Real-time color correction?

bakerbud9 wrote on 4/10/2002, 9:32 PM
Hello,

I currently have a DigiSuite LE, which has hardware-assisted real-time color correction abilities (as well as real-time 2D DVEs, etc.) I have a dual-processor PC, but the processors are only PIII 850Mhz.

I am considering getting rid of my DigiSuite and replacing it with the DA-MAX+. If I do this, however, I will loose the real-time color correction and DVE support that the DigiSuite provides.

One thing I have observed, however, is that Vegas is extreemly fast. On my meager PIII 850Mhz system, vegas can play back DV footage in real-time out of the timeline. It can even chew thru cross-disolves at about 12fps. It seems that with just a little more processor power, Vegas might be able to do real-time playback of simple cross-disolves, 2D DVEs, and even color corrections.

Is this true? Anyone out there got a PC that can do that? If so, what are the processor speeds that will enable that kind of performance?

Sincerley,

Nate

Comments

swarrine wrote on 4/10/2002, 10:08 PM
If I am not mistaken, in preview mode you already get real time color correct (not at full resolution of course). As far as I know VV3 is the only "software only" package that can do this.

Just hook up your camera to an NTSC monitor.
Cheesehole wrote on 4/11/2002, 7:22 AM
>>>If I am not mistaken, in preview mode you already get real time color correct (not at full resolution of course). As far as I know VV3 is the only "software only" package that can do this.

swarrine:
that may be true when monitoring on an external monitor (NTSC or PAL video monitor via Firewire), but I know Avid's DV express does some software based realtime stuff in the preview window, and I know there are others too. but I haven't seen anything that does realtime software based previews via an external monitor except Vegas.

Vegas will scale with more processing power, so if you have enough you'll have realtime color correction. you probably need at least a 2Ghz processor to do it. dual processors won't help with that specifically, unless you are doing a lot of things in Vegas at the same time. then it helps quite a bit. but if you just want to see realtime previews while playing back, a faster single processor will deliver more than two slower processors. my personal recommendation is to get a very fast dual AMD based system. Vegas will love it.
bakerbud9 wrote on 4/11/2002, 10:24 AM
How about 2D DVEs and titles and rolling credits? What CPU speeds will give real-time results?

Sincerely,

Nate