Is Tremor still alive and kicking?

[arvid_vb]

Hey, does anyone know if Tremor is till sold?

Is there anyone out there with a Tremor system? ❓

[Anonymous]

arvid wrote:

Hey, does anyone know if Tremor is till sold?

Is there anyone out there with a Tremor system? ❓

No, Tremor is no longer sold and the 1.15.1116 release is the final Win2K version.

I am currently working on the only Tremor HD in the Northern Hemisphere as far as I know. What would you like to know???

[arvid_vb]

aww too bad. Well I guess it’s not much use if there’s no support on any platform, it’s just that our studio is looking all over the place for a highquality editing and/or compositing suite. They’re dropping like flies these days, don’t know what’s worth investing in anymore (since flame is not within our budget just yet). It’s likely that we go with a software compositor and 10bit uncompressed editingsuite, so I just wanted to know if Tremor was a good way to combine the two.

Thanks for your reply 🙂

[Hugh]

I’m not sure what kind of price-range you’re looking at, but have you looked at Media 100 844/X?

I’ve not used it myself, but a demo that I saw make it look very impressive (but then again, demos do that :wink:)

It looks like one of the only integrated editing/compositing packages around at the moment…

[arvid_vb]

Actually, yes, we had the first system in the country at the studio for a while to test it. While the hardware is impressive and seems to beat the %#¤ out of all the competition, the software has a long way to go, and unfortunately it seems that v2 is just a cover-up of the worst couple of bugs and the horrible “matte-tool” (see Ms Paint) is still there. The thing wasn’t even multithreaded even tho it ships on a dual machine 🙄 So as far as compositing goes, no cigar. So we decided to wait and see if it matures over the next year, but until then we still need 10bit uncompressed video hardware 🙂 Bluefish444 looks hot 8)

[Anonymous]

arvid wrote:

aww too bad. Well I guess it’s not much use if there’s no support on any platform, it’s just that our studio is looking all over the place for a highquality editing and/or compositing suite. They’re dropping like flies these days, don’t know what’s worth investing in anymore (since flame is not within our budget just yet). It’s likely that we go with a software compositor and 10bit uncompressed editingsuite, so I just wanted to know if Tremor was a good way to combine the two.

Thanks for your reply 🙂

Yes, the fact that the Tremor has been shelved is sad. The folks at Nothing Real were onto something good that could have competed with the Discreet platform, but some key some features – 2K playback, a Timeline, as well as the Audio Suite – were never implemented. I do have deck control, so capturing or laying off to 3/4, D-Beta and HDCam is a plus, but the instability of the platform is extremely frustrating.

In the end though, it is the quality of the output that keeps our clients coming back. Whether it be a 2K finish to Film, or the creation of HD or SD masters, our final product looks better than anything else that I have seen. 😉

[arvid_vb]

I can imagine that! The quality of Shake is just amazing, and Shake on hardware (with monitor feedback and all) must be heavenly. Seemed like the ultimate compositesuite there for a while, maybe it’ll do a come-back later.. (yea right 😉 )

[Anonymous]

What you can do is buy an Apple DP1.25ghz G4 (DP 876 will do), a Blackmagic design Decklink SD 10bit uncompressed video card, the best Grfx card for mac, a 720Gb predator internal Raid (home made OSX striped), monitors ect, Final Cut Pro, Shake!! or even cheaper Combustion…. for a stagering £8k-£12k… these systems are said to be taking over Avids, you could even set it up for around £4k ..I think !

[arvid_vb]

We’re looking for the best combination of hardware to build just such a suite, but on x86 platform 🙂 time is money. Shake 2.5 would do, but can Shake use frambuffer cards for monitor output/preview?

[Raygun]

arvid wrote:

We’re looking for the best combination of hardware to build just such a suite, but on x86 platform 🙂 time is money. Shake 2.5 would do, but can Shake use frambuffer cards for monitor output/preview?

Yes Shake does support framebuffer out to a broadcast monitor (to 10bit decklink, digital voodoo HD etc) but unfortunatly for you only in version 3 and only on OSX. Really, seriously, macs are not that bad, sheesh if your talking in the context of intergrating a flame you can intergrate a mac. But it may be worth seeing how this whole G5 thing pans out, you never know they might rock.

Macs have lagged a bit in performance for a while but the stability makes up for it, as does the ease of use and config IMO

[arvid_vb]

I believe I wrote that about 8 months ago 😉 Things happen fast…

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