You want to have some fun?

Buy a dual or quad core, add 4GB RAM, a 10K rpm system drive and a RAID0 for video, with one more drive for scratch disks.

Use Aspect HD and it flies like the wind!

CineForm Aspect HD VS. Avid Xpress Pro HD
 

Hi everyone, I can't decide which HD software I should buy, CineForm Aspect HD or Avid Xpress Pro HD? I'd been working with Adobe Premium Pro 2.0 for a while, and tryied Cineform for few days ( but I didn't get chance to export to see the final video result ).

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

What is your input source and format?

Hi Bart,

Currently, my footage is Sony FX1 HDV1080i format, in the future I'll probably go for JVC HD200 30P or 50P.

Thanks!

Aspect does encoding like Procoder?
 

Currently using Premiere Pro 2.0 with new system (fast for a notebook, but still a notebook). I'm having serious trouble with exports, everything else seems to work fine with HDV.

If I spring for the Aspect HDV, is this going to help speed up and make my exports work great? Specifically, HDV - Tape and HDV - WM9 HDV or other back up method. Also web video export?

Is Aspect the right tool for this, or do I need to get Canopus ProCoder for this?

If so, is Aspect really only to help me speed up the HDV in the timeline and be able to work with more layers etc? OR is it that in addition to a better coder? Do aspect users often also purchase ProCoder or does Aspect do most of what Procoder does?

Thanks!
Michael

Michael,

Aspect HD is really about a few things:

1. Higher visual fidelity for those who use a multi-generation workflow, are doing compositing, keying, or other image manipulation operations. You generally don't want to render back to MPEG.

2. Accelerated editing experience in Premiere Pro. You can do many more layers with CineForm files than with native MPEG editing.

3. Special feature support, such as extracting 24p footage, direct-to-disk capture from HDMI sources.

4. Compatibility with other apps for those who need to move their content around.

Aspect HD does not really accelerate your exports. The main NLE app is in charge of that.

Yes, I'm running the same configuration. It's perfectly suitable for my requirements.

Have you ever worked with Avid? You might find it a little bit restrictive if you are used to the interactive timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro (that's my take on it). I would personally opt for Cineform.

There is the 8 bit Canopus HQ codec as well.
It handles real time colour correction better than Aspect HD.

Aspect HD leaves real bad banding in some shots.
Well it does on our underwater footage...so much so we dumped it.

Any banding of 8-bit (yes underwater shots are hard) is cured in the next release of Aspect HD and Connect HD, it was never an issue in Prospect HD. We are rolling in many of the codec enhancement of PHD into the 8-bit products. A lot of updates to be made available in a few weeks time.

Aspect HD or Connect HD
 

I was wondering what the difference was between the two, they seem to serve the same purpouse. Am I understanding this right: so Connect HD is optimized for Vegas and Aspect HD is more of an Adobe Premier Pro friendly plug? So If I get Connect HD right now and have Vegas 7 installed, will it serve the same purpouse as Aspect HD would with Premier Pro? And will Connect HD give Premier Pro a boost in HDV editing capabilities since PP can handle avi's?

Thanks in advance.

Aspect HD includes all the feature of Connect HD, but also includes real-time effects, transitions and a playback engine for Premiere Pro. If you are using Premiere Pro you should be looking at Aspect HD. Aspect HD is 2-3X faster than Connect HD because of the timeline acceleration tools. Connect HD alone doesn't really work well with Premiere.

Thanks for the quick and thorough respnse David. I will be looking into Aspect HD, try to get some funds together and go ahead and get it :)

Aspect HD suddenly needs re-activating
 

This evening I've been in an out of HDLink and Premiere pro 2 a few times. Suddenly, whenever I start HDLink or a Cineform project in PPro2 My copy of Aspect HD is asking for activation (i.e. the four buttons appear at the bottom of the splash screen). I now seem to have 15 days left!!

Did I do something wrong? How do I tidy this up?

Alan

Contact support to fix this for you. We believe that is a Microsoft automatic update that is messing with our activations on a few PCs.

Thanks. Solved by support in a just a few minutes. A simple re-activation using previous codes does the trick.

Curious that I was missing my 'Activate.exe' file though so had to uninstall and re-install first but no hardship there.

Please pass my thanks on to the support team as I can't say thanks to them without re-opening the 'ticket'.

Alan

Yep - I had this a couple of times recently too... had to re-activate each time, but fingers crossed it hasn't occured again. Not a big issue, just odd.

I just had this again and it might just be a coincidense but I suspect not. It occurred this time directly following a crash of Premier Pro 2. You know the abnormal condition and must exit and on restarting you get a 'Copy of <my project>" file open. And I did have one of these the other night too.

If anyone can substantiaite this as more than a coincidence maybe it's worthy of a line or two in a local FAQ???

Cineform Aspect HD - Panasonic AJ-HDX900PE
 

I recently made some tests using the HVX200 with the trial version Aspect HD using Premiere Pro 2.0, which all worked very well.

I have a shoot coming up and we are thinking of shooting on the Panasonic AJ-HDX900P. I'm considering purchcing Aspect HD for this project.
I'm just trying to get my head around this

1 - will apsect HD support the footage straight of the HDX900?
2 - can I capture directly from the camera via firewire as with the HVX200?
3 - if not and I shoot to a FIRESTORE or bring the footage into premiere pro 2.0 off a hard drive, will aspect HD support the format the HDX900 shoots in?

Thanks
Adam

The HDX900 will only work with Prospect HD via HDSDI, we don't support streaming DVCPRO-HD, yet we do support P2 based DVCPRO-HD media. If the FireStore operates like it does with the HXV200, then you can bring that material into HDLink to batch convert it.

Aspect V5 Slow-Mo Question
 

I'm a proud owner of your V4...Love this program. Wouldn't enjoy my Canon A1 without it.

I'm gonna upgrade to V5 before August. But for now, I'm wondering what the slow-mo addition is about. How's that work? There isn't much info on your website.

Would I get anything usable from 24f? Or does it take 60i HDV and turn it into 60p DV?


It sounds cool, so I wanna know more!

Thanks,
B

So do I. What are you referring? Slow motion support is the same between v4 and v5.

Aspect V5 playback problem
 

Having just installed V5 I am getting an error message as PP 1.5.1 starts up, it's a direct X issue, tells me it can't find libguide40.dll and I have no playback on the timeline within prem pro.

All was fine with 4.3, I uninstalled it before loading in V5

Aspect V5 playback problem
 

I had the EXACT same problem. I copied the libguide40.dll (from \Program Files\Commion Files\Cineform) into the Premiere 1.5 directory (\Program Files\Adobe\Premiere Pro 1.5) and it allowed PPro to start up without the error message.

Once in Premiere though, the playback was FUBAR (<space> and <enter>) did nothing.

I could scrub the timeline manually by dragging the Current Time Indicator but that got old real quick.

As I just suffered a month of not being able to resolve an issue with Cineform Support on my Windows x64 machine I went out and bought a new box based on XP SP2 (32-bit) to get running again.

Seeing the announcement about V5 I thought I would do a fresh install with that. You can imagine my immense frustration after a clean install of Windows and PPro 1.5.1 to be back to having unusable issues with Aspect HD with PPro.

I have uninstalled V5 and installed the latest version of V4 and I'm finally editing again!

David: Is this a known issue with a quick fix?

We haven't heard of this, but we will be investigating.

I guess I thought is was some speed ramping filter, or option.

But maybe it just means that it works even when I slow my footage down?

Well I followed the handy guide above to get rid of the error message, worked a treat so many thanks for that :-)

Then seeing as V5.0.1 is out I thought I'd give it a go, so I uninstalled V5, installed V5.0.1 and low and behold I have playback on the timeline now so whatever is in the new release solves the problem.

Ian

Aspect HD to NEO 2K upgrade?
 

Hi,
I know it is not officially offering. But is there any chance to upgrade from Aspect HD to NEO 2K? We've got two Aspect HD licencies (we even upgraded from 3.x to 4.x) and I'll be happy to have a chance to swap them both for NEO 2K with some bonus. We do not need Prospect realtime funcionality, NEO 2K seems to be far enough for our post workflow. So, is there a chance?
Thanks for answer
Jaromir Pesr
i/o post
Prague

Jaromir,

Yes we can work something out with you. Please send me a separate email at dtaylor at cineform dot com

Aspect 5 Won't Install
 

Hi!....

When I try to install Aspect 5, it gets about 1/2 way then says CANNOT FIND PLUGIN FOLDER.

I had CS3 installed at one time but it is long gone. How can I get this to work? I have to export a file today.

Thanks

Stacy

Yes installing CS3 will break CS2 for any further upgrades. Here is the patch

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showpost....35&postcount=2

Questions about reinstall of Aspect HD.
 

Aspect HD came installed on my computer when it was delivered from the vendor.

I have a serial number, and an activation key, but I have no installation CD.

I want to download recent updates (I'm at vers. 4.1.3 build 61 now) and want to get to the latest version of 4.X.

I've downloaded the updated zip file, but have not installed it yet.

I've been told to uninstall my current version, then run the zip. My concern is if something goes wrong, or I want to return to the old version. Without an installtation CD, how would I do that?

And, is the zip file a complete install that will work with my current activation key and/or serial number? Or, is the zip simply an update/patch to my existing version? If the zip messes something up, I'll have nothing to use, and I don't want to have to pay for Aspect a second time.

Help/advice from others who've been successful with the Cineform update process is invited.

The zip contains a full install, it will use your existing activation, so as long as you don't request a deactivation (why should you?) you will be fine. You vendor should have given you a CD, but in the unlikely event you wanted build 61, we can get that for you.

thanks, David...BTW
 

my vendor is 4videoequipment. Henry says he is a big fan of your products, and could get it for me, too, if I needed it.

THANKS.

Aspect Hd installed, but HDLink is missing.
 

Also, before the uninstall, Start/Programs had a ccneForm item. That is no longer there.

How do I get HDLink back?

I reinstalled again. Now all appears to be in place, AND
 

I'm not getting the EC-ERRORABORT msg on the one large clip I've been working with.

T H A N K S, CineForm!!!

If tech support or these forums don't solve a problem, sometimes it's the touch of "magic" that we sprinkle on our products that does the trick....

I can understand and appreciate the use of
 

such fairy dust. In my mainframe programming days, I'd use some myself from time to time. Good to know it's still available.

Thanks, again.

Is it not possible to purchase a DVD version of Aspect HD?
 

Is it not possible to purchase a DVD version of Aspect HD ver 5.0? Or is it solely for download only?

a Disc version is probably available, but would be useless soon, since the updates at Cineform are coming at fast speed.
So you would be obliged to download anyway the latest version update (that is the full product) soon or later.
And the donload is relatively small.