Eric Jurgenson
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That would do it. Thanks very much.
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There has to be sufficient video available on the clips after the out point of the first clip and before the in point of the second clip to cover the dissolve duration. You have probably set your in and out points at the end of the clips. Cross dissolve is the proper transition.
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Tyan Tempest i5000 series mobo
(2) Intel core 2 quad Xeon (3 GHz)
4 GB RAM
single SATA boot drive
ATI X1950PRO 512
Matrox Axio LE or RTX2
Win XP Pro
Suitable RAID array and adaptor(for Axio: ProAvio RS8 HDS, or two T5’s; Adaptec dual 320SCSI card)
Pioneer DVD burner
(2) NEC AccuSync ASLCD24WMCX-BK 24″ monitors -
No, you need the Matrox RTX2 3.0 drivers, just released and available on the Matrox website.
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This is remarkable. 9 channels of gaussian blur and color correction in HD is a lot to handle, even for an 8-core processor and an x1900. Is this in preview mode?
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Harm is trying to be sarcastic here. Despite his opinion, Axio and the RTX2 are great products – nothing really comes close at this price point. Matrox has already announced their new CS3 drivers for Axio and RTX2. Harm may be referring to no CS3 support for the old RTX100 card. This card is discontinued, so of course there will be no new software updates, as painful as that might be for some folks.
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Matrox will give you more tracks of real time playback (including native HDV and XDCAM HD in addition to all the DVCPRO formats); real time effects (Matrox adds a large number of useful effects to the stock Premiere effects, and they work in After Effects too); and accelerated export and rendering. Axio HD supports 10-bit uncompressed; Axio LE supports 8-bit uncompressed. Both Axio systems have comprehensive analog and digital I/O.
Matrox RTX2 doesn’t do uncompressed (It uses MPEG2 I-frame compression for rendering), but plays multi-stream HDV and DVCPRO formats natively in real time like Axio. There is no SDI I/O on the RTX2 (although there is a handy DVI monitor output), and Max H resolution for the RTX2 is 1440 compared to 1920 on Axio; otherwise performance on Axio and RTX2 is quite similar. The software features are virtually identical. System prices for RTX2 are typically less than half of Axio; one big reason is less stringent storage requirements for compressed video.
The Matrox systems are very stable (on CS2), and between the real time playback and accelerated rendering and export, will save you a lot of time in the editing process. Performance scales up with SD projects, with more RT tracks and simultaneous effects available.
The AJA cards are a great product, but don’t offer the feature set of the Matrox cards.
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You might want to take a look at Adobe Production Studio CS3 and Matrox Axio. This system offers similar hardware performance to the 844X in SD, and fully supports HD. Frankly, there is no better editing hardware performance available on a PC – even better than Avid Nitris (at 1/5 the cost). And the Adobe software has come along by leaps and bounds lately, giving Apple a real run for it’s money.
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Hey Merfman. I’m calling you on this. I’m saying you do have a tan.
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Ah, yes. The downside of a capture card with integrated audio. If only BMD would write their drivers so the monitor out would respond to the Windows volume control. I have a nice volume control built into my keyboard, but Axio works the same way. The Matrox RTX2 card uses a sound card for audio, so the Windows volume control does work, and it is very handy. Othewise, you need a mixer.
Here’s a thought: You could get a sound card with digital I/O, and split your BMD AES output. One leg would go to your deck, and the other would go to the sound card, which would give Windows control of your speaker level (speakers plugged into sound card output). That way, you would have a constant level feed to your deck. It would also give you some digital I/O for Audition.