Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] WKs 7,8 Includes picture of new film camera fromFrance
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:22:59 -0500

That's quite a lot of $$!  I'll wait the two hours ;-)

My DV board, a Dazzle DV.now AV, somewhat claims to having an MPEG encoder
on board...but I've yet to see anything, aside from the vague reference in
one of the manuals...  I'll have to delve into this more.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mike
> Durling
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:14 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] WKs 7,8 Includes picture of new film camera
> fromFrance
>
>
> We went with a Zapex board.  The version we chose has serial digital (SDI)
> input and cost about $13,000.  Bernclare multimedia
> http://www.bernclare.com/ has a good chart of various boards and their
> functions.  We did not actually buy the board from them.
>
> Your description of DV encoding was very concise and to the
> point.  Thanks.
>
> Mike D
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:07 PM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] WKs 7,8 Includes picture of new film camera
> fromFrance
>
>
> >
> > > A hardware encoding board makes MPEG-2 encoding much faster.
> > > There are some
> > > that convert from DV compression to MPEG-2 that are relatively
> reasonable.
> >
> > Of course.  I have an MPEG DEcoder board, but what MPEG ENcoder board(s)
> > would you recommend?  I'd actually prefer one that did both...
> >
> >
>