Tuesday, November 29, 2011

STRATUS 1.0 application note for studios!

More information about STRATUS and where you can use it.
STRATUS application note on STUDIO applications

For any question concerning this subject contact Régis André: regis.andre@grassvalley.com

Thursday, June 23, 2011

FCP X not suported on K2 Systems

Apple's FCP X is not compatible with FCP7 XMLs nor does it offer (yet) any API for us to integrate with it.

So at this point in time Grass Valley does not support the use of FCP X with our solutions


The K2-FCP-CONNECT plug-in is supported only with FCP 7.x on Snow leopard 10.6.7

For any question concerning this subject contact Régis André: regis.andre@grassvalley.com

Monday, April 11, 2011

Introducing STRATUS



Go to the Grass Valley.com web page to see all the information you need on STRATUS, including video explanation of the product and online demonstration on some capabilities of STRATUS:STRATUS web page
and the flash animation: STRATUS Interactive


For any question concerning this subject contact Régis André: regis.andre@grassvalley.com

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Road to NAB 2011, come visit us

it is that time of the year again, we are all getting ready to go Las Vegas Next week to prepare for what is going to be a fantastic show for GV. If you you have been following this blog, you must visit us in Vegas, the GV booth will be located as usual on the South Hall lower level: SL106, when you walk in you can't miss us.

Iif you are not attending the NAB show, the Grass Valley web site is a good source of information for what will be shown in vegas, but I will aslo post here summary and links for you to browse.

I will be there, with great things to show you around our EDIUS , FCP and Media Composer integration story on our shared storage workflows.  and more....

This is going to be a great show!
--Régis

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

FCP on K2 SAN tips and tricks

FCP export as contained quicktime file is not the fastest export way out of your Mac to get your content on air on our servers.

Here is a trick that is less user friendly to quickly export longer sequence out of FCP to our Server:

IN FCP export to your desktop your sequence as QT reference, then open that sequence in QTPro. use QT pro to export the file as contained quicktime file to our SAN or Server.
QT pro does a much better job at using Processor and memory than FCP does for now.
render time will be cut between 25% to 50% depending complexity and lenght of material.

This applies to DV25-50 and DVCPROHD, XDCAMHD, D10/IMX.

Thank you to Dan Dome for the trick!

For AVC Intra you will still need to export QT reference from FCP, and then open it up in COMPRESSOR where you can export in AVC intra. In order to do so you will need to download and isntall the AVCI encoder from Panasonic. you can find it HERE.


For any question concerning this subject contact Régis André: regis.andre@grassvalley.com

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Updated January 2011, FCP XSAN, K2 SAN support matrix.

as of JANUARY 2011 here is the latest supported matrix for FCP and MAC OS support in our K2 SAN environment.



For the latest releases notes and supported verion please refer to the Grassvalley.com web site HERE and look for the latest document: K2 FCP Connect Release Notes
 
For any question concerning this subject contact Régis André: regis.andre@grassvalley.com

Monday, January 3, 2011

NEW! K2-FCP-CONNECT version 2.0

NEW!
K2-FCP-CONNECT keeps getting bigger and better!!
Version 2.0 of our K2-FCP-CONNECT product is out! Free upgrade for existing customer*!

What's new:

  • NEW script viewer window, allowing you to read inews and ENPS script when you are connected to an Aurora Playout X-MOS Server
  • NEW GV BROWSE application, launches from FCP, this new separate application comes bundled in K2-FCP-CONNECT for no additional cost and let you:
    • Connect to an Aurora 7.x or a Basecamp 7.x system.
    • Search the database
    • See Proxies, metadata, storyboard
    • Sort,  filter results
    • send pointers and metadata to your FCP project to edit the high resolution content.
  • Download a free 30 day trial and the documentation here


* GV Browse application requires Aurora/Mediaframe or Basecamp integration license purchased separately.

For any question concerning this subject contact Régis André: regis.andre@grassvalley.com