Prospect HD and Avid Media composer:

[Simon Zimmer]

Hello,

I own Prospect HD and Adobe CS3 Premiere Pro.

I am thinking of possibly upgrading to Adobe CS4 or Avid Media Composer

I understand I can convert the cineform codec to Avid Metafuze. What advantage does a Avid Media Composer user get by capturing the video via Prospect HD when he has to convert it anyway to Avid Metafuze.

Or should I just stick with Adobe CS3/CS4?

Thanks for your time,

Simon

[David Newman]

Using MetaFuze your are convert CineForm AVI or MOVs to DNxHD MXF files, there is no advantage to this workflow, although it is done as you just sometime need to use an Avid. Main issue is MetaFuze is very slow, while you do avoid the cost of live DNxHD ingest, you break the workflow through the MetaFuze transcode times (and MetaFuze was 8-bit only when I last looked.) So currently it is best to be all Avid or all not-Avid. We have been working with Avid to solve this all or nothing workflow issue.

[Simon Zimmer]

Interesting information.

thanks for the quick reply.

So it sounds like I should stick with Adobe CS3 for now and see if Cineform and Avid maybe figure out a better workflow which would make me buy Avid at a later date.

I appreciate the help.

Good day.

Simon

[Simon Zimmer]

Hi David,

Is there a loss of quality when using MetaFuze with cineform AVIs. I realize it adds another step in the workflow but then it allows me to use Avid Media composer.

Otherwise, how close is Cineform and Avid to a solution regarding a better workflow between the two products (cineform and avid media composer)?

thanks for your time,

Simon

[David Newman]

DNxHD files are not as high quality as some CineForm, so there is that limitation, also MetaFuze only converts AVIs with 8-bit precision.