LewS:I would just get a regular ATI or nVidia card. You don't need the AIW features and they may actually cause problems. Any newer ATI card would be a good choice for Liquid. Get at least 512MB of memory on the card. If you are moving from a DX9 to a DX10 card, don't forget to install the Liquid DX10 patch and delete any render files from ...

Does anyone know if the Diamond ATI All-in-Wonder HD PCI video board would be good with LE? http://www.diamondmm.com/AIWHD3650.php It seems to have a lot of extra TV stuff we don't need, so maybe money better spent on a pure video board. What would be the no-frills video cards of choice today to work with LE? Regards, -SB  

DiskTech: ....aahhh, you're forgetting that regardless of whether you shoot 50i or 59.94i (assuming we're talking DV or HDV) the data rate doesn't change - it stays constant at 25Mb/s. The amount of data used in each field/frame is NOT the same when using 50i or 59.94i. Therefore - logically - if you play back material that is shot at 50i at a ...

Theoretically, if I capture a clip at 50i and put it on a 59.94 timeline, then apply a ''magic'' timewarp amount, each frame from the 50i clip should slot perfectly into a frame on the 59.94 timeline, no interpolation or processing needed (assuming all else is the same between formats, such as color depth, etc.). In other words, conversion should ...

This doesn't make sense to me.  I'm doing a PAL HDV to NTSC HDV conversion. I put a half-hour 50i clip on a 60i (59.94) timeline.  As expected, it rendered but the motion is quite jerky in places. I added a 100% timewarp, mixed fields, and the motion is smooth.  I fused it for reference. but... Then I made a cut toward the ...

DStone:BTW, I blew up the image on the timeline using the 2D CPU editor to better show the fine details. In the actual clip, the van is quite small. I appreciate the help trying to demystify this. -SB

DStone:With LTW you get to pick what you want. There are 2 choice for deinterlacing, and that's Cut Fields or Mix Fields. Cut Fields does what you would expect; it cuts one field and doubles the remaining one. Mix Fields averages the two fields together. I'm confused again.  From reading the manual, it seems the the ''mix/cut'' fields ...

DStone:With LTW you get to pick what you want. There are 2 choice for deinterlacing, and that's Cut Fields or Mix Fields. Cut Fields does what you would expect; it cuts one field and doubles the remaining one. Mix Fields averages the two fields together. Thanks, that clarifies it.  I'll try to test to see how well ''mix fields'' holds onto ...

Sef: did you try to defrag your Render and Media drives? Are they different (really different, I mean: separate drives)? I did not, but will give it a try, and I'll re-time it before and after defrag.  My render drive is getting full and pretty messy. My ''media'' drive is definitely separate from the render drive (source media is on ...

No, not wanting to remove frames - just want to combine fields into frames for film look.  Some deinterlacing algorithms just throw away a field and double lines in the retained field, others combine the fields with varying degrees at attempting to correct for motion between frames - at least that's what I understand. LE Timewarp, and maybe ...