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Hardware Accelerator Boards for FCP
Hi
I’m looking at a number of Edit systems and I’m wondering if there is anything for FCP comparable to Matrox Axio or Leitch Velocity/Altitude for realtime work. i.e. boards that do the actual work.
I know of Cinewave but it is based on the old Targa 3000 chipset. A great board but it seems a little dated now.
I get the sense that most current boards are just i/o and are relying on CPU for fx and you get this “pretend to be realtime while you edit” but it isn’t really “realtime out to tape”.
Thanks
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ATI 850 XT for your primary computer display and then maybe an AJA Kona 2 for your video board. And then there are all the BlackMagic Decklink possiblities. I don’t know how the Kona and Decklink compare in performance however.
HTH,
BryceDon’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…
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The Kona 2 would be my choice here, but it only accellerates DVCPRO100. The real RT machine in the Suite is Motion (Motion Graphics is it’s speciality), and you’ll want the fastest CPU and Graphics card for it. RT in FCP is totally dependant on CPU speed and disk drive speeds. The faster the setup, the more RT you get. And it’s scalable with RT settings. Depending on the video format you use, and the effects you choose, you can get up to 9 layers of video in RT. But if you want to compare this to say, a top of the line Avid, you’ll get more RT if you spend the extra 100k…
Jerry
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Just re-read the specs on the Kona 2 it also acellerates – HDV playback and Dynamic RT Extreme. So in effect, it acellerates everything RT…
Jerry
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Jerry as I understand it Kona 2 only actually offloads the resizing of DVC Pro HD [being not full raster]. I think this goes for HDV also.
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I just talked to AJA about just what all it accelerates… it does as you suggest, but it does it with any video which is also supported with RT Extreme. So we are talking Offline RT, DV, Uncompressed 8 and 10 bit, HDV, DVCPRO50, 100 etc..
Jerry
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