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

"So, yes, having a single developer of the whole ecosystem does offer
some advantages."

-- Kind of like the Adrenaline? lol

On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:39:11 -0000, oliverpetersvidy wrote:

> 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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