Tilford Bartman
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Edius is now up to version Edius 5. It is more “complete” than it was a few years ago, but still rock solid even in Vista 64, and fast. It has more plug ins available now, and hardware for monitoring the time line or encoding for DVD or Blue Ray. You can download a trial version on their website.
Right now I’d like to stick with premiere and Cineform, with a card for viewing the time line on an HDMI monitor. But right now it’s not available, and when and if it is. . . it has to actually work! If this doesn’t happen within a month or two, I’m going to to to Edius 5.
Tilford
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Hi,
The more I learn about the Multibridge Pro the more I’m inclined to purchase it, as an alternative to something like the Matrox Rt X2 or the Edius NX Express. All three cost pretty much the same give or take a few hundred bucks. My plan would be to use it with their codec and perhaps uncompressed SD if my two drive raid o system will do it. I’d think of the uncompressed HD as an upgrade path. What this would give me now is great IO options in Premiere CS3, terrific external monitoring on an SD and HD monitor. The Black Magic Codec which I understand is as good as you get. And I have the upgrade path to capturing and editing 10 bit HD. I think it makes the thing a little future proof vs RT X2 or Edius NX Express. The Black Magic information says that the Multibridge Pro does real time in Premiere CS3. It says, “Real time effects: Adobe
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I think right now 10 bit uncompressed only makes sense and provides some value for people doing certain type of work. Once something far closer to the desktop standard for storage has the throughput to support it, then it may be a different story.
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Makes sense to me. I wonder what kind of real time performance I’d get in Premiere with Decklink or Multibridge, with their codec and high end quad core 3.0 extreme. Ordinarily real time in Premiere stinks. It’s vastly poorer than Edius 4.5 or even Liquid Edition. One could go with something like the Matrox RT x2 in Premiere. It does good real time and greatly excelerates rendering, but it’s a huge full size card that gets remarkably hot. It’s very picky about your hardware configuration, and as far as I can tell a lot people have trouble with it, so no thanks. To me Edius 4.5 with the NX Express card really has a lot going for it. It’s got great real time in Edius, mixed format timeline,hardware exceleration of various functions like resolution and aspect ratio conversion, excelerated Mpeg timeline export and other functions. It has realtime full resolution component HD and SD video output, and it filters and does noise reduction for analog input. The Edius Broadcast upgrade supports JPEG 2000. Is JPEG 2000 better than Canopus HQ? Finally people who are actually using Edius NX Express will overwhelmingly tell you that it works, it’s remarkably stable, and Edius gets significantly better with each release. I think it’s hard to beat Edius NX Express. I have Premiere CS3. In the eight or ten hours I’ve used it it’s crashed three times on my machine which is remarkably stable and runs everything else virtually flawless. Liquid edition Pro has crashed about three times in three years. . that’s how stable it is. I’ve used the Edius trial for a couple of weeks and it hasn’t crashed yet. Premiere just isn’t as stable. Any thoughts?
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Hi,
I really appreciate your responses. I’ve been doing digital video for a long time going way back to the Miro DC1, then the Bravado card, DV Storm, now Liquid Edition Pro. I also recently upgraded my Premiere version to CS3 and have been playing with that.
Yep, I figured the GSATA Raid probably wouldn’t cut it for uncompressed 10 bit SDI. It does however work very nicely of course for HD, and also for uncompressed SD. My longest project has been 50 minutes, most are substantially shorter. I have a Panasonic AG-DVC 30 with a Sennheiser ME66 Mic, and a newly acquired Canon HV20 with a Rhode video Mic. The past five or six years I’ve been using video to document my historical and genealogical research in Eastern Europe. I use motion video, but also quite a few stills that I often pan or zoom. I like nice titles. I often have music in the background, narration, sometimes the clips original sound. I deliver on DVD (at some point I suppose it will likely be Blueray, and I’ve also done some internet streaming in WMV format.
I could probably swing something like the CalDigit S2VR HD 1.6TB. Their information says it supports 10 bit Uncompressed HD 1080/60i, 8 bit Uncompressed SD. It’s $1,700. A $4,000 drive system is another matter. It’s hard to justify. I could just use the JPEG 2000 Codec, and put away my pennies for a $4,000 drive solution, or B&H I think has 6 months no payments! Were there’s a will there’s a way. Just not sure it’s worth it. Would this system really give me that much more quality and valuable functionality, than much cheaper alternative like Edius NX Express? Also is my system, specs posted above in this thread, the right system for Multibridge Pro, other than the drive system obviously not being up to the task?
Thanks for your help!!
Tilford