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TecnoTur episode 2 (English): Radio Lollipop + Matrox’s announcements at NAB 2010

TecnoTur episode 2 (English) is now available, and includes an interview with Radio Lollipop, and with Matrox regarding all pro video announcements at NAB 2010. Brittany Smith of Radio Lollipop —an international radio network based in the UK, with affiliate stations in children’s hospitals throughout the world— tells TecnoTur about her background in commercial radio, and her current position at Radio Lollipop. Then Rubén Abruña and Allan Tépper travel to NAB 2010 in Las Vegas and interview Wayne Andrews, a Matrox pro video product manager. Wayne tells us about ProRes422 encoding in Windows, compatibility with Avid MC5, and MAX 2.0 with scene analysis and VBR encoding.

• Allan Tépper interviews Brittany Smith of Radio Lollipop and Miami Children’s Hospital.
• How to send comments, questions, and testimonials to TecnoTur: call +1-305-668-8556 x133 or record the message yourself and e-mail it to us at audio (at) TecnoTur.us
• Rubén Abruña and Allan Tépper travel to NAB 2010 in Las Vegas and interview Wayne Andrews, a pro video product manager at Matrox, regarding new Matrox announcements, including MAX 2.0 with its new VBR and scene analysis, and —for the very first time in history— encoding of Apple’s ProRes422 in Windows with Matrox OEM cards, and the new compatibility of MXO2 Mini with Avid MC5, in addition to Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe CS4 and CS5.

Associated links are available in the show notes at EnglishPodcast.TecnoTur.us.

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In upcoming TecnoTur episodes

In upcoming episodes, you will find:

• The Castilian version of the conversation with Jorge Dighero and Ralph Messana of NewTek, regarding their TriCaster TCXD300. [The English version of this conversation appeared in TecnoTur’s (English) episode 1, and is still available.]
• A conversation with ExWex/Monogram, regarding their BCC/BroadCast Case. (English channel only.)
• A conversation with award-winning editor Norman Smith (Castilian channel only).
• More of Rafael Andreu and Ramm Productions (Castilian channel only).
• A conversation with Victoria Mesas García of Escuchalibros, regarding audiobooks. (Castilian channel only).
• A conversation with Tamara Benavente of Ellanvannin Multimedia regarding her short film Lost & Found (both TecnoTur channels).
• A conversation with Adobe regarding Premiere CS5. (English confirmed. Castilian pending.)
• A conversation with AJA regarding NAB 2010 announcements.  (English confirmed.)
• A conversation with Blackmagic Design regarding NAB 2010 (both languages booked).
• More tech info from Allan Tépper, Rubén Abruña, Vanessa Brown, Tanya Castañeda, and Liliana Marín.

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Hi Allan, thanks for this great podcast!

I’ve been fascinated by Matrox’s announcement that its MXO2 devices now do what Nvidia’s Cuda engine does re acceleration of Adobe’s Mercury engine.

I’m hoping to see some real testing on this. The MXO2 devices seem to offer a more cost-effective solution when you consider that it also offers a rec 709 monitoring and an I/O solution, while Nvidia doesn’t offer any external monitoring.

Regarding the I/O solution, however, I’m still not completely satisfied. Who needs an I/O solution with file-based acquisition and transfer into an PC with the new memory card camcorders? (of course that’s assuming one has adopted that technology) 

Ive spoken to Matrox on the phone twice and it seems that you don’t get the benefit of the RT Engine that Matrox ported to the Max chip unless you ingest a video signal as a stream through the MXO2 device. You need to ingest as a video stream either by HDMI or analog input which necessarily transcodes the video signal to a Matrox codec.  (Although, for what it’s worth, and in my opinion it’s not much, but you can monitor anything that is playable from the CS5 Premiere timeline.)

File based camcorders are apparently left out in the cold. What Matrox needs is a software transcoder for those camcorders.

Matrox has twice offered to get me definite clarification on this but I guess they forgot about me.

I hope you can really get into this. I suppose that the benefits of the acceleration of Mercury combined with external monitoring is so compelling that I could ingest my video via an MXO2 box so I can have fun with Premiere’s multicam function powered by Mercury.

And that leads me to another possible problem: When I started using Cineform’s intermediate codec I was frustrated that one cannot have the wonderful benefits of Cineform AND the wonderful benefits of accelerated multicam. Cinefore informed me that Adobe had closed of that section of its API to third-party developers. I guess that makes sense now in light of the fact that Adobe secretly had the Mercury engine up their sleeve… Blackmagic also verified that to me.

So, the big question in a CS5/MXO2 scenario (for me anyway):

1) Do we get multicam accelerated by Mercury only if the ingested video remains native, i.e. no transcoding to a Matrox codec?

Again, a Matrox software transcoder would address that problem. Surely Matrox cannot be sound asleep on this one. 
 
By the way, since I wasn’t getting an answer from Matrox, I called Adobe (after NAB). I was told: “To be honest, it’s not a question we get a lot. But I’ll find out and get back to you.”

But you’re the man with the inside channels. Please help us Windows users out here. Maybe you have or will get a MXO2 box by now and can test all of this. 

Thanks again!

Posted by wsmith  on  06/16  at  05:46 PM

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