AJA ioHD Makes FCP 6 whole

[Jeremy Garchow]

THis is all well, good and exciting, but the question remains…

How good is Pro Res? Good? Excellent? Crap? Better than most? Does this mean that 10 bit functionality is fixed in FCP6?

Does it carry an alpha?

[Bob Roberts]

Jeremy, how was 10 bit “broken” in FCP 5.x.x?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Lots of weird color inconsistencies (which seem to have been fixed with the last codec update, can’t remember the version number 5.1.1 i think) but what still remains is weird codec break up on scaled images that hover around 100ire. Switching to 8 bit solves it, but then you are at 8bit, and bringing overall white levels down solves it, but that’s not ideal either. I hope that Apple developing a 10bit codec and basing a workflow around it means that FCP will now be more 10 bit friendly. Not that it isn’t now, it’s just a tough workflow sometimes is all. I still notice that the extra work/overhead to work in 10 bit is worth it. Hopefully that extra work is now subsided with ProRes.

Jeremy

[Sean Oneil]

[gary adcock] “Not true, that gains you “uncompressed” but really nothing more. All of the connections are the same and the IoHD handles all of rest of the Kona 3 Functionality, including all of the REALTIME HARDWARE functionality (like VFR capture, cross, up and down conversion)rather than passing those processes of to a CPU.”

Right, but you can do all that with a Kona 3. So if that’s what you need get that instead. And if you need a ton of I/O connections, get a Multibridge. Or get both. That’s a much better option than the AJA IO IMO.

[Steven Gonzales]

I think the name Digital Intermediate came about with it’s use on project shot on film, then the negative was scanned into a computer for finishing, then a negative was created and film prints were struck.

Thus, the digital portion was intermediate between film input and output.

I’ll always love film, mostly because you can “decode” it’s signal with a light bulb!

[Richard Boghosian]

Thanks Walter for the clarification. In other words (if I have this right) except for mulitiple formats on a single timeline, the speed of RT effects/or renders will be the same if you’re working in just one codec on the timeline-ie.: DVCPROHD.

[Richard Boghosian]

My dual 2.0 Power PC running FCP 5.04 was just as fast as the newer Dual 2.66 Intel running 5.12. ( 4 Gb RAM in each)The speed increase comes when exporting files via FCP or Compressor. Nice, but not what I really wanted a faster machine for. However, the jump to FCP 6 will require the use of a new Intel Macs.

[Richard Martz]

Yeah but…unless you are using a positive film stock everyone looks like they are in bizzaro world. Oh yeah…that’s what “video world” is now.

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