Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Mac Smoke Official

"DS has jumped to the AJA card/GPU which I suspect also has lower performance. Therefore less of jump in performance from a DS assist station to full blown DS. A gap too narrow to justify two products with.
Could DS users confirm my suspicions on Nitris vs AJA performance (to tape or output)?"

Certainly!

Quite simply, the current, non-Nitris DS blows the Nitris hardware away IMHO. The Nitris hardware had hardware support for 2 guaranteed real-time streams of Uncompressed 422 video. The AJA card was needed for 444 resolutions, and that was originally single stream only.

Fast forward to today, and DS V10.1.2 on a z800 with a SAS array will play many streams of uncompressed 444 with RT effects (a couple of color corrections and a few DVE's simultaneously) off the AJA card with no 'Avid' hardware. And that's ready to go to tape, not a preview. Using the nVidia card DS will do the same amount of RT in 2K. This capability extends down proportionally into SD and 422 HD streams as well.

As far as the Assist Station, it's real value is either farming off effects for someone else to do on it, or using it as an ingest station for file based conforms (like from native RED files). It is also capable of outputting to tape or files. When not using the assist for those purposes, it can be used for remote processing of non-realtime effects, so the work never stops.

My 2 cents.

-Gus

On Friday, November 20, 2009, at 09:03AM, "chris magid" <chris_rtvf@yahoo.com> wrote:
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