Will Cineform ever support multi-cam editing? at DVinfo.net

Craig Irving · November 24th, 2010, 03:40 PM

I have owned Cineform products since my original purchase of Aspect HD and it has never supported multi-cam editing. I love Cineform, and pursued this feature to be enabled for a couple years. Sometimes it was said that acceleration was planned, but I don't see that it has ever been completed. I don't regret my purchase at all, but I am wondering if there is any possibility we will ever see this in Prospect HD.

As most of my shoots are long events & lectures, and most involve at least 2 cameras. It would be great if I could use the multi-cam feature of Premiere, but considering my footage is Cineform High Quality my system usually slows to a crawl and the feature is completely unusable. Is this the case for everyone? Are not a lot of people using Cineform w/ the multi-cam feature in Premiere Pro?

David Newman · November 24th, 2010, 04:08 PM

Prospect HD is discountinued, that asside, the Premiere SDK doesn't support acceleration of the multicam. As we do support multi-res decoding it works pretty well in CS5.

Craig Irving · November 24th, 2010, 04:37 PM

My bad. I meant to say Prospect 4K, I've been confused by my own upgrade path. That's too bad it is an SDK restriction. Hopefully my performance will improve next time I upgrade my computer hardware.

Thank you for the information, David.

David Newman · November 24th, 2010, 04:53 PM

"Prospect" has gone away, all "Neo" now. :)

November 24th, 2010, 03:40 PM	#1
Craig Irving Major Player Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 539	Will Cineform ever support multi-cam editing? I have owned Cineform products since my original purchase of Aspect HD and it has never supported multi-cam editing. I love Cineform, and pursued this feature to be enabled for a couple years. Sometimes it was said that acceleration was planned, but I don't see that it has ever been completed. I don't regret my purchase at all, but I am wondering if there is any possibility we will ever see this in Prospect HD. As most of my shoots are long events & lectures, and most involve at least 2 cameras. It would be great if I could use the multi-cam feature of Premiere, but considering my footage is Cineform High Quality my system usually slows to a crawl and the feature is completely unusable. Is this the case for everyone? Are not a lot of people using Cineform w/ the multi-cam feature in Premiere Pro?

November 24th, 2010, 04:08 PM	#2
David Newman CTO, CineForm Inc. Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California Posts: 8,095	Prospect HD is discountinued, that asside, the Premiere SDK doesn't support acceleration of the multicam. As we do support multi-res decoding it works pretty well in CS5. __________________ David Newman -- web: www.gopro.com blog: cineform.blogspot.com -- twitter: twitter.com/David_Newman

November 24th, 2010, 04:53 PM	#4
David Newman CTO, CineForm Inc. Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California Posts: 8,095	"Prospect" has gone away, all "Neo" now. :) __________________ David Newman -- web: www.gopro.com blog: cineform.blogspot.com -- twitter: twitter.com/David_Newman

November 24th, 2010, 04:37 PM	#3
Craig Irving Major Player Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 539	My bad. I meant to say Prospect 4K, I've been confused by my own upgrade path. That's too bad it is an SDK restriction. Hopefully my performance will improve next time I upgrade my computer hardware. Thank you for the information, David.