A training company I know is selling some of their kits and they're giving me a good deal on a used Nitris DX. I haven't used one in years as my personnal setups involve a Mac Pro (the "silver truck" as we call it here, not the newer "trash can") and a MacBook Pro, both equiped with a Matrox Mini (PCI on truck, and ExpressCard on laptop).
It seems a good price (about €1000), but I wonder if Nitris DX would make a big difference for my day to day editing. I cut mainly features and docs, so not many effects involved apart from the occasional color-correction of fade to black, or subtitles. Most of my work is still HD - at the moment - as 8.3 and DNxHR are still a new thing. And even when I work with footage originated on Alexa or Red (used Resolve to create the DNxHD media), we offline at DNxHD 36 or 115 in 1080p.
What I'd really love is to have a machine that feels snappy and responsive when I click here and there, and doesn't feel like it's coming to a grinding halt when I engage (occasionaly) the capslock key or when I lasso into Trim mode. And with the Matrox, it always feel like they're one driver behind the current Media Composer version...
I've also looked into what Nitris DX does with the new HR rez, and (correct me if I'm wrong), it turns it into HD "on the fly". Which would be fine for me as 4K monitoring is still a couple of years away for most offline editors. Does it do a good job at that?
And last but not least... Since the equipment is in the room where I edit, how noisy is it?
Thank to all Nitris DX owners (and users!) for your feedback.
Pierre
Posted by: ph@cineaste.org
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