Aspect V5

[David Newman]

Yes, thank you John. There have already been a bunch Aspect HD users to join you in Prospect HD in the last couple of days. We hope for many more.

[Marc Colemont]

Hi David,
Is there an update log available between the V4 and V5?
I don't see any on your website, unless I overlooked a link?

[David Newman]

With the site updates that may have beeen missed.

Keying elements :
1) New codec for even higher quality (using the Prospect core.)
2) HDSDI/HMDI capture support with HDLink using a range of AJA or Blackmagic cards.
3) Quicktime support for import and exports.
... plus more..

[Marc Colemont]

Thanks David for the fast respons as always.

[Douglas Turner]

So looking at those v4 to v5 updates, I won't see any quality improvements for my current project, where all the footage is already captured?

[David Newman]

Douglas,

The codec upgrades are primarily encoder changes, so any new encodings will benefit. This includes CineForm exports from Premiere/AE of your existing projects.

[Douglas Turner]

OK, thanks. We have a test screening at the start of June, so I'll delay trying v5 until then...

[Marc Colemont]

Hi David,
I installed the AspectHD V5 trial, and imported some MOV trailer clips I downloaded from the Quicktime Pro website to have good MOV footage to convert as a test. (shrek3 trailer 720P)
But when I start the conversion the debugging displays an error on the MOV-file were the codec is not supported.
The Move-file plays fine on my laptop, and Premiere Pro 2.0 can read and convert it to Cineform. Do I need to install something extra from Quicktime? I have the Pro 7 installed.

[David Newman]

Marc,

Some QuickTime files will not convert with HDLink as the decoder is not available in DirectShow, even if it is available to QuickTime, many codecs are available to both. If you can play the MOV in MediaPlayer when it should convert. We do plan to add full QuickTime based conversion support to HDLink to address this, although it is a low priority as there are work-arounds like you have found with Premiere.

[Marc Colemont]

Thanks for the info David.
Is there a list of Quicktime codecs you currently support? Because I have a few clients in the Non-video business who needs to convert many quicktime media into AVI for our media servers. Adobe premiere and Procoder have too many settings for them. I would like to recommend to buy Neo HDV instead when it works with all kinds of Quicktime codecs.

[David Newman]

Once we complete the QT interface to HDLink we will support the decoding and conversion too CineForm for anything QuickTime can handle. Today the QuickTime support is about using CineForm compression with QuickTime, which widens our compatibility greatly.