[Avid-L2] Re: Avid embracing third party hardware?

crissakes, AMA and 3rd party IO....Avid is turning into FCP....

;-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, john@... wrote:
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> "So, yes, having a single developer of the whole ecosystem does offer
> some advantages."
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> -- Kind of like the Adrenaline? lol
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> On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:39:11 -0000, oliverpetersvidy wrote:
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> > Terence Curren wrote:
> > The underlying problems seem to track back to QT
> > which was never intended to be a solid tape delivery format.
>
> This actually gets to the root of the issue, which is that you can't
> isolate the card from the software. Hardware (Avid, AJA, etc.) has to
> work in tandem with the application and the drives. There are many
> things that FCP does, which operators assume is the card, when it fact
> it is being handled by the software itself, on-the-fly, in real-time.
>
> Sometimes it's an issue of the system not being able to keep up. For
> example, the sync issues I mentioned. When you analyze this, you'll
> often see that the canvas video/internal audio is in sync, but the Kona
> (or other card) output isn't. The hardware is actually working
> perfectly, but the application can't feed the data fast enough to the
> hardware.
>
> So, yes, having a single developer of the whole ecosystem does offer
> some advantages.
>
> - Oliver
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