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Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:58 am

Willen wrote:
Bauzi wrote:
Douggie wrote:the lack of AviSynth. And even with that not available I thought lossless would be an option, but there's nothing with the strength or speed like Lagarith or Huffyuv - at least not free. I recall ishtori had a good lossless codec, but that one costs around $100 which is kinda a turn off.
Still makes me wonder why Mac seams to be so present in video industrial for me. I dislike it just for the sake of this two huge lacks.
Production houses like Macs for the reason that the hardware is supported by the same company that produces the OS (and software). And vice-versa. From way back, Macs have supported video (and audio) editing. Not to mention graphics and image editing/production. Go to any advertising agency or department and nearly all their work is done on a Mac. Momentum does play a factor since a lot of the pioneers of the industry started doing these things on a Mac, and then taught others on a Mac, etc. Of course, the accounting side is using Windows...

As for the 'lacks' of the Mac platform, professional video editing and production don't need them. Professional gear adhere to fairly common industry-wide standards. And any company introducing new equipment, if using a new codec or protocol, should damned well make sure that they provide new plug-ins for existing programs or an all-in-one solution.

Up until a few years ago, MPEG-2 wasn't even in the professional editing pipeline until the final step: content delivery (broadcast or pressed media; i.e. DVDs). Remember, all the flavors of MPEG and many other popular digital media codecs were intended for use as a playback only solution. This is why the guides suggest decoding DVD footage (MPEG-2) to lossless of uncompressed formats. And professionals don't (or at least shouldn't) need to convert formats -- THEY SHOULD HAVE THE DAMNED ORIGINAL MASTERS TO WORK WITH!

Exactly. If you want to get anywhere in the professional world (not just video editing, but for most art related jobs), you need to know how to use a mac. Period.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:18 pm

Awesome! crossover works!

I may even consider paying the money for it!

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:47 am

Castor Troy wrote:Awesome! crossover works!

I may even consider paying the money for it!

We totally support paying for software here, right Castor?

gotenks794 · Post by **gotenks794** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:58 pm

So you guys were saying in another thread that Final Cut has a deinterlacer... is this only in Pro? If it's not where do I find it in Express?

Also what's SimpleMovieX do?

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:27 am

gotenks794 wrote:So you guys were saying in another thread that Final Cut has a deinterlacer... is this only in Pro? If it's not where do I find it in Express?

Also what's SimpleMovieX do?

SimpleMovieX is another converter/filter program. I believe it can deinterlace, but I haven't tried yet. As for Express, I really don't know. Pro did, but unlike Castor, I did not have good results with it.

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:33 am

Sorry for the (kinda) necopost, but I just found this thread and thought I should chime in.

Avisynth works fine in Wine v1.0(stable) - i.e. the free one, you don't have to use Crossfire.

The PC version of Avidemux comes with a tool called Avsproxy which is a frame server that runs fine in Wine. No audio support though.

The mac version of Avidemux can connect to a local instance of Avsproxy.

This means that Avidemux+AvsProxy+Avisynth === VirtualDubMod+Avisynth.

If anyone is interested in a step-by-step for this, I'd be happy to throw one together.

@Kionon I would be happy to help out with a Mac guide and/or amvapp if you are looking for volunteers.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:43 am

Wow!

Could you document this step by step? I was looking into trying to compile wine, but are you implying there's a binary package?

Anything you could help with would be great. My demo of crossover just went out, and I've been debating if I should go ahead and put up the cash, but if Wine runs... I assume it runs only on intel macs, and this is not a solution for our PPC brethren?

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:11 pm

Sure. It's not too involved - but it is a multi step process.

Yes, it is only for intel Mac's. To my knowledge, it is not possible for Wine to run on PPC as it does not emulate the intel architecture, only the Windows APIs.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:55 am

Kionon wrote:Anything you could help with would be great. My demo of crossover just went out, and I've been debating if I should go ahead and put up the cash

Apparently CrossOver is free (just for) today.
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/27/codeweav ... -tomorrow/

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:24 am

Righteous.

Getting my free pro serial.

PEOPLE GET ON THIS.