OT: Gearshift used to Render to MXF?

Cliff Etzel wrote on 6/19/2009, 7:57 AM
After reading the thread around Cineforms decision to keep Neo Scene crippleware by NOT supporting the ability to encode in VP9 64 bit, I'm now revisiting the initial topic of rendering my HDV footage to MXF.

I haven't gotten any real answer to my question in the original thread on the topic though - is there any advantage to rendering HDV footage to MXF? Or am I better off rendering to something like SONY 10 bit YUV or another codec?

I am anticipating within the very near future needing to work more on location on my laptop so I'm trying to find the work flow solution now before that begins to happen.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Cliff Etzel
Videographer : Producer : Web Designer
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Comments

farss wrote on 6/19/2009, 8:12 AM
"is there any advantage to rendering HDV footage to MXF?"

MXF is only a container, I guess you're referring to the XDCAM 422?

If so none, it's still meg-2 and therefore 8bit. The improved chroma sampling gains you nothing as you didn't have it to start with. The bitrate is higher so you use up more disk space and in theory at least it should be just as hard on the CPU to decode.

Sony 10bit YUV will eat up huge amounts of disk space in HD, you'll need a RAID 0 array to keep up.

I'd hold off for a while, I pray Cineform will see how silly the tack they're taking is.

Bob.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/19/2009, 8:27 AM
> I'd hold off for a while, I pray Cineform will see how silly the tack they're taking is.

While I do believe in prayer when dealing with spiritual entities that can't otherwise be contacted... I would think that letters directly to CineForm may be more effective. ;-)

I just added my post to the CineForm 64-bit thread in trying to plead my case that withholding 64-bit support is an artificial limitation that will just drive Neo Scene customers away because the alternative is to pay 4x the price for Neo HD which doesn't have any other features we need. New threads like this one support the theory that people will not pay... they will find an alternative.

I'm hoping that enough customers let their voices be heard to change their mind.

~jr
Former user wrote on 6/19/2009, 8:34 AM
Check out David's responsed to the other thread.

Dave T2