André Aulich, formerly half of Aulich & Adamski, the duo who first brought us 50p editing on FinalCut Pro back in the days, has announced some new tools for Final Cut Server!
The Rough Cut Editor that some of us knows from Proximity Group’s ArtBox system is not back, but ConSol has made what seems to be a nice substitute.
They have also made a tool for XDCAM ingest which must be a nice addition to the lack of an IT-only solution without FinalCut Pro.
I have been looking for a portable signal generator, analyzer and monitor that can measure eye and jitter. And there is not a lot of products out there, and those out there are pretty expensive. I was lucky enough to fondle with the Phabrix SxE at NAB, and it seems like it has the right stuff. Still though, as a software feature, the eye and jitter ups the price with about $5000, that’s not cheap.
I don’t think I can hold of buying one, but does anyone know of any other product that does the job, DM me on twitter.
Phabrix SxE
Convergent Design has made many neat devices I’ve enjoyed for many years, including the FireWire – SDI bridge some years ago. Now, they have released the NanoFlash, which records HDMI/SDI/ASI to up to two Compact Flash cards! Native support for these NLE’s:
Final Cut Pro: All Formats
Avid Media Composer: All Formats
Edius: All Formats
Matrox Axio: All Formats
Vegas: Long-GOP Formats only
Premiere: 35 Mbps 4:2:0 only
NanoFlash
Soundsnap.com: High Quality Sound Effects and Loops.
So Soundsnap seems like fun for the occasional sound effect user, like me. I can download five free sounds every month, and that actually exceeds my current needs. If you’re a more frequent user, you will have to pay, but then again, you’re making money editing, so that’s fair!
The best $695 you ever spent! Everybody has an ols PC lying around, but not everyone has a 3GB HD-SDI vectorscope in their closet. This my favorite single thing from NAB, and will get my first purchase!
1) New logo! When your customers leave you in large numbers, and they demand you change, what do you do? As a technology company, actually changing your technology and business practices might be a strech, so at this time Avid decides to change their logo!
2) AMA architecture. This might or might not be the end of the old media db files which demanded refreshing and reindexing, and invoked all sorts of troubles in sharded storage environments.
3) Avid now defines openess like this: Avid just qualified FCP to run on Unity & ISIS! Isn’t that great, I can’t wait to see all the FCP users that will be standing in line to use the industry’s most expensive storage solutions…
1) Cinemon! That’s the name of the QuickTime MXF component that enables Final Cut Pro to speak Sony OP1A MXF! Joining the likes of MXF4MAC & Calibrated, Cinemon is only restricted by only being released in North America for the time being. This of course to satisfy a large American news organization’s needs for MXF on FCP timelines…
2) SRW-9000. Finally Sony has been able to cram a HDCAM SR recorder inside a camcorder and possible been able to power it on batteries! With a dynamic range that would make every RED owner red with envy, this camera is designed to be a successor to the old HDCAM 900 camera.
SONY SRW-9000
3) PDW-F800. As a low-end SRW-9000, PDW-F800 is branded with CineAlta and 24P capabilities. IMX50 and other options of the PDW-700 camera is built in the F800. In order to get those pictures out, Sony has introduced a deck to accompany the camera, the PDW-F1600.
AVC Ultra was released. We were sort of wondering where the 150mbit version of AVCIntra, that some of us have seen some years ago, had gone. Then the VBR codec at 200mbit+ called AVCUltra turned up with little or none warnings thru other channels.
AVCUltra story at www.panasonic.com
HPX-301 was released a bit before NAB, but is still quite significant. All though only 1/3 inch CMOS, the package is quite bulky. My guess is that the 20-bit processing draws half the 18 watts the camera uses. Therefore it would be impossible to make it a small camera, instead, it’s a shoulder camera with poor low-light performance but with brilliant imageprocessing.
HPX-301
P2 cards at sensible prices! OK, we have been waiting a while for this one… Pana changes some tech gear and say now slash prices to 1/3 of previous prices. There is some more to this story, but the general feel of it is: We’ve been screwing you for 5 years, but now Sony released EX1/EX3 last year, so we have to do something!
New not-so-much-of-a-rip-off-P2-cards!
This is a bit exciting, we know Omneon is releasing MediaDeck GX with GFX options, but is their storage finally getting denser AND CHEAPER? Grass Valley needs to do something with their K2 lineup.
So this years Broadcast Mountain is over, and some great feedback has been published on both the LinkedIn Group and the Facebook group.
Head on over to Broadcast Mountain if you weren’t there this year, and you want to check out the great topics! Do you think you should be a part of Broadcast Mountain next year? Do you do something odd, extraordinary, fun, clever or entertaining with broadcast technology? Contact steinar@eviljedi.com
