MTS realtime Hardware requirements

[Jerry]

I was working on Neo with Booster and one of George's systems a couple
of nights ago. If you are wanting to edit AVCHD files in realtime either NEO
or wait till NAB for the release of Edius 5.5 for free!
The booster product works great. I had 4 layers with pip and color correction, chroma key and sharpness all running in realtime.
I would hit the spacebar at the beginning of the clip, no run up, and the buffer would climb.
The Neo Booster product worked flawlessly and made it appear as if the AVCHD files were just another HQ file.

[dvdangor]

I was working on Neo with Booster and one of George's systems a couple
of nights ago. If you are wanting to edit AVCHD files in realtime either NEO
or wait till NAB for the release of Edius 5.5 for free!
The booster product works great. I had 4 layers with pip and color correction, chroma key and sharpness all running in realtime.
I would hit the spacebar at the beginning of the clip, no run up, and the buffer would climb.
The Neo Booster product worked flawlessly and made it appear as if the AVCHD files were just another HQ file.

Thankx Jerry, But my main work is with Multicam, and Neo doesn't support this function. I will wait. Cheers.

[medeamajic]

To me the claim that Premiere can do it is a joke. I have CS4 and it will play through the clips, but the second that you do ANYTHING to it edit wise, you have to render. I do not have the new mercury engine.

I can do 4 streams of realtime editing with Neo Booster (and this includes filters) with no problem. I expect the same in Edius 5.5 when it comes out.

It will be interesting to see native AVCHD edited with Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine and Edius 5.5 at NAB next month. I imagine they will both work very good with AVCHD.

[plasma_video]

I concur with Jerry. George did a demo here this week with one of his systems, and Edius NEO (with AVCHD booster) was running 3 streams of AVCHD - two with picture in picture with shadow, border, edges and movement and with titles - no problem. We didn't try pushing it further, but I'm sure it could have run more in RT.

I'm anxiously awaiting for Edius 5.5 to make a guest appearance at my location! I'd love to see how good multicam editing in EDIUS will work with a mix of HDV and AVCHD.