CineForm Prospect 4K now in beta.

[Lauri Kettunen]

Having Prospect 2K license, is tProspect 4K a trial version or will it run under my existing license?

[David Newman]

Lauri,

Prospect 4K is a different license with a 15-day trial. I expect there I will be a $500 upgrade from P2K when P4K is released if you are interested.

[Kevin Halverson]

Hello David,

I have been holding off on installing the Prospect trial as I want to have the option of purchasing the actual finished product at the end of the trial period if I decide to go that direction. Do you have an ETA on the finished product yet? I want to time it so that I don't have any down time between the trial's expiration and the ability to obtain the finished product.

[David Newman]

That is fair. Other than 4K exports from Premiere Pro 4K, it is very close to being ready, however we interested in beta testing feedback. We will rollout trial extensions if the release version is not ready. We have all ready done that with NEO 4K.

[Kevin Halverson]

Thanks David,

Perfect! I will start testing immediately and will be happy to provide feed back. Where is the best place to provide any notes we come up with? This forum or another? I am not as interested in 4k exports for now, my main interest is 4k acquired material, processed through RedCine and finished in 2k and 1080 on CS3 while maintaining 4:4:4 color space.

Thanks!

Kevin

[David Newman]

This site can work for feedback. Although more CineForm eyes are on this forum over at DVinfo.net http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?f=76

[Mike McCarthy]

Thanks David,

Perfect! I will start testing immediately and will be happy to provide feed back. Where is the best place to provide any notes we come up with? This forum or another? I am not as interested in 4k exports for now, my main interest is 4k acquired material, processed through RedCine and finished in 2k and 1080 on CS3 while maintaining 4:4:4 color space.

Thanks!

Kevin

If you are planning to downsample to 2K in RedCine, then Prospect2K is all that is required, but if you are going to wait until after the edit to downres, then obviously you will need the full capability of Prospect4K. Also, I believe the trial expiration will only apply to encoding, so you should be able to playback and edit the files during any "downtime" if the trial expires, you just won't be able to process out of RedCine, or export to Cineform out of PPro/AE.

[David Newman]

If you are planning to downsample to 2K in RedCine, then Prospect2K is all that is required, but if you are going to wait until after the edit to downres, then obviously you will need the full capability of Prospect4K. Also, I believe the trial expiration will only apply to encoding, so you should be able to playback and edit the files during any "downtime" if the trial expires, you just won't be able to process out of RedCine, or export to Cineform out of PPro/AE.

You down-res to 2K in RedCine now, so yes you can then use a NEO 2K or Prospect 2K license. It is true that the decoding never expires in the trial versions, however all the real-time pipeline expires in Prospect 2K/4K, so to continue editing you need to import the Prospect project into a desktop editing mode. Or purchase a full license. Note: Decoding in tools like AE are not impacted in any way.

[Lauri Kettunen]

I expect there I will be a $500 upgrade from P2K when P4K is released if you are interested.

David, thank you for the info. Will get the upgrade once it is available.

[Joe Carney]

Lauri,

Prospect 4K is a different license with a 15-day trial. I expect there I will be a $500 upgrade from P2K when P4K is released if you are interested.

Does this mean that P4K for new clients will be almost 2,000 USD per license?