is AJA sitting on their Laurels??

[Pat Mcgowan]

So the future of non linear editing is in the development of CPUs, GPUs, Memory and Storage? If that’s the case I’d venture a guess that we’ll be retired long before a real time 4K system (no wait-states for rendering in the NLE application suite) exists. Hardware acceleration on the video interface board has to be part of the architecture. No? yes?

[Richard Chin]

“Hi Richard,
You are an idiot.”

Its ok Bob …I still love you!

Richard
John 3:16

[Bob Zelin]

I still love you too, Richard !

Bob Zelin
John 00:03:16:00

[Nigel Thompson]

Hey Richard:

I agree with Mike, i cant imagine what kind of studio would not know who AJA is. I myself am rebuilding my edit suites (2 of them) and i just started shooting RED material. And yes i have been considering my options. But when i research the reliability and support from the board manufacturers AJA wins every time. Not to mention a feature set that knocks the socks off anything out there.

I understand what u are saying but AJA are going after the pro market as the guys said. What i would like to see Jeremy is

New breakout boxes for the LHe and 3, with an HDMI out connection on it. (so i can have an extra option for monitoring)

Native MXF support, but then again there is DVCPRO HD and HDV support so maybe that native MXF import is something apple should be responsible for. (correct me if im wrong guys)

Realtime RED Raw support, (maybe with a new board AJA Red ooooo) or Kona 4 or something. u guys need to talk to apple, quicktime need to get out of the equation somewhat. no re wrapping please.

when i think of something else i’ll say

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Nigel Thompson] “Realtime RED Raw support, (maybe with a new board AJA Red ooooo) or Kona 4 or something”

Realtime RAW RED support would be on Apple and this was something I asked the RED team about two years ago. I was told it could never happen because of the way FCP is wholly built around Quicktime.

Of course, that was two years ago. Whether they’ve been able to come up with something in the meantime, I’m not sure, but that’s what I was told by their team at NAB the last time I was there.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Nigel Thompson] “What i would like to see Jeremy is… “

Awesome, Nigel. That’s some good info and real world uses.

As far as MXF, yes FCP needs to catch up, but the guys at MXF4mac are working hard on MXF workflows for FCP and treating MXF as a beginning to end solution, from shoot to archive and everything in between. I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but check this out:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/garchow_jeremy/dvc_pro_hd.php

All we need now is Apple to license the AVC-I codec from Panasonic and all the nice quality AVC-I stuff can be edited in FCP in real time, no log and transfer, no rewrapping and metadata all in tact. Sweet. Don’t know if this will happen, but I am keeping my fingers crossed.

I am sure Apple is working on new format and system integration, they’d be silly not to as I am sure everyone else is looking at all of these options and thinking long and hard about them.

Hopefully NAB will adress some of these open ended questions.

Jeremy

[Nigel Thompson]

Yea Jeremy:

I’ve messed with it for a bit, not extensively tho, And Walter you are very correct.

Well Lets see what apple does with FCS 3, As i said they need to step away from quicktime a bit. Im sure when they started FCP the MXF conundrum was not around, neither was all this RAW stuff. So i suppose a re-write is in order.All this tape less stuff is turning things around.

Kinda like how electric cars are goin to be in a couple years, but thats a whole other thread.

im waiting for NAB’s craziness to be over, plan on getting the LHe for one suite and a 3/RED/whatever is released if anything, for the other suite. RED is really taking off so the more support the merrier.

Hey i have a suggestion Jeremy. maybe u guys can make boards with RAW support for photographers, acceleration. how does that strike u? or does the GPU’s these days handle that sort of thing?

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[Nigel Thompson]

And that AVC – I thingy in real time is needed in a big way

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High End, Production & Post Production
in the Caribbean
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[Vince Becquiot]

I’d like to see support for 30 pN.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Vince Becquiot] “I’d like to see support for 30 pN. “

There’s no reaon you can’t do 30pN from Panasnoic tape sources. You just have to make your own easy setup.

Jeremy