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RT Cards for FCP?
I was wondering if there any realtime cards for FCP or have the G5’s outperformed these types of cards. I only work in DV and can’t find much information. Everything I’ve read so far is pretty outdated.
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The only “RT” card for FCP is the biggest baddest G5 you can buy, with the fastest largest hard drive you can fit on your desk.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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[hector] “I was wondering if there any realtime cards for FCP or have the G5’s outperformed these types of cards.”
CineWave is really the only card out there that adds additional RT above what FCP offers, but it’s on the way out and I would not recommend purchasing one at this time.
For DV only, no card will accelerate anything beyond the fastest harddrives. The more speed out of the drives, the more RT. For instance, my Fibrechannel FCR2X from Medea tops out over 350MB/sec on the read speeds so I get a LOT of RT with those.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
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Yes, historically we’ve had the Cinewave and the RT Mac as the only realtime cards for FCP. After Pinnacle got purchased by Avid, the fate of the Cinewave was certainly doomed. And that’s a shame as there was good (if over priced) technology in there. The RT Mac was pretty much doomed from the start as FCP soon achieved better RT itself, and the quality of the analogue to DV chips inside the RT Mac as found to be quite suspect.
Both the Decklink and Kona products say that they “accellerate” certain codecs, but all they are doing is the scaling from, say 960×720 (for DVCproHD) to 1280×720 for display, so it’s not as if it’s doing much.
The major bottleneck at the moment is lack of PCI-Express which is stopping the GPU being a major player in FCP editing.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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The RT Mac was the biggest piece of junk I ever owned. I still have on sitting in my G4, the only thing it”s good for now is it lets me hook up an extra monitor. Otherwise a total waste of a thousand bucks.
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