Weirdness
Noted weirdness for the week:
One of the things we do at workies is run a feed from our vision mixer into our editing station via a decklink SP. We do this so we can record multicam shoots from our studio live to FCP. However, our machine is in the editing room, so we use Remote Desktop on a Powerbook to control FCP remotely. It works like a charm, or does off my 15".
Last weekend, tThe boss used his 17" last weekend to run the editing station. I set the screen res on the Edit Station to 800x600 to keep the remote desktop updates swiftt (we were running it off the 100BaseT network, rather than a direct gigabit connection). That all worked.
We capture in photo-jpeg at 75% because we don't need to work uncompressed for that stuff and I prefer it to DV (photo-jpeg is smaller, but its 4:2:2, AND seem to be better at handling gradients... go figure!).
Strangely, when I checked the footage it was at HALF RES: 360 x 288. I couldn't work out why it was recording at half res. I've anally set up my easy-setup preferences so it should all be fine. After some testing, I discovered that the video res was directly related to the display res. If I had the capturing computer set to 1280x1024 (default) then its fine. I'll have to check if its ok on 1024x768... should be tho - that's what i have it set at when controlling it remotely from my 15".
Weird. Very weird.
Anyone else seen this?
One of the things we do at workies is run a feed from our vision mixer into our editing station via a decklink SP. We do this so we can record multicam shoots from our studio live to FCP. However, our machine is in the editing room, so we use Remote Desktop on a Powerbook to control FCP remotely. It works like a charm, or does off my 15".
Last weekend, tThe boss used his 17" last weekend to run the editing station. I set the screen res on the Edit Station to 800x600 to keep the remote desktop updates swiftt (we were running it off the 100BaseT network, rather than a direct gigabit connection). That all worked.
We capture in photo-jpeg at 75% because we don't need to work uncompressed for that stuff and I prefer it to DV (photo-jpeg is smaller, but its 4:2:2, AND seem to be better at handling gradients... go figure!).
Strangely, when I checked the footage it was at HALF RES: 360 x 288. I couldn't work out why it was recording at half res. I've anally set up my easy-setup preferences so it should all be fine. After some testing, I discovered that the video res was directly related to the display res. If I had the capturing computer set to 1280x1024 (default) then its fine. I'll have to check if its ok on 1024x768... should be tho - that's what i have it set at when controlling it remotely from my 15".
Weird. Very weird.
Anyone else seen this?
posted by stu willis at
10:33 pm
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