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Posted by Kill Bill on 04/18/07 15:45
Spex wrote:
> The beauty of the AJA IO-HD is that it is effectively a Kona3 card with
> on board ProRes422 codec which can be moved from Mac to Mac. So the
> small outfit doesn't have to buy a Kona3 for each of its Mac Pros it can
> just buy one IO-HD. Bargain.
Yeah, but I think the AJA IO-HD is more for the laptop too. Imagine
being able to support any format on your laptop. Only thing you have to
do now is carry around a huge disk array too. :)
>>> Soundtrack pro now 5.1, loads of nice little features.
>>
>> Apple seams to have made the most changes here. There's some kind of
>> feature that compares newer versions with older version, and adjust
>> accordingly. This is for people have spent tons of time working on a
>> sound project, only to have the editor go and change something to
>> totally mess up your work. It takes the new one, compares with the
>> old one, and does all the newer changes to the newest file. Awesome!
>
> The conform tool looks quite an awesome feature and seems to suggest
> media management issues which have dogged previous versions of FCP have
> been fixed. This tool couldn't work without rock solid media management.
Yeah. This was an area that was weak. And with FCP server software it
does suggest far better media management as well as support for cluster
super raids.
>>> Color, formerly known as final touch grading software now included in
>>> Studio.
>>> No upgrades to DVDSP4. shame. Blu Ray specs are still not complete.
>>
>> Yeah. A real bummer on the DVDSP4 part. However, there's also two new
>> products too.. Some kind of Media Management software (much needed),
>> and a new HD codec called Apple Rez 442. A general intermediate codec
>> to convert all these new codecs for each camera like AVCHD, x.264, or
>> REDcodec.
>>
> For more info on ProRes 422
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3b8pdg
>
> This article also shows that FCP makes use of all 8 cores when using
> ProRes422. I wonder if this extends to other codecs?
>
> I understand they are pushing Compressor 3 as _the_ way to render a
> final project and it is multi threaded and optimised for intel.
Compressor was in need of some fixing.
> Nothing of any consequence from Avid... I don't think they've
> understood where the market is going. The hegemony has been broken but
> they still operate like nothing has changed...
True. However, this is where the 'big boys' have set up camp. And it's
going to take a long time till new studios are built, and FCP makes some
headway. In the indie circuit it was easy for Apple, but they are after
larger fish now.
I did see that CBS2 has switched over all their news departments, which
is pretty kewl.
-bill
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