{"id":42,"date":"2009-04-20T23:57:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T06:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2009\/04\/20\/nab-day-1-2\/"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:50:19","slug":"nab-day-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2009\/04\/20\/nab-day-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NAB Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after a long run of dry months, with few releases of new hardware and software, NAB<\/a> has brought all sorts of new toys to the table.\u00c2\u00a0 While I am spending most of my time as a demo artist at the Cineform booth, I did manage to take a look around at what a few other companies were showing nearby.
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\nFirst off, Cineform<\/a> is demonstrating their new Neo3D <\/a>workflow.\u00c2\u00a0 While I have always been interested in stereoscopic video production, I have not worked on a 3D project in 4 years.\u00c2\u00a0 The tools have definitely advanced a lot since then.\u00c2\u00a0 Once development is complete, Neo3D<\/a> will give editors and other content creation artists a simple way of working with stereoscopic assets.\u00c2\u00a0 Once the technical task of syncing and muxing the two streams into a single Cineform3D file is completed, the software seamlessly manages the separate streams in the background, presenting Left, Right, or some stitched variation to the requesting program.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It can create SideBySide, Stacked, Interleaved, or Anaglyphic<\/a> versions on the fly, depending on what type of image the display requires.\u00c2\u00a0 It can also compensate for vertical alignment and rotational variation and tonal differences between the streams, rendered\u00c2\u00a0on the fly, as well as change the point of optical convergence, all based on user editable Active Metadata.\u00c2\u00a0 It works in FCP, so I am to seeing the same functionality on the PC in the near future.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I just have to find a 3D project to use it on.<\/p>\n

Blackmagic Design<\/a> has a lot of new products available, many utilizing SDI over fibre optic cable.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a\u00c2\u00a0pretty straightforward idea, but since fibre is even more expensive than BNC cables, I personally will have little use for it in the\u00c2\u00a0near future.\u00c2\u00a0 Their new UltraScope<\/a> product is very exciting, and if it works as well as advertised, fills a big hole in the market.\u00c2\u00a0 Most other HD-SDI scope\u00c2\u00a0products are in the five figure range, so a $700\u00c2\u00a0solution will be a very welcome option.\u00c2\u00a0 They also have two new variations to their Videohub<\/a> line, the Enterprise version with 144\/288 I\/O channels, and the more reasonable Studio<\/a> version with 16\/32 channels.\u00c2\u00a0 I have filled\u00c2\u00a0our old 12\/24 channel original\u00c2\u00a0model\u00c2\u00a0Videohub at Bandito Brothers to capacity with about 8 edit stations and the supporting equipment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But between having 33% more connections, and 3Gb SDI support to avoid\u00c2\u00a0wasting two channels at a time, the new version would probably support facilities twice as large.<\/p>\n

Thats all for now, as I have to prepare for another big day, but I will be checking in with my friends at AJA, Matrox, Sony, and maybe even Avid over the course of the week here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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