OT: NAB 2007 Rumors

p@mast3rs wrote on 2/24/2007, 9:38 AM

Well, its that time of year again. Word on the street that all of the major players in the NLE market will be debuting their next line of NLEs complete with next gen HD support. Apple will roll out Final Cut Studio 6 and will support both HD DVD and BD. Same goes for Adobe and Avid.

What I find rather odd if my sources are true is that Sony is already releasing V8+DVDA5 with BD support. First that another version is out so quickly after V7 (September) and second, expectedly no HD DVD support. I can understand the push for BD but Sonic Foundry was always based on giving its users a choice. I have been unable to find out whether Sony will allow V8+DVDA5 to use AVC and VC1 for encoding to BD but for the love of god, if we are stuck with Mepg-2 for HD, then others will have to swtich or wait for the future and include no extras.

Adobe is also rumored to integrate DVRack and Ultra2 into its Production Studio. Definitely a smart move on Adobe's part.

Again, this is based on my sources which can be wrong and have been wrong in the past but this year seems to be spot on in their assessment.

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DavidMcKnight wrote on 2/25/2007, 11:10 AM

I'm just excited to be going this year. I'm not a "broadcast pro", and NAB will certainly put other tradeshows and organizations I belong to (weva, 4eg) in perspective.

Very much looking forward to the Vegas party, Vegas certification...and the GlennChan Electric Boogaloo.

re: exotic chocolate....isn't chocolate like sex and pizza?

(wait for it...)

Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...

rmack350 wrote on 2/25/2007, 2:06 PM

Seems like any sort of smartrender would entail some assumptions that Vegas doesn't make:

---What is the output format? (it makes no sense to smartrender as DV25 if the output is something else. Most likely smartrender must be to 422 or 444 format)
---where do you write the smartrenders? (good formats need lots of space and disk throughput)
---How do you manage it on the timeline? (even if Vegas did something similar to what it's doing now, it doesn't retain renders adequately. I assume that you'd treat a smart render internally as if it were on an invisible track that was subject to ripple edits. Maybe if Vegas did this it could still use something like its current frame caching, even when writing 444 avi to disk. Just do frames in the AVI and alpha where there is no other info. That ought to make for smaller AVI prerenders using lossless compression)

Better "smart rendering" would be huge, of course. Better hope it doesn't work like Premiere Pro, though. People there with hardware cards are sometimes finding huge challenges as ppro rerenders and then the hardware drivers force ppro to do it all over again.

Rob Mack

GlennChan wrote on 2/25/2007, 7:16 PM

I don't think I'll make the party this year, but for y'all what do you have to do to make Glenn Chan breakdance again.
Hehehe. You (or someone else) is just going to have to figure that out. And free drinks won't work on me, unless they're non-alcoholic. But then I'd be going to the washroom.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/26/2007, 12:33 AM

You gonna be there again Glenn? I'll See ya there if you are :). I don't know about these rumors, but I do know that I'll be ther to find out first hand - WOOT WOOT!

Dave

DGates wrote on 2/26/2007, 5:59 AM

"My guess is that Apple will buy Adobe, Avid will quit developing professional applications and become the new Ulead, Sony will release a new software based camcorder that utilizes any webcam as the front end for recording 4:2:2 uncompressed on a RAID...

Funny stuff, Douglas!

randy-stewart wrote on 2/26/2007, 8:14 PM

Okay, can't resist...here's the link to Glenn Chan's dance debut: http://www.vasst.com/nabparty.htm . Scroll down a few. He's gettin' down on the carpet. See everyone at NAB!
Randy

rs170a wrote on 2/26/2007, 10:17 PM

Exotic chocolate...

If you make it to Vegas, make sure you go to the Jean-Philippe Patisserie in the Via Fiore Promenade at the Bellagio. Not only do they have incredible chocolates of all kinds, they have the world's tallest and largest volume chocolate fountain.

Mike