{"id":35,"date":"2008-05-24T22:15:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T05:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2008\/05\/24\/yes-it-has-been-awhile\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T05:15:41","slug":"yes-it-has-been-awhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2008\/05\/24\/yes-it-has-been-awhile\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes It Has Been Awhile"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as it may seem like it, I have not totally abandoned this site.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been very busy recently, and will continue to be occupied elsewhere for the next 3 months or so.\u00c2\u00a0 Once that is complete and I return to Southern California, I hope to have time to continue extending the content on this\u00c2\u00a0website.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime, here are a few things I have come across recently that are of interest.
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\nOne thing I missed during the NAB crunch was a new product from Matrox, the MXO2<\/a>. Now this is a Mac based solution, but bears mentioning none the less.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is a full SD\/HD I\/O device, with digital and analog connections, as well as internal video processing capability.\u00c2\u00a0 It is similar to the AJA IOHD<\/a>, but uses an External PCI Express connection to interface with the computer instead of the much slower IEEE 1394b connection on the IOHD.\u00c2\u00a0 While it seems that it cannot be used as a standalone\u00c2\u00a0unit like the IOHD, it does have\u00c2\u00a0hardware\u00c2\u00a0resolution and\u00c2\u00a0framerate convertors, important\u00c2\u00a0for flexible 24p digital workflows.\u00c2\u00a0 It also supports realtime compression and playback\u00c2\u00a0of a number of formats, including DVCProHD, ProRES and fully uncompressed files.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0This allows full HD-SDI capture onto a laptop via the ExpressCard slot.\u00c2\u00a0 When the product was first described to me, I didn’t “get it” but now that I have examined its feature set, I have to agree that it is pretty exciting.\u00c2\u00a0 Now if they would just add MPEG I-Frame HD support and write some Windows drivers, we would have a mobile AXIO system.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the mobile recording front, I have been using some prototype units that record\u00c2\u00a0HD-SDI\u00c2\u00a0directly to SATA drives.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00c2\u00a0tested them\u00c2\u00a0in some pretty extreme operating environments, and when used with Solid State SATA drives, they held up pretty well.\u00c2\u00a0 While we weren’t without our share of problems, the units were able to capture some pretty amazing footage when combined with\u00c2\u00a0an Iconix camera system.\u00c2\u00a0 I won’t post a full review until the creators have had an opportunity to solve some of the issues with the units, that our tests exposed.<\/p>\n

Nvidia also released a new high end professional video card, the QuadroFX 4700 X2<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This card has two independent GPUs that can be harnessed together with SLI or used separately to drive 4 separate displays.\u00c2\u00a0 The stats are not much more impressive than the current top of the line 4600 and 5600 solutions, so they are really just updating the previous 4500X2 which was made obselete by the new generation of GeForce8 based cards released last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as it may seem like it, I have not totally abandoned this site.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been very busy recently, and will continue to be occupied elsewhere for the next 3 months or so.\u00c2\u00a0 Once that is complete and I return to Southern California, I hope to have time to continue extending the content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18,22,37,35,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}