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FCP and NAB
Apple didn’t have a booth at NAB, but AJA and Matrox showed some really wonderful new products that really knocked my socks off for FCP.
AJA’s new Ki Pro box is a revolution… See it here: https://www.aja.com/products/ki-pro/
What it does is capture any camera’s output during the shoot to a removable and hot swappable self powered FireWire drive… all in ProRes or ProRes HQ.. all ready to edit. This means that cameras such as HDV cameras could actually record in a 4:2:2 10 bit color space. Makes life wonderful for color correction and effects. It’s camera agnostic, and can even slave timecode for mulitcamera shoots even if the cameras don’t have external timecode connections… WAYYYYYY cool. also can be used as a stand alone digitizing station. It’s a wonder and won 4 best of show awards.AJA also upped the power of the LH card to a new unit designated LHi… does all that the Kona 3 did with cross conversions, added HDMI 1.3a in AND out didn’t lose the analog connections and the price was lowered to $1495… https://www.aja.com/products/kona/kona-lhi.php
Matrox has an H.264 compression card that will encode HD to H.264 FASTER than real time! $495 list… also an award winner. https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/compresshd/
The third thing I saw at NAB that really wow’d me was RED RAY playing back 4k on a standard DVD disk with a bit rate of 10 mbits… for you out there that don’t quite see the innovation, this is a lower data rate than SD DV!!!! it was indistinguishable from an UNcompressed 4k playback WOW!!!!! and truly amazing. Not shipping yet, but good to see the fellas at RED are busy at work with ground breaking tech… nothing new there for sure.
I’m sure there were other great things there, but these products all represent a paradigm shift. Was great to see them first hand for sure.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Oh one other thing… the Ki Pro also cross converts of course!
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Hi Jerry,
The Ky pro looks incredible. If I wouldn’t have an ioHD sure I would go for a Ky Pro.
However AJA need to do something more portable.
What I really would like to see is the RED RAY.
Amazing.
I just had a look in the RED web site. Claims that can read Raw R3D files from a Compact flash memory.
With technologies like that knocking on the door, people wonder why Apple doesn’t jump on the BluRay train.
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Sorry to come back.
This article points to few of the coming things:https://news.creativecow.net/story/861836
Things like the “Ultra HD (7680×4320)” are around the corner.
Stuff to keep us awake.
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[Rafael Amador] “Things like the “Ultra HD (7680×4320)” are around the corner. “
When I asked the guy from NHK how they edited the ten minute presentation that was screened for the show, his answer was, “SUPERCOMPUTER!!!!”
Before you know it the answer will be “iPHONE!!!”
Mark
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[Mark Raudonis] “When I asked the guy from NHK how they edited the ten minute presentation that was screened for the show, his answer was, “SUPERCOMPUTER!!!!” “
Sure.
We are talking of a picture 100 folders bigger than NTSC SD.
Some time I will need to learn about the wonders of the iPhone. The problem is that I live in an “iPhone-free environment”.
Rafael
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