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Mixing Resolutions on the same time line. final cut pro
Can any body tell me if you can mix different Resolution i.e. HDV and miniDV on the same timeline?
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You cant mix resolutions without rendering except with the Cinewave card (which Pinnacle will now abandon, now that is has been aquired by Avid).
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Let all Cinewave users and others write Apple and request this wonderful feature.
Tim
Tim Langston
Cryin’ Out Loud Productions
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Cinewave was dead before Avid’s acquisition.
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Well, there is a thread on the blackmagic forum. With the latest version of the Blackmagic driver (for FCP5) You can mix different codecs. But not all…
You can mix 8 bit with 10 bit, and maybe some other codecs to. Info about the subject is hard to find.It’s in the press release.
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I have to say that it was a big dissappointment that FCP 5 didn’t include the ability for a mixed timeline. I figured that feature was a no brainer like multicam. I think mixed timeline will take the place of multicam in the requested feature department. We can only hope that Apple adds this feature in future updates of FCP. Let’s hope it is before FCP 6!
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[Barathron] “I have to say that it was a big dissappointment that FCP 5 didn’t include the ability for a mixed timeline. I figured that feature was a no brainer like multicam. “
What confuses me is how was CineWave able to offer this feature well over a year ago and no one else is offering it today? If it’s so easy to do, why doesn’t BlackMagic, AJA or Aurora include it in their feature set? Apparently it must be much harder to accomplish than we all think since in one year no one else has stepped up with the feature.
The one really nice thing on the CineWave side was the ability to play back animation+alpha movies in realtime. That was sweet.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
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[walter biscardi] “What confuses me is how was CineWave able to offer this feature well over a year ago and no one else is offering it today?”
Because when Cinewave was invented, there was no such thing as RT Extreme which allowed the host CPU(s) to perform real-time effects as efficient as we have them today. Because of this, the latest batch of capture cards do not have on-board processing for RT effects. This would not only be a waste of development/production money to build into the card, but us as end-users we would be paying for the processing power we wouldn’t need nor use. At this point, everyone is at the mercy of Apple to implement these kinds of RT features. If it’s not part of the RT Extreme structure, our capture cards wont be able to perform it.
However, it appears BMD has made a partial work-around for this to happen. According to their latest press release, using 8 and 10-bit media in the same timeline looks like it may happen. This, IMO, is much easier to pull off than two completely different formats with different frame sizes, a’la DV25 and 10-bit UC. Nonetheless, it’ll be interesting to see what develops.
So in essence, this is something we need to scream at Apple about, not the capture card developers. After all, Apple DID show this exact functionality without any hardware support back at 2003 NAB. Why it’s over 2 years overdue from Apple is the real question.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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