Recent content by Mistyk

How on earth did I miss that? :oops: Thank you for pointing it out! It said on the site that it was possible and advisable to convert the RGB video prior to compressing it, so I mistakenly thought that it was necessary. Have been investigating Huffyuv and its RGB compression and it looks...

Sounds awfully tempting, but what worries me a tad is that Huffyuv is lossy in the sense that the RGB video has to be converted to YUV (or some variant thereof). The video is initially RGB since it is not captured, but created within the realms of the computer. Not sure what part of the RGB->YUV...

Thank you Simon F. I'm leaning towards using numbered stills for compositing and, when that's done, save the final composited output as a single uncompressed movie file for the sake of playback speed. I'm also investigating the possibility to use "Windows Compressed Folders" to keep the...

Hi, For compositing work, is it preferable to have the clips stored as continuous movie files (like avi) or as numbered stills? The reason for asking is that a continous large movie file would likely benefit more from the increased STR of a stripe-set, than lots of small files would. Is this...

Gunhead, Yeah, different forums have different types of members, so an identical question might yield diverging anwers. That makes the discussion more multi-faceted, which doesn't hurt. Are you also looking for a Placer OEM workstation? If so, might I ask your findings thus far?

Thanks Mulciber. May I ask what it is that you do not like about the Dells? Is it Precision 530 by the way?

If you were to get a dual Xeon Placer E7505 workstation from one of the vendors listed below, which would you choose and why? Feel free to advise against any of the four companies if you have had bad experiences with it (or have heard any horror stories). 1. Dell 2. HP 3. Fujitsu-Siemens...