Capturing HDV through the IO-HD doesn't have any advantage over working with HDV natively in FCP using the Apple HDV codec. Image manipulations in FCP are done in 32-bit floating point, and it's been that way since FCP 4. In other words, FCP already has your back with respect to image degradation.
No, but if you plan to output to HDCAM or some other HD tape format, the IO-HD would be necessary.
No, it looks similar to Shake though.
When I use FCP I'm looking at my content. The UI isn't in my way at all. At most maybe they could do away with the brushed metal.
You can store a lot of full HD on your MacBook Pro. It would be over-the-air or possibly HDV.
Well, you already could before. What this is about is the ability to cut 4:2:2 HD at (uncompressed) SD data rates, which at 220mbps and 145mbps is still many times the data rate of DV and HDV.One of the primary parts of the presentation is that now you can. Your post reads like you didn't pay attention to that part. It's near the beginning and it specifically refers to MBP as the way to edit HD in SD Size Files. New external compression hardware for MBP only $3500.
That's not a pan. It's a trucking shot. Some of us, including me, could use a refresher course once in a while.
Why would AJA (which rhymes with Asia) start pronouncing a product with "IO" in its name any differently than they had before? I guess that statement stems from being unfamiliar with AJA and / or its other products.
1. Uncompressed HD is only needed for high-end effects shots, and not an entire production. Unless of course you're making the next Sin City or 300, in which case just about the whole production is an effects shot.
2. If you listen to what's being said in those videos on the Apple site, you'd notice that ProRes422 and the IO-HD is indeed meant for entire productions.
3x less transcoding time?
Yeah, so much for all the Blu-ray fanboys here who insisted that Apple's membership on the board of directors of the Blu-ray Disc Association would definitely mean something as of NAB 2007.
I myself had speculated that BD authoring would come but I was mistaken.
As a practical matter, Apple is more behind HD DVD than BD, as HD DVD authoring on red-laser DVDRs has been with us for two years now.
Anyone who is really itching to author Blu-ray movie discs should take a serious look at Sonic Scenarist and the system it requires.
There are excuses out there about why Apple hasn't yet included BD in DVDSP. However, those haven't stopped Sonic.
Obviously changes or amendments to a spec (for example, BD Java) can be added in subsequent software updates. That's how Apple handled the adoption of 802.11b, g and n.
I hope Apple adds BD authoring soon, but in the meantime I'm happy making HD DVDRs of short duration projects.
I agree with Rocketman and Mr B.
