[Thomas]

Since the bandwidth for HD is limited does that mean that any HD editing realtime FX will have to be rendered into the Apple codec before it can be output? I mean if FCP is outputting the timeline as uncompressed during realtime processing then there would be no way to fit that down the FW800 pipe.

Since the device is external I see one of two things that could happen.
1. We will have to render our entire project to make sure all FX are in the new Apple codec. This would make it sort of like how DV editing used to be where all FX had to be rendered to DV before they could output through firewire.
2. FCP 6 converts on the fly through software into the Apple codec during playback of the timeline. This of course uses up resources because the system is rendering to the codec on the fly but then we wouldn’t have to wait to render first.

[Thomas]

No info on the new capture program?

I would like to know what it can do since there is little to no information on the website or in the help file. I do not use Premiere but I do a lot of motion graphics stuff and I need to know what kind of formats the capture program can use so I can capture different formats to use in After Effects as well as some of my own custom motion graphics software.

[Thomas]

For the fun of it I tried playing back a mjpeg 1280x720x23.98p on my old internet computer which is a P4 2.4GHZ with 512 MB of ram. It played back in realtime with no problem at all. Very nice! I also converted a DVCPROHD file to mjpeg and did a difference blend in After Effects to check how different they were and they were very very close. Very nice job!

[Thomas]

Wow where did they find a motherboard with a PCI Express X4 slot that can use that old of a P4 chip? At 2GHZ that would have to be a socket 478 chip unless you are talking about a newer core 2 dual such as Conroe. Those could be 2 GHZ but are actually some of the fastest systems out there right now.

That is a good sign about the cpu load however. This should make it very easy to handle at least 2 or 3 streams. 3 streams is pretty much my goal. That leaves A,B and an video track matte which is the most amount of layers I would ever use and want realtime. Anything above that I wouldn’t really care that much anymore.

Thanks for the info.

[Thomas]

Thanks for the info. I can’t wait to get this new card.

[Thomas]

One question about the new jpge codec. How much of the cpu does this use? I know photojpeg at HD resolutions can tax the system to the point where it would be really hard to edit multiple streams. Is the same true with this jpeg codec? Putting hard drive bandwidth aside is it possible to be to play multiple streams of the jpeg codec in realtime?

[Thomas]

The person said that HDMI 1.2 can have a lot of color banding issues because it only uses 8 bit per channel color. I don’t see what the big deal is since the DSP in most HDV cameras is 8 bit anyways. I would take 8 bit per channel jpeg compressed HD over 8 bit per channel HDV anyday.

[Thomas]

Is the Intensity card using the HDMI 1.2 or 1.3 specs? Some hater asked this question on another forum.

[Thomas]

Thanks for the information guys. I didn’t realize how easy it was for you to try and capture to a 8 bit RGB file in Windows.

I guess now I don’t need to call sales over and over again until they give me an answer.

[Thomas]

For the Mac is it worth it cost wise to wait and get the Multibridge Express ($2,500.00) and add the PCI Bridge card (???) or just go with a normal Multibridge ($2,000.00) and add a Decklink HD card ($595.00)?