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Cineform Prospect HD and Multibridge Pro
On cineForm website it says that Aspect and Prospect HD now support HD-SDI ingest in Blackmagic, and Blackmagic intensity HDMI direct to disk recording. I assume this means that on Multibridge Pro you can capture through HDMI in CineForm codec. CineForm in Premiere offers, Real-time editing engine for Adobe Premiere Pro that does keyframable color adjustment, 40 parameter controllable transitions, slow motion and frame hold, static and moving titles, and video overlays. With the CineForm Codec you can edit in Premiere in full HD without the needs for high performance disk arrays. Apparently Multibridge would not display premiere timeline with CineForm Codec on external monitor?
Does anyone known what if anything Multibridge pro offers in terms of realtime editing in premiere CS3? The Blackmagic information on this seems unclear to me. Right now my plan would be to use Multibridge for uncompressed SD, and use cineForm codec with Multibridge Pro for HD avoiding extremely expensive disk array. Might upgrade in the future to Multibridge SDI HD. Does this make sense?
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Hello,
I have been looking into Cineform and doing tests. You can capture via your Decklink product into Cineform format. However as Blackmagic does not have any memory on the boards you will not be able to frame buffer and preview your Cineform work on a external monitor. Only the AJA can do this as the card has plenty of memory to buffer frames. The AJA allows you to injest and display on a monitor the Cineform in real-time.
No the Blackmagic and AJA does not offer any relatime benefit on a Premeire Pro cs3. These units just allow you to feed a signal into the unit on the inputs and display audio and video with the outputs. They do not have any hardware accleration as they are dummy boards.
You will not be able to get a real-time luma/chroma key. This would have to be done with a hardware solution. WHy do you need these for real-time purposes?
I have the same situation with the Cineform, I have a Blackmagic Multibridge Extreme, so I will have to buy a AJA to use the Cineform injest but most important the realtime playback on my monitor to see what I am doing.
The Cineform form my tests is a great codec, and I could not tell the difference from uncompressed all captured and played back on a single sata internal drive. It’s annoying the Blackmagic cnat playback video to a monitor with the Cineform, as I will have to buy a card similar to what I already bought.
Let me know if you need anything else?
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Leo Baker
Post Production
Sync Films
United Kingdom
http://www.syncfilms.com
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[Leo Baker] “They do not have any hardware accleration as they are dummy boards.”
In that regard i wanted to ask then whats the difference between a blackmagic intensity board and hd extremme dosent hd extremme offer realtime editing support on cs5
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