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vicmilt wrote on 6/14/2007, 1:26 PM
Hey Matt -

No direct experience here, but it essentially looks to me like a snappy new patch bay.

Since it has firewire - that sort of takes care of the Vegas thing, but why would you need it?

What I'm seeing as the main feature is "anything in" - lotsa stuff out, at the same time.

A duping house or big edit faciility would love this; interfacing between analog decks, SD and HDV. Cool. But unless you're doing stuff where you need simultaneous feeds NOW, why bother?

v

rmack350 wrote on 6/14/2007, 2:03 PM
Well, it looks like it converts everything to and from DVCPro-HD, which Vegas doesn't currently support, at least not out of the box, although I gather you could use Avid's free codec.

As near as I can tell it should appear to the NLE as if it's a DVCPro-HD deck. The NLE does it's I/O and machine control to the box via 1394 and then the box interfaces with whatever you've got attached to it as a source.

Sounds a bit like the Convergent Designs box.

Assuming you have standardized on DVCPro-HD over firewire, I suppose this could be useful. Maybe this could be useful to Vegas if it provided the codec and if vegas could excercise machine control over it.

Rob Mack
mjroddy wrote on 6/14/2007, 6:51 PM
Hi Vic.
Main reason to look into a box like this is specifically for the DVCPro-HD.
I have a Canon XL-H1 and would very much love to use the HD-SDI out - even though I'm well aware of the cost in HDD space.
Since I came from a 10 bit background (Beta SP in Speed Razor and/or Avid), I really love the added colour space and how nice and rich it makes everything look and feel. I thought with the combo of this box and my H1 and a snazzy new Vegas that supports 10+ bit editing, I'd be neigh unto unstoppable!
Thing missing on that box is HDMI in for my HV20.