Mixed codec timeline in FCP 5.0??

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

I am also very interested to find out more about this.
Decklnk didn’t say much yet, but some info is starting to suggest that perhaps this is not a Decklink specific feature but rather a semi-official feature of FCP 5 (Livetype and Motion files would also work without rendering, in unlimited RT, provided you have a Quad 15 Ghz G5, get the idea?) I have no real information, but just putting together a couple of things that are true. FCP 5 will indeed try to play back those things in RT, if it manages to do it is a different thing. This could or could not be related to Decklink’s announcement.
It would be fantastic if Decklink could rectify this information and give more details 🙂

Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
adolfo@adolforozenfeld.com

[Tim Langston]

Kristian Lam wrote me and was waiting on the guys to get back from NAB to clairify this. Hope to hear something soon.

Tim

Tim Langston
Cryin’ Out Loud Productions
Fort Wayne, IN
http://www.colproductions.com

[Chris Paul]

I talked to one of BM’s engineers at NAB and he said that their products will not add mixed formats in the timeline in FCP and they have no plans to do so. I spoke to several Apple demonstrators who said that FCP5 will not do this either, even with Dynamic RT. It will sort of do a very crunchy preview of overlaid video with alpha and might do a preview of mixed formats on the same track, but they were not allowed to try this to see if it would work. Apple keeps their presenters on a very short leash.

Chris Paul
POV

[Pol]

But why do they mention it in the press release? On the other hand, it would be a big feature and you could think that the marketing machine will try to communicate that. So why is it in the press release???

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Chris,

I suspect it was not a BM engineer with whom you are speaking as we have some support for mixed media in FCP5 with DeckLink v5 drivers. You can certainly mix 8 and 10 bit clips on the one timeline in real time. I’m not sure whether other combinations will be available but am trying to find out more information myself.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Chris Paul]

Hi Luke-

I wish I remembered the guy’s name. He was probably in his late 40’s, black ponytail, BM shirt. He was also at the FCP event at the Stardust on Wednesday night. I asked him if BM would support Apple 8 or 10 bit combined with DV and the Animation codec with alpha in real time the way Cinewave does and he said no- that was Apple’s job.

BTW- do you have any plans to have Studio do an upconvert from NTSC to HD? That is the one advantage Kona2 seems to have but I would prefer the tidy setup that Studio provides.

Thank you,

Chris

Chris Paul
POV