cool new toy #2: Pyro Kompressor HD

rs170a wrote on 7/10/2008, 5:45 PM
I came across the following post on the SoCal Vegas users forum and thought some folks here might find this interesting, especially the comment from one of the company engineers :-)
Enjoy!!

Mike


Pyro Kompressor HD details

B&H pricing ($2950 U.S.)

Pyro Kompressor HD promises astounding renders up to EIGHT times faster than even the fastest Quad Core software only rendering platform when outputting HDV and up to four times faster when outputting H.264.

Currently the product has plug-in support only for Adobe CS3 but in a conversation with engineer Jim Souers I was told that Pyro Kompressor HD will recognize and work with Sony "VEG" files in its own standalone application, which means that it is possible to approve the edit on the Vegas timeline, save the project, close down Vegas and then open the saved VEG file in the Pyro standalone application.

Among its many features:

PYRO Kompressor HD™ Board
• One PYRO Kompressor HD™ massively-parallel, TeraOPS-class processor with 336 32-bit RISC processors, 322 GigaSADS, 59 GigaMACS
• Only 15 Watts ― 1/10 the power and heat of high-end 3D cards
• Field upgradeable software for additional video compression formats, video filters, etc. - more value-added revenue opportunities for you.
• Fits 4-, 8- and 16-lane, non-graphics PCI Express slots
• 256 MBytes memory in 4 DDR2-400 devices, 3.2 GBytes/s

Comments

Jim H wrote on 7/10/2008, 5:52 PM
Gee, I might worry about spending that much money on a conversation with an engineer that it would work with veg files. Seems to me if they successfully went to the trouble of incorporating the handshake with veg files, they would list it as a supported format.
farss wrote on 7/10/2008, 8:29 PM
If they really can read a .veg and run the exact same filters and compositing and handle the audio I take my hat off to them. Having gone that far they could build a NLE that works the same as Vegas (minus all the problems). In keeping with their Germanic naming they could maybe call it "DeGas".

Bob.
UlfLaursen wrote on 7/10/2008, 9:07 PM
...(minus all the problems). In keeping with their Germanic naming they could maybe call it "DeGas".

That's a good one, Bob - :-)

/Ulf
LReavis wrote on 7/11/2008, 11:37 AM
wouldn't it be possible to frame-serve an AVI out from Vegas in realtime using Debugmode's script, then open it in Pyro Kompressor? That way, Vegas would be reading the Veg file and making no more problems than usual (watch those huge .JPGs, etc.), so there shouldn't be a hitch . . .