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Anyone Being Creative With PowerPC?
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Lomography looks like fun and completely non-purist. I didn’t know about that. Thanks for sharing @bunnspecial 
Film consists of silver grains or dye clouds suspended in emulsion. These are either "on" or "off" or more correctly present or not present.
Film, in its very nature, is a digital medium.
That's in contrast to a piece of silicon with photosites that generate a signal proportional to the amount of light hitting them(i.e. an analog signal) and then are fed into an A/D converter for storage/manipulation.
Film, in its very nature, is a digital medium.
That's in contrast to a piece of silicon with photosites that generate a signal proportional to the amount of light hitting them(i.e. an analog signal) and then are fed into an A/D converter for storage/manipulation.
I see that as stretching logic to fit your definition. Analogue photography is widely accepted to mean film photography as a distinction against electronically rendered image capture - in the same tradition as the demarcation between analogue/digital clocks, radios, synthesizers, amplifiers etc etc
I'm not going to go around arguing that film should be called "digital" or anything of the sort. I just consider "analog" a fallacious way to describe the medium.
I should also mention that I'm not alone in this. The terminology has fallen into common use primarily from folks who started using film in the digital era, and not from those who used it pre-digital/never stopped using it. I assume that it came about because "analog" is presumed to be the opposite of "digital" but to me it really just demonstrates a poor understanding of the process.
There is a LOT of push back against the term in the photography circles in which I run. I admit that I've instigated some of it, but I'm not the only one fighting the battle.
Aside from that, why use an 8 letter word(analogue) when you have a word(film) that is not only shorter but more accurate?
It's just a preference - I fully understand both processes and personally don't find the term too far away from accuracy to be invalid..and I've always like the word "analogue."
I'd equally be okay with folk talking of CCD/CMOS photography - none of this terminology has any bearing on the most important part - the final image.
I'd equally be okay with folk talking of CCD/CMOS photography - none of this terminology has any bearing on the most important part - the final image.
I came back from the proverbial dead just to share this nugget of info.
I actually wrote an entire book, self published it, designed the website, and am writing and finalizing more book stuff to post on the website. I did all of this on a PowerBook G4 15"
You can find out more at www.thefifthcolony.com
I actually wrote an entire book, self published it, designed the website, and am writing and finalizing more book stuff to post on the website. I did all of this on a PowerBook G4 15"
You can find out more at www.thefifthcolony.com
hoi!
What a cool "computer" sound here !!!
Murder Hornet..............
I just made this in 2022, as always, old s-cool.
With a PowerMac G5, Reaper, Soundstudio and my "allmighty" alesis io/26 FireWire mixer.
Punk and Love
Stefan Tatendurst
What a cool "computer" sound here !!!
Murder Hornet..............
I just made this in 2022, as always, old s-cool.
With a PowerMac G5, Reaper, Soundstudio and my "allmighty" alesis io/26 FireWire mixer.
Punk and Love
Stefan Tatendurst
Do tons of writing -- but that's a freebie. Even '50s minis could do writing. I hope to do video editing and audio recording at least on my iMac G5, though I would really like an iSight 2.1 for that. I have a cheap recording setup that hopefully works with it.
Excellent! The garden definitely needs more PPC Audio Units. Things such as the freeware spectrum analyzer Voxengo Span have just gone extinct - even the original developer no longer has the PPC version. I emailed them and asked...
At some point in the future, I am planning to fully edit and upload a Youtube video from my G4 Sawtooth, probably using Final Cut Pro 3. I’ll have to work out whether I can convert my footage (from iPhone/ Canon 80D) into a format it recognises, and then see if I can edit in 720p or 1080p. I really don’t know what these PPC macs are capable of on the video end, using the right codecs.
Anyone who has done this sort of thing before may be able to help.
Anyone who has done this sort of thing before may be able to help.
@mectojic
720p should be okay if you're patient, 1080 is a stretch. AquaTrimcelerator recommended if you're on 10.4. Apparently, FCP3 works in Mac OS 9, I'd give that a shot if it doesn't work out in X. OS 9 is so lightweight that it should free up lots of resources for the edit, but if you have 2GB RAM, you do lose that last .5GB.
ahoi! onre,
just downloaded it from here:
It´s version 2.3, AU/VST, both are Universal. Other stuff:
But i don´t know if they are Universal too...
ahoi!
...PPC Audio Units!
Anyone ´round here got this one?
KingDubby v1.5.2 AU by lowcoders,
Dead link....
Fanx, Punk and Love
Stefan Tatendurst
...PPC Audio Units!
Anyone ´round here got this one?
KingDubby v1.5.2 AU by lowcoders,
KingDubby v1.5.2 repackaged | Lowcoders Software
Today, someone pointed out to me that his version of KingDubby expired and that the one you could download from here expired as well. I discovered that my
web.archive.org
Fanx, Punk and Love
Stefan Tatendurst
TLDR: You can use your iPhone and Canon footage. Use MPEG Streamclip to convert to Apple Intermediate Codec at 960x540 before importing to FC. Save to external FW drive if you have one or make sure you have plenty of disk space available.
I've used Final Cut 6 on my PowerBook for a few things. I would recommend using Apple Intermediate Codec for your footage since your source footage is most likely 8-bit 4:2:0. This codec is probably the least taxing on older systems but the unfortunate trade off is that the file sizes are huge. You might want to use an external Fire Wire drive if you have one. I also would recommend maxing out your RAM if you haven't already done so.
Since both the iPhone and the Canon 80d record in h.264 format you can use a program like MPEG Streamclip or Handbrake to transcode your footage into Apple Intermediate Codec at whatever resolution you want. It will make your editing much easier, though I would expect that you'll probably have issues with dropped frames and choppy playback at anything above 720p. 960x540p resolution would probably work the best on your system for 16:9 video and would probably scale up decently enough to 1080p using MPEG Streamclip to upconvert Final Cut's output file.
You could use a 1080p resolution timeline but you will probably need to use lower resolution proxy/render files for the actual editing. On later G4s (1.5 ghz and up with at least 64 MB vram) and G5 systems you can push the timeline to 4k (though rendering is slow) when using Final Cut 6 in Leopard. I don't know how well a lower spec'd machine could do it, but I wouldn't recommend it for your system.
As you might know from my profile and/or username, I love PowerPC. I play SimCity 3000 a lot (https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3516-simcity-3000) It works on up to OS X 10.4. You might be able to run SimCity 2000 under OS 9 emulator in Tiger, not sure if it even supports OS 9 though.