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Limitations of Avid Adrenaline?
I am looking to purchase a used Avid Adrenaline as that is all I have money for at this time. I have confirmed with Avid that it will work with both MC 4 and 5. What will be my limitations of this system vs. a nitris or symphony system?
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Adrenaline has SD I/O only, unless you buy one with the DNxcel option card, which gives you HD-SDI I/O as well. But only one stream of HD with Adrenaline.
Nitris (the original, often called Classic Nitris these days) only works with Symphony. It has been replaced by the Nitris DX.
Symphony is an expanded version of MC, it has all of the features of MC, plus Universal HD Mastering, and some extra color correction features.
Nitris DX will give you all SD and HD I/O’s, plus – like classic Nitris – it accelerates MC and Symphony, and has plenty of bandwidth for more than just one stream of HD.
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I am looking for the most cost effective solution and right now I do not have 10 grand for a DX. so I beleive adrenaline would be the best solution. Also with that I can’t do uncompressed HD – right? Would I be able to get one of the nitris systems working with today’s MC 4 or 5?
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Ian,
Adrenaline works fine in HD as long as you stay in DNxHD.
(that is, if you have the HD board)
If you use XDcam imports, you’re limited to playback half quality.
(good enough for offline though…)
It also has all the connectors you like, including LTC in/out.Since you’re on a budget, totally forget about uncompressed HD.
What on earth would you need that for?
Uncompressed HD is for very high end movies.
Normal people shoot / edit / deliver compressed.
(and that goes for broadcasters as well. Even George Lucas shoots compressed…reminds me, do you still have my board?
Bouke
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