CineForm upgrades for Blackmagic Intensity an

David Newman wrote on 2/10/2007, 10:06 AM
The entire CineForm product line-up has just been upgraded. The many new features include support for capture via the Black Magic Intensity card within HDLink (currently a beta feature.) This includes pulldown extraction from 1080p24 cameras like the Sony V1, allowing effects shooters to bypass MPEG camera compression and go directly to 4:2:2 CineForm files. For those with Intensity cards with would like your feedback (and yes we are adding live preview.) Read more details here

Other major upgrade include features designed for the Sony HVR-V1 and the HVR-DR60 drive unit. Batch converting files from the DR60 and P2 media is now much easier.

More info at www.cineform.com

David Newman
CTO, CineForm

Comments

farss wrote on 2/10/2007, 12:48 PM
Has anyone tried this at 50I or 25p?

Why the upconvert to 10bit?
What happens to the 10bit files in Vegas?
David Newman wrote on 2/10/2007, 2:16 PM
I'm not sure if the tests included any 50/25p modes, but that is way the Intensity features are considered beta -- note: 50i/25p modes are easier than 24p/60i so I would expect no issues.

You must be looking at Prospect HD if you seeing 10-bit options. 10-bit is still the best choice of an 8-bit RGB application like Vegas. Remember video compression is 99% YUV based, so it is best to have the bit-depth headroom to support YUV to RGB conversion. You need about 9-bits of YUV to losslessly map to 8-bit RGB, so 10-bit compression is good. Also the additional precision is dithered down to 8-bit to better preservation of the gradients. If you have Prospect HD (or just PHD Codecs) always use the 10-bit option.

David Newman
CTO, CineForm