AJA and realtime

[Dom Silverio]

[uncompressed] “i just think it is too sweet the way FCP supports most any major camera native format and not have to drag things to proprietary codecs to get “real time”.”

That is an inaccurate statement. You cannot get RT in FCP unless you use one of the optimized codecs – DV25, uncompress, etc. Try dropping an MJPEG A on the timeline and see what happens.

Avid does support DV25, DV50 and DV100.

[uncompressed] “i would guess you can be dismissive of HDV if you already own a $90,000 avid system and set clients. i would suspect that FCP is already winning those interested in HDV with their native support.”

I don’t think I was dismissive. Just stating the reality that HDV is as a post workflow is immature. One or two prosumer deck. Prosumer cameras for now. No RT output. Etc. HDV with FCP on a top of the line G5 is not much fun either.

Actually – most of the HDV editors I know are using Vegas, Premiere Pro and Edius. So I am unsure if your suspicion is true – at least my part of the woods [NYC].

[uncompressed] “Can Avid Adrenaline do uncompressed HD yet?”

Yes that is a common complaint. But does media mangler works?
🙂

[Oliver Peters]

[David Battistella] ” I wasn’t trying to start anything, just more curious about Nitris workflows :)”

No problem at all.
– Oliver

Oliver Peters
Post-Production & Interactive Media
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Gary Adcock]

[MPE] “That is an inaccurate statement. You cannot get RT in FCP unless you use one of the optimized codecs – DV25, uncompress, etc. Try dropping an MJPEG A on the timeline and see what happens.”
DV 25/50 /100 are native camera codec’s –anything on older style photojpeg compressions are not as popular anymore do to the re-compression cycles in renders. NO current pro editing software uses a p-jpeg compression that is not proprietary.
[MPE] “Actually – most of the HDV editors I know are using Vegas, Premiere Pro and Edius. So I am unsure if your suspicion is true – at least my part of the woods [NYC].”

Very true –but more pro cut on mac’s (avid and FCP) and do no consider those pro platforms for editing long form or high end content.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Paul Harb]

I agree that this is a huge workflow issue, maybe not for everyone, but for me..yes. Now its not going to get me to sell my FCP suite and buy an Avid which are IMHO way over priced in this day and age, and Ive never really liked the interface. That said, I would really like Apple to impliment being able to mix formats in the same timeline.

Paul