A few years ago, a local members-only golf club here in Jackson, WY started having occasional movie screenings followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. This started because one of the members, a film producer specializing in documentaries, approached the club owners with the idea. It’s been a hit with the club’s patrons and last […]
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In my current quest to get all of my DVDs and Blu-Rays transcoded to H.264 for viewing on Apple TV and iPad, I’ve run into a major glitch: subtitles and HD audio on Blu-Ray discs. The current shipping version of Handbrake (version 0.9.8) doesn’t recognize subtitles on Blu-Rays (Version 0.9.9 now available, see end of […]
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The new version of Glue Tools PhantomCine Toolkit, in this case, 3.1.2693, has Open CL GPU acceleration. Since converting Phantom Cine files to ProRes is a daily occurrence at Brain Farm, I thought I would do some speed tests. I got some interesting results. Source Clip: Phantom Flex, 2560×1440, 49 seconds Test System: Mac Pro 4.1, 8×2.23GHz, […]
Read More adobe, cine, compressor, cs6, cuda, glue tools, gpu, gtx570, media encoder, nvidia, open cl, Phantom, PremiereAmazon today announced Glacier, “an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup”. The most attractive aspect is their low fee of $.01 per GB per month. If you don’t need instant access to your archive, this could be a great alternative to maintaining archives yourself. This led […]
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My sister-in-law has recently picked up photography (and she’s awesome!), so my brother has been asking me about a backup and archive system for her photos. I’ve been piecing some options together specific to her business as a photographer, which will become a series of posts here on the blog. During this process, he sent […]
Read More apple, archive, backup, data recovery, fire, fireproof, flood, iosafe, mac, photography, photos, pictures, USBWell, we definitely had too many cameras and too little time. A total of 8 for only a few hours. Thus, we were only able to run 4 tests. And those 4 tests were not nearly as detailed and in-depth as we were hoping. But still, I think everyone would agree that this was an […]
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