Does DVCPRO-HD profit from X800/6800's Hardware-Acceleration?

[Pascal Parvex]

Both videocard manufacturers ATI and NVidea offer HD hardware acceleration since the introduction of their X800 respectively 6800 series. Does DVCPRO-HD already profit from this, or does this standard need special drivers or adapted editing software? Support would be great, so you could (dis-)play HD smoothly on 'standard' hardware.

 

[Barry_Green]

That'd be something that would be decided by whoever writes the codec for the editing application. Any codec could be written in such a way that it takes advantage of certain hardware processes, but it would have to be specifically written to do so. There's nothing about DVCPRO-HD (or DV or MPEG-2 or any codec) that would "automatically" take advantage of such hardware; whoever writes the editing application and the codecs would have to do the extra work to incorporate the hardware acceleration features.

 

[Pascal Parvex]

So you'll have to look for the best editing package. And what about the new ATI technology Avivo?

http://www.ati.com/technology/Avivo/index.html

 

[Barry_Green]

The graphic cards may or may not be usable for video codec applications. However, if you want a hardware-optimized editing system for DVCPRO-HD, you could look to the Matrox Axio system; they have a hardware card that gives you multiple streams of DVCPRO-HD in realtime including realtime transitions, realtime dissolves, etc. There are two downsides though: one, it only works with Premiere Pro, and two, it costs something like $11,500.