Avid Adrenaline and Nitris DX

[Michael Kammes]

Both devices allow you to connect various SD & HD decks and sources to your machine and not only capture, but also playout to them. Other I/O interfaces don’t have as many spigots to plug into. In addition, the Adrenaline and Nitris DX allow for simultaneous HD and SD outputs.

In the case of the Nitris DX, you also get Dual link 4:4:4 ability and hardware acceleration for DNxHD playback, and now AVC-I acceleration with an extra insertable ship.

~Michael

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[Bob Zelin]

this is not a stupid question, and it shows the “old bag experienced people” that younger editors have never had to work with videotape, so they don’t understand the need for products like Nitrix DX or Adrenaline. It’s actually a very good question.

Brendan, think about this. How are you going to get your Media Composer signal out to a TV monitor, so people can see it on a big plasma screen, instead of just your computer monitor ? That’s one small reason for these boxes. There are lots of reasons to buy Nitris DX, and most of them have to do with inputting video from tape machines, and other video sources (like cameras, and video switchers), and then being able to output back to a tape machine, TV monitor, audio mixer, or other video sources (like video switchers).

Your excellent question, reminds us of how old we are.

Bob Zelin

[Brendan Maghran]

Thank you Bob and Michael, I ask because I’ve been around them for a while and am about to start a job using them, but don’t have any real experience.