Q&A: Canopus Rex FX
Mike Rehmus
>
> I've done some reading on Canopus new accelerator Rex FX... but I'm
> confused about something...
>
> I can't tell, from what I've read, if Canopus Rex FX only speeds up
> rendering times on the transitions that come with it's own software
> package. Or will it speed up rendering across the board for ANY
> transition?
>
> If it will only accelerate it's own transitions, then I'm scared away buy
> the price tag. But if it's gonna give me oomph all across the board, then
> I could understand the cost.
>
> Hmmm?
Only speeds up its own transitions the library of which is growing and
new effects are downloadable for free. Oh, the effects are accessible
from Premiere, MSPro, or RexEdit.
What you are missing in your appraisal is the 16 megabyte video card
side of the equation. It allows full motion video overlay to at least
1600 by 1200 pixels at full color resolution. It also accelerates at
least one type of 3D although I've forgotten which.
It also comes with two software Codecs that allow you to edit files made
with other hardware Codecs. So you can network the editing without
having to purchase multiple DVRex cards. Miro DC30 and FAST's AVMaster
are mentioned in the RexFX manual.
I've been using RexFX under NT which means the acceleration is not yet
available (Canopus say's the full NT driver will be available tomorrow
night from their WEB site), a condition I understood when I purchased
the system.
Hope this helps
ronct
ronct
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Mike Rehmus
>
> You mention new NT drivers but are there drivers for Win95 or 98?
>
> ronct
Always had those.
I just installed the NT drivers today. Will render a hollow cube with
images on the outside and inside surfaces against a user-chosen
background in just under 10 seconds. Almost every effect has 4 to 8
different twists that are part of the library. Then you can get in and
really customize an effect and save it if you wish. It's really fun to
see MSPro run with the RexFX Effect library. Works just as fast under
MSPro as under RexEdit. I'm pretty impressed.
They also took the opportunity to speed up the drivers by quite a bit.
Dllem
<mi...@nospam-byvideo.com> wrote:
>ronct wrote:
>>
>> You mention new NT drivers but are there drivers for Win95 or 98?
>>
>> ronct
>
>Always had those.
>
>
>I just installed the NT drivers today. Will render a hollow cube with
>images on the outside and inside surfaces against a user-chosen
>background in just under 10 seconds. Almost every effect has 4 to 8
>different twists that are part of the library. Then you can get in and
>really customize an effect and save it if you wish. It's really fun to
>see MSPro run with the RexFX Effect library. Works just as fast under
>MSPro as under RexEdit. I'm pretty impressed.
So video on 3d rendered objects is the retaining value? (Video on
cubes, etc.) It's worth the cost of the card to do this?
I'm just curious. It sounds neat, but I'm not sure if it's worth the
price of the card just to put video on cubes..
Mike Rehmus
No, the speed of the rendering is the value. I can do somewhat of the
same effect is BorisFX and it takes minutes, not under 10 seconds for a
1 second transition.
The value of speed is not only can you get on with the editing task but,
if you don't like the effect, a re-do isn't a major time loss.
I find that higher speed editing allows me to be more critical of my
work and much more willing to go back in a change even a large
percentage of the previous edit.
Plus it isn't a bad video card, either.
Chris O'Neal
in a real project? I can understand doing it just to be cheesy with your
home video, but if I ever had anyone hand a corporate video or commercial
into me with a 3d cube transition, I'd just have to laugh. There are much
better ways to wow your audience without resorting to cheesy 3d effects...
So in other words, I won't be buying a rexfx anytime soon... Just my
opinion...
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