Cineform Announcing Neo Family Version 5

Cliff Etzel wrote on 4/8/2010, 7:16 PM
Official announcement here

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Comments

CClub wrote on 4/8/2010, 7:38 PM
I didn't see much incentive for us NeoScene users to upgrade. This would be the perfect time for a short-term upgrade incentive to get mass amounts of NeoScene users to jump to NeoHD... (wink, wink). C'mon, David Newman, we know you scan this forum every once in a while. :^)

Something like this... "until the release of Version 5, all NeoScene users can upgrade to NeoHD Version 4 for $____, and then update to Version 5 for the standard update price of $149."
David Newman wrote on 4/9/2010, 12:07 AM
The differences between NeoScene and NeoHD will be increasing, the draw to get into NeoHD even more tempting, and that is without other discounts. NeoHD v5.0 is well worth the $370 update cost.
A. Grandt wrote on 4/9/2010, 12:52 AM
Sounds interesting, and the $149 for NeoHD seems worth it.
And I agree with he press release, HDLink is in dire need of an overhaul :)

Will Drag'n'Drop conversion be available in the new version? (Drag video files from the Windows explorer to HDLink instead of using the "Select Files/directory" buttons.
Will it allow the audio that may be on the video file to be copied to the Cineform output instead of converted to Stereo? (for instance AC3 that some consumer level cameras use)

Best Regards
A.Grandt
drmathprog wrote on 4/9/2010, 3:57 AM
For those of you who already license a Cineform product, what do you use it for? Is it just a better quality replacement for Sony's HD codex?
JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/9/2010, 10:44 AM
> For those of you who already license a Cineform product, what do you use it for?

I use it as an intermediary between Vegas Pro and other applications like After Effects CS4 and particleIllusion 3. Especially particleIllusion because it doesn't support M2T files. It's also great if you are doing chroma key because it uses the 4:2:2 color space, so it keys better. Cineform uses intraframe compression which means that each frame is complete on it's own. This eliminates a lot of the problems with interframe compression codecs that use a long GOP and require the processing of several frames just to assemble one. It is the only codec I have found that will allow smooth multi-camera playback of HD media in Vegas Pro. Everything else starts to bog down after just two tracks of HD.

~jr