Cineform Neoscene and CS5

[Steve Brame]

I’ll say that we have all but stopped using Neoscene since we installed CS5. We primarily used it to transcode AVCHD footage, and CS5 handles that file type easily on our machine.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Ann Bens]

Download the trialversion of Neoscene and see of its any good. I love it.
Not everybody has a smooth edit with AVCHD with CS5. It also depends on the machine you are running on.

[Tim Kolb]

I’d say that PPro CS5 has the ability to recognize and edit AVCHD/DSLR footage, but the hardware you have needs to have the ability.

CS5 is great, but it’s a box (or a download) of potential…

You can’t put a fighter pilot in a Piper Cub and go into a dogfight…you need the machine that’s built for the job too.

CineForm’s products not only bridge the gap for formats that are tough to edit…they also help machines that might be a couple years old respond much better as their codecs are not only very high quality, but optimized to run on computer CPUs from the start.

Depending on your hardware configuration, CS5’s capability to handle some of these formats probably won’t translate into the same edit performance while you’re cutting. All this doesn’t take into account that color correcting 8 bit camera footage won’t be as nuanced as color correction on 10 bit CineForm footage (even if it’s converted from that very same 8 bit footage.)

…I might do some testing before I wrote off CineForm just yet.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Steve Brame]

Absolutely correct! We did such testing for a little over 6 months before we stopped using Neoscene on our CS5 PC. I wouldn’t label our editor a ‘muscle machine’, and it seems to handle AVCHD media quite easily. Just like anything, you can either put your money into a system up front to prepare it for what you need it to do, or you put money into it after the fact to get it to do what you need it to do. And in our business, transcoding time IS money.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions