SDX900 and DVX100

[Barry_Green]

The thing about Cineform is that you won't ever get direct firewire preview on your monitor. With DVCPRO-HD it's possible. DVCPRO-HD has the potential to work exactly like DV does, because it is in effect DV -- just four DV codecs ganged together, for a simple explanation. So you should be able to edit/scrub/etc just like you do in DV. Cineform won't let you do that -- it transcodes into a different codec, one that won't allow firewire preview.

Of course, for firewire preview to work, the camera would have to have a firewire port, plus allow input the same way a DV camera does. Seems a reasonable assumption, but until we know for sure this may be a moot point.

 

[Neil Rowe]

..yeah. cineforms big downfall is the lack of a low cost monitor solution. you can edit it normally, but you have to use an uncompressed HD-SDI output to preview to an external monitor ..a monitor or converter which accepts uncompresed HD-SDI. ideally well get naitive support. but if not. im hoping that cineform is somewhat of an affordable alternative option... really im not to happy with the idea that i might have to switch NLEs to accomodate the new cam, or lay down some more cash to continue using my current one. ..its my biggest apprehension right now. but i guess well have to wait and see what direction these companies move to see what were looking at .