‘ MIXED MEDIA formats in the timeline ‘

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Nick,

Good question. I’ll ask what information is available when the Blackmagic team ring in from NAB 2005. I haven’t heard from them today as they’ve been working unbelievable hours but I hope to hear something tomorrow and will let you know what I learn.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Tim Langston]

I believe they mean that you can put DV, Beta SP, DVCam, AVI, MOV…and other’s on the same timeline and be able to play them all back.

Tim

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

[Martin Baker]

Which sounds like a dream come true (now Cinewave is has been killed off) but strangely there’s absolutely no mention of this on the FCP5 site, so is this a Decklink only feature or an FCP5 feature?

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Steve Connor]

If this is true it would be outstanding!

Steve Connor
Cardinal HD

[Bob Thompson]

FCP talk about dynamic playback, I can only assume that is what they mean

[Emery]

Dynamic playback is adjusting the quality of the real time rendering on the fly (depending on the complexity of your sequence). So in real complex parts with multiple layers and such, realtime playback will slow down to say 10fps and then when it gets through that part it will resume full speed. So you no longer have to choose your render preview quality, FCP handles the throttle.

FCP 5 does not handle multiple formats in the same timeline without the need to render so this would be a decklink only feature (as it was with the cinewave). Sounds great though!

Emery

[Richard Dee]

Martin- now that FCP 5 will have multicam built in, what happens to your multicam lite and pro? I was really looking forward to them and tried the demo.

I’m in a real bind- I’m cutting a multicam show for a post house next week and I was going to get them to buy Multicam lite- but now they wont buy it because of FCP 5-

whats going to happen?

thanks
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[Martin Baker]

Hmmm…! As I understand it, the way that Cinewave was able to do mixable codecs is that it let the CPU decompress the movies so they all got fed them to the Cinewave hardware as an uncompressed signal. The Cinewave hardware then handled the effects i.e. It won’t let you do RT Extreme AND mixable codecs, it is one or the other.

Blackmagic need to clarify how this would work on Decklink? If it uses the same philosophy then we’re back to basic RT effects again.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

We don’t know what is going to happen until we get our hands on FCP5 test it out. Until then there’s no news to report I’m afraid.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Luke Maslen]

Hi Nick,

I haven’t been able to find out much as our team at the show is just flat out all day on the show floor and anyone there is more likely to get answers than me 🙂 However I’ve found out that we can at least mix 8 and 10 bit uncompressed clips on the same time line with effect handling set to Apple’s RT effects. That’s pretty nice but I don’t know about any other combinations as yet, eg compressed with uncompressed formats or SD and HD. We may have to wait until after the show to find out more but even 8 & 10 mixed formats will be fantastic.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design