Convergent SD-Connect == Promax ProMedia Converter?
by Mel Matsuoka
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Jun 6, 2006 at 11:15:43 am
I'm a bit confused here...Promax seems to have all but killed the PMC, which we bought from them 2 years ago to interface with our Avid Xpress/FCP system. I saw the link to the Convergent website on the Promax support page, and am confused as to whether the PMC is simply a rebranded SD-Connect (which I can ostensibly update with the drivers on the Convergent website)
Is this the case? Right now, we feel like we have a $2000 paperweight in our rack.
Re: Convergent SD-Connect == Promax ProMedia Converter? by Mike Schell on Jun 6, 2006 at 9:37:21 pm
Hi Mel, Mark-
Yes, the SD-Connect = ProMax PMC. Originally ProMax sold the box under an OEM arrangement through Convergent, but the box is now sold under the Convergent label. It is the same exact product.
Yes, we are very late finishing the uncompressed over 1394. We got sidetracked on the HD-Connect product line for quite some time. We have not dropped the uncompressed development effort, but it was placed on the back burner. We have almost completed the HD-Connect product line and recently put engineering effort back on the SD-Connect. I don't have a definitive date, but we are working on the code.
Re: Convergent SD-Connect == Promax ProMedia Converter? by Mark Brinster on Jun 9, 2006 at 5:47:02 pm
It was marketed to do that....years ago which was the reason I purchased one. But as Mike Schell indicates above "we are late in developing that.....got "sidetracked" doing something else....Oh yea....BUT they have "NOT DROPPED the idea (THE STATED FEATURE BY WHICH THEY SOLD THE THING) just happen to be peering over the lid of these sidetracked things to that burning pot which is still perched back there on that proverbial "back burner". So be encouraged, I guess, with "we are almost completed ... with those sidetracked products and plan to get back to that pesky back burner stuff sometime soon.... though he does not have a "defintite date"
Re: Convergent SD-Connect == Promax ProMedia Converter? by David Langley on Jun 9, 2006 at 10:14:47 pm
Hi Mark, thanks for filling me in on that. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. A feature that I will be needing upon installation, with no fixed delivery date. That is a major concern for me. I guess I'll have to see how things shake out as I get closer to purchasing time.
Re: Convergent HD-Connect by John Schell on Jun 15, 2006 at 1:20:22 pm
Hi David,
What is the type of video you are trying to convert from firewire to SDI? We make two products, one converts DV video to SDI (SD-Connect) and is fully functional converting DV to SDI (and vice versa). We also make a product the converts HDV to HD/SD-SDI (HD-Connect LE). It is also fully functional converting HDV to SDI (but not vice versa).
Regards,
Re: Convergent HD-Connect by Ben Wilson on Jun 30, 2006 at 5:40:50 pm
Hi Mark, David,
Just for the record, we are using a SD-Connect with one of our Avid Xpress Pro systems. As John states, it does DV firewire to SDI and vice-versa. I will also add, it does it well.
Ben Wilson
Engineerig Project Manager
South Carolina ETV
Re: Convergent HD-Connect by John Schell on Jul 3, 2006 at 2:34:50 pm
Hi Joe,
The HD-Connect LE takes HDV over firewire (HD MPEG2) and converts to HD-SDI or SD-SDI using an internal scaler. It will not work with standard definition DV over firewire.
The SD-Connect will take DV over firewire and convert it to SD-SDI.
