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Whilst the picture quality obtained from the system was and is very good, its Achilles heel was the interfacing between MacOS 8.2 and the hardware capture card. This combined with the dubious stability of Adobe Premeire 5.5 for Mac meant that crashes whilst working or during the marathon render times were all to common. In practice, because of this it was rarely used for much other than short VTs and title sequences towards the end - for example, rendering a simple caption would take around ten minutes. This is one reason why [[Bulletin (again)]] rarely had VTs towards the end of its run, falling in the gap between the abandoning of [[Sony Umatic]]/[[JVC SVHS]] editing and quick PC editing. | Whilst the picture quality obtained from the system was and is very good, its Achilles heel was the interfacing between MacOS 8.2 and the hardware capture card. This combined with the dubious stability of Adobe Premeire 5.5 for Mac meant that crashes whilst working or during the marathon render times were all to common. In practice, because of this it was rarely used for much other than short VTs and title sequences towards the end - for example, rendering a simple caption would take around ten minutes. This is one reason why [[Bulletin (again)]] rarely had VTs towards the end of its run, falling in the gap between the abandoning of [[Sony Umatic]]/[[JVC SVHS]] editing and quick PC editing. | ||
There was also the problem that new, VT-heavy shows such as [[YSTV Week]], [[Small Screen]] and [[The Music Show]] simply couldn't run using the Mac to edit or play out. This was partly alleviated during 2002 by the availability of the [[Einstein TV]] edit machine, but that disappeared again, leaving us using what | There was also the problem that new, VT-heavy shows such as [[YSTV Week]], [[Small Screen]] and [[The Music Show]] simply couldn't run using the Mac to edit or play out. This was partly alleviated during 2002 by the availability of the [[Einstein TV]] edit machine, but that disappeared again, leaving us using what was [[Graphics PC]] as an edit suite in the summer term of 2003. The Mac continued to be used for play out because of the poor TV out from the graphics card and concerns over reliability. This was finaly resolved around October/November 2003 when funds came through from YUSU to buy a dedicated [[Edit PC]]. By this point crashes during broadcast play-out had become an all too common event (including virtually every clip in the first episode of [[Small Screen]]). [[Edit PC]] proved both quicker and more reliable, as the rise in CPU powers had made the hardware acceleration unnecessary. | ||
YSTV still has the Mac in a flight case in the studio, although it has not been used since 2005, primarily to allow exported material to be recovered - though this is also possible using QuickTime 6.5 on a PC with Media 100's iFinish plugin. | YSTV still has the Mac in a flight case in the studio, although it has not been used since 2005 (although it was fired up at one point in early 2011 by [[Michael Cullen]] to have a bit of a play - it still works), primarily to allow exported material to be recovered - though this is also possible using QuickTime 6.5 on a PC with Media 100's iFinish plugin. | ||