And thanks for the info Deke. -Nathan
From: Deke Kincaid Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 6:42 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: [Nuke-users] nuke studio Hi Nathan >>Will it support proper SDI stereo output (for projection, etc.)? I’d love to >>assume yes, but then there’s Hiero... No native support for stereo playback to sdi out or in the timeline view in general at the moment. The nuke viewer still supports it though. You could work around this by adding a side by side, anaglyph or interlaced node to the bottom of the node graph but of course that would only give you half res playback. >> What are the plans for approaching Quicktime codec support on Linux (audio >> and video)? It’s a problem I hate thinking about, but it will come up. No plans for the immediate future as far as I know. Even Autodesk has to work around this by using a Mac to convert the files to dpx in order for the Linux box to read it (via wiretap). There are lots of legal issues with QuickTime which we are weary to touch (ie libavcodec reverse engineers prores which is technically illegal in the US via DMCA). Also we start running into lots of patent licenses we would have to pay for even if it is an open source library (using QuickTime on Win/Mac lets us bypass lots of this). >>>Chris touched on this, but is there work being done on the caching and >>>playback components? Even HieroPlayer has trouble maintaining consistent >>>playback frame rates, especially compared to something like RV. The upcoming Hiero 1.9 has lots of option for faster and more consistent playback. Studio has even more on top of that all around speed. The general issue with this is that every OS, video card and video card driver needs a slightly different formula for consistent playback. The classic example is that some video cards play fast with rgb images while another only play fast with rgba images so we have a pref to auto inject an empty alpha. We have many of these options in the Hiero performance prefs which need to be modified depending on your combination. I believe in Hiero 1.9 we try to set some of those prefs based on your os but sometimes you do need to use different settings to optimize playback for your system. >>It would be fantastic if Quadro SDI cards were supported as output devices... Not at the moment. Blackmagic/Aja only. The one issue is the Quadro SDI daughter card is $3-4k on top of a high end quadro 5000 or 6000 which costs 3-4k. Most people are not buying new quadro SDI but instead are trying to get more life out of a depreciated flame or scratch machine. Compared to the number of Aja/BMD cards, it is a small minority of people. Hiero can use most cards from BMD/Aja ranging from the cheapest couple hundred dollar one to the high end 4k one. Also Randy confirms what I was seeing on the nvidia page about them being discontinued. -deke On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Nathan Rusch <[email protected]> wrote: A few immediate questions: - Will it support proper SDI stereo output (for projection, etc.)? I’d love to assume yes, but then there’s Hiero... - What are the plans for approaching Quicktime codec support on Linux (audio and video)? It’s a problem I hate thinking about, but it will come up. - Chris touched on this, but is there work being done on the caching and playback components? Even HieroPlayer has trouble maintaining consistent playback frame rates, especially compared to something like RV. - It would be fantastic if Quadro SDI cards were supported as output devices... -Nathan
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