Some questions about Aspect HD

[David Taylor]

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.

[Earl Thurston]

Originally Posted by Jim Gunn

...I have a 2.6 Ghz Win XP system and was wondering if it would run Aspect HD with Premiere Pro 1.5.1

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

[Bart Walczak]

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.

[Paul Wags]

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.

[David Newman]

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.

[Dmitry Yun]

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.

[David Newman]

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.

[Dmitry Yun]

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 :)

[Alan Mills]

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

[David Newman]

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.

[Alan Mills]

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

[Douglas Turner]

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.

[Alan Mills]

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???

[Adam Lieber]

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

[David Newman]

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.