Sony give us a new playback engine and hardware

studiovdm wrote on 7/16/2010, 1:34 AM
Can Sony communicate on the future of Vegas? Can we expect a compatibility with some hardware in order to improve capture. playback and monitoring ?

I received this ad :
CAPTURE. PLAYBACK. MONITOR
Add the MAX advantage to any of the MXO2 hardware options below for hardware-accelerated H.264 output for Blu-Ray, web and mobile devices. Also receive the Matrox RT technology that enhances the new Adobe CS5 Mercury Playback Engine to provide full-res, full-frame-rate, multi-layer, real-time video editing and advanced real-time effects. MXO2 also provides up/down/cross conversion for video capture and output with CS5.

Can we expect something like that for Vegas ?
Thanks

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/16/2010, 6:00 AM
Not sure how anything would help "speed" up capture. ATM it's either the speed of the tape or transfer rate of the cable.

I'm not a fan of the hardware to help editing. From my experience it doesn't help, in general. It "breaks" a lot of flexibility you have &, in some cases, slows things down (IE if Vegas could render with every core & you have 4 cores when you buy a RT board & it's faster, but then you get 32 cores & you render faster w/o the RT board). GPU's for games can have the same issue & ends up so did GPU based physics (IE duel GPU's today can be outperformed by a single one in 6 months, same with physics).

It would be nice for specific things but I went to Vegas to get away from that. I'd rather see a generic hardware rendering, IE using CUDA or Stream (both! yeah!) vs a single manufacture.

Faster encoding would be nice, but doing the same thing.
rs170a wrote on 7/16/2010, 6:13 AM
Hardware boxes are good but they do have their drawbacks.
I've got a friend who was a Premiere user for years (until I finally converted him to Vegas !!) who had spent a lot of money on whatever their hardware box was at that time.
A few version releases later and it was obsolete.
It's now gathering dust in his edit suite :-(

Mike
farss wrote on 7/16/2010, 6:47 AM
"Not sure how anything would help "speed" up capture"

It speeds it up because the card can do scaling while capturing. I'm not 100% certain but I think it can also create proxies on the fly. These boxes are pretty handy for the people using laptops if you think of them as an inexpensive way to get a firebreathing laptop without spending huge sums of money.

Bob.
PerroneFord wrote on 7/16/2010, 6:54 AM
The mini can do up, down, and cross conversion on the fly. It can accept HDMI or component inputs, and output HDMI AND component outputs and those two outputs don't have to match.

So you can have a camera feeding HD component into the box, and feed HDMI into a laptop recorder or a Nanoflash, and feed component output into a broadcast monitor or set of scopes. Absolutely FANTASTIC for $450. Being able to do a bluegun calibration on a monitor is worth the price of admission alone.

Then there is the unit with MAX technology. Which does faster than realtime H.264 encoding. I only wish I had software to take advantage of it. But FCP users and CS5 users have that with this box.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/16/2010, 8:58 AM
It speeds it up because the card can do scaling while capturing. I'm not 100% certain but I think it can also create proxies on the fly. These boxes are pretty handy for the people using laptops if you think of them as an inexpensive way to get a firebreathing laptop without spending huge sums of money.

Then that's not capturing, that's encoding. So if you want something to encode multiple formats in real time during capture that would be more accurate.

That would be a neat feature (but then again, that could have nothing to do with vegas: a 3rd party hardware developer can do that & have it be compatible with a wide variety of NLE's).
rmack350 wrote on 7/16/2010, 2:52 PM
From Matrox? Gads, I hope not. Been down that rutted road with PPro. Crash-o-matic.