MB for Editors v2.0 near real time with 7800

jlafferty wrote on 10/17/2005, 8:23 AM

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/mbe2whatsnew.html

So, if you have the $450 for a new "gaming" card, you're going to see up to 17x improvement in speed of MB previews in Vegas.

And of course, HL2 and F.E.A.R. will be breathtaking :D

- jim

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/17/2005, 8:50 AM

wowie!

To bad the Windows version doesn't support the ATI cards. You can get a refirbished ATI x850XT for ~$180 at ati.com, with a three year warrenty.

I'm assuming this is using OpenGL too. If so, windows vista may be a killer of this app. :(

Damn though... I like (HL2 already looks great on and DX9+ card. D3, Fear & newer games would get the benefit htough).

JJKizak wrote on 10/17/2005, 8:53 AM

I had the XFS 7800 card and it did nothing for V6 previews out the firewire.

JJK

cmallam wrote on 10/17/2005, 9:10 AM

Here's a question. The standalone Cineform HDV capture and convert application already upsamples the HDV chroma to 4:2:2, so does the Magic Bullet compression correction mean anything in this case?

3 Compression Correction options

* DV/HDV - 4 sample chroma reconstruction to compensate for 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 sampling
* HDCAM - 3 sample reconstruction to compensate for 3:1:1 sampling
* Broadcast - 2 sample reconstruction to compensate for 4:2:2 sampling