CineForm Prospect 4K now in beta.

[David Newman]

Prospect 4K has arrived. This allows you to encode 4:4:4 4K CineForm out of RedCine and edit them online in a PC Premiere Pro timeline.

Information on how to use Prospect 4K, and the workflow is here:
http://www.cineform.com/products/Tec...Prospect4K.htm

Prospect 4K includes all the features of NEO 4K, but adds Premiere Pro integration and real-time editing features.

I look forward to your feedback.

P.S. Those whos trial has run out on NEO 4K, the 3.2.1 version of Prospect 4K or NEO 4K will give you an additional 15-days.

P.P.S Download can be requested from here : http://www.cineform.com/products/Dow.../Downloads.htm

[Gian Joon]

That is awsome. Congrats David.

[Kevin Halverson]

Looks interesting, will check it out in the next few days.

Thanks!

[Joel Kaye]

Prospect 4K has arrived. This allows you to encode 4:4:4 4K CineForm out of RedCine and edit them online in a PC Premiere Pro timeline.

Do you have a recommended video card? I've heard the new 8800GT does not have video overlay enabled. Does that keep it from working with Cineform in Premiere?

[David Newman]

Do you have a recommended video card? I've heard the new 8800GT does not have video overlay enabled. Does that keep it from working with Cineform in Premiere?

It work fine, you just won't get the external monitor output. For any real work, we recommend using an AJA Xena LH or LHe card, graphics cards have too many issues.

[Joel Kaye]

It work fine, you just won't get the external monitor output. For any real work, we recommend using an AJA Xena LH or LHe card, graphics cards have too many issues.

How about the Blackmagic cards? I know the Intensity is supported by Premiere.

[David Taylor]

How about the Blackmagic cards? I know the Intensity is supported by Premiere.

Joel, because Prospect 4K uses the CineForm RT engine (as opposed to the Adobe engine), CineForm is in control of driving HD-SDI monitoring cards (not graphics cards). We integrated support for AJA quite some time ago, but because the SW architecture of the BM cards is different, we haven't finished supporting them (yet) for RT monitoring. Hopefully that isn't too far off, but in the mean time AJA cards work very well.

[Mike McCarthy]

The Cineform website recommends using P4K to edit at 2K resolution in Premiere. I assume that is for better interactive performance. So if you wanted a 4K master at the end, is the plan to reimport that project into a true 4K Premiere project, or will it be significantly better to do into AE at that point?

[David Newman]

2K workflow is actually the most practical, and still get all the benefits of 4K oversampling and re-cropping while in the edit. You will notice we still recommend 4k exports from RedCine. The 2K workflow will also help when mixing 2K slowmotion sources with 4K 24p sources. Currently 2K is the most common Digital Cinema Package resolution, also for DPX film outs. So the 2K workflow is the most practical for but a rare few very high-end project. For those high end projects we would still recommend a 2K edit, then use After Effects to generate the 4K masters, which is better at handling the huge memory footprint for 4K frames.

[Steve Sanacore]

Do these statements apply to the Mac OSX side as well as PC side? I have been Mac based and was wondering what my best choice was for video cards, Black Magic or AJA for working with my upcoming RED camera and footage.

Thanks for any help.