{"id":275,"date":"2011-04-15T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2011-04-15T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T23:01:05","slug":"nab-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2011\/04\/15\/nab-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"NAB 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did get a chance to check out some of the new products available at NAB<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 These are the things that stood out to me:<\/p>\n

Cineform’s<\/a> big news was their acquisition by GoPro<\/a>, and a reduction of their prices.\u00c2\u00a0 Neo (Previously “Neo4K”) is now $300 and the full Neo3D is $1000.\u00c2\u00a0 There is also a new free utility called the GoPro Cineform Studio<\/a> posted on the GoPro site, designed to help users easily process their\u00c2\u00a0footage from the new GoPro3D<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That download effectively makes the basic Cineform codec freely available to anyone who needs it.\u00c2\u00a0 I highly recommend having the Cineform codec available on any system you do video work on, since it is a useful cross-platform compression format.
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\nAdobe<\/a> announced the next step for the Creative Suite <\/a>line, which is a .5 update for most of the products.\u00c2\u00a0 Premiere 5.5<\/a> adds\u00c2\u00a0merged clips\u00c2\u00a0for better sync sound support, and some improvements to exports and\u00c2\u00a0Media\u00c2\u00a0Encoder<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 After Effects 5.5<\/a> has a new Warb stabilizer, that should help\u00c2\u00a0fix rolling shutter artifacts in DSLR footage, among other uses, and it also has new\u00c2\u00a0options and presets\u00c2\u00a0for\u00c2\u00a0stereoscopic<\/a> work, primarily focused on motion graphics.\u00c2\u00a0 Soundbooth has been totally replaced by the return of Audition<\/a> as a standard part of the suite, which should improve support for multitrack editing and surround sound.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a variety of new features in the update, but nothing totally revolutionary.<\/p>\n

AJA<\/a> has a few new things to show.\u00c2\u00a0 The Kona 3G<\/a> now supports outputting 3G SDI signal on all four ports at once, allowing preview of 4K<\/a> media at full resolution, provided that you have a 4K display available.\u00c2\u00a0 They have updated their frame convertor\u00c2\u00a0with the FS2<\/a>, adding support for HDMI and 3G SDI.\u00c2\u00a0 I am still trying to figure out if their implementation of 3G includes support for 2K<\/a> over\u00c2\u00a0SDI, which could make it a useful tool in DCI<\/a> theater systems.\u00c2\u00a0 They also showed off a new piece of hardware under development that they are calling Riker<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It is an external box connnected via 8x PCIe<\/a>, that could support\u00c2\u00a0stereoscopic 4K at some point in the future.<\/p>\n

Blackmagic<\/a> has a variety of new products on display.\u00c2\u00a0 The Hyperdeck Shuttle <\/a>allows uncompressed recording of SDI or HDMI to a SATA based\u00c2\u00a0SSD<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 At $345 it is a bargain, until you count in the price of an SSD that supports uncompressed HD capture.\u00c2\u00a0 They will also have a rack mount version with two drive slots called the Hyperdeck Studio<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Among other things,\u00c2\u00a0they have a new Decklink 4K <\/a>I\/O card with 4 channels of SDI for $600, and some more live video switching products\u00c2\u00a0as a result of\u00c2\u00a0their acquisition of ATEM<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0last year.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0A stripped down version of DaVinci Resolve<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was announced, that will be available as a free download<\/a>, which should further bring advanced color correction to the masses.<\/p>\n

Sony<\/a> has a variety of new products available.\u00c2\u00a0 Their OLED<\/a> based displays<\/a> look amazing, but are still quite expensive.\u00c2\u00a0 With the lack of<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0HDCam-SR<\/a> tapes available from Japan, Sony’s new SRMaster series of\u00c2\u00a0solid-state\u00c2\u00a0media products are probably going to get a big external boost into the market.\u00c2\u00a0 The new SRMaster<\/a> devices\u00c2\u00a0replace tapes with 1TB\u00c2\u00a0SRMemory modules\u00c2\u00a0that\u00c2\u00a0use the same MPEG4<\/a> codec as HDCam-SR tapes, but with many benefits, including direct access to the compressed file format, and faster transfer options.\u00c2\u00a0 In the camera world, the F65<\/a> is Sony’s first 4K camcorder, writing 16bit 4K files to SRMemory, captured from what Sony describes as an 8K CMOS<\/a> sensor.\u00c2\u00a0 On\u00c2\u00a0a more practical front, the PMW-F3 <\/a>looks like a great camera for many applications.\u00c2\u00a0 While I don’t like the formfactor, the large single-sensor CMOS should produce an image similar to\u00c2\u00a0the look and feel that DSLRs\u00c2\u00a0have made popular.\u00c2\u00a0 That fact that it can output 4:4:4 RGB<\/a> over the dual SDI outputs on the back is an impressize option.\u00c2\u00a0 Sony also has a small stereoscopic 3D camera<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0coming out, that records to the same MVC<\/a> format that 3D BluRays<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0use.\u00c2\u00a0 There will also be\u00c2\u00a0an update\u00c2\u00a0released for\u00c2\u00a0Vegas 10<\/a> that will allow encoding of 3D BluRays, and that feature alone could make it worth purchasing, if you expect to need that capability anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Convergent Design<\/a> has a new recorder on display, the Gemini 444<\/a>, which records uncompressed SDI\u00c2\u00a0at 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 to SSD drives.\u00c2\u00a0 I am still a bigger fan of their original MPEG2<\/a> based NanoFlash<\/a> devices, since that is a more efficient use of space.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, the\u00c2\u00a0dual link\u00c2\u00a0recording option is nice for stereoscopic 3D work, or VFX plates and greenscreen shots, especially if you have a new PMW-F3<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0with\u00c2\u00a0full\u00c2\u00a0RGB SDI output.<\/p>\n

There are a variety of video I\/O devices on display that use the new Thunderbolt<\/a> connectivity technology, but they are all probably a ways off\u00c2\u00a0from being released as finished products.\u00c2\u00a0 They will be faster than USB3<\/a>, but besides the daisy chain option, I see no\u00c2\u00a0immediate advantage over ExpressCard<\/a> based\u00c2\u00a0I\/O\u00c2\u00a0products.\u00c2\u00a0 AJA<\/a>, Blackmagic<\/a>, and Matrox<\/a> all had their own flavor of external device hooked up to new Macbook\u00c2\u00a0Pro <\/a>\u00c2\u00a0laptops under glass.\u00c2\u00a0 Combining these devices with Thunderbolt based storage solutions will greatly enhance the expandability of laptop systems, especially for onset media management and review work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did get a chance to check out some of the new products available at NAB.\u00c2\u00a0 These are the things that stood out to me: Cineform’s big news was their acquisition by GoPro, and a reduction of their prices.\u00c2\u00a0 Neo (Previously “Neo4K”) is now $300 and the full Neo3D is $1000.\u00c2\u00a0 There is also a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[16,43,18,12,22,35,38,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}