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Reading Cinewave projects?
I am finally taking the step forward & dumping my cinewave card. I bought a Kona 2 card & will upgrade the system software & FCP. Will I be able to read my old Cinewave files. Is there a codec available so I don’t have to redigitize all the media?
Kenyon Blower
Vide-Post / San Diego
Dual 2.5 G5
3 Gig Ram
Medea 2TB Fibre Raid
Medea 640 gig SCSI
FCP HD with Cinewave 4.5 -
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Installing the Blackmagic Codec will let you read all your cinewave codec files:
https://blackmagic-design.com/downloads/codecs/Blackmagic_Codec_OSX.zip
You will have to render them to something else to play them through the AJA though. Our workflow is just to make a new 8bit Uncompressed sequence drop the Cinewave clips into the timeline and hit render. Takes a while but works like a charm.
-Simmie
2 G5 – Kona LH
3 G4s – Cinewave
1 xbox360, 1 PSP, 1 PS2 & a Gamecube
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Thanks
Kenyon Blower
Vide-Post / San Diego
Dual 2.5 G5
3 Gig Ram
Medea 2TB Fibre Raid
Medea 640 gig SCSI
FCP HD with Cinewave 4.5 -
AJA has software downloads as well, you won’t need blackmagic codecs.
Jeremy
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[JeremyG] “AJA has software downloads as well, you won’t need blackmagic codecs.”
Are you saying that the AJA codec can also read Cinewave files? That’s good to know.
-Simmie
2 G5 – Kona LH
3 G4s – Cinewave
1 xbox360, 1 PSP, 1 PS2 & a Gamecube
https://www.speak.co.uk -
[Simmie] “Are you saying that the AJA codec can also read Cinewave files? That’s good to kno”
yes
by changing the seq compression setting to be AJA’s 2 VUY codec you do not limit the function of your Kona card,
and yes it will see Cinewave, and digital voodoo and other first generation compression formats.gary adcock
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