Good stuff from NAB

[Ben Holmes]

Of course – didn’t recognise the name. A colleague of mine evaluated this last year – it had some frame-rate issues in PAL as I remember, probably all sorted by now.

Ben

Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.

Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com

[Francois Stark]

Hi Jeremy

I don’t know who told you adtrenaline would do uncompressed HD but they were smkoing something…

Adrenaline is connected to the host workstation through a standard 400mbit/sec firewire connection. This connection is too slow to carry uncompressed HD. Will never be fast enough. End of discussion.

Sorry.

The only way for adrenaline to do uncompressed HD would be if they add a PCI, PCI-X or PCI Express card to give them the bandwidth between the host and the I/O.

Francois Stark

[Jeremy Newmark]

“The only way for adrenaline to do uncompressed HD would be if they add a PCI, PCI-X or PCI Express card to give them the bandwidth between the host and the I/O.”

Hi Francois,

This was exactly the plan. Avid was going to sell a PCI card add-on that would connect to the back of the DNxHD board (where there is an open slot, right in the middle) that would give the Adrenaline the ability to do uncompressed HD. I was told this directly by Avid as well as a couple of resellers. When the DNxHD boards were first introduced all of the Avid brochures, documentation and their website spoke about this. Avid kept pushing the delivery date back unitl they finally stopped talking about (which just happened to be not to long after the introduction of Symphony Nitris at NAB ’05). Now if you search their website, you will find nothing about it, it’s as though they have compleatly erased it from thier history. What is crazy to me is the fact that none of the MCA owners are screaming about this, If you ask Avid, their solution is upgrade to Symphony Nitris.

Best Regards,

Jeremy Newmark