Apple ProRes into Kona LHe ?

[David Battistella]

This is great news!

I hope that all the K2 Drivers will work with the new version. I am sure they are being re-written for new versions of QT and FCP6.0. I hope we see that release onthe heels of the FCP boxes shipping.

I am a bit worried about bugginess with the round tripping and especially Color and Soundtrack.

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Chris Kelly]

You probably don’t have an answer for this, but maybe you can ballpark it?

What is “fast enough”? Is Octo-core minimum… or can one of the first generation MacPros do the job?

[Kevin Wild]

“From what I’ve been told, FCS Studio 2 is a complete re-write of the software from the ground up”

Walter, I had heard about this for the past 6 months as well. I have a friend who visited Apple and even went as far to say that the new FCP6 team was in a different building altogether. That said, I’m not sure we’ve seen the new build. So far, it looks awfully similar to have had a complete rebuild. That and the fact that they didn’t mention a new rebuild, did they?

I wonder if we’ve seen the rebuilt version yet. Is it possible we won’t see it until Leopard comes out or next year’s?

Kevin

[Walter Biscardi]

[Kevin Wild] “That said, I’m not sure we’ve seen the new build. So far, it looks awfully similar to have had a complete rebuild. That and the fact that they didn’t mention a new rebuild, did they?

I wonder if we’ve seen the rebuilt version yet. Is it possible we won’t see it until Leopard comes out or next year’s?”

The interface is the same, but looking at Final Cut Server, Soundtrack Pro and how they interact with FCP, it’s very clear that a lot of the “under the hood” workings of FCP have been completely done over or at least incredibly fine tuned. Just because the interface looks the same, doesn’t mean the application isn’t completely new. There was a ton of under the hood stuff that you or I would never know about that was in serious need of re-working.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Jerry Hofmann]

No there’s no hardware accelleration on the cards, HOWEVER… the Io HD has the hardware on board to perform the compression during capture, and the de compression for external output… only solution for this in the world right now. so it should improve performance of the codec becuse it’s doing this heavy lifting externally… and not tying up your CPU for the job.

Jerry

[Jerry Hofmann]

I don’t think anyone knows that can talk yet… but there’s no doubt the Io HD would make things wide open for slower machines, because IT’S doing the compression/decompression.

Jerry

[Gary Adcock]

[Jerry Hofmann] ” don’t think anyone knows that can talk yet… but there’s no doubt the Io HD would make things wide open for slower machines, because IT’S doing the compression/decompression.”

that would be a good guess Jerry,
since all of the processing of the codec is contained in the IoHD, so that Laptops or older computers would then be able to use the ProRez compression schema.

gary adcock
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