now.
I know that the nVIDIA 8800GT is available. I just have a few questions about possible configurations. Please answer them all if possible.
[*] Does gaming work well with the 8800GT on Windows even if there is no official driver for it on Windows? (this is what I have read)
[*] Would I see a decrease in performance with things like video editing, etc, if I got the 8800? Does it work well with video editing?
[*] The Mac Pro has more than one slot for video cards. I am not against using more than one if possible! What do you recommend, and which cards can have two in the machine?
[*] Is it possible to use 2 8800's in the machine? Would both PC games and the Mac recognize a total of 1GB to handle gaming and video editing better?
[*] Is the Radeon 3870 a better fit than the 8800?
[*] What's the best solution in your opinion with my needs and requirements?
I do appreciate your time and feedback! Thank you.

1. 8800GT is great for Mac games, can't tell ya on Winderz.
2. A graphics card is almost irrelevant for video editing. It's the absolute last place to look for a bottleneck. Google "video editing bottleneck" and what you'll get is arguments about 2 vs. 4 cores, and how many HDs you have. Not what video card to use. Incidentally, if you want to buff your video editing speed, put 3 or 4 HDs in your Pro and set one or both pairs up as striped drives (RAID 0), then put all your software on one and use the other as a scratch/render disk. Drives are too cheap to be the thing slowing you down.
3/4. At this time I don't think multiple video cards can get you anything besides more monitors. The Crossfire/SLI setup, where two cards share the load of generating graphics for one monitor, isn't possible on Macs that I know of. Might be a hack for Winderz bootup, you'd have to research that, but you'd probably have to monkey with it each time you rebooted.
5. A bit of research on Google sez that the 8800 is a better card unless you have an older slow processor. Which you do not. So for gaming especially I'd take the 8800... although it's overkill for most non-gaming apps. You're paying for 3D power.

Need a sound card recommendation

Hi:
I've just gotten into using Premiere Pro CS5 and have gotten the rudiments down. I now need to do a voice over and need to know what kind of audio/sound card to be able to record the voice over to a file that can be imported into the program. There are plenty of sound cards out there but all they talk about is how they apply to gaming. So, I need a recomendation for a sound card.
Thanks in advance,
M

is voice really the orphan in this forum? Here we get great recommendations to spend thousands of $/€ for NLE HW/SW and a 200$ piece should be the cure of all voice issues? It's common sense that the ears are not forgiving even slight "errors" in comparision to our eyes (tons of daily broadcasted mobile videos prove this ...)
Jokes aside --> I also own a H4N, but would never go (for serious work) with the WAV file into PPRO (in my small home studio together with AKG C214 mic into a Yamaha N12 digital mixer, DAW Suite from Cubase and Genelec monitors/basswoofer, cost approx 3 K).
Besides the url provided from Harm a quick deep dive can be found here:
http://izotope.com/products/audio/nectar/index.asp
The advanced video files on this WP show virtually all voice related issues and possibilities to get a broad, impressive and convincing VO sound.
HB

Note Card Recommendation Requested

I like printing photo note cards to give away as gifts to friends and family. The not card format available in iPhoto 9 is the right size but the format is not flexible enough. I like to print my photo on the front, a description of the photo on the back, and leave the interior blank, to be used for writing.
Can anyone recommend a note card "plug-in" that will work with either Aperture or iPhoto or can you recommend another resource where I can find software or a template that will create note cards formatted as I mentioned above?
Thanks in advance,
Bill

William Ferguson wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I checked them out. Looks good except they want $50 for 25 cards and their logo appears on the back. One thing I did like about apple's cars was that you could remove their logo from the back.
I just tried it out through Flickr. Apparently if you go through Flickr to them the price drops to $41.98 for 25 cards.
Doesn't Apple charge $2 a card? Of course with Moo you have to order 25, you can not buy 2 or 3 or whatever.
Looks like through FLickr you get two lines printed on the back. First one says...
"Image {copyright symbol} Patrick 2009"
then "moo.com". No logo though. You can add your own stuff to the back as well (in addition, not instead).
By the way, I have never actually ordered cards from Moo.com before, so no first hand experience. My sister ordered some of their MiniCards and they looked very nice. So at least are far as print quality on the MiniCards, they appear to do a good job.
Patrick

Encoder card recommendations

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for