Prospect HD/2K/4K v3.3.1 beta

[David Newman]

3.3.1 has a lot of changes so we will likely keep it beta for a while.

Here are some of the changes in 3.3.1.165

* Added: DShow Decoder now has better direct control of the pixel format is output via it properties control panel. Output settings can be now saved as defaults.

* Added: DShow Decoder has two new 4:4:4 10-bit formats (A2R10G10B10 and A2B10G10R10) supported by the Video Mixing Rendering-9 (on some GFX cards.)

* Added: DShow decoder know displays the version number in the control panels.

* Added: 1440x1080 presets to Prospect.

* Added: More performance on dual and quad core systems for CineForm decoding.

* Added: Premiere decoding faster thru more threading.

* Fixed: CineForm RAW: Old user data in the being ingored on P-frames if on new color database information was added for that clip.

* Fixed: CineForm RAW: AE 32-bit float linear math was wrong for new whitepoint.

* Fixed: AE thumbnail decoding for 444 and RAW clips.

* Fixed: In HDLink the Interlaced 4:2:0 fix wasn't being used in pulldown removal for M2T files, yet it was for live or streaming capture/convert.

* Fixed : rare deadlock bug when using the filter stack bit depth display and switching focus between Premiere and other apps.

* Fixed: HDSDI no longer defaults to on for 2K and 4K projects, with the GUI set to off.

* Fixed: HDSDI 10-bit YUV scaling of 1920x1080 to 1440x1080 upon capture.

* Fixed : DShow decoder now remembers if quarter resolution playback was the default.

* Fixed : Premiere CineForm exports that don't have pre-multiplied alpha channels.

Here are the temporary direct links
P4K http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/Pro....165-Setup.zip
P2K http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/Pro....165-Setup.zip
PHD http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/Pro....165-Setup.zip

For various other products
N4K http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/NEO....165-Setup.zip
NHD http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/NEO....165-Setup.zip
AHD http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/Asp....116-Setup.zip

[Stephen Armour]

Nice little changes, like output settings saved as defaults, and the little performance gains. Rendering seems faster on this quad ws.

Crashed twice on me, but I couldn't reproduce it, so it's probably just PP3.

[David Newman]

There are a lot of changes underneith, so if anything becomes repeatable please report it. Fortunately, so far it seem pretty stable inspite of the number of internal changes.

[Christopher Grant Harvey]

Thanks for the updates.

I'll see how they go with my current project.

I have noticed that when I convert files to CF AVI's using HD Link that the CPU usage is not very high at all, at most it uses around 70% but it varies. When I render in CS3 for example the RAM usage is higher plus the CPU usage across 4 cores averages no lower than 95%.

Using Sysinternals Process Explorer v11.04

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.p...mtygx4&thumb=6

[David Newman]

That makes sense. Conversion typically involves decoding someone elses format and then encoding in CineForm. If the source format is not threaded (most aren't very much), it doesn't matter how well threaded the CineForm encoder is you will not able to use all the CPU when the encoder is faster than the decoder (our encoder is starved of data.)

[Christopher Grant Harvey]

Dammit.

At least it is not a Cineform issue.

[Christopher Grant Harvey]

With the newest updates all my stability issues have gone away so thank you guys at Cineform!!

At the moment I am editing a music video, all clips are full 1920 x 1080, and under Prospect 2K and Premiere CS3 I am editing in realtime 12 video tracks plus 2 additional matte tracks and all 12 video tracks have 2 colour correction filters applied... all realtime and stable.

(Okay so I have a RAID and Quad core but still I tried native Premiere editing and it struggled with 2 video tracks.)

Amazing... :-)

[Paolo Brambilla]

With the new build (both Prospect 2k trial and ProspectHD registered) i'm getting sort of a combing artifact on the right side of the screen.
This consists of white and black horizontal thin lines on some frames.
The problem appears randomly, not only in the program window of Premiere Pro CS3 3.2 but also in the final output, both Cineform, Adobe Media Encoder or frameserving Tmpgenc. Did not try on AE.

When reverting back the the previous official build all appears to be fine again.
Installed on a Windows XP64 SP2, together with Genarts Sapphire and Redgiant Magic Bullet Looks.

Combing apart, the new build seems really more responding.
However, when used with heavy effects (eg. Neatvideo) now i have to turn off the codec multithreading or (sooner or later) i hit the ceiling of Premiere.

[David Newman]

Palo, please send a sample to support.

[Rohan Dadswell]

Doesn't seem to like 720p slo mo shot with SI-2K.

Tried to look at a drive that had 72fps/720p shots on it and explorer would just quit.
Ended up going back to Prospect 2k 3.3 & could play clips from the drive in windows fine.
But in Prem Pro when I try to play the clips on the timeline they are upside down & green. When I pause the still image is correct. The clips will also play fine in the source window. 25fps/2K shots play without a problem.

This is happening with clips that were shot this week with the latest SI-2K build as well as shot from last year.

Have tried going back to earlier 3.2 builds of Prospect 2k but no difference.

[Jason Rodriguez]

Hi Rohan,

I'll look into this and see what I can find. So you're saying that everything works fine with older versions of P2K, but just the latest 3.3 is having issues? Or does any version of P2K not work?

Thanks,

Jason

[Rohan Dadswell]

Hi Jason,

Now I can't edit or add 720p on any version of P2K - I have only done basic uninstall/re-install of the previous version.

The project settings are for a 25fps 2K timeline

[Jason Rodriguez]

Hey Rohan,

I've duplicated the issue on my end as well, and it doesn seem to be affecting all 720P footage, not just 72fps . . . I'm sending CineForm some sample clips recorded at various frame-rates they can experiment with . . . they should be capable of reduplicating the issue on their end if both myself and you are having the same issue. At that point we can see if there is a fix required on our end, or maybe something in P2K or both.

My project was a 2K/23.976 timeline in PPro with version 3.3.1.

I do know in the past this worked though, so I'm not quite sure exactly what is "broken". WMP plays the files back, but as you noted, even when you click on the files, Windows Explorer itself crashes, although I have a feeling this is because it's trying to decode the files to make a preview or something of that nature.

I do notice that QT files are not crashing win-explorer, and they work fine in QT player, although I know QT files are not supported directly for editing inside of PPro at the moment (good for FCP though), so that won't be a work-around for now.

Thanks,

Jason

[Deniz Ahmet]

Can we expect a similar boost to Aspect also?

[David Newman]

I have expired those old links after. Here are the new betas

P4K http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/Pro....166-Setup.zip
PHD http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/Pro....166-Setup.zip
NEO-4K http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/NEO....166-Setup.zip
NEO-HD http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/NEO....166-Setup.zip

Just added
AspectHD http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/Asp....117-Setup.zip
NEO-HDV http://www.miscdata.com/cineform/NEO....166-Setup.zip