{"id":43,"date":"2009-04-22T23:47:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T06:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2009\/04\/22\/nab-day-3-2\/"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:59:45","slug":"nab-day-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2009\/04\/22\/nab-day-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NAB Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after a busy day, spent mostly in the Cineform<\/a> booth on Tuesday, I finally got a chance to continue exploring today.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a few more products that jumped out at me, mostly hardware products since they are easier to grasp in a short period of time that software, which usually requires a more extensive demonstration before its new capabilities become clear.\u00c2\u00a0 This makes explaining Cineform’s new offerings a challenge, especially when you take into account that there are few other options with which to compare their new capabilities to.
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\nMatrox<\/a> released a couple of new products, including a new laptop capable I\/O solution.\u00c2\u00a0 The MXO2 Mini <\/a>gives HDMI I\/O as well as component video\u00c2\u00a0for those still stuck in the analog world.\u00c2\u00a0 That solution has potential, and will likely be in direct competition with AJA’s<\/a> new I\/O Express<\/a>, which I will detail more about tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 They both leverage a PCIe interface, accessable through the ExpressCard slot on a laptop.\u00c2\u00a0 My initial thought is that Matrox’s solution is less capable, with no SDI, but has a much better Windows compatible compressed HD option, in MPEG I-Frame HD.\u00c2\u00a0 Since laptops don’t usually have video raids, solid HD compression is important in a mobile device like that.\u00c2\u00a0 On the OSX side, I expect both will support ProRes, so they are covered there.\u00c2\u00a0 There is also an option to incorporate Matrox’s other new product Matrox MAX, right into the box.\u00c2\u00a0 Matrox MAX is a hardware accelerator for H.264 encoding.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on their demonstration, it seems to be a much more effective accelerator than the QuadroCX, but is very limited in scope, as it only processes H264 encodes, and only to specific resolutions, although any frame size I could think of was on the list.\u00c2\u00a0 Matrox MAX is available as an option included in the MXO line of products, or as a separate PCIe card in\u00c2\u00a0the CompressHD<\/a>, presumably to complement the AXIO line of products, but it is cross platform and\u00c2\u00a0will function as a freestanding product.<\/p>\n

Sony<\/a> has a number of new toys that span the budget gamut.\u00c2\u00a0 On the high end, the SRW 9000 <\/a>is an HDCam-SR camcorder with\u00c2\u00a0capabilities similar to the F23, and an all in one shoulder-mount\u00c2\u00a0formfactor like the F900.\u00c2\u00a0 With option boards, this unit is capable of recording up to 60fps at full raster 1920×1080,\u00c2\u00a0with up to 10bit 4:4:4 RGB of color information.\u00c2\u00a0 The next step below SR is really XDCam-HD422 at this point, since regular HDCAM is basically obselete.\u00c2\u00a0 The new PDW-F800 <\/a>basically replaces all of the functionality of the F900<\/a> (30i\/p, 25\/44p, etc.) plus the advantages of full 1920×1080 recording in 4:2:2 instead of HDCam’s 1440×1080 at about 3:1:1.\u00c2\u00a0 The 50Mb files can also be edited in their native form in almost any NLE, and can be accessed in a non-linear fashion directly from the storage disk. (No rewinding, preroll, or realtime capture required)\u00c2\u00a0 The new camera even has a network jack right on the side for copying the recorded files to a network, and can dump the proxies to a USB flash drive if you want to go that route.\u00c2\u00a0 That won’t be necessary for any workflow I will use, since Premiere, FCP, and even Avid<\/a> can access the full resolution\u00c2\u00a0files directly without import conversions, for truly native editing.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally a workflow that is actually designed to “work” and “flow.”\u00c2\u00a0 Sony also had a number of new LCD monitors on display, including a 4K one, two circular polarized 3D screens, and two new 30″ and 17” additions to their BVM line of LCDs.\u00c2\u00a0 The 3D screens look great, and while I couldn’t confirm the inner workings, with a single input, it seems to use an interface\u00c2\u00a0technology that would be compatible with Cineform’s new Neo3D software that I have been demo-ing all week.<\/p>\n

The only thing I was really impressed with at the\u00c2\u00a0Panasonic<\/a> booth was that they created an Economy line of\u00c2\u00a0P2 cards, but I have yet to\u00c2\u00a0find the specifics on the new pricing levels.\u00c2\u00a0 With $900 being the minimum price, an economy option was definitely needed.\u00c2\u00a0 SxS cards at least have SDHC<\/a> based replacement options, which is especially ironic since the P2 cards are rumored to physically contain 4 SDHC cards.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Panasonic also has a new 3D plasma screen, based on sequential alternating frames, which requires active 3D shutter glasses.\u00c2\u00a0 I have also heard they have a new 10bit 1080p projector for $2400 that I should go check out tomorrow.<\/p>\n

NVIDIA<\/a> has\u00c2\u00a0released OSX drivers for the QuadroFX 4800<\/a>, so it seems that that will probably become the highend card of choice for those purchasing the new\u00c2\u00a0MacPro, which was recently revised with Nehalem based Xeon CPUs.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been pleased with the performance I get from my equivalent QuadroCX card, and I\u00c2\u00a0am looking forward to trying a QuadroFX 5800 <\/a>on my SpeedGradeDI system sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So after a busy day, spent mostly in the Cineform booth on Tuesday, I finally got a chance to continue exploring today.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a few more products that jumped out at me, mostly hardware products since they are easier to grasp in a short period of time that software, which usually requires a more […]<\/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":[18,15,24,22,37,41,35,38,42,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}