Re: DV100 vs DNxHD vs CFHD

I'm not sure right now there is an "easy" way to go from DVCProHD to CFHD, unless you play-out from a DVCProHD deck via HD-SDI.

The problem for P2 is that there's no direct MXF to CFHD converter on the market, and CFHD outside of ProspectHD/PremierePro/AfterEffects is no longer 10-bit. In other words, if you use another program to render CFHD files (as AVI), you're limited to the 8-bit "problem" of Video for Windows. But then of course I've had no information about Premiere Pro or After Effects being able to work with the MXF files of the P2 card. Sort of a chicken-vs-egg thing.

I wish that Cineform was a more flexible in it's conversion/import/export options, because again, it is one of THE BEST real-time "online quality" intermediate codecs out there on the market right now that gives you less-than-SD-data-rates but full raster HD frames with no artifacting. The only other one on the market is DNxHD, and I haven't been able to test that against Cineform.

Unfortunetly Apple's "online" real-time compressed intermediate codec, DVCProHD, is no-where near the quality of these two codecs from Cineform and AVID, and will not tolerate multi-generation workflows the way these other two codecs can. Frankly DVCProHD is not an intermediate codec (in the true sense like DNxHD and CFHD), it's an aquisition format, like DV, DV50, etc.

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA