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Migration from Cinewave to BlackMagic?
I recently learned that our three Pinnacle Cinewave cards have been discontinued and all support has ceased. We have them running on Dual-G4 towers. I am wondering what BlackMagic products will give us comparable performance and features for our SD editing stations. For starters, looking for 4:2:2 SD, balanced analog audio in/out, SDI or AES digital audio in/out, component analog video in/out, SDI digital in/out..
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Sounds like decklink extreme to me – be warned though that no effects processing is done on the card. It’s all on the host processor so you might have to consider upgrading your G4s to G5s / Mactels(whenever they appear).
Ask yourself this also – is there anything that FCP5 gives you that you really need compared to FCP 4.5? Are your suites currently doing what you ask of them?
I’ve got both decklink and cinewave and both work very well. Sure at some point the software and technology will make a big jump and it’ll be worthwhile to make the move. But while apple’s transitioning it’s product line you might be better holding off. Also check in the cinewave forum, quite a lot of users are having success with FCP5 and cinewave (although many don’t use the targa codecs any more).
Just thoughts.
Good luck,
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Well the problem is we recently doubled our number of Mac workstations when we acquired them through a merger with another station.. And I’ve been given the task of getting them all upgraded at least to parity with each other.. Some of them still have FCP 3 on them and Apple doesnt offer FCP 4.x in any form as an upgrade or standalone AFAIK.
So I can either get all of them up and ready for FCP5 or else ‘cheat’ and install some of or FCP4 discs on more than one machine.
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[Fongaboo] “Some of them still have FCP 3 on them and Apple doesnt offer FCP 4.x in any form as an upgrade or standalone AFAIK.”
Try ebay
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ooh good idea
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if youre going to share multiple FCP licenses, you wont be able to run them simultaneously if they are all on the same network. it’ll get pretty frustrating pretty quick… if your workstations do not need to be on the internet then you should be fine.
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