MTS realtime Hardware requirements

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

No place like home !

Edius is the most effective editing tool on the market.
I've started editing with Premire when i was 20.
Today , 34, after using Avid, Edit, DPS-Q ,Premiere and Edius,
in various facilities, i can asure you that
Edius is the best editing tool for the digital generation.
Just two things are missing for me - great footage and great salary...
:-)

[pjsssss]

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.

[SoundFreak]

Of course, if you can use Premiere - sure, please feel free to do so.

why ? The Mercury engine is released already ?
I tought you also need a high end quadro cuda gpu card and a work station with a gazillion horsepower to do it ?

Better wait for 5.5, 3 more weeks :)

[tingsern]

You don't have a choice today. You either convert AVCHD to HQ or be off with it. Until EDIUS 5.5 make its appearance, there is nothing you can do (with respect to EDIUS).

Of course, if you can use Premiere - sure, please feel free to do so.

[dvdangor]

Or just convert to HQ which was suggested in the first place. ;)

Again, Time consuming, and time is money.

[SRsupport]

Or just convert to HQ which was suggested in the first place. ;)

[dvdangor]

:-( Too sad

You didn't read my reply correctly. I said ... 5.12 can't handle AVCHD yet. You need 5.5 to do that. Sure - you can open AVCHD on 5.12 - but, try to playback just one stream - even on my system (see signature) - it will choke.

Yep , your system rocks! But too bad no realtime support yet...

[dvdangor]

I was told Premiere CS4 can handle MTS better

Could you support this line?

I don't like Premiere or Avid, because Edius is my choice.

I'll just have to sit and wait for lower system prices and Edius 5.5..............

:-(

[tingsern]

I've read that Edius new products does support MTS realtime editing.

Why are you claming they can not? Is that because of the fact that 5.5
will be released with a new software capability that will handle MTS even
on Quad Processors with no trouble?

You didn't read my reply correctly. I said ... 5.12 can't handle AVCHD yet. You need 5.5 to do that. Sure - you can open AVCHD on 5.12 - but, try to playback just one stream - even on my system (see signature) - it will choke.

[SRsupport]

In the soon to be released EDIUS 5.5 indeed you will be able to do a few streams of AVCHD in real time. But all of this will depend on your system.

[dvdangor]

Mmmm... 5.12 isn't ready for MTS yet?

I've read that Edius new products does support MTS realtime editing.

Why are you claming they can not? Is that because of the fact that 5.5
will be released with a new software capability that will handle MTS even
on Quad Processors with no trouble?