[Jason J rodriguez]

How about support for Cineform (Prospect HD)?

Their codec definitely beats DNxHD with their advanced wavelet compression vs. DCT-style compression like DNxHD. It’s also 10-bit.

I hear on their website that the problem with the current decklink cards is that there is not enough on-board memory on the cards, but I’m wondering if the Multibrige might have enough on-board memory to support Cineform’s requirements . . . it’s definitely a far superior product to the Xena card that currently is certified for Cineform use.

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Jason J rodriguez]

Going out SDI or Component Analog and then digitizing uncompressed causes the hardware in the deck to decode the DV-encoded footage, and up-rez it to the 4:2:2 10-bit color-space of base-band video (at least in the case of SDI). So basically all the “chroma smoothing”, etc., is done in the deck, and not in the software decoder, so you won’t be waisting CPU cycles doing the above-you can simply edit with the uncompressed footage and go on from there.

Hope this helps,

[Jason J rodriguez]

Are you using the Apple or the BM 10-bit codec?

Try removing the BM codecs and recapture with the Apple codecs. I’ve seen this sort of situation happen where the AE render engine get’s “confused” by which V210 codec to use.

Hope this helps,

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Jason J rodriguez]

I would stick with something that’s PCI-X based rather than PCI-express, unless you’re planning on using the Multibridge Studio.

For a good PCI-X RAID controller, look at the eight-port RAIDCore from Broadcom. Has a lot of very nice features.

BTW, for PCI-X motherboards that have the multiple PCI-X buses, look at the iWill or Tyan MB’s.

For PCI-express, Foxconn has a nice motherboard that’s got a lot of options, and you can use a PCI-express RAID controller from Arica.

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Jason J rodriguez]

I thought the Black-magic frame-link utility did read the DPX header timecode information.

Thanks,

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Jason J rodriguez]

Thanks for the info . . . wasn’t sure since an older system that was DigitalVoodoo-based did required ProVTR.

Thanks,

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Jason J rodriguez]

[B.J. Ahlen] “Does that mean FCP can now do internal processing, say color correction, at a higher bit depth and then output without banding to a 10-bit YUV codec? “

Yes. But only with the built-in 3-point color corrector, not third-party AE plug-ins. Also effects that are written for YUV with FXscript can take advantage of the 32-bit YUV rendering engine too. But again, anything using RGB effects, or from AE will be fed 8-bit data, even it it’s a 10-bit file, and it will render to an 8-bit RGB result and be converted over to YUV at either 8, 10, or 32-bits (depending on your settings).

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Jason J rodriguez]

Has there been any clarification on this feature?

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Jason J rodriguez]

Wow Luis, spot on. Spot on.

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Jason J rodriguez]

Yes!!! DPX files!!! Awesome!!! 🙂

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA