This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Dump Nitris DX in favour of Decklink?

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Dump Nitris DX in favour of Decklink?

Greg, you're assuming Dylan is in NTSC-land.

D.

On 14 February 2012 19:55, Greg Huson <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:
> You loose most of the symphony universal features- like, I think, adding pulldown on the fly to SD output from 23.98- so it sounds like you ARE using universal mastering features!! I have the same issue, for now we have two CPUs. When we get a little downtime, i'm going to experiment with having both devices in the same CPU... I already have a cubix expander... but I'm guessing it won't work. The expense of the extra CPU is worth the savings in hassle so far.
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> We have a symphony 6 on Kona 3 and it doesn't have all the features of the nitris.
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> On Feb 14, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Dylan Reeve wrote:
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>> Currently I'm onlining and grading in Symphony 5.0 with a Nitris DX,
>> however I'm looking at moving to Symphony 6.0 very soon (need to test a few
>> more workflow things with our one-of-only-three-in-the-world EditShare
>> Geevs setup) and possibly/probably DaVinci Resolve (again some workflow
>> issues to test, with regard to timeframes etc).
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>> To make Resolve useful I need to have a Decklink card of some sort in the
>> system - I suspect I can run it along side the Nitris, but do I need to?
>> We're not doing any Universal Mastering stuff, in fact the only actual
>> outputs I do are Standard Def downconversion for the broadcaster's promos
>> department - everything else leaves my suite as a file to be output
>> elsewhere...
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>> So, should I try to run some sort of hybrid Nitris/Decklink system, or
>> should I just chuck the Nitris and go all out with the Decklink? Any reason
>> I shouldn't? Anything I don't know here? And, beyond various I/O options,
>> is there any reason to pick any given DeckLink model over another?
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>> Dylan Reeve
>> http://dylanreeve.com/
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