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Cineform Neo vs Prospect HD
Hey all,
I’ve been shooting a lot of AVCHD on an HMC150 recently and am now looking at intermediate codecs to use to edit the footage. Cineform looks pretty appealing right now, but I’m a little confused as to the difference between their NeoHD and ProspectHD offerings. The only difference (besides price) seems to be that Prospect includes a ‘realtime engine for Premiere Pro’.
I guess my question is… what does it do? I’m editing with PP CS4 on a PC so it sounds interesting. But you can still edit Cineform IC with NeoHD… so what exactly does the extra $250 get you?
Also, if anyone has any other suggestions for intermediate codecs, please let me know. One thing I’m liking about Cineform is the HDMI capture via HD Link.
Thanks,
Gord
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So I emailed CineForm a little bit after I posted here – this was the response I got:
“For CS4 with Prospect HD you are actually not yet using the RT engine. Adobe made so many changes in CS4 that it has taken third parties a very long time to ramp up full support. So today Neo HD and Prospect (within CS4) are very similar in features and performance. When we release the RT engine for CS4 in around 6-8 weeks you’ll see your performance literally double (or more) in Prospect HD and have virtually no render lines.
The RT engine for CS3 is included with Prospect HD v4, so if you use CS3 you can see this right away. You’ll notice in CS3 that you also have CineForm presets (these come with the RT engine).
If you haven’t purchased yet, then you could purchase Neo HD now, and when our RT engine for CS4 is released you can upgrade to Prospect HD at that time.”
In other words… there is no difference between Prospect and Neo right now.
Just thought I’d post what I found in case anyone else has a similar question.
Thanks,
Gord
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