David Newman
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Aspect HD adds HVX200 support to Premiere Pro 2.0. Info here : https://www.cineform.com/products/AspectHDPPro.htm
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
Marcus is correct. Connect HD is not targeted for Premiere. It does work, but offers only moderate acceleration under PPro2.0. Many customers do use it within Premiere, to our supprize really.
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
They will have similar performance although Connect HD is not designed for Premiere Pro (it is targeted for VfW apps like Sony Vegas.) CineForm Aspect HD is designed for PPro and will be several times faster than Connect HD or RayLight, but yes it is $300 more. Connect HD can be upgrade to Aspect HD at anytime difference is current purchase prices.
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
The Intel 955 and 965 are faster and less expensive to setup than Xeon. You should consider those.
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
If you are working with HD HXV200 clips the MXF files will need to be converted to AVIs before they can be used in Premiere (using either RayLight or Aspect HD.) DV files work on the same timeline. For MXF file on Premiere Pro timeline maybe Matrox is offering that, although it is a more expensive solution (which I know very little about.)
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
MXF data can be converted in place (directly from the P2 media.) You can select which clips are to be converted, but no in-out markers. Due to the value of the P2 space, generally you would want to batch convert everything then free up the media.
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
1. Yes software codecs.
2. Xeon is not the best platform these days, AMD X2 Intel Pentium D, even Core Duo are better choices for HD.
3. AJA cards are handy for output if you have broadcast applications.
4. Firewire is all you need for HDV.
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
Both Aspect HD (and Connect HD) and Raylight convert MXF files into a more accessable AVI format for compatibility with a wide range of PC applications. Aspect HD adds an editing accelerator to Premiere Pro with real-time effects and transitions (that is way it is $499 vs Connect HD at $199.) Raylight and Connect HD are more equivalents. How they work internally is quite different. The CineForm products convert MXF data into a proven wavelet-based post-production format, whereas Raylight is AVI that references the original MXF files — more of a native approach. Of course we at CineForm like to beat up on native approaches for quality and performance issues (https://www.cineform.com/technology/HDQualityAnalysis10bit/HDQualityAnalysis10bit.htm) but if often depends on your workflow which is the best choice for you (if you a use a compositor, you don’t what native.)
1. Both products convert MXF into AVI before they are used in Premiere. Raylight requires the MXF data to be copied to the PC and kept, CineForm Aspect HD doesn’t need the MXF files after converson. All software.
2. Aspect HD is definitely real-time.
3. Aspect HD has direct support for AE and it codec is designed for compositing work.
4. If you are doing high-end color work both Raylight’s DVCPRO-HD and Aspect HD use 8-bit compression which is not the best of extensive color work (not because of compression, but because of 8-bit banding issues, although compression is more of an issue with native.) CineForm has Prospect HD for these purposes, which uses 10-bit compression. (Again this white paper explain more https://www.cineform.com/technology/HDQualityAnalysis10bit/HDQualityAnalysis10bit.htm)
5. Very little. For Prospect HD we only support AJA Xena cards.
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
Yes, FireWire is supported on all our products.
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com -
Yes and No. The HDSDI stream from the Canon XLH1 is a standard 60i signal. If you want to automatically extract the 24p/f from the 60i, you will need CineForm Prospect HD Ingest.
– David Newman
– CTO, CineForm
– web: http://www.cineform.com
– blog: cineform.blogspot.com