Why are Kona/Decklink HDSDI not connected to the GPU?

[Gunleik Groven]

you and I prob'bly could do it in our lunchtime...

[Mark L. Pederson]

There is a card in development which will debut at IBC that will turn this whole topic upside down -

hint ... NOT made by NVidia or ATI.

[tillHavis]

Would be great if it was a new Kona. I am currently in the market for a new card and was thinking of going for the Kona 3 to integrate with the current formats and to build a 2k workflow.

[Cüneyt Kaya]

There is a card in development which will debut at IBC that will turn this whole topic upside down -

hint ... NOT made by NVidia or ATI.

mark are you a cia guy or something:shiftyph34r:

[Mark L. Pederson]

mark are you a cia guy or something:shiftyph34r:

something ... yes.

[Damien Molineaux]

There is a card in development which will debut at IBC that will turn this whole topic upside down -

hint ... NOT made by NVidia or ATI.

Houuuuuuuuu, tease...

Ok, so June, July, August, IBC is in September... 3.5 months to go, and then will it be available immediatley ? I'm looking forward to it :-)

Cheers,
Damien

[Lucas Wilson]

probably its just stupid to think about....
but it is also stupid that apple doesnt write these damn drivers...how hard can this be?

It's very hard. Writing effective drivers is some of the most specialized work in the software industry, and writing really good drivers is really hard and there are not many people that do it well.

While I do not know this for fact, my speculation is that Apple looks at it and thinks there really is not a good business model for it. The video I/O market for Apple is dominated by AJA. Apple's flagship ProApps products are tightly coupled with AJA hardware. FCP is not a GPU-based program. Color is, but is it worth dedicating the significant resources necessary for writing a good NVidia SDI driver to further enable Color? Because doing that would most certainly damage the relationship with AJA.

I am frustrated by Apple's lack of an NVidia SDI driver, as it is the #1 reason ASSIMILATE dismisses an OSX port. But I can't say I disagree with the business aspects behind it.

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, inc.
LA, CA, USA

[Mark L. Pederson]

FCP is not a GPU-based program.
Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, inc.
LA, CA, USA

But it should be.

[Graeme Nattress]

FXplug in FCP can be CPU or GPU for effects.

Graeme

[Mark L. Pederson]

FXplug in FCP can be CPU or GPU for effects.

Graeme

now if only they would rebuild the whole damn thing with all CoreVideo/CoreImage ...