[Jeff Coleman] "Hardware acceleration doesn't make sense? Really?
The new Nitris DX looks more promising to me for instant videos, i.e., effects on multiple layers no waiting."
Then that's what you buy. Always buy the tool you and your clients require.
[Jeff Coleman] "Throw a few effects on the old FCP timeline and it can't render 3 layers of DV quickly much less play it back in realtime."
Depends on the machine. our G5 Quad, Mac Pro Quad 3.0 and now our new Octo 3.5 all blaze through renders. Our G5 Dual 2.0 is rather slow with renders compared to those two. Faster machine equals faster renders.
Oh and faster hard drives means more realtime. We have a 500MB/s RAID here so we can run about 12 layers of DV if we wanted to or some pretty serious stacks of filters on 3 layers of DV and that will still run in realtime no problem.
[Jeff Coleman] "Isn't AJA using hardware acceleration in their new IO box?"
Realtime scaling of DVCPro HD and HDV so the processors can be used to add more filters in realtime.
[Jeff Coleman] "This is America. We don't like to wait. We want it now."
Yes and you also have a choice. If you want it right now and Product A doesn't have it, but Product B does, then you buy Product B. Don't complain when you can't get hardware acceleration from a product that won't offer it when you can easily get it from another product.
Of course you pay for that hardware acceleration so it's your call. Save money, buy Studio 2 or spend more for the acceleration.
I don't need any more hardware acceleration beyond what we have. We have tons of realtime available to use thanks to building very beefy FCP systems that include very fast hard drive arrays. Most people don't put enough emphasis on the arrays and just purchase anything for storage, then complain when they don't get realtime.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
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