Tom Daigon
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Drew – “Tom – We do use the ProRes workflow some–but most of our work gets output back to the XDCam optical disc. In order to do that, I have to output it as an XDCam 1080i 60 VBR sequence to the XDCam deck. So staying in the native XDCam sequence makes sense to us. Quality and render times are no different. I’m open to all ideas though–enlighten me if you think we should do differently. In switching to Premiere Pro this will a be a moot point anyway, right?”
If you are archiving to the XDCAM I guess it makes sense to master with that codec. But using an acquisition codec for mastering makes me a bit nervous. Walter brings up a great point about not relying on Apples codec, especially in light of their current actions. Its to bad, with Alexa and others adopting it for use. And it makes such wonderfully clean compression. I feel somewhat on the fence about which mastering codecs to standardize to in the near future. I have heard good and bad about Cineform and dont know enough to make any decisions.
Tom Daigon
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The XDCAM codec is really more an acquisition codec. I would never use it as a mastering codec. Have you considered mastering as Prores like we all used to do in FCP ?
Tom Daigon
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I am running a Kona 3 and the new drivers. My display card is just a non CUDA ATI 3875.
Tom Daigon
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Im running CS 5.5 with an early 2008 dual quad core stocked with 8 gigs of ram. The system is running like butter. This only varies with the codec of the clips I use in PrP 5.5. Canon 5DM2 clips slow the system down a bit due to the highly compressed h.264 files. I intend to boost the ram to 24 gigs to aid the MPE engines functioning.
Tom Daigon
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Tim,I think you are right. AJA has always impressed me with the professionalism of their products and wonderful tech support. Im glad they are NOTHING like Apple. 😉
Tom Daigon
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Yes Tim, thank you very much. The 2 step approach makes sense…but doesn’t work in a production facility environment where clients are sitting with you and watching the HD/SDI signal on the screen judging performance, lighting and nuances. Working with the Kona signal in this situation is mandatory.
If I were working alone I could see doing it the other way, but 60% of the work I have done is with clients present. I have had lots of very good experiences with AJA and I feel that they will be focusing more attention on Adobe given the major shift of users to CS5.5.
Its nice to be clear in my mind about the CUDA card approach as opposed to the AJA card approach and the strengths / drawbacks of each.Tom Daigon
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I remember when I was an Avid DS editor the Tech Support Service fee was $6000 a year. When the economy went south I was told that we wouldnt be purchasing the service contract. I imagine some of my bad feelings about Avid was being on my own during some crisis situations.
Tom Daigon
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Karl Lee Soule had this to day…
Tom, I believe this recently changed with the release of the new Kona drivers last week. It was true that the GPU benefits did not use to work when in an AJA preset timeline, because the AJA drivers didn’t take advantage of it. But AJA rewrote the drivers.
Tom Daigon
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