Ok, lets agree to disagree for numerous reasons :-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Degan" <DennyD1@verizon.net>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Blackmagic buys Teranex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From me:
>
> > speed measurement alone cannot be definitively provided. But
> obviously, hardware solutions are faster than software ones, by their
> very nature.
>
> On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:43 AM, bouke wrote:
>
> > This makes no sense whatsoever.
> > Let me give you a very simple example. A 'black box' audio
> compressor/limiter works 'realtime'.
> > Now we all know that the same task can be done in a computer app.
> way faster...
>
> I now say:
>
> First of all, I never disagreed with you, but we're getting into some
> deep semantics here. In your example, a 'black box' audio compressor/
> limiter working in 'realtime' vs a software solution processing the
> same audio material, the result from the software solution would not
> actually be faster because the audio in the hardware-processed version
> is being used IMMEDIATELY (input to output), whereas the software-
> processed version would produce a file that could THEN be used in real
> time. So even if the software solution is able to process the audio
> faster than realtime, it cannot be USED any faster than the hardware
> solution. In fact, it most likely will be used later than a hardware
> solution. That's what I meant by 'by their very nature'. To explain
> further, even if there was a software device that was used IN THE SAME
> WAY as a hardware device (input to output) and it was able to process
> audio 'faster' than real time, it would be NO FASTER in actual use.
> It can't because that's REAL TIME, input to output.
> Despite this, the original discussion as I understood it was about
> the QUALITY differences of software vs hardware standards/format
> conversions, not about which one was faster.
>
> Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> NBC Today Show, New York
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