Jeremy Newmark
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Great, thanks for the info.
Jeremy Newmark
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“The only way for adrenaline to do uncompressed HD would be if they add a PCI, PCI-X or PCI Express card to give them the bandwidth between the host and the I/O.”
Hi Francois,
This was exactly the plan. Avid was going to sell a PCI card add-on that would connect to the back of the DNxHD board (where there is an open slot, right in the middle) that would give the Adrenaline the ability to do uncompressed HD. I was told this directly by Avid as well as a couple of resellers. When the DNxHD boards were first introduced all of the Avid brochures, documentation and their website spoke about this. Avid kept pushing the delivery date back unitl they finally stopped talking about (which just happened to be not to long after the introduction of Symphony Nitris at NAB ’05). Now if you search their website, you will find nothing about it, it’s as though they have compleatly erased it from thier history. What is crazy to me is the fact that none of the MCA owners are screaming about this, If you ask Avid, their solution is upgrade to Symphony Nitris.
Best Regards,
Jeremy Newmark
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“To get an avid that can do what FCP can do you need to spend $22k…”
If only this were true, try $90K, I wish our Adrenaline with DNxHD board could do uncompressed HD. We now have an FCP Kona3 setup that seems to smoke our Adrenaline when it comes to HD. Avid promised that MCA would be able to do uncompressed HD with an upgrade card a year and a half ago. Now when you ask there guys at the trade shows when it’s coming, they look at you with a bewildered look and say “Uncompressed HD on an Adrenaline??? Only symphony and DS can do that.” This was a response that I got at a trade show a year ago at which time I reached over and grabbed the Adrenaline brochure and pointed out to they guy where it talks about the uncompressed card for future release. If you try and find any info about this option now, well it is nowhere to be found, it’s as though it has fallen compleatly off the map. I just wonder what Avid plans to do with that big hole on the back of the DNxHD card now.
Best Regards,
Jeremy Newmark
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Figured it out. It was a sync issue.
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We have a couple of the viewsonic 930’s and a couple of the 191’s, which is what the 930 replaced. For the price these are great monitors. We use them on both our FCP and avid systems. They give a great picture and two give you all the room you need to work. As long as you have a good production monitor, then I’m sure you’ll be happy with 2 930’s. My 2cents.
Jeremy Newmark
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Hey Frank,
Sorry for going OT here but in response to:
“Now if Apple could only step up to the plate with Soundtrack Pro and give Protools a run for their money”
That’s what Nuendo is for. I’m not a sound guy, but our sound department just switched over from ProTools to Nuendo and from the lenghty discussions I’ve had with them, Nuendo is to ProTools as FCP is to Avid. You aren’t stuck into proprietary hardware and you can fully customize with third party solutions to fit your exact needs, all for a fraction of the cost.
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Is your response to us not going to like how it looks in regards to using the plugin for a 23 to 25 conversion or is it in response to using the plug-in to convert a 2 hour show from NTSC to PAL? Thanks again for your all your feedback, it is greatly appreciated.
Jeremy Newmark
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Thanks for the reply. We’re not so worried about the 23 to 29.97, because we can do the pull down, the problem is 23 to 25. We normally do the 4% speed up, but the problem is that the producers absolutley don’t want to speed the material up, they want an actual time matched conversion and they won’t budge on this, so the idea is to do the pull down to NTSC and then do an NTSC to PAL conversion. So that’s why we’re looking into the plugin. Is it possible to use the G film converter to go from 23 to 25 or does it just do the speed up? Thanks for the info.