Multiple Codecs on the Same Timeline??? Yes!

[Michael Alberts]

This feature is working with my Aurora Pipe Pro and Pipe Studio cards. Aurora doesn’t mention this as a feature of their card so I’ve got to assume that it’s FCP 5 doing the work and not the flavor of card or driver that you possess. I haven’t installed FCP 5 on our Kona2 system yet, but I’m sure I’ll get the same results.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.

[Francois Stark]

Funny how this news is coming out. This is a big thing for us editors.

HUGE. Really.

But it seems the cardmakers and Apple marketing people still don’t realise it! Cinewave earned a huge premium above other cards for three years because of this one capability.

And it’s the one thing that Avid’s Adrenaline could do over the past two years do that FCP couldn’t (without Cinewave).

Believe me, in day to day workflow this is going to boost efficiency on FCP tremendously.

Regards
Francois

[Ron Thompson]

[Francois Stark] “Funny how this news is coming out. This is a big thing for us editors.

HUGE. Really.”

Tell me about it!!!! Can someone run over to Apple and poke them with a stick!!!!!???!?!? Please?
I would love an official announcement about this.

This is definitely not a single format world anymore. And for those building systems, this can mean the difference of thousands of dollars in drive space!!

Ron

[Bj Ahlen]

If it’s any consolation, Sony didn’t say much about this in the Vegas NLE either, and it’s had mixed video codecs on the same timeline for years: it can mix most SD & HD video formats ever conceived, and 18+ different formats on the audio tracks (including AIFF and studio formats).

Realtime performance is good for everything except MPEG (it’s not designed to be an MPEG editor, that’s for XPRI although that may be about to get its code merged with Vegas, per official Sony statement last week).

Vegas also supported 24P (including the DVX100) well before any other NLE, and it always generated effects and transitions in true 24P which some other NLEs can’t do even today.

[Scott Witthaus]

Do these all need to be rendered out for playback or will the card handle it in real time from the timeline?