It hasn’t been all that long since 4K hit the market and already AV companies are carting out 8K computer monitors and television panels. Four times more pixels. What’s not […]
4K broadcast camera with network streaming, PTZ and AR innovations, robotic control system, 8K ROI camera, IT/IP-centric platform, 4K 12G-SDI switcher are all part of Panasonic’s IBC presence.
With the addition of the two sensors to the RED RANGER camera ecosystem, RED Digital Cinema caters to those users who prefer an integrated, all-in-one system to the more modular RED DSMC2 camera.
Announcing the RED R3D® SDK and accompanying REDCINE-X PRO® software with accelerated decode and debayering on NVIDIA CUDA® platforms. By offloading the compute-intensive decoding and debayering of RED R3D files […]
State-of-the-art cameras can capture 8K video (which contains four times the pixels of 4K), but those pixels can create a massive computational logjam when editing footage.
Consider: an 8K camera captures at 8192×4320, or more than 35 million pixels per processed frame. So, just five minutes of that video at 24 frames per second is 250 billion pixels. Figure that a typical shoot involves hours of content, and you get past 100 trillion pretty quickly. To handle that oceanic volume, post-production professionals rely on powerful, expensive workstations, high-end custom hardware and time-consuming preprocessing. But that’s all about to change with Turing.
But, what surprises me is how few questions I get, asking about what storage to buy. Yet, as we move into 4K, 6K, 8K and HDR images, storage needs explode. Recently, during a Digital Production Buzz interview, Gary Watson, cofounder and Chief Technical Officer for Nexsan told me that a 4K HDR video file requires 1.8 GB / second of storage bandwidth. And 8K files are four TIMES bigger than that!
Bluefish444 has announced a new product range of I/O cards that point to the future of video over IP.