The magic box for viewing EX footage!

Paul Frederick · December 3rd, 2008, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Joachim Hoge

How loud is this thing?
Not like my PS3 I hope

Dead quiet. Don't think it makes any sound at all. Certainly has no fan.

Paul Frederick · December 3rd, 2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Kanakis

anyone know if you can loop for in-store displays? i have a work around for looping using apple tv, but it's kind of a pain.

Yup! I just checked on this feature. In the "settings" menu, select the TV monitor icon, it then says "Normal", "Repeat One", "Repeat All". Select one of the repeats and then exit the set up menu. Go to a clip and hit play! If you said "Repeat One" it'll play that clip over and over, repeat all plays all the clips in that folder over and over! Very simple, and this has a bunch of uses for use content producers.

Paul Cronin · December 4th, 2008, 10:34 AM

Thanks again Paul ordered yesterday from Amazon and it arrives today. A local store where I plan to buy my HDTV has said bring it in and lets hook it up to all the HDTV's.

Ted OMalley · December 4th, 2008, 11:15 AM

It needs an SD card slot! Then you can forego the hard drive altogether!

Andrew Stone · December 4th, 2008, 12:47 PM

I'm thinking a USB 2.0 card reader that reads SDHC cards at full USB 2.0 speeds would do it.

Ray Bell · December 4th, 2008, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Joachim Hoge

How loud is this thing?
Not like my PS3 I hope

There are no moving parts...

the only noise would have to come from the hard drive you plug into the player....

I'm using it with a projector, so the fan in the projector is the noise generator

Brian Luce · December 4th, 2008, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Andy Stone

I'm thinking a USB 2.0 card reader that reads SDHC cards at full USB 2.0 speeds would do it.

I've got a dumb question, please be patient cuz I'm new to this format. How can a card that is rated at 15mb/sec capture a 35mb/sec data stream? Are my numbers goofed up?

Gints Klimanis · December 4th, 2008, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Frederick

Dead quiet. Don't think it makes any sound at all. Certainly has no fan.

Are you talking about the Western Digital HD media player? It gets very hot. I picked it up once and thought I heard a fan going in there. Still, it's very quiet. I'll recheck when I get home.

Steven Thomas · December 4th, 2008, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Luce

I've got a dumb question, please be patient cuz I'm new to this format. How can a card that is rated at 15mb/sec capture a 35mb/sec data stream? Are my numbers goofed up?

It's because it's 15MB/s which means 15 megabytes per second verses 35mbps (which is 35 megabits per second. 8 bits = 1 byte, so 15MB/s = 15x8= 120mbps.

Brian Luce · December 4th, 2008, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Steven Thomas

It's because it's 15MB/s which means 15 megabytes per second verses 35mbps (which is 35 megabits per second. 8 bits = 1 byte, so 15MB/s = 15x8= 120mbps.

ah of course, thanks, always get those things mixed up. mb, MB, MBA, MD...

Chuck Spaulding · December 5th, 2008, 02:15 AM

I purchased one to replace an AppleTV to review dailies. After encoding H264 it played great but could FF or Rev which is a bug that is discussed on other threads.

I have not had a chance to test this much, but it would be great if it played back ProRes clips.

Paul Frederick · December 5th, 2008, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Ted OMalley

It needs an SD card slot! Then you can forego the hard drive altogether!

That would be cool, but would probably drive costs up. You CAN use a thumbdrive though!

Paul Frederick · December 5th, 2008, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck Spaulding

I purchased one to replace an AppleTV to review dailies. After encoding H264 it played great but could FF or Rev which is a bug that is discussed on other threads.

I have not had a chance to test this much, but it would be great if it played back ProRes clips.

I tried a ProRes clip and it wouldn't play. There are some file formats that won't allow fast forward or rewinding. I forget now but one of these will and one won't: MP4 and M4V, but I forgot which!

So far I'm finding if I output my MASTER to MPG2 at 25mb CBR Program Stream the files encode faster than H264, allow Fast Forward and Rewind and look identical to the MASTER. I need to try some different encodes though because it still is taking me about 4-5 times run time of the clip to encode this way.

Paul Kellett · December 5th, 2008, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Ted OMalley

It needs an SD card slot! Then you can forego the hard drive altogether!

You can use an sd card, just get a sd>usb reader. Or an SDHC>USB reader, same as were using for the EX1 SDHC cards.

Paul.

Paul Cronin · December 7th, 2008, 12:16 PM

Took the WD TV to a local HDTV store yesterday and played off a 2GB thumb drive. It would only play the Apple TV encoded footage which looked great since the footage is 720P. It would not play the .mov, H264, and MPEG4. Need to re-render and see what the problem is since the store would like to run my footage as part of their daily HDTV demo's and I want to give them 1080p.

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Paul Cronin Inner Circle Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 4,048	Took the WD TV to a local HDTV store yesterday and played off a 2GB thumb drive. It would only play the Apple TV encoded footage which looked great since the footage is 720P. It would not play the .mov, H264, and MPEG4. Need to re-render and see what the problem is since the store would like to run my footage as part of their daily HDTV demo's and I want to give them 1080p. __________________ Paul Cronin www.paulcroninstudios.com

December 4th, 2008, 12:47 PM	#20
Andrew Stone Major Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 975	I'm thinking a USB 2.0 card reader that reads SDHC cards at full USB 2.0 speeds would do it.

December 5th, 2008, 02:15 AM	#26
Chuck Spaulding Trustee Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Thousand Oaks Posts: 1,099	I purchased one to replace an AppleTV to review dailies. After encoding H264 it played great but could FF or Rev which is a bug that is discussed on other threads. I have not had a chance to test this much, but it would be great if it played back ProRes clips.