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> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:48 AM
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> Subject: [AP] Cineform HD with Pro 2.0
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> Is there any point in using the CineForm Aspect HD CODEC with Adobe Pro
> 2.0? All their sales literature says you still should use it, but of
> course they want another $200 for an upgrade to support Pro 2.0.
>
> Has Pro 2.0 HDV support improved so the 3rd party add on isn't required?
>
> Any thoughts?
No personal knowledge yet but this is from Cineform:
What's New between Aspect HD 4.0 and Premiere Pro 2.0?
Adobe and CineForm remain strong business partners, and although Premiere
Pro 2 now supports editing of "native" HDV transport streams, Aspect HD
offers substantial workflow and feature advantages beyond those available in
Premiere Pro 2.
What Advantages does Aspect HD 4.0 give Premiere Pro 2.0?
Camera Support:
Premiere Pro 2 offers limited camera support for 720p30 and 1080i50/i60
modes. Notice in particular the absence of support for 24p or 25p, and
special modes that are part of all new HDV camcorders.
Aspect HD supports 1280x720: p24/p25/p30/p60 plus 1440x1080:
i50/i60/p24/p25/p30. In short, all HDV cameras are supported including
their "special" modes such as Canon's "24F" and Sony's "CineFrame".
Performance:
Adobe's minimum spec for native HDV editing is a 3.4GHz P4, and with that
you'll get about one stream.
Using Aspect HD on the same hardware you'll get three 1080i streams in
real-time plus transitions, color, motion and titles - all with no
rendering. The efficiency of Aspect HD translates to many, many dollars
saved in post.
Industry Compatibility:
In Adobe's Knowledge Base article #332583 it is recommended for better
performance in After Effects that you consider using a less compressed
format than MPEG2 (we interpret that to mean CineForm Intermediate). Also,
the Adobe ".MPEG" files are not compatible with other industry applications.
If you capture HDV streams with any other application (besides Premiere Pro
2) you'll have to render those streams to Adobe's version of ".MPEG" before
they're usable on the Premiere Pro timeline. (And none of us want to wait
around to render MPEG files....)
CineForm AVI files are broadly compatible with virtually all Windows video
apps - period.
Visual Quality: CineForm Intermediate files outperform M2T files for visual
fidelity in post production. If the quality of your production matters, and
especially if you are doing color correction, compositing, or keying, we
recommend you use Aspect HD. We explain this in more detail in other
locations on our website, including in various white papers, our technology
discussion, and in our published quality analysis pages.
Regards,
Richard Peoples
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